Tired of the usual room layout? Pillars have now been added in the Happy Home Paradise DLC pack for Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH), which lets you play around with the room structure!
Check out this guide to learn how you can use and unlock the Pillars design feature!
List of Contents
| Step | Directions |
|---|---|
| 1 | Finish the fifteenhth vacation home request. |
| 2 | Talk to Niko about DIY recipes. |
| 3 | Talk to Niko again 1 Day after teaching him about DIY recipes. |
| 4 | Unlock pillars! |
| 5 | Optional: Get more pillars! |
Keep playing throughout the story until you finish the fifteenth vacation home request. Once you get back to the Paradise Planning office, Lottie will tell you that Niko wants to talk to you.
You'll find Niko in the break room on the second floor!
Beginners’ Guide to Happy Home Paradise DLC
Niko will be in the break room on the second floor of the office. He'll ask you to teach him everything you know about DIY recipes because he's a cute little desperate monkey, so be kind and help him out!
After teaching Niko about DIY Recipes, he'll take you to school the next day to teach you about pillars and how you can use other DIY ideas when designing vacation homes.
Niko will start giving you DIY recipes for different types of pillars on different days after explaining how DIY recipes work to him!
When you're done learning from the lecture by Niko, you'll be able to craft and use the Wooden Pillar for designing vacation homes and even your own home!
After finishing your nineteenth vacation home request, Lottie and Wardell will ask if you can share some DIY materials with Niko!
You can get other types of Pillars from Niko by donating the DIY materials he asks for in his materials box at the second floor of the Paradise Planning office.
| DIY Item | Required Materials |
|---|---|
 Brick Pillar
|
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 Clay (×4) |
 Concrete Pillar
|
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 Stone (×3)・
 Iron Nugget (×1) |
 Golden Pillar
|
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 Gold Nugget (×4) |
 Marble Pillar
|
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Stone (×8) |
 Simple Pillar
|
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Stone (×2)・
Clay (×2) |
 Steel Pillar
|
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Iron Nugget (×4) |
 Wooden Pillar
|
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 Wood (×2)・
 Softwood (×2)・
 Hardwood (×2) |
After you unlock and craft pillars, you'll be able to use them inside houses and buildings that you can decorate, by pressing the Down Button then the Right or Left Button. You will find pillars under the Other section!
| Where Can Pillars Be Placed | |
|---|---|
 |
Vacation Homes |
|
Photopia |
|
Your Home |
| No | Outside |
Once you've unlocked pillars and learned craft them on your own, you are free to use them to decorate most indoor places, even your own house!
While they can easily be placed at Photopia and in HHP, to add pillars in your house you first need to craft them. After that, you can find them in the Other section while decorating.
All Happy Home Paradise DLC Info
| All Happy Home Paradise Design Skills | |
|---|---|
 How to Adjust Room Sizes |
 How to Create Partition Walls |
 How to Adjust Lighting |
 How to Polish Furniture |
 How to Use Soundscapes |
 How to Get and Make Counters |
 How to Build Two-Story Homes |
 How to Get and Make Pillars |
 How to Make Villagers Share Rooms |
 How to Unlock Hybrid Flowers in HHP |
 How to Add Bugs in Vacation Homes |
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Woohoo!!!! It worked. Time-traveled two days and she flew “to work.” When she got off the plane, Niko talked to her about DIY and then immediately asked her to go to class, triggering the school scene. Yay!! She had also wanted to “stop” the end credits/festival and have the DLC go back to “normal” - that automatically happened as well, when she time traveled and then went to work.
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Alright. I got the thing to trigger. But I am on 26 houses and I haven’t gotten lottie and wardel to talk about donating to niko to get more types. This sucks. The game doesn’t even know how to function properly.