Animal Crossing: New Horizons Guidebook Hints of upcoming Gyroids

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Guidebook Hints of upcoming Gyroids

The official Animal Crossing: New Horizons guidebook mentions something interesting about Gyroids, which have not yet appeared in the game.

According to the guidebook, Gyroids appear in the ground after it rains, similar to what happens in past Animal Crossing games.

This could mean that Gyroids will make a return in a future update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons:

Did you know Gyroids appear on the ground only after it has been raining. Gyroid, on the other hand, pops up every time you need it. Does that make him a superhero?

About Gyroids

Gyroids are unusual furniture items that appear in most Animal Crossing games. Though mostly furniture items, gyroids also exist as NPCs. In the GCN games, a Gyroid is built outside the player’s house; in City Folk, a gyroid by the name of Lloid acts as an auctioneer; and in New Leaf, Lloid collects donations for Public Works Projects and loans tools to players on Tortimer Island.

All gyroids, furniture or otherwise, end with an “-oid” suffix.

Furniture gyroids are buried, similar to Fossils, and randomly generated each day at 6 AM, though they are only found after rainy or snowy days. There are many gyroids (127 in Wild World), and each family and individual is unique in sound and shape. All are part of families of similar-sounding gyroids, usually with similar names.

If one of K.K. Slider’s songs is playing on a stereo, or if a player is playing an instrument fast enough, all active gyroids will adjust tempo to match the music. The word “gyroid” comes from the word “gyrate” or “gyre,” a term relating to spinning.