Other Guides And Tips

Easy Bell Making Guide

There are various ways to earn bells in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. This page lists the easiest ways to make a lot of bells in a short amount of time.

How to Make Easy Bells

The following sections describe easy ways to make a lot of money in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

Find Friends to Play With Online

If you want to make a lot of bells, it helps a lot to be able to visit other players' towns, so be sure to make a lot of friends! The next two sections explain some of the benefits of visiting other players' towns.

Sell Perfect Fruits in Other Players' Towns

Your native fruits trees might grow a perfect fruit, which is worth a lot in your town, and worth even more in a town where it's not the native fruit. If you plant a lot of perfect fruits in your town, you can sell them in another player's town to make a lot of bells.

Play the Stalk Market

If you save up a lot of bells, you can buy a lot of turnips from Joan on Sunday morning. Then you can check with Reese about the Stalk Market prices throughout the week. If you're lucky, you can sell the turnips for a huge profit! If you can visit other players' towns, you might be able to make an even better profit if you sell your turnips there. 

Fish and Catch Bugs on the Island

If you visit the resort island after 7PM, you will find a lot of very valuable bugs and fish! Catch them and put them into the box next to Leilani's counter to send them back to your village and sell them to Reese. You can make over 100,000 bells per trip!

Dig Up Fossils

Every day you can find four fossils in the ground. Just look for cracks in the ground and dig them up with a shovel. Take the fossils to Blathers so he can identify them. Donate them to the museum. Eventually, you will start finding a lot of fossils that you already have in your museum, so you can just sell them. Some of them are very valuable!

Find the Money Rock

There are rocks in your town. Each day, one of the rocks will have bells hidden in it! This is known as the bell rock. To get the bells to come out, just hit the rock with your shovel. When you hit the rock for the the first time and make some bells come out, a time limit begins. If you keep hitting the rock within the time limit, more bells will come out. You can make up to eight groups of bells pop out of the bell rock. To increase your chances of getting all the bells, dig three holes behind you to keep you from bouncing away from the rock each time you hit it. Also, make sure that all eight of the spaces on the ground around the rock are empty (no holes, no flowers, etc.) because if a space around the rock is occupied, fewere groups of bells will come out of the rock. If you have good timing, you can get all eight groups of bells to come out of the rock. If your money luck for the day is good, you could even make 32000 bells from the money rock!

Find the "Fake" Rock to get Ore

Each day, there will be one "fake" rock in your town that wasn't there before. Hit it with your shovel to break it. It turns into a piece of ore. There are several types of ore, including gold, silver, ruby, emerald, sapphire, and amethyst. You can sell these in Re-Tail for extra bells, or you can save them and use them to make custom furniture.

Check the "High Price Item" at Re-Tail

Every day, the Re-Tail shop chooses an item or a type of item that Reese will pay double for each day. Just read the sign next to the door of Re-Tail to find out what the high price item is for the day. The high price item might be a specific item (for example: sharks) or it might be a type of item (for example: hats). Sell these types of items to Reese that day and you will get twice as many bells for them as usual. TIP! Keep valuable items in your storage, such as thrones and crowns, then wait for them to become a high price item at Re-Tail and make lots of bells!

Shake Trees

Every day, some of your trees will have 100 bells hidden in them. Two of your trees will have furniture hidden in them. Five of your trees will have beehives hidden in them. Shake all of your trees to find these things. You can put the bells in your wallet, sell the furniture, and sell the bees and beehives for extra bells. If you don't want to deal with bees, just open your gate. Bees can't come out of your trees while your gate is open!

Shoot Down Balloon Presents

Every day at XX:X4 o'clock, a balloon present might float over your town. Buy a slingshot from the Nooklings' store, then use it to pop the balloon. Open the present to find a piece of balloon furniture. You can sell these to Reese for extra bells.

