5 How To Find Silver And Gold Tools In Animal Crossing With Easy

How To Find Silver And Gold Tools In Animal Crossing - Tools are the most important possessions you have in Animal Crossing, aside from your house, that is. Tools let you do everything needed around town, from digging up Fossils and Pitfall Seeds to catching Fish and Bugs to sell. And at the beginning, you might just be satisfied by having the basic tools (axe, shovel, watering can, fishing rod, slingshot, and net) in your possession; but then you spot some other players toting some really nice Silver, or even Gold, tools, which seem to be able to do and catch more things than your regular old tools. So how do you get these tools?

Getting the Silver Shovel, Net, and Fishing Rod

Donate to the Museum. First things first, you need to donate to the Museum. To unlock the option to build 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.) Fossils can be dug up with a Shovel, fish can be caught with a fishing rod or by diving in the Island, and bugs can be caught all over town with a net. However, Art has to be bought from Crazy Redd.

One day a week in your town, Crazy Redd’s tent will appear in the town square, near your town tree. When you enter the tent, you’ll see that he has 4 paintings or sculptures on display, and he’ll inform you that your character can only buy one artwork for that day. Now examine what you wish to buy using A, and when you buy an item, you receive the artwork the following day. Choose carefully, though! Redd is known to forge artworks, and once you buy, you can't change your mind and switch to a different item. There are many guides on the Internet that tell you how to spot a fake from an original, so don’t be afraid to look it up.

Begin fundraising for the Museum Shop. After you donate those 20 things, go to the Town Hall, sit in your mayor's seat, and start a new building project. The Museum Shop will be in the list, which is what we want. You’ll then start a fundraiser in town, in which you can also donate some Bells to ensure that you get it built faster.

To help raise funds to build the Museum Shop, go into your train station and give money to Lloid (the gyroid you can speak to). Then you can choose how much you want to give.

Unlock the shop and buy it. Once you raise enough funds, the Museum Shop will open in the next morning! It sells random items a day, but it’s the only place to buy your Silver Shovel, Net, and Fishing Rod for 500 Bells each. You also need to unlock them through donating a certain amount of corresponding items, but the items you donated to unlock the Museum Shop counts as well.

For the Silver Net, you need to donate about 30 bugs. For the Silver Fishing Rod, you need to donate 30 fish. For the Silver Shovel, you need to donate 15 fossils.

The Silver Nets and Fishing Rods have a wider radius for catching bugs and fish, while Silver Shovels have a chance of spawning Gems instead of Bells from a Money Rock.

Getting the Silver and Gold Axes and Watering Cans

Buy the Silver Axe from the Island Shop. The Silver Axe is only available in the Island Shop, but rarely appears in their displays. It costs about 8-9 Medals, but it lasts a lot longer than a regular Axe (136 uses for the Silver Axe compared to the 32 uses of the Axe), plus the trees you cut down with it has a chance to spawn a rare tree stump design, which is when the tree rings from cutting down a stump has a cute design instead, like a leaf, or the Triforce symbol.

You can get medals from completing the minigames in the Island.

Unlock the Gardening Store for the Gold Axe and Silver Watering Can. For the Gold Axe and Silver Watering Can, you’ll need the Gardening Store. The store opens five days after the player has created their town, and you need to have pulled weeds or planted flowers a combined total of 30 times.

The store can be found between the Nookling store in Main Street and the Able Sisters’ Store, and it takes at least 1-5 days for the store to be built.

Get the Gold Axe by buying Saplings. To get the Gold Axe, you’ll need to buy a total of 50 Saplings from the store. Leif, the sloth shop owner, will then give you the Gold Axe upon purchasing the 50th sapling. The Gold Axe spawns less stump patterns that the Silver Axe, but never breaks.

Get the Silver Watering Can by buying seeds. Much like the Gold Axe, you need to buy 50 Seed Packets of Flowers from Leif, and he’ll hand you the Silver Watering Can when you get the 50th. It waters a wider radius than the Watering Can.

Get the Gold Watering Can by attaining the "Perfect Town" status. Here’s the tricky bit: you need to get the town to "Perfect" status and retain it for 15 days. To do so, you need to make enough "good" Public Works Projects, plant enough Trees and Flowers without crowding the town, make sure to keep items scattered on the ground (excluding seashells, buried gyroids and fossils, mushrooms, and flowers) to a minimum, and pull weeds every single day. And you need to maintain this for 15 days. When you do this, talk to Isabelle in the Town Hall and she’ll hand you the Gold Watering Can. The Gold Watering Can has an even wider radius than the Silver one, and can turn wilted Black Roses into Gold Roses when you water it.

