How Big Can You Make Your House in Animal Crossing?
Animal Crossing is a popular life simulation video game series where players live in a village inhabited by anthropomorphic animals. One of the main game mechanics is customizing and expanding your character’s house. So a common question players have is – how big can you make your house in Animal Crossing?
Basic House Upgrades
- When you start Animal Crossing, you begin with a small 4×4 (16 square) house. This includes one main room and an attached side room.
- After paying off your initial house loan to Tom Nook, you can upgrade to get a bigger 6×6 (36 square) house. This adds two extra main rooms.
- The next house upgrade gets you an 8×8 (64 square) size. You now have four main rooms plus the two side rooms.
So if you just stick to the basic upgrades Tom Nook offers, the largest house is 64 squares (8 across, 8 deep).
Unlocking the Basement and Upstairs
However, that is not the limit for house expansion in Animal Crossing! Once your main floor reaches the 8×8 size, you can start upgrading in different dimensions:
- The Basement – You can unlock a basement that mirrors the 8×8 footprint of your main floor.
- The Upstairs – You can also add a second floor, again matching the 8×8 size of your ground floor.
So now your total house size is 64 squares on the main floor, plus 64 in the basement, plus 64 upstairs – totaling 192 squares!
Expanding Each Floor Even Further
But wait, we’re still not done! Tom Nook offers additional expansions for each floor’s room once they reach 8×8:
- The main floor can be expanded to add two side rooms on the left and two on the right, giving you 10 rooms total.
- The basement can be upgraded to double its depth from 8 squares to 16 squares deep.
- The upstairs can also be expanded to double its depth just like the basement.
Doing all these expansions gives you a massive 30-room house spanning across a 16×16 basement and second floor!
The Grand Total Maximum House Size
So if you add up everything, here are the maximally expanded rooms in an Animal Crossing house:
- Main Floor: 10 rooms at 8×8 each, so 80 squares
- Basement: 16×16 floor, so 256 squares
- Upstairs: 16×16 second floor, 256 squares more
The total is 80 + 256 + 256 = 592 squares across the fully upgraded three floors! That is a massive abode to decorate and host guests and villagers in your Animal Crossing world.
How Long Will This Massive House Take?
Expanding your Animal Crossing house to these largest possible dimensions will take a significant amount of grinding:
- You need lots of Bells to constantly pay off Tom Nook for each upgrade.
- It takes real-life days, weeks, or even months between paying off each incremental loan.
- You’ll spend many hours fishing, catching bugs and creatures, harvesting fruit, etc. to earn money.
- The final 16×16 floor expansions require obtaining rare items to trigger the upgrade.
So unless you really love grinding in the game, most players will not reach the limit. But for completionists committed to getting the biggest house, this 592 square foot mansion is possible with enough persistence!
Alternatives to Keep Expanding Your Creative Spaces
Finally, once you’ve hit the maximum house limit, there are a couple alternatives if you still want to keep building and decorating creative spaces:
- Use your miles to purchase additional vacation homes on other islands for rental.
- Unlock Paradise Planning to design vacation islands for villagers with resort homes, community buildings, and decorations.
So even if you’ve filled your house to the brim, there are still more canvas spaces to build on in the Animal Crossing world.
The Takeaway on House Size Limits
While it takes commitment, you can create an impressively massive, three-story 592 square mansion in Animal Crossing through expanding each dimension over time. That offers ample room to showcase the best furniture sets, rare items, custom designs, and villagers.
Hopefully this overview gives you a target to work towards for your ultimate dream house. Let me know in the comments if you have any other questions! From my experience, keeping an eye on the maximum limits helps provide building guidance even if it takes months to reach.
House Size | Upgrade Cost (Bells) | Storage Slots | Max Rooms |
---|---|---|---|
4×4 (starting) | 19,800 | 180 | 1 main room |
5×4 | 148,000 | 240 | 2 rooms |
6×4 | 298,000 | 300 | 3 rooms |
6×5 | 548,000 | 360 | 4 rooms |
7×5 | 798,000 | 420 | 5 rooms |
FAQ
How big can your house get in Animal Crossing?
- At first, your house is pretty small with only a few rooms. However, over time you can expand it to be massive with up to six fully upgraded rooms.
- On the other hand, to upgrade you need to pay off home loans to Tom Nook which can get pricey. The maximum amount for the final upgrade is 7.5 million bells.
- Despite the high cost, upgrading is worthwhile if you want more space to decorate and store items. You can fit a ton of furniture in a fully upgraded home.
- The room sizes also increase with each upgrade, so the biggest version offers large spaces to design. However, the external size of the house stays the same no matter how much you upgrade.
- You can unlock new room types too, like a basement, second floor, and massive master bedroom. So your layout options expand over time.
- On the other hand, your house exterior and yard stay set sizes and can’t be expanded. But you can decorate them creatively within those limits.
- In summary, with max upgrades you can have a mansion-sized house in Animal Crossing with unique themed rooms. But it takes a lot of investment and gameplay to reach that point.