Buy Fortune Cookies

The Nooklings' shop sells fortune cookies. You can buy these if your 3DS has Play Coins. To earn Play Coins, save and quit your game, then go to the 3DS home screen, and close the 3DS and walk around while carrying the 3DS in a bag or in your pocket. You can earn up to 10 Play Coins per day. Buy fortune cookies from the Nooklings' shop, eat them, and give the paper to Timmy or Tommy. You will get an item in return. You can sell these items and get bells simply for walking around!

Build a Police Station and Sell Items from the Lost and Found

The police station is a public works project. After you build one, you can take items from the lost and found. Sell them to Reese for extra bells!

Improve your Feng Shui

In Animal Crossing, Feng Shui is the art of arranging your furniture in ways that increase your luck. To do this in Animal Crossing: New Leaf, you have to put specific colors of furniture in specific areas of your house. Check out the Feng Shui guide for full details. If you have a lot of yellow and green items in the correct places, you increase your money luck. You can find more bells, villagers will pay you more and charge you less for items, and so on.

Wear Katrina's Good Luck Item

Katrina is a fortune teller who might visit your town up to one day a week (Monday through Saturday). After you get 20 fortunes from her, you can build a fortune teller shop for her in Main Street. If she is in your plaza, or if you have built the fortune teller shop for her, talk to her to get your fortune told. She will tell you about a "good luck item" that you can wear during the day to improve your luck. The good luck item is a type of clothing item, such as glasses, or men's accessories for example. If you wear it, your luck will be improved until 11PM. By improving your luck, you might get more money from trees, more money from the bell rock, and so on. Read the Katrina guide to learn about the different types of luck in Animal Crossing: New Leaf, including money luck.

Custom Furniture from Cyrus

Cyrus is the blue alpaca in Re-Tail. After he wakes up, you can take certain items to him to get customized or modified furniture. This page explains how to get custom furniture from him.

How to Wake Cyrus Up

Cyrus will be asleep until you have played for seven days, sold 100,000 bells worth of items to Reese (the pink alpaca), and have 100 pieces of furniture and 50 clothing items in your catalog. (Items are added to your catalog as soon as you put them into your inventory, even if the Nooklings' shop doesn't have a catalog machine yet.)

How to Remake Items

To remake items, you have to bring a customizable furniture item to Cyrus. Just talk to him, then choose the item from your inventory. Cyrus will ask you which things you want to customize. Some pieces of furniture have multiple customization options.

Using Clothing Patterns and Custom Designs

Some customization items can be customized using clothing patterns. For certain items, you may be able to clothing that you purchase in the Able Sisters' shop in addition to custom designs that you create yourself.

Special Remake Items

Cyrus can make a few types of special, original items. The following sections explain how to get these special items from Cyrus

Music Boxes

You can have Cyrus make a music box for you. Just bring him the following things:

• A K.K. Slider song
• A giant-clam shell
• 3000 Bells

Mini-Fossils

Cyrus can make miniature dinosaur fossils by combining big fossils. To have Cyrus create a mini-fossil, bring him these things:

• Bells equal to 10% of the total value of the fossil parts
• All the parts of a complete fossil (head, tail, any other body parts). You can't mix and match different dinosaurs (e.g. you can't put a stegosaurus head on a triceratops body).

Golden Furniture

There is a golden furniture set that Cyrus can make for you. The golden furniture set consists of the following items: golden bed, golden dresser, golden closet, golden chair, golden couch, golden table, golden clock, golden torch, golden woman statue, golden man statue, golden screen. When you bring Cyrus the required items, he randomly chooses which thing to make (you can't choose). To have Cyrus make a piece of furniture from the golden furniture set, bring him these items:

• Three pieces of gold ore (can sometimes be found by breaking the 'fake' rock in your town each day with your shovel)
• 10000 Bells

Fortune Cookies

The Nooklings' shop sells fortune cookies. You can buy them with 3DS Play Coins. The fortune cookies can be eaten, and inside of it you find a fortune. Each fortune has a number written on it. Give the fortune to Timmy or Tommy and he will give you a prize depending on the number on the fortune.

