- down payment on your first home requires 10,000 bells
- you are greeted by various people at the train station upon arrival
- they'll inform you that you're the new mayor
- you still have to pay off Tom Nook
- start off by gathering seashells for your assistant Isabelle
- museum takes a cut of the bells you make on items
- now the museum can house more bugs, fossils, and fish than ever before
- add more expansions to your home
- you have twice as many fruit varieties
- everyday, the town's resources replenish themselves
- boat trips to a remote tropical island return
- purchase a wet suit to go diving