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Island Living Achievements: Nook Miles Achievements
Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Island Living Achievements: Nook Miles Achievements

Discover all the Nook Miles Achievements in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, including Island Living, NookPhone, and Custom Design achievements. Earn miles and titles!

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Discover all the Nook Miles Achievements in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, including Island Living, NookPhone, and Custom Design achievements. Earn miles and titles!

The Nook Miles Achievements in this list are earned through just playing the game. They are achievements for simple tasks such as digging up clams, chopping trees and creating custom designs.

[Town Name] Miles!

This will be the first Nook Miles achievement you earn. You’ll unlock this one when you’re told about the Nook Mileage Program by Tom Nook.

TaskNook Miles EarnedUnlocked Titles
Unlock Nook Miles500Nook Inc.’s Patron

Active Island Resident

These are unlocked just through playing the game! Every active day on the game counts towards these achievements. All you have to do is log into the game and it counts as an active day.

TaskNook Miles EarnedUnlocked Titles
Play for 3 days300Self-paced Chill Soul
Play for 20 days500Active Specialist
Play for 50 days1,000Sleepless Adventurer
Play for 100 days2,000Nicknamed Gamer
Play for 300 days3,000Ready-Made MVP

NookPhone Life

When you first use your Nookphone, you’ll earn some miles for it!

TaskNook Miles EarnedUnlocked Titles
Use your NookPhone300Smartphone Savant

When you open your phone for the first time, you’ll earn some miles!

Island Shutterbug

When you take your first photo using the camera app in the Nookphone, you’ll earn this achievement!

TaskNook Miles EarnedUnlocked Titles
Take a photo300Photogenic Photographer

Edit Credit

When you first edit your passport, you’ll get an achievement for it! You can change your passport photo or use titles that you’ve unlocked from other Nook Miles achievements.

TaskNook Miles EarnedUnlocked Titles
Edit your passport300Future Traveler

That’s One Smart Phone

This is unlocked over time, after you’ve used your phone lots of times. The best advice for this achievement is to not try to force it, as you’ll just unlock it over time. You use your Nookphone a lot throughout the day so you’ll get there eventually.

TaskNook Miles EarnedUnlocked Titles
Use your NookPhone a lot1,000Digital-Age Child

Nook Miles for Miles!

These achievements are unlocked for completing Nook Miles+ tasks! You can complete an infinite amount of Nook Miles+ tasks everyday, so if you want to unlock these quickly, you shouldn’t have too much of an issue.

TaskNook Miles EarnedUnlocked Titles
Complete 5 Nook Miles+ tasks300So-Called Ground Traveler
Complete 50 Nook Miles+ tasks500Novice Rookie
Complete 200 Nook Miles+ tasks1,000Wide-Ranging Hobbyist
Complete 1,000 Nook Miles+ tasks2,000Perfectionist Go-Getter
Complete 3,000 Nook Miles+ tasks3,000Year-Round Dynamo

Making a Change

When you have a wardrobe or a chest of drawers or even a fridge, you’ll be able to use it as a functioning closet to change your outfit. All the outfits you have available will be clothing pieces that you’ve put into storage.

TaskNook Miles EarnedUnlocked Titles
Use a closet to change outfits500Trendy Model

First Custom Design!

When you first create your own custom design, you’ll unlock some miles for it! For a short tutorial on how to create custom designs, head over to the Custom Designs page.

TaskNook Miles EarnedUnlocked Titles
Create a Custom Design500Aspiring Artist

You can use the custom design tool to design whatever you like.

Custom Design Pro!

Similarly to the First Custom Design! award, this achievement is unlocked through creating your first Pro custom design. For more information on how to unlock and use the pro custom design tool, head over to the Custom Designs page.

TaskNook Miles EarnedUnlocked Titles
Create a Pro Custom Design300Pro Designer

Shady Shakedown

Everyday, 2 trees on your island will contain 2 items of furniture. You will also always get 1 item of furniture from trees on mystery islands (so long as they have hardwood and cedar trees on them). This means that getting these achievements won’t take as long as you might initially believe, especially if you go island hopping a lot.

TaskNook Miles EarnedUnlocked Titles
Shake a piece of furniture out of a tree300Carefree Figure
Shake 10 pieces of furniture out of trees1,000Jovial Brute
Shake 20 pieces of furniture out of trees2,000Spirited Gifted One
Shake 50 pieces of furniture out of trees3,000Factual Outlaw
Shake 100 pieces of furniture out of trees5,000Inspirational Statement

[Town Name] Icons

When you first change your island flag and town tune, you’ll earn some miles! To change your island tune and island flag, head over to Isabelle’s desk in Resident Services. You need to create a custom design before you can change the flag, though.

TaskNook Miles EarnedUnlocked Titles
Change the island flag500Flapping Flag Waver
Change the town tune500Humming Musician

Changing the flag for the first time will unlock some miles!

It’s Raining Treasure!

To shoot down balloons, you need a slingshot. You can buy and craft slingshots. To earn these achievements you need to shoot down

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