How to Earn Play Coins

To buy fortune cookies, you must have Play Coins. To earn Play Coins, turn on your 3DS, go to the home screen, and close the 3DS, then walk around while carrying it in your pocket or bag so it can record how many steps you take. For every 100 steps, you get 1 play coin. You can earn 10 coins per day, up to a maximum of 300 play coins.

How to Use a Fortune Cookie

After you buy a fortune cookie, you should eat it. You can do this by dragging the fortune cookie to your person in your inventory screen, or by tapping the fortune cookie and choosing "Eat".

When you eat the cookie, you will discover a slip of paper inside. You'll read the fortune and see the number.

With a fortune in your inventory, talk to Timmy or Tommy. You will have an option to give him the fortune. He will take it and give you an item depending on the number on the fortune. The list of prizes is below.

Fortune Cookie Prizes

The following is the complete list of Fortune Cookie prizes.

• Mushroom Mural
• Block Floor
• Hero's Tunic
• Random non-spotlight furniture, wallpaper, or carpet
• Hero's Pants
• Random non-spotlight furniture, wallpaper, or carpet
• Peach's Parasol
• Hero's Cap
• Majora's Mask
• Varia Suit Mask
• Midna's Mask
• Toad Hat
• Red Pikmin Hat
• Blue Pikmin Hat
• Yellow Pikmin Hat
• Random non-spotlight furniture, wallpaper, or carpet
• Brick Block
• Coin
• Flagpole
• Fire Flower
• Super Mushroom
• Koopa Shell
• Starman
• 1-Up Mushroom
• ? Block
• Green Pipe
• Fire Bar
• Cannon
• Yoshi's Egg
• Random non-spotlight furniture, wallpaper, or carpet
• Triple Shells
• Kart
• Pikmin Planter
• Blue Falcon
• Master Sword
• Arwing
• Triforce
• Random non-spotlight furniture, wallpaper, or carpet
• Dolphin
• Virtual Boy
• Wii Balance Board
• Varia Suit Pants
• Varia Suit Shoes
• Bad Bro 'Stache
• Big Bro Mustache
• Varia Suit Body
• Metroid
• Triple Bananas
• Hero's Boots
• Fi Mask

Golden Tools and Silver Tools

The normal tools in Animal Crossing: New Leaf are the net, fishing rod, shovel, axe, watering can, and slingshot. You can get silver and gold versions of all of these by performing certain tasks. Some of these silver and golden tools are more powerful than the normal version. For example, the golden axe will never break.

The Net

Silver Net

The museum shop sells the silver net. To open the museum shop, you have to donate at least 20 things to the museum, with at least one item from each of the four categories (art, fossils, fish, bugs.) After you have done so, sit in your mayor's seat and start a new building project. The museum shop will be in the list. To help raise funds to build the museum shop, go into your train station and give money to the statue. After the fundraising is complete, the museum shop will open the next day. The shop sells random items each day, so keep checking back until a silver net is for sale.

Golden Net

To get the golden net, you must catch all of the bug types, completing your bug picture book (tap the book tab on the touch screen). Once your picture book is completed, go to a bug catching tournament and talk to the lizard in charge to receive your golden net.

The Fishing Rod

Silver Fishing Rod

The museum shop sells the silver fishing rod. Read the previous section about the silver net to learn how to unlock the museum shop.

Golden Fishing Rod

To get the golden fishing rod, you must catch all of the river and ocean fish (but not deep sea creatures). After you have completed your picture book of all the non-deep-sea fish, go to a fishing tourney and talk to the beaver in charge to receive your golden fishing rod.

The Shovel

Silver Shovel

The museum shop sells the silver shovel. Read the section about the silver net to learn how to unlock the museum shop.

Golden Shovel

To receive the golden shovel, you must purchase at least 50 bags of fertilizer from the garden shop. Fertilizer is only available if your store has been upgraded to the department store.

