Release notes

New Features

• First-person view mode — toggle with the 'f' key
• Look around in first-person with your mouse
• Touch controls: on-screen first-person button and drag-to-look
• First-person stays active while talking and inside buildings
• Spin the camera a full 360 degrees outdoors with the arrow keys
• New "Improved lighting" toggle in Options (off by default)
• Cozy color grade — a warmer, richer palette
• Time-of-day lighting — pink dawn, golden dusk, cool night
• Soft bloom glow on bright surfaces
• Ambient occlusion for grounded, deeper-looking 3D
• Smoother edges on fences, roofs, and paths
• New "Tilt-shift" toggle for a miniature-diorama look (off by default)
• Dropped gyroids now appear as real clay figurines
• Dropped clothes display their design on a model

Changes

• Sharper textures with anisotropic filtering
• Sun, moon, and night stars now hang in the first-person sky
• Crisp first-person sky that shifts with the time of day
• Rivers and ponds reflect the first-person sky
• Foliage turns to face you, so trees look right from any angle
• Rounded, fuller-looking tree crowns up close
• Walk into furniture and it stops you, like a tree or rock
• Walls of furniture block you head-on
• Softer blob shadows (opt-in)
• Denser weather fog (opt-in)

Fixes

• Walking, turning, and animations behave properly in first-person
• Smooth acre-to-acre crossing with no third-person flicker
• No more sky flash during fast camera spins or transitions
• Sun and moon stay locked in place instead of drifting with your view
• Hardened lighting so glitchy surfaces no longer go black
• Removed the murky blue tint from first-person view
• Fixed ground and path texture shimmer
• Fixed grey inventory pockets and the cream cloth background
• Fixed some villagers' clothes showing up solid black
• Each of several clothes dropped at once shows the right design
• Closer items are grabbed before solid ones behind them
• Picking up a solid piece clears its collision
• Buried items can be dug back up, with no invisible sparking block

Behind the Scenes

• Game files now sent pre-compressed for faster mobile loading
• Added a size guard to catch oversized game files before launch

New Features

• Added a Release notes page at /releases listing every update.
• Linked the release notes from the site footer.

Fixes

• Fixed the game page endlessly reloading on iPhone and iPad.
• Loading finishes instead of refreshing mid-startup.
• Updates stop retrying and show a manual Update button.
• Fixed the Update button to pull the latest version past the cache.
• Auto-recovery no longer reloads over harmless startup hiccups.

New Features

• Dropped furniture shows its real 3D model instead of a leaf.
• Multi-tile pieces like beds, sofas, dressers, and globes render correctly.
• Appliance bodies like the fridge, stereo, and TV render.
• Clocks and decorated trees show their real models.
• Gold tools, balloons, fossils, and shop buildings render on the ground.
• Custom-design mannequins and umbrellas still show a leaf.

Changes

• Dropped furniture rests at the correct terrain height.
• Placement checks every tile a piece needs before dropping.
• Dropped furniture casts a contact shadow.

Fixes

• Fixed large furniture vanishing from your save when placed.
• Fixed a crash when dropping a certain alarm clock.

Fixes

• Fixed a crash that blocked loading after an update on iPhone.
• Reloads once to fetch a clean set of files.

New Features

• Visit a friend's town by user ID or invite link.
• Ride the train in through Porter, just like the original.
• Start a visit from the Visit page or the Friends button.
• Manage your room with member, kick, and leave controls.
• Get join and leave notifications.
• Play alongside each other live in the same world.
• Other players show their own look and a floating name tag.
• Players walk, run, and use tools with full animation.
• Held tools stay raised while running.
• Visitors see the host's villagers, fish, and bugs.
• Visitors share the host's weather, time, shop stock, and town tune.
• Doors open into building interiors during a visit.
• Emotes and reactions pop up over players' heads.
• Players stay visible to each other indoors.
• Digging, chopping, tree shaking, and the money rock sync to both screens.
• Dropping, picking up, planting, and pulling weeds sync live.
• Signs, the bulletin board, and item trades show for both players.
• Unified Save panel handles local saves, cloud saves, import, and export.
• Automatic local backup before any risky save, with restore.
• Walk into a rock or stump to hop up and sit on top.
• Sit on rocks while visiting a friend too.
• Redesigned homepage with a draggable clip carousel.
• Live player counter in the header and on the homepage.
• The counter is honest, anonymous, and never makes up a number.

Changes

• Rebuilt the devlog into dated, newest-first entries.
• Added a devlog chapter on the town-visit work.
• Cloud save conflicts ask which to keep and back up first.
• Visiting players move naturally instead of freezing or sliding.
• Idle tools no longer float oddly.
• Other players keep animating off the edge of the screen.
• Fishing and net swings play their full motion.
• Trees fall in the correct direction when chopped.
• Carried gyroids and overhead items draw correctly.
• Characters cast a ground shadow instead of floating.
• Footstep dust, sounds, and effects play faithfully.
• The door-entering pose plays properly.

