As you make new residents who call your island home in Tomodachi Life Living the Dream, you’ll soon desire more space for all the houses and buildings you need to have placed around the area. This will likely have you wondering how to make the island bigger.
You’re never told when or if your island will grow, but if you look closely, you can see a blank outline around it, indicating that you will eventually be able to increase your island size. How you actually do that is rather unclear at first, though, so here’s how to make your island bigger in Tomodachi Life Living the Dream.
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How to increase your island size in Tomodachi Life Living the Dream
To increase the size of your island in Tomodachi Life Living the Dream, you need to make more Miis to increase the population in your village. The island slowly expands as the number of residents does, so creating additional characters is the only way to make your island larger.
Whenever you reach one of the population milestones that’s tied to the island’s growth, you’ll automatically get a cutscene showcasing the expansion. You don’t have to perform any other steps or tasks outside of simply expanding the current population.
How many times does your island grow in Tomodachi Life Living the Dream?
Your island expands a total of three times as you progress in Tomodachi Life Living the Dream, with the final upgrade granting enough room for the 70 total Miis you can make, plus all of the shops and facilities you can unlock. The last expansion unlocks a long time before you reach the total Mii limit, though, giving you plenty of time and space to plan for the future. All island expansions are as follows.
- The first expansion happens when you reach eight Miis.
- The second expansion occurs when you get to 20 Miis.
- The third and final expansion is unlocked at 35 Miis.
How to expand your island in Tomodachi Life Living the Dream
Each island expansion grants you access to more terrain to build on, but generally, most of the newly unlocked area will be an empty ocean. You can’t place houses or other buildings on the sea, so you’ll need to work on expanding your actual island land each time you unlock an upgrade.
To do so, press X to open the menu, then scroll down to the Island Builder. Switch over to the landscaping tab, which is the third one over from the right, and use the paintbrush option to swap out the sea tiles for any kind of land, granting you new space to place houses, buildings, and other key furnishings.
If you get rid of too much ocean, you can always swap back to the sea tile to add some water back in around the island. The island’s shape, size, and terrain can be freely changed using the Island Builder at any point, so there’s no pressure when building it.
Now that you know how to make your island larger, you can shift your focus to other key tasks in Tomodachi Life Living the Dream. Next, you might want to review the personality chart to learn how to get all personalities, get Miis to live together, learn about time travel, and work on unlocking the Ferris Wheel.
