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Players will use several tools in their day-to-day life in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. While they might resort to some more often than others, they’re all equally as useful and worth keeping in the tool wheel.
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At the start of the game, fans will have to make do with flimsy quality tools, which will break after being used a few times. They can eventually make better tools by with the recipes available in the Pretty Good Tools Recipes card available at the Nook Stop terminal in New Horizons. If players want to reach the highest tier of tools, they will have to unlock the golden tool recipes, which require gamers to complete various feats.
Players will have an easier time unlocking some golden tools compared to others, but ultimately, it all depends on the activities that they enjoy doing the most. Gamers can keep track of the golden tool recipes that they’ve acquired by checking the Golden Milestone card in the Nook Miles app.
The milestones that players have to complete to unlock each golden tool are pretty straightforward. However, they require a great effort and dozens of hours of gameplay. Below is information on how players can unlock each golden tool recipe in Animal Crossing: New Horizons:
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Tool |
Recipe |
Uses |
How to Unlock |
Tips |
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Golden Axe |
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Break a total of 100 axes. |
Players should stick to using and breaking Flimsy Axes if they want to unlock this recipe. |
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Golden Rod |
Durability: 90 uses |
Catch all fish in New Horizons. |
If players want to get through this feat without time-traveling, they should visit player islands on the opposite hemisphere; they will be in a different season, allowing them to catch a wider variety of fish. |
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Golden Net |
Durability: 90 uses |
Catch all bugs in New Horizons. |
Similarly to the rod recipe, players will unlock this recipe faster if they travel to an island in the opposite hemisphere. |
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Golden Shovel |
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Durability: 200 uses |
Help Gulliver find buried communicator parts 30 times. |
Players will have to help Gulliver – not Gullivarrr – find five communicator parts on 30 separate visits to their island. He is a random visitor that has a chance to wash-up on shore, so players will simply have to keep playing the game until he’s shown up at least 30 times. The golden shovel is one of the recipes that will take players the longest to unlock. |
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Golden Slingshot |
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Durability: 60 uses |
Shoot down a golden balloon after taking down 300 balloons. |
Balloons will appear on the island at all times of the day, so as long as players make sure they’re hitting them whenever possible, they should see the golden balloon pretty soon. |
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Golden Watering Can |
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Durability: 180 plants Breeds gold Roses |
Talk to Isabelle after getting a 5-star rating. |
Players can easily get a 5-star island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons by planting lots of flowers, picking up the grass, and placing plenty of outdoor furniture. |
- Released
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March 20, 2020
- ESRB
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Everyone / Comic Mischief, Mild Fantasy Violence, Users Interact, In-Game Purchases
- Developer(s)
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Nintendo EPD
- Publisher(s)
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Nintendo