Fixes

• Fixed the train station vanishing and freezing Porter.
• Fixed importing a save so it actually loads.
• Fixed a host's houses and buildings vanishing for visitors.
• Fixed a stuck visiting state re-freezing Porter.
• Fixed a keep-cloud conflict loop.
• Fixed crashes in the train scene with Rover.
• Fixed crashes when talking to K.K. Slider and other special characters.
• Fixed a crash when selling at the shop.
• Closed a security hole that bypassed per-request limits.

Behind the Scenes

• Stood up a separate staging environment for real-deployment testing.
• Overhauled the build and deploy pipeline for faster, safer releases.
• Added guards against shipping a mismatched or older build.

New Features

• Cloud saves sync your town across devices.
• Conflicting saves ask which to keep and back up the other.
• Play on your phone with an on-screen control pad.
• Upload HD texture packs on desktop.
• Huge texture packs stream in without crashing the tab.
• Options shows how much of your texture pack is in use.
• Returning players boot straight into their town.
• Loading card shows clear steps and a progress bar.
• Shows how long ago you last played.
• Added a how-to-play guide on the play screen.
• Added a first-time tip for newcomers.
• Auto-pauses and mutes when you switch tabs.
• Added a crash screen with one-tap copy for bug reports.
• Drag and drop your disc file to load.
• Added a controls reference for keyboard, gamepad, and touch.
• Added FAQ and fan-project info pages.
• Added a developer blog.
• Expanded the homepage with new sections.
• Added Terms of Service and Privacy Policy pages.
• Redesigned welcome and password-reset emails.

Changes

• Cut iPhone audio delay.
• Added a tap-to-enable-audio pill when sound starts muted.
• Slow frames no longer cut sound effects short.
• Removed background buzzing and static.
• Desktop visuals default to higher resolution, anti-aliasing, and vsync.
• Textures preload for smoother play.
• Phones auto-lower graphics to stay stable.
• Ships a smaller, faster build.
• Play page updates without a hard refresh.
• In-game settings persist across reloads.
• Touch controls realigned to prevent overlap.
• iOS long-presses no longer trigger text and zoom popups.
• Pressing Enter no longer exits fullscreen.
• Completed the on-screen controls hint.
• Fullscreen button shown only on supported devices.

Fixes

• Fixed in-game saves not being written.
• Fixed a crash when talking to certain villagers.
• Fixed the opening cutscene sometimes failing to advance.
• Fixed crashes tied to certain sound effects.
• Fixed save-and-quit to restart cleanly to the intro.
• Fixed a bug that wiped your address book.
• Fixed name entry producing scrambled characters.
• Fixed cloud saves falsely reporting conflicts.
• Fixed cloud restores failing.
• Fixed the first disc drag-and-drop failing.
• Fixed a phone boot loop.
• Fixed HD texture packs failing to load.
• Fixed the Saved confirmation flashing on background saves.
• Fixed blank player-model colors.
• Fixed the in-game Options entry placement.

Behind the Scenes

• Added a staging site to test changes before release.
• Made the site searchable for search engines.
• Added crash and error reporting.
• Hardened the deploy pipeline.

New Features

• Play GameCube Animal Crossing in your browser.
• Load your own game file, kept on your device.
• Play through the full first day.
• Name your character and town.
• Create an account with login.
• Reset your password by email.
• Get a welcome email when you sign up.
• Save and load your town between visits.
• Import an existing .gci memory-card save.
• Export your save to back it up.
• Reset Save recovers a broken town in one tap.
• Play on phone or desktop with touch controls.
• Plug in a controller for gamepad support.
• Open the in-game Options menu for save tools.
• Check the controls reference in Options.
• Browse home, About, Play, Login, and Register pages.
• Join the community through a Discord invite.

Changes

• Busy scenes run at full speed.
• Startup trimmed to Click to Start with a loading indicator.
• Recovers and reloads if graphics drop, save intact.

Fixes

• Fixed the intro never advancing past the opening cutscene.
• Fixed a crash when talking to certain villagers.
• Fixed silent or missing audio.
• Fixed inventory icons showing as blank white boxes.
• Fixed keys getting stuck.
• Fixed Export Save producing an empty download.
• Fixed the game not loading on certain page addresses.

Behind the Scenes

• Reorganized into one codebase with separately buildable parts.
• Hardened accounts with security-first hashing, sessions, and rate limiting.
• Added privacy-minded usage analytics.