How to get the golden tools in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

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Players will use several tools in their daily life in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. While they may resort to some more often than others, they are all equally useful and worth having in the tool wheel.

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At the beginning of the game, fans will have to settle for thin quality tools, which break after a few uses. They can eventually make better tools by using the recipes found on the Pretty Good Tools Recipes card found on the Nook Stop terminal in New horizons. If players want to reach the highest level of tools, they must unlock the golden tool recipes, which require players to complete various feats.

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Players will have an easier time unlocking some golden tools compared to others, but ultimately it all depends on the activities they enjoy doing the most. Players can keep track of the golden tool recipes they have acquired by checking the Golden Milestone card in the Nook Miles app.

The milestones that players must complete to unlock each golden tool are quite simple. However, they require a lot of effort and dozens of hours of playing. Below is information on how players can unlock each golden tool recipe i Animal Crossing: New Horizons:

Tool

Recipe

Used

How to unlock

Tip

Golden axe

  • 1 gold nugget

  • 1 Axe

    • 1 lump of iron

    • 3 Wood

    • Heavy axe

  • Duration: 200 uses
  • cutting down trees

Break a total of 100 shoulders.

Players should stick to using and breaking Flimsy Axes if they want to unlock this recipe.

Golden staff

Duration: 90 uses

Catch all the fish in New horizons.

If players want to complete this feat without time travel, they should visit player islands in the opposite hemisphere; they will be in a different season, allowing them to catch a larger amount of fish.

Golden net

Duration: 90 uses

Catch all the bugs New horizons.

Similar to the wand recipe, players will unlock this recipe faster if they travel to an island in the opposite hemisphere.

Golden Spade

  • 1 gold nugget

  • 1 shovel

    • 1 lump of iron

    • Clumsy shovel

Duration: 200 uses

Help Gulliver find buried communicator parts 30 times.

Players must help Gulliver – not Gullivarrr – find five communicator parts on 30 separate visits to his island. He's a random visitor who has a chance to wash up on land, so players simply have to keep playing the game until he's appeared at least 30 times. The Golden Spade is one of the recipes that will take players the longest to unlock.

Golden slingshot

  • 1 gold nugget

  • 1 Slingshot

Duration: 60 uses

Shoot down a golden balloon after taking down 300 balloons.

Balloons will appear on the island at all hours of the day, so as long as players make sure to hit them whenever possible, they should see the golden balloon pretty soon.

Golden watering can

  • 1 gold nugget

  • 1 Water jug

    • 1 lump of iron

    • 1 thin watering can

Duration: 180 plants

Growing golden roses

Talk to Isabelle after getting a 5 star rating.

Players can easily get a 5-star island Animal Crossing: New Horizons by planting lots of flowers, picking up the grass and putting out lots of outdoor furniture.


Animal Crossing New Horizons Tag Page Cover Art

System

super grayscale 8-bit logo


Released

March 20, 2020

ESRB

All / Comic Mischief, Mild Fantasy Violence, User Interact, In-Game Purchasing

Developer

Nintendo EPD

Publisher

Nintendo


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