How to Get a Shovel in Animal Crossing New Horizons

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons has a lot of different tools, each with its own job. You’ll probably use some tools more than others, though. The slingshot is great for popping balloons and getting gifts, but the shovel is even more useful – you can use it to farm, dig up fossils and hidden items, and even break rocks.

The shovel is a really useful tool in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, but you won’t get it right away when you start the game. This guide explains how to unlock and make a shovel in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

How to Get a Shovel in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

You’ll get the recipe to craft a Flimsy Shovel in New Horizons once Blathers arrives on your island. To get him to come, you need to donate fish and bugs to Tom Nook first. Blathers will then visit to see if the island is a good spot for a museum. He’ll show up the day after his tent is set up and will give you the DIY recipe for the Flimsy Shovel, which you need to dig up fossils.

If my friend wants to get this DIY recipe without progressing the main story, they can actually buy it at Nook’s Cranny for 280 Bells. It’s a pretty easy way to get it if you’ve got the Bells!

After you’ve paid your moving fees, you can get the Shovel recipe by spending 3,000 Nook Miles at the Nook Miles Redemption Terminal in Tom Nook’s tent. The Shovel is part of a set of tool recipes called Pretty Good Tools.

How to Make a Shovel in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

After obtaining the Flimsy Shovel and learning the Shovel recipe, players can craft either one whenever they have the necessary items.

To craft a Flimsy Shovel, you’ll need 5 pieces of Hardwood. You get Hardwood by chopping down trees with an axe. This shovel can be used 40 times before it wears out.

If you need a shovel that lasts longer, you can craft one that will hold up after 100 uses. To craft it, you’ll need 1 Flimsy Shovel and 1 Iron Nugget.

  • If you don’t have the materials to make a shovel, or just don’t want to, you can buy one at Nook’s Cranny for 2,500 Bells. Each shovel you buy can be used 100 times.

Players can customize shovels and other tools with a Customization Kit to reset their durability.

Players can also get a Golden Shovel, which lasts twice as long as a regular Shovel. It takes some effort to unlock the recipe, though – you’ll need to help Gulliver find parts for his communicator 30 times. Once you’ve done that, you’ll learn the DIY recipe, and you’ll need 1 Shovel and 1 Gold Nugget to craft it.

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2026-01-14 04:07