Getting all the aureate tools in Animal Crossing: New Horizons volition be a massive quality of life upgrade for players. While all of the golden tools are incredibly hard to get, the golden shovel is one of the hardest, and the reason might not be the one players are expecting.

The Golden Shovel

Much like the gilt watering can and gold axe, the gilt shovel has a massive increase in durability over the regular shovel. Players can use it nearly 200 times before it breaks. Considering the flimsy shovel only works 40 times, and the regular shovel 100 times, this is a big increment for players who but want to dig without worrying about replacing their tools all the time.

Grabbing the Golden Shovel

In order to become the recipe for the golden shovel, players volition accept to assistance Gulliver xxx whole times. To assist Gulliver, players have to dig up his five missing communicator pieces on the beach and bring them dorsum. Gulliver'southward appearances are completely random, and then it can take more than than a month or two to become this recipe.

Animal Crossing New Horizons Gold Nugget Fountain

Unless players fourth dimension travel. Players can keep fourth dimension-skipping to a new day, check the beach, and so skip ahead once more if Gulliver is not on the embankment. That will motility along the 30 times much faster, allowing players to unlock this recipe in no time at all. And then players will be able to craft the tool at their workbench.

The Recipe

For the recipe, Animal Crossing: New Horizons players will take to have ane axe and ane gilt asset. Players tin can get the DIY recipe for the regular axe from the Pretty Good Tools DIY Recipe book with 3,000 Nook miles from the kiosk. To build a shovel, players volition need one flimsy shovel and one iron nugget.

To get nuggets, players can farm them from rocks with their axe. Although golden nuggets don't driblet frequently, players volition need one for each golden tool they wish to build, so brand sure to concord onto them instead of selling. Each of these aureate tools will assistance players be able to build the perfect island getaway for themselves.

Brute Crossing: New Horizons is available for Nintendo Switch and Switch Lite.

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