ANIMAL CROSSING WILD WORLD HELPING GUIDE!!!!!!!
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+-- / | ELCOME TO TOWN! ------------------------------------------- 03.01 --+
The first person you are introduced to in your town is Pelly, who works at the
town hall. You will become better accustomed to her later. She mentions Tom
nook, the owner of the local shop who was kind enough to set you up with a
house here in town. When Pelly opens up the map for you, it will show you the
location of your house and most of the other stuff in town as well. The game
can be controlled in one of two ways. Using the D-Pad to move and holding the
B button to run. You can interact with things using both the A and B buttons.
The other way to control is with the Stylus. You will run by default if you
move it far enough away. You can interact with things by poking them.
Your first destination in this new town is going to be your home. Remember
that you can touch the arrow at the upper right corner of your screen to open
up the map and look to see where your house is. When you arrive there either
poke the door or press the A button to go inside. At this point in the game
your house is pretty empty. You've got a candle sitting on your box, you can
turn it on by pressing the A button. You can also turn on the radio with the
A button but you haven't got any songs at the moment. If you press and hold
the A button you can move objects around and spin them. Press the X button to
open the camera angle window. With this you can change the angle at which you
view your house. This isn't all, there's also an upstairs you might want to
check out. Upstairs in this house you'll find a bed and a telephone.
Examining the telephone allows you to change some game options and check out
downloads. Examine the bed to jump in it. Normal this will let you save the
game, but it's too early in your adventure to do that right now.
When you leave the house Tom Nook will run up to you. Tell him what you think
of the house and he'll introduce himself as the shopkeeper. The total cost of
your house is going to be 19,800 Bells (Bells are this game's currency.)
Obviously you can't pay it off right now, but perhaps if you worked part-time
in Nook's store for awhile you might just be able to take care of it. After
Nook is done talking open up the map and locate the shop (it's marked by the
leaf icon.) Head there now and go through the door to find Tom Nook.
Everyone who works in Tom Nook's store is required to wear the official Nook
uniform. Tom nook gives you the uniform but it's your responsibility to put
it on. No problem, open up the menu and go to the inventory. Touch the
uniform with the Stylus and drag it onto the picture of your character.
You'll automatically change into it. Your first task is to plant some flowers
and trees out front of Nook's place. Here's an interesting factoid, Nook
doesn't really care how you arrange them as long as you plant them somewhere.
Since this is the case, why not run back and plant some nice flowers around
your own house? It really makes no difference. Open up your inventory and
touch either one of the four plant seeds or three saplings. Choose the
"Plant" option when you get it and your character will automatically plant it
in the nearest available position. Do this with all of them and then go back.
Tom's next task is for you to introduce yourself to all the residents of your
town, including the mayor. The mayor's house is marked on your map in orange
while the rest of the residents have the houses marked in blue. Not all
residents are home at their houses however, some of them are wandering around
town and it's your responsibility to find them. Speak to the first person you
find more than once until her/she asks you what your birthday is. Everyone
else you can talk to once and that's more than enough. When you find the
mayor (the tortoise) tell him the mayor is the one you respect the most and
he'll certainly like that. When you're done head back to Ton Nook's again.
For your next job, Tom Nook will give you an item and tell you to deliver it
to a specific animal in your town. You have to go out now and find that
animal again. Give him/her the piece of furniture and you'll get one back in
return with instructions on how to place it in your house. We can do this
later, but for now there are still more jobs to be performed for Tom Nook!
The next task is to write a letter to one of Nook's values customers. He'll
give you some stationary to write the letter on. It can be about anything
really, but the customer will enjoy it even more if it's filled with words
like happy and love! Open up your inventory and choose to write a letter.
Select the recipient and then the writing menu will open up. Write your
letter and choose confirm. Now make your way to the town hall and approach
the desk on the right (that's the mailing desk.) Drag the letter you want to
mail into the mailing bag and select confirm. When you've done this you need
to head back to Nook's place again and report to him a job well done.
Another delivery needs to be made to one of the other animals in your town,
it's a carpet this time. Nook will give you a carpet and tell you who you
need to bring it to. Find that animal and deliver the carpet, you'll get
their old carpet in return. You can spread this carpet out in your house now
if you want. Head back to Tom Nook's again to get your next job. The next
task is deliver a Watering Can to the same person you sent the letter to.
Give them the watering can and they will show you the letter, explaining that
people in town will always write you back if you write letters to them.
The final task is to write something on the bulletin board out front of the
Town Hall. What you write on there remains forever, so make sure it's good.
You can post messages on the bulletin board whenever you want. Just examine
it and touch the post button. After doing this head back to Nook's place and
he's got no other jobs for you. Some Bells are deducted from your total
mortgage payment, but finding a way to pay off the rest of it is up to you.