Proclaiming a Beautiful Town Ordinance as Mayor will keep the flowers from wilting and spawn less weeds, but costs 20000 Bells to enact, and only 1 Ordinance can be enacted at a time.

Public Works Projects, like adding benches and fountains and streetlights, can increase the town rating, but "ugly" projects—like big screens, flashing lights, the drilling rig, and especially the garbage—can will decrease it.

While you only need to plant a certain amount of trees (somewhere between 100-200 trees in total), you can have as many flowers as you want, as long as it’s more than 50.

Getting a Gold Net and Fishing Rod

Complete your Picture Book. This will take you a really long time, but basically you need to catch every single bug type and all the river and ocean fish (but not the ones you get from deep-sea diving on the Island). You can find out if you’ve completed your Picture Book by tapping the book icon on the touchscreen of your 3DS.

Wait for a competition. The Fishing Tourney in New Leaf happens on Saturdays, specifically on the third Saturdays of January, March, May, and November, and on the second Saturdays of February, April, October and December. The Bug-Off (bug-catching tournament) is available in the third Saturdays of the month from June to September.

Speak to who’s in charge. When one of these tournaments roll by, speak to the person manning the tent in the Event Plaza by the Town Tree. For the Fishing Tourney, you need to speak to Chip, who is a beaver. For the Bug Off, you need to speak to Nat, who is a lizard. Chip will hand you the Gold Fishing Rod, and Nat will give you a Gold Net in return for your hard work.

These tools have a better response time and a wider radius than their Silver counterparts.

Getting a Gold Shovel

Upgrade your store to T.I.Y. To get the Gold Shovel, you’ll need to unlock the Department Store. It’s the last tier of the shop upgrades and can be a bit tricky to do. You’ll need to have unlocked at least the T.I.Y. Home Center to do so. You can do this by spending about 50,000 Bells in the Supermarket, and it must be at least 21 days after building the Supermarket.

To unlock the Supermarket, the Convenience Store and the Gardening Store must be open for 10 days prior, and you need to have spent 25,000 Bells in the Convenience Store.

To unlock the Convenience Store, you must have bought a house, the town must be 10 days old at least, and you must buy 15 items in total or spend 12,000 Bells in the store.

All player data in the game card can contribute to the upgrade requirements.

Spend and wait. When you have the Home Center, you need to spend a total of 100,000 Bells in the store, and the Home Center must be open for 30 days in total before you can upgrade. You can use all your player saves to do this quicker too.

Pass 4 fashion checks. Here is the trickier requirement. Once a week, on random weekdays, Gracie, the fashionista giraffe, will visit your town plaza and judge your fashion sense.You need to pass her judgement 4 times to fulfill the last requirement to unlock the Department Store upgrade. You can do this by wearing a complete set of clothes, or clothes from the same type and theme to pass her judgement. There are guides in the Internet that list all the clothes and outline which articles of clothing you can combine together to pass her judgement, so if you’re unsure of what clothes you can wear to get a pass, you can look it up. Afterwards, the Department Store will unlock after you fulfill the requirements.

Note that socks count as an article of clothing, so even if you’re wearing shoes or pants that conceal your socks, they still count during judgement.

Buy 50 Fertilizer. When you have the Department Store, you need to buy 50 Fertilizer from Leif, and when you buy the 50th, he hands you the Golden Shovel in return. While it does not yield you gems from Money Rocks, when you bury some Bells on the ground with a Gold Shovel, a Money Tree will grow from it, and you can literally harvest money from it!

Getting Silver and Gold Slingshots

Get a Slingshot. A Slingshot can be bought from the store for 500 Bells. Much like your other base tools, two of them are available for purchase every day at a random order.

Shoot down at least 14 Balloons. When the clock has a time ending in 4 (4:44, 11:14, 8: 04, etc.), a Balloon carrying a present will drift from the edges of town. You can shoot it down with your slingshot, though you may have to chase it a bit. You’ll have to pop at least 14 of these, so better get used to chasing.

If you chase it into the top of the town cliffs by the beach, you can pop them with any tool on hand, since they drift very closely to your character.

If you pop the balloon over water or flowers, the present is destroyed and you get nothing. This is because there isn’t any space for the present to land in. The present may also be destroyed when the balloon is popped over a 3x3 pattern.

Shoot down toolboxes! After you pop your 14th Balloon, sometimes a toolbox will be tied to a Balloon instead of a present. If you shoot the toolbox down, you have a chance of getting either a Silver Slingshot or a Gold Slingshot. The Silver one shoots 2 rocks at once, while the Gold shoots 3.