How to Use Soundscapes

Let's get groovy! Add some relaxing sounds with one of the new features in Happy Home Paradise DLC for Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH) for the Nintendo Switch.

Read on to learn more about soundscapes, how to unlock soundscapes, a complete list of soundscapes, and more with our guide below!

How to Use Soundscapes

After listening to the sounds of nature with Wardell, you will now unlock and be able to use Soundscapes when designing villager homes!

To put soundscapes in rooms, go inside any building you can decorate and enter Decorating Mode by pressing the Down Button. Then press the Left Button to see what soundscapes you can use!

List of Design Skills

How to Unlock Soundscapes

1. Finish work on the fifteenth vacation home request

Continue progressing through the story until you finish the fifteenth vacation home request. When you're finished, you'll be taken back to Paradise Planning.

Beginners’ Guide to Happy Home Paradise DLC

2. Take a break.

After finishing the 15th vacation home request, Lottie will tell you to take a break and that you can find Wardell staring out into the sea.

Who is Wardell?

3. Find Wardell

Walk to the northern beach where you can find Wardell sitting on a log. Sit besides him and he'll tell you about the importance of peace and relaxation!

List of Design Skills

4. Unlock soundscapes!

After that meditative moment, you are now able to use the sounds of nature while decorating vacation homes!

How to Design Vacation Homes

List of Soundscapes

So far, our team has confirmed three levels to the soundscapes design skill: one when you get it, and two more when you get its upgrades!

Level One

Level One Soundscapes
None	Echo	Ocean	Fields
Jungle	Wind	Rain	Space

Level Two

Level Two Soundscapes
Park	City	Chatter	Cheering
Construction	Forest	Healing	Creaking

Level Three

Level Three Soundscapes
Cave	Underwater	Storm	Rumbling
Train	Factory	Cyber	Alley

Where to Use Soundscapes

After learning soundscapes, you can use them on other vacations homes, at Harv's Photopia, or even your own home!

Vacation Homes

Step up your decorating game and give your customers the best environment they could ask for. Soundscapes can be accessed with Decorating Mode while fixing up dream homes!

List of Design Skills

Photopia

Give your photoshoots the right vibe by adding soundscapes in Harv's Photopia! Go to the Airport and fly to Harv's Island to access Photopia.

How to Unlock Harv's Island and Photopia

Your Home

To add soundscapes in your own home, enter Decorating Mode while inside your own home. Relax with the sounds that you like the most!

Related Guides

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