Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Leveling Guide: Maximize Your Experience and Unlock All Animals
This guide outlines strategies to quickly increase your Camp Manager level in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, unlocking all animals (excluding Villager Map exclusives). Reaching level 76 unlocks all in-game animals. Leveling becomes more challenging at higher levels, requiring consistent effort. Beyond animal unlocks, leveling provides Leaf Tokens and inventory expansions.
Experience Farming Strategies
Speed Leveling Tips
Interacting with animals on the map awards +2 friendship points. Animals have requests; completing these, chatting, gifting, and changing outfits boosts friendship levels, which in turn increases your Camp Manager level. Animals rotate every three hours, bringing new requests. Always interact before the rotation.
Animals at your campsite/cabin stay until dismissed. Warping during the three-hour cycle reveals visiting animals, providing additional friendship point opportunities. "Tell me a story!" sometimes prompts gift-giving (+6 points regardless of preference).
Remember: Only red dialogue options grant friendship points. Once an option is used, it resets, preventing repeated point gains.
Amenities: Boosting Friendship Points
Construct amenities to simultaneously earn friendship points from multiple animals. Animals matching the amenity type receive bonus experience. Placement is randomized; ensure desired animals are at your campsite before construction completion.
Amenities require days to build but can be leveled up with Bells and materials for continued friendship point generation. Level 4 amenities can be upgraded to max level (level 5), requiring 3-4 days of construction.
Snacking for Success
Gift snacks to animals ("Have a snack!"). Matching snack and animal types maximizes points. For example, a Plain Waffle (natural-themed) works best with natural animals like Goldie.
Gulliver's Ship unlocks Villager Maps from golden islands. These maps are used at Blathers's Treasure Trek to obtain Bronze, Silver, and Gold Treats. Completing a golden/villager island yields 20 Gold Treats. Alternatively, obtain treats from Requests or Isles of Style. These treats are universally liked, providing +3, +10, and +25 friendship points respectively.
Animal Request Optimization
Strategic Gifting
Use Pete's Parcel Service to complete requests efficiently. Send items to fulfill requests without direct animal interaction. Requests often involve delivering collected items (fruit, bugs).
Individual requests allow item selection. While using common items is tempting, higher-value items yield bonus rewards and experience (plus 1500 Bells). Consider these premium items:
- Perfect Fruit (excluding non-local)
- Snow crab
- Splendid alfonsino
- Amberjack
- R. Brooke's birdwing
- Luna moth
- White scarab beetle
Level 10 (or 15 for some) animals offer Special Requests. These unlock furniture requiring crafting (9000+ Bells, materials, and 10+ hours). While time-consuming, they provide substantial friendship points.