Animal Crossing: New Horizons: What’s the storage shed, and how do I unlock it?

Nintendo demonstrated an external storage solution for home use. Animal Crossing New HorizonsIn its October announcement, the update allows players to retrieve stored items from a storage shed. But as it turns out, the Wooden storage shed and Storage shed — two separate items — aren’t immediately available after downloading the 2.0 update.

Instead, they’ll become available after you’ve upgraded your home storage past the 500,000 Bells storage level, which means you need to have a fully upgraded house, too. You can do this by visiting Tom Nook at Resident Services and paying 500,000 Bells to Tom Nook, if you hadn’t already. If you already have the storage sheds, skip this step. Construction will be done the next day, and that’s when you’ll be able to access the storage sheds, right back at Resident Services.

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You can purchase the Wooden storage shed DIY recipe with Nook Miles — it costs 6,000 of them. This item can only be upgraded if your house has a minimum of 500,000 bells storage. To craft it, it’s gonna cost you 30 wood, hardwood, and softwood each, plus 10 iron nuggets.

This can be put anywhere on an island, and you have access to your entire home storage. If you place multiples of these around your island, you’ll always have easy access.

You can find the second shed (simply called Storage shed) in the Nook miles shopping catalogue further down. This one’s an actual item, so it’ll be delivered to your house the next day. The shed works the same as the wooden one, except that it looks different. Each shed can be made to look different. New HorizonsIt can match your island, no matter what. You can have it match any island.

Neither shed expands your home storage — just provides access to what you already have. However, it will grow along with other home storage improvements.