How To Earn And Get Golden Tools In New Horizons Explained

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Knowing how to get Golden Tools in Animal Crossing: New Horizons will help you get the highest level of tools available.

To get one, however, you must first earn the Golden Tool DIY recipes in Animal Crossing: New Horizons by completing a certain achievement linked to that tool.

On that note, here's how to get all Golden Tools in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

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Animal Crossing New Horizons Golden Tools explained

Golden Tools are the best tools that you can craft in New Horizons. Sadly, each one can still break like all the other tools in the game, but they still last a lot longer than every other tool you can craft.

If you want to craft a Golden Tool, however, you first need to find it's DIY recipe. Unlike other tool recipes, such as the Flimsy tools, you have to complete a very specific achievement in the game to discover these recipes.

We recommend saving your Golden Nuggets.

How to get all Golden Tools in Animal Crossing New Horizons

To get all Golden Tools in New Horizons you need to complete a specific task linked to that tool to unlock its DIY recipe. To craft each Gold Tool you will, of course, need a Gold Nugget. Here are all Golden Tools and how to get them:

Golden Tool Materials Unlock Task
Golden Axe 1 Axe 1 Gold Nugget Break 100 Axes
Golden Fishing Rod 1 Fishing Rod 1 Gold Nugget Catch all Fish
Golden Net 1 Net 1 Gold Nugget Collect all Bugs
Golden Shovel 1 Shovel Help Gulliver 30 times (not Gullivarrr.)
Golden Slingshot 1 Slingshot 1 Gold Nugget Pop 300 Balloons, then pop Gold Balloon
Golden Watering Can 1 Watering Can 1 Gold Nugget Become a 5-Star Island

It should be noted that neither the ladder or vaulting stick have a golden level variant.

As you can see Golden Tools are quite difficult to both find and make. Honestly? Due to how Golden Tools can still break, we recommend saving your Golden Nuggets for rare pieces of furniture.

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Good luck earning all of these Golden Tool DIY recipes!

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