Tomodachi Life Miis: Make, Import and Share

How to make a Mii in Living the Dream

1. Open the menu and choose Add Mii.
2. Pick a start: From Scratch, the guided questionnaire that suggests features for you, or From Switch Console to base it on a Mii saved in the Switch's Mii Maker.
3. Edit the look: face, hair, ears and other parts, height and weight sliders, and face paint for details the standard parts can't do.
4. Set the profile: name, gender (male, female or nonbinary), pronouns and dating preferences.
5. Set the voice. It is text-to-speech you tune by speed, pitch, depth, delivery and six tone types, or use a simple preset.
6. Set the personality sliders: Movement, Speech, Energy, Thinking and Overall. The first four decide which of the 16 personalities the Mii gets.
7. Confirm, then build the Mii a house on the island.

Miis can be nonhuman too. Nintendo's reveal showed a teddy bear Mii made with face paint and part combinations. Personality can be changed later from the Residents menu.

How to import Miis into Living the Dream

The only built-in import is from the Switch console's own Mii Maker (System Settings > Mii). Anything that can get a Mii into the Switch Mii Maker can get it onto your island.

From the Switch Mii Maker

1. Make or edit the Mii in System Settings > Mii.
2. In Tomodachi Life, choose Add Mii > From Switch Console.
3. Pick the Mii, then set its profile, voice and personality.

Other players' Miis through the free Miitopia demo

1. Download the free Miitopia demo from the Nintendo eShop and start a save.
2. Open Mii Characters > Add Mii Characters > Access Key and enter a key shared by another player (community lists collect them).
3. Choose a Mii and select Copy to Nintendo Switch.
4. In Tomodachi Life, use Add Mii > From Switch Console.

Miitopia makeup and wigs do not transfer, so screenshot the original and redo those parts with face paint.

Your old 3DS Miis

1. On the 3DS, open amiibo Settings and register a Mii as the owner of an amiibo (original 3DS and 2DS models need the NFC Reader/Writer).
2. On the Switch, go to System Settings > Mii > Create New Mii > Copy from amiibo and scan it.
3. Add it in Tomodachi Life with From Switch Console.

Sharing Miis: what works and what doesn't

Local Play steps (Switch)

1. Press A on the title screen, then X, and choose Local Play.
2. Select Save, then OK.
3. One player picks Look for another player; the other picks that player.
4. Choose Send, pick the Mii or creation, and confirm. The receiver selects Receive.
5. After leaving Local Play, build a house for any Mii you received.

Local Play unlocks after your first two Miis become friends. Both games need the same update version. You keep your original; the other player gets a copy. You can only send Miis you created on your own island, not ones you received. Fan sites such as Tomodachi Share post step-by-step recipes so you can rebuild a Mii by hand instead.

Making and importing Miis in the 3DS game

1. Go to the Town Hall and choose to add a new Mii.
2. Create it there, transfer it from the 3DS Mii Maker, or pick QR Code and scan a code with the camera.
3. Fill in the details the import doesn't carry: adult or child, relationship to your Mii, birthday and personality.

Relationships never transfer, since they belong to each island. Up to 100 Miis can live in the 3DS Mii Apartments. QR scanning uses the camera, so it still works now that 3DS online services are closed.

Mii limits and island growth

• Living the Dream: up to 70 Miis, confirmed in Nintendo's FAQ. The 3DS game allowed 100.
• Island size grows with Miis: the Island Builder opens at 6 Miis, and the island expands at 8, 20 and 35 Miis.
• Size never shrinks: deleting Miis does not undo an expansion. Some players make placeholder Miis to unlock space early, then replace them. Removing residents costs a little money.
• Housing: Miis live in houses you build on the island. Nintendo's Local Play instructions tell you to build houses for any Miis you receive.

Popular Mii ideas

• Your real circle. Family, friends, classmates and coworkers are the classic Tomodachi Life island. Pick personalities that match them and watch who ends up dating whom.
• Celebrities and creators. Singers, actors and streamers. Use the voice tone and speed settings to get closer to how they really talk.
• Fictional casts. A whole anime, sitcom or game cast on one island creates instant drama when canon couples don't happen.
• Historical figures. Put rival scientists or rulers next door to each other.
• Nonhuman Miis. Animals, mascots, teddy bears and food characters built with face paint and odd part combinations.
• Alternate yous. The same person in several personalities, one per group, to see how differently they behave.
• Themed islands. A whole island of knights, pirates or office workers, with matching houses from the Palette House.

Tip: face paint is the fastest way to add glasses shapes, scars, freckles, logos and animal markings that the standard parts lack. Detailed drawn Miis can take an hour or two. Start from a Mii Maker base that is close, then fix the rest in the island editor, because Miis made inside Living the Dream can't be copied back out.

Before you add a big cast, remember the 70-Mii cap and that personality changes behavior more than looks. Two Miis that look alike but sit in different personality groups will act very differently, which is often the funniest part.

Miis on Switch vs 3DS at a glance

If you are coming from the 3DS game, the two changes that matter most are the lower cap and the missing QR codes. Plan your island cast before you start, and keep a list of who you want, since you can't scan in a friend's Mii in seconds anymore.

Want your character in a real city instead of an island?

A lot of Mii-making is putting yourself and people you know into a little world and seeing what happens. LifeSim does that on a bigger map: it is a free online life simulator that runs in the browser on a computer or phone, with no download and no packs. You can be anyone in any real city on Earth and live a life day by day, with needs, a job and relationships, while AI-driven townspeople live their own lives around you.

It doesn't use Miis and isn't connected to Nintendo. It is a different take on the same fun, playable anywhere you have a browser.

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