The big new Animal Crossing: New Horizons update is here, and it packs in a whole lot. Many of those elements aren't even brought to your attention when you boot up the game, so you'll need to do some poking around to find it all. That fits in with the relaxing nature of the game, but if you're in a hurry to see what's new (and are, understandably) unwilling to time skip, there are certain things you'll want to ensure you do as soon as possible in order to get the clock started. Here's all of the stuff you should do on day one.

Find Brewster and get cafe construction underway

The Roost is a new coffee shop that Blathers is looking to open inside the museum, but to get the ball rolling, you first need to find Brewster, who will manage it. As you can read in our guide on where to find Brewster, this involves taking a boat trip with Kapp'n, another newly added element that returns from earlier in the series. Once you complete the initial steps, construction will begin the following day, and the coffee shop will open the day after that. At two full days of waiting, this is arguably the very first thing you should do.

Donate 100,000 bells to open a shop

You can open a shopping plaza on Harv's Island, but this will be a multi-day process. That's because each individual shop requires a 100,000-bell donation, and once that amount is secured, no further donations can be made that day. While you're free to open the shops in any order, we'd suggest starting with Leif--that way, you can begin to purchase the items necessary to plant new crops, which in turn will let you start digging into the new cooking features.