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The ladder in ACNH is essential for climbing up to the higher areas of the island, but you'll only be able to get it as early as Day 3 of playing. Learn how to get the ladder and craft a Ladder Set-Up Kit, which will allow you to place permanent ladders across your island.

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• How to Get a Ladder
• How to Craft a Ladder
• How to Get a Ladder Set Up Kit
• How to Craft All Set Up Ladder Kits

How to Get a Ladder

To get the Ladder, you must progress through Tom Nook’s initial tasks:

• Day 1: Paying off your tent and building your home
• Day 2: Build Nook’s Cranny
• Day 3: Build a Bridge bridge and start work on the three villager homes that need furnishing.

After placing the lots for the villager homes, Tom Nook says one recipe will requires flowers atop the island’s peaks, and will give you the recipe to make a Ladder.

The Ladder is a tool that will allow you to climb or lower yourself to different elevations on the island without having to use a ramp or incline. Thankfully, just like the Vaulting Pole, it won’t break!

How to Craft a Ladder

The table below will list everything from sell price, materials needed, durability, and how to unlock a Ladder in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Ladder Type	Sell Price	Materials Needed	How To Unlock	Durability
	1,440 Bells	4 Wood 4 Hardwood 4 Softwood	Speak to Tom Nook after placing the first three villagers' home plots.	Unlimited Uses. Item will not break.
Ladder

How to Get a Ladder Set Up Kit Recipe

Much like the standard Ladder, you'll need to have progressed through Tom Nook's tasks and have successfully built Nook's Cranny to gain the ability to unlock the recipe.

Having purchased your Ladder Set Up Kit, you may be wondering just how you can use it. Firstly, you'll want to head to your desired location and stand by a cliff. Then, open your inventory, click on the ladder kit, and select the option 'Set Next to Cliff' to place it down.

Performing no additional abilities to the standard Ladder tool, the Ladder Set Up Kit simply adds functionality to place ladders down as permanent structures around your island.

How to Craft All Set Up Ladder Set Up Kits

The table below will list everything from sell price, materials needed, durability, and how to unlock all Ladder Set Up Kits in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Ladder Set Up Kit Type	Sell Price	Materials Needed	How To Unlock	Durability
Ladder Set Up Kit Recipe	2,040 Bells	1 Ladder 5 Wood	Purchase the recipe from Nook's Cranny for 2,000 Bells.	Unlimited Uses. Item will not break.

Looking for even more? Why not check out some of our other handy Animal Crossing: New Horizons guides.

• Money Making Guide - How to Get Bells Fast
• How to Unlock and Craft All Tools in ACNH
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