There are a ton of very useful items inAnimal Crossing: New Horizons. Some of them help with making your furniture mesh a lot better with other items in the game. They also allow you to unleash your creativity in creating all kinds of different areas around your island such as food courts, movie theaters, arcades, and more.
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There are endless possibilities and so many great items in the game that allow you to personalize your island. Some items in the game are just great to have on hand to make your daily tasks easier. Here are 10 essential items for your island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Updated September 7th, 2022 by Russ Boswell:Animal Crossing: New Horizons has added quite a few items since we last visited this list, with players able to get their hands on some seriously advanced decor, including an unassuming pipe that will let them instantly transport to areas around their island. With developers constantly adding new items (and players finding interesting ways to use pre-existing things) we thought it best to go back and give an update to this collection. There are now even more items and ideas that players should be sure to incorporate into their getaway. Here’s an expanded look atthings players should add to their Animal Crossing: New Horizons island.
19Pipe
Since Update 1.18, players were given access to some very recognizable items that are very reminiscent of the Super Mario Bros. franchise. The iconic Pipe (which many will recognize as the Warp Pipe from the beloved franchise) can be snagged for 5,000 Bells from Nook Shopping. Players will want to grab at least two of these items because they actually still maintain their properties from the Mushroom Kingdom. By placing two warp pipes, players can interconnect them to allow for quick and easy teleportation around their island paradise.
This is a must-have item for players that are tired of hoofing it around their expansive town and want a quick and easy way to access specific areas.
18Arcade Cabinet
A lot of the items in Animal Crossing: New Horizons are simply static decorations that don’t offer much in terms of animations or variance. Thankfully, there are a handful of great decor pieces that will liven up a space with motion. Perhaps one of the best examples of this is the Arcade Cabinet. This unassuming piece can really help a space feel technologically advanced. There is something super helpful and relatable to player designs when they feature some form of electricity and the Arcade Cabinent will help players connect better with their spaces no matter how modern or archaic they may feel.
17Vegetable Patch
Make island life a little more homely with a beautiful little vegetable patch. While vegetables can be planted in any ground type, much like flowers, creating a little muddy patch complete with fences and tools just makes for a quintessential island-life vibe.
While pumpkin seeds are only available during October from Nook’s Cranny, they can be purchased from Leif at any time and so can be grown all year round. Players are able to get a maximum of three pumpkins per plant if they tend to their vegetable patch regularly enough with a good watering.
16Outdoor Seating
Creating an outdoor seating area is the perfect way to make a little social space on the island, offering players a nice little area where they can relax and spend time with eithertheir animal neighborsor any visiting friends.
This outdoor garden patio areaby Redditor cellehstuffsis the perfect example of an outdoor seating area next to a house. However, players can let their imaginations run wild and create outdoor cafes, libraries, marketplaces, and more.
15Golden Tools
Once you achieve a5-star islandthrough Isabelle’s evaluations, you’ll receive the golden watering can. Whether this is your first golden tool, or another one for your collection, collecting all the golden tools can be a time-consuming task that’ll definitely be rewarding in the end.
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The golden tools just look a lot cooler than the normal ones and while they aren’t unbreakable (hopefully they will be in the future), they still have fairly high durability.
14Stove
A stove isn’t a necessary item as players won’t need to do any cooking around their island if they really don’t want to, but it’s absolutely necessary for anyone that is attempting to make a kitchen within their home. Thankfully, there are a variety of stoves, as well as other cooktops. Players shouldn’t feel like they need to be tethered to simply any old stove and should feel free to experiment. The beauty of Animal Crossing: New Horizons is that players can do practically anything they want on their islands and this includes inside their homes.
It can even be something as simple as a microwave or an open flame. But adding something like this can breathe life into an otherwise empty space, making it feel more like a home that’s being lived in.
13Fencing
Fences are a must for any island — not only do they come in avariety of designs, perfect to use for decorative purposes and to add a little more style to your island, but they have a practical purpose too. Players can use fences to keep their island orderly, creating set areas that visiting players are allowed to explore, while also cutting off access to anywhere the owner doesn’t want them to be, such as near coveted money trees or rare flowers.
A lot of players have their most precious areas fenced off with a single gap remaining so they can access it whenever they like, then they carry extra fences so that just before they invite other players to their island, they can plug that last gap and keep their items safe.
12Flower Patch
Flower patches not only add beautiful scenic areas to an island, such asthis Redditor’s prime exampleof a stunning color-coordinated flower patch, but they also serve a purpose too — makingflower breeding more efficient.
Utilizing flower patches gives players greater control over their flower-growing, but can also keep their prized rare flowers safe when coupled with the previous suggestion of fencing. While visitors can no longer ruin flowers entirely by running through them (as they could in earlier titles), they can still pick them and essentially steal the hard work of any would-be flower grower, so fence those flowers and keep them safe.
11Customization Kits
Customization kits are always great to have in case you ever feel like your tool may be close to breaking. When using a customization kit to change the color of a tool, it’ll actually reset the durability on it to make it as good as new. It’s a weird trick that would definitely be a lot better if you could just repair the tool without changing its color but hey, it works!
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Customization kits can be bought from Nook’s Cranny for 600 bells. Thankfully you’re able to purchase up to five at a time which makes it way easier to stock up on them.
10Wands
If you want to be able to change your outfits on the fly, wands are great to have in your inventory at all times. There are many different wands available in he game, but one of the easiest to obtain is the bamboo wand.
Either way, you’ll have to get star fragments from wishing on a shooting star at night. When this happens you can also find Celeste on your island who will give you a DIY recipe that can possibly be for a wand or something quite rare. There was also a recipe for a wand given during Bunny Day that is pretty easy to craft.