The Axe

Silver Axe

The silver axe can be purchased from the gift shop of the island.

Golden Axe

To receive the golden axe, you must purchase at least 50 tree sprouts (not including shrubs) from the garden shop.

The Watering CanSilver Watering Can

To receive the silver watering can, you must purchase at least 50 bags of flower seeds from the garden shop. Leif will give you the silver watering can after you buy your 50th flower seed bag. The silver watering can can water 5 flowers at a time.

Golden Watering Can

Go to the front desk of the town hall and ask Isabelle about the town environment. If the environment is good for 15 days in a row, you will get the golden watering can. The golden watering can is able to water 9 flowers at a time.

The SlingshotSilver Slingshot

After you have shot down 16 or more balloon presents, you might see the silver slingshot float by in a toolbox carried by silver balloons.

After you have shot down 16 or more balloon presents, in rare cases you might see the golden slingshot float by in a golden toolbox.

Seashells

In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, you can find seashells on the beach. You can collect these and sell them for Bells.

Types of Seashells

The following is a list of all of the seashell types that can be found in Animal Crossing: New Leaf, along with the sell price.

Seashell Type	Sell Price
Pearl Oyster アコヤガイのかいがら	1200 bells
Sea-snail shell エビスガイのかいがら	90 bells
Oyster オイスターのかいがら	450 bells
Coral サンゴ	250 bells
Sand Dollar サンドダラー	60 bells
Giant-Clam Shell シャコガイのかいがら	450 bells
Cowrie shell タカラガイのかいがら	30 bells
Scallop ホタテガイのかいがら	600 bells
Venus Comb ホネガイのかいがら	150 bells
Conch ホラガイのかいがら	350 bells

TV Schedule

If you put a TV in your house and turn it on, it shows various programs throughout the day. This page lists the in-game TV schedule for every day of the week.

Taking out the Trash

In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, you might find trash items while fishing or when growing harvesting from perfect fruit trees. This page explains how to get rid of it.

Finding Trash

There are certain items that Reese will not pay you for if you try to sell them to her. Instead, she will require you to give her bells for the recycling fee. These items are trash items. They include trash that you find while fishing, as well as fake paintings. A few other items are also trash items. You should use a trash can to throw them away so you can get rid of them for free.

List of Trash Items

The following is a partial list of trash items that Reese will require you to pay for disposal.

• Fake Paintings
• Soda Can
• Paper Bag
• Rotten Turnip
• Tire
• Boot

Trash cans

You can use trash cans in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Just check on the trash can, then tap the items that you want to throw away. Tap the Confirm button to throw the items away. Be careful! Once something is thrown away, you can't get it back!

Buy a Trashcan

You can find a variety of trash cans in the Nooklings' shop. Keep checking back each day to find a trash can for your house.

Add a Trashcan to your Town

You can unlock a trash can in the list of public work projects if a Normal female villager requests it. Build it in your town and you can use it to throw away trash items.

How to go Swimming

To go swimming in Animal Crossing: New Leaf, you need a wetsuit. To get a wetsuit, you have to go to the island and buy a wet suit there. After that, you can do go swimming and diving.

How to Get Play Coins

The 3DS has a Play Coins feature that allows you to earn coins by walking around with your 3DS in sleep mode. In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, you can use Play Coins to purchase fortune cookies from the Nooklings' shop. This page explains how to earn Play Coins.

Play Coins Guide

To earn Play Coins, turn on your 3DS, go to the home screen, and close the 3DS, then walk around while carrying it in your pocket or bag. The 3DS will keep track of how many steps you take when you walk around. For every 100 steps, you get 1 play coin. You can earn 10 coins per day, up to a maximum of 300 play coins. For more information, check out Nintendo.com's article on How to Earn Play Coins.

How to Use Play Coins in New Leaf

In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, you can use Play Coins in the Nooklings' shop. They sell fortune cookies, which can only be purchased with 3DS Play Coins.