If you play Animal Crossing: New Horizons for Nintendo Switch on your birthday, you should find that your fellow island inhabitants have organized a surprise birthday party for you. During the festivities, you’ll eventually get your hands on eight Animal Crossing: New Horizons Birthday Cupcakes. That might get you wondering: Do Animal Crossing Birthday Cupcakes have a purpose, other than being delicious in-game treats?
Stick with this guide as we highlight the importance of sharing in the debut Animal Crossing Nintendo Switch game.
How to use Animal Crossing: New Horizons Birthday Cupcakes
After blowing out the candles on a delicious-looking birthday cake, your island residents will then whisk you away into a room with a pinata when playing AC: New Horizons on your special day. You’ll need to rapidly tap the “A” button in order to swing a stick and eventually smash the pinata, at which point a bunch of Animal Crossing: New Horizons Birthday Cupcakes will drop out. As hinted at in the game’s dialogue, sharing these is how you’ll get the most out of them.
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How to get and share Birthday Cupcakes in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Play New Horizons on your birthday.
- Attend your in-game birthday party; blow out the candles on your cake, then smash the pinata.
- You’ll now have eight Birthday Cupcakes.
- Speak to an island resident and select the second dialogue option, which will be along the lines of “Do you want this?”
- Select a Birthday Cupcake from your inventory and confirm.
- The happy island resident will give you a birthday gift in exchange.
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Birthday gifts can be specifically birthday-themed, like birthday shades or candles, but can also be more general in nature. Whatever items you get, it’s definitely worthwhile to share all of those Animal Crossing: New Horizons Birthday Cupcakes instead of holding on to them.
