Tools list
In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, a number of tools are available to help you get things done in your village. In this guide, you'll find a list of all the tools available in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
To make these tools, you'll need a DIY Workbench and resources. See our guide to find out how to obtain different resources. At the start of the game, you'll receive Flimsy tool recipes that will enable you to make tools. However, they will break after a few uses. You'll then unlock the Pretty Good Tools Recipes. Tool recipes will enable you to make tools that last up to twenty uses.
Here's the list of tools available in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Watering can
The watering can allows you to water your plants as well as your fruit and vegetables.
How to fabricate it
- Flimsy watering can: 5 Softwood (allows approximately 20 uses)
- Watering can: 1 Flimsy watering can can and 1 iron nugget (allows approximately 60 uses)
- Gold watering can: 1 watering can and 1 gold nugget (allows approximately 180 uses)
Wand
The wand lets you save 8 different outfits for your character. The wand is a new feature in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. To be able to change outfits quickly, it's important to know that the wand must be in your inventory.
How to get the wand
To make a wand, you need to learn the corresponding DIY recipes given by Celeste during a shooting star showers, and use mainly star fragments. The first plan given to the player is that of the star wand.
Fishing rod
The fishing rod lets you catch fish on the beach, in lakes and bodies of water.
How to fabricate it
- Flimsy fishing rod: 5 tree branches (catches about 10 fish)
- Fishing rod: 1 Flimsy fishing rod and 1 iron nugget (catches about 30 fish)
- Golden fishing rod: 1 fishing rod and 1 gold nugget (catches approx. 90 fish)
Ladder
The ladder enables you to climb the cliffs and reach the upper floors of your village. You can also use the ladder to get to Redd's boat. Go to our guide to find out how to obtain the DIY recipe for the ladder.
How to fabricate it
- Ladder: 4 woods, 4 softwoods and 4 hardwoods (unbreakable)
Net
The insect net allows you to catch insects.
How to fabricate it
- Flimsy net: 5 tree branches (catches about 10 insects)
- Net: 1 flimsy net and 1 iron nugget (catches about 30 insects)
- Golden net: 1 flimsy net and 1 gold nugget (catches approx. 90 insects)
Axe
With the axe, you can collect wood from trees and palms. With the axe, however, you can cut down trees.
How to fabricate it
- Flimsy axe: 5 tree branches and 1 stone (you can get around 40 woods)
- Stone axe: 1 flimsy axe and 3 woods (you can get around 100 woods)
- Axe: 1 flimsy axe, 1 iron nugget and 3 woods (allows you to collect about 100 words and CUT trees).
- Golden Axe: 1 Axe and 1 gold nugget (allows you to collect about 200 woods)
Slingshot
The slingshot lets you retrieve balloons (attached to a gift) that travel in the sky. All you have to do is use the slingshot and be well positioned under the balloons to burst the balloon and retrieve a gift.
How to fabricate it
- Slingshot: 5 hardwoods (can bursts approx. 30 balloons)
- Gold slingshot: 1 slingshot and 1 gold nugget (can bursts approx. 60 balloons)
Shovel
The shovel lets you dig up fossils and small treasures hidden in the ground. It can also be used to obtain resources or insects by tapping on a rock (or even bells!). That's right! Go to this page to find out more. What's more, when you eat a fruit, your strength increases, enabling you to destroy rocks when you hit them with a shovel, and you can also dig up WHOLE trees.
How to fabricate it
- Flimsy shovel: 5 hardwoods (for approx. 40 uses)
- Shovel: 1 Flimsy shovel and 1 iron nugget (about 100 uses)
- Golden shovel: 1 shovel and 1 gold nugget (for approx. 200 uses)
Vaulting Pole
The vaulting pole lets you jump over small river currents. Visit our guide to find out how to get the recipe to build the vaulting pole.
How to fabricate it
- Vaulting pole: 5 softwoods (unbreakable)