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+-- (_/ ( UILDING A HOME -------------------------------------- 04.01 --+
The one true goal that you have right from the beginning of the game is paying
off your home. The original mortgage on your house is just over 19,000 Bells,
but you should be able to knock a solid 1400 off that from the introductory
deliveries and odd jobs that you did for Tom Nook. After this there are tons
of ways you can make money, some of them work well, and some of them don't.
Once you've gathered up enough money to pay off the mortgage (or if you just
want to pay it off in part) then you need to head to the town hall / civic
centre. Approach the mail counter and choose the "Pay Mortgage" option.
You'll get a screen which will allow you to enter a specific amount.
After paying off your entire mortgage and leaving the town hall your character
will celebrate. Head now over to Tom Nook's and speak with him. He'll
congratulate you on paying your first mortgage. He says that now that it's
been paid you need to start thinking about expanding your house (which is a
good idea.) He'll ask what colour you want on your roof with this new
expansion. There are quite a few colours to choose from, if you don't like
any of his first selection then choose the bottom option and he'll show more.
Nothing happens the day you pay off the mortgage and tell him this, but wake
up tomorrow morning and turn on your copy of Animal Crossing to be pleasantly
surprised. Your house has now been upgraded and is quite a bit bigger. Check
inside and you'll see that it has been upgraded from a 4 by 4 grid to a 6 by 6
grid. That's right, after doing this you've got a new more expensive mortgage
on the expansion. Pay that off and you can expand again, get a new mortgage
and repeat the process making your house just that much bigger every time.
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|| Default House || 19,800 Bells ||
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|| First Expansion || 120,000 Bells ||
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|| Second Expansion || 298,000 Bells ||
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|| Third Expansion || 598,000 Bells ||
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|| Fourth Expansion || 728,000 Bells ||
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|| Fifth Expansion || 848,000 Bells ||
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|| Sixth Expansion || 948,000 Bells ||
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+-- (_/ ' OOK'S STORE -------------------------------------------- 04.02 --+
Nook's Store is the place where you do most of your shopping in the Animal
Crossing world. Tom Nook is the nice shopkeep who is always willing to extend
a helping hand. All of the basic tools can be purchased at Nooks, along with
plants, decorations, stationary and furniture. When you buy something it
disappears from his inventory, each day he restocks with new things so if you
need an Axe and he doesn't have it today, just check tomorrow. Nook offers
decent prices for your items as well, selling things is one of the best ways
to make money in the game. Nook also runs a catalog ordering service where
you can pay to order just about any item that you have owned before.
Just like your home, Tom Nook's store can be upgraded a number of times to get
not only bigger, but sell quite a bit more stuff too. Here's what you have to
do. Every time you either buy something or sell something to Nook, it records
the Bell value of your transaction. When you reach a certain number of total
Bells that you have purchased and sold at Nook's store, he will spend one day
upgrading his shop. The following is a chart that shows what you have to do:
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|| Nook 'n Go || Buy / Sell 25,000 Bells ||
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|| Nookway || Buy / Sell 65,000 Bells ||
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|| Nookingtons || Buy / Sell 240,000 Bells ||
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When you upgrade to Nookingtons, not only does the store stock more items and
more of just about everything, it also opens up a brand new hair salon. At
the hair salon you can answer a few questions and pay a total of 3000 Bells to
have your hair done. Check the Hairstyles section of the guide to get an
explanation of what styles you get in a similar format to the first questions.
New to Animal Crossing: Wild World, is a point system which has been
implemented in Nook's Store. Every time you spend 100 Bells at Nook's place
you are rewarded with a single point. When your points reach a certain total
then Nook will mail you special prizes and you'll also be awarded special
discounts for future purchases in his store. The following chart shows how
many points you need for each level, and what bonuses you get for each one:
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|| 300 Points || Nook's Cranny Model || N/A ||
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|| 5000 Points || Nook 'n Go Model || 5% ||
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|| 10,000 Points || Nookway Model || 10% ||
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|| 20,000 Points || Nookingtons Model || 20% ||
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+-- (_/ BLE SISTERS ----------------------------------------- 04.03 --+
The Able Sisters run the clothing store right next door to Tom Nook's. One of
them acts as the shopkeeper while the other is always hard at work on the
latest project. There is where you go is you want to purchase new clothing
and accessories for your character. At the back of the store there are
usually some nice accessories, shirts, umbrellas etc that you can look at and
purchase. This is also where you come to design your own patterns. You can
have a total of eight patterns saved with you, whether they be patterns that
you drew or just that you took from someone else. If you want to draw your
own pattern, speak to the sister who follows you around and tell her that you
want to design something. It costs 350 Bells to make a pattern, and if all
eight slots are currently in use you're going to have to give one up. When
the pattern drawing window opens up, it will look something like this:
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| 1 - Show / remove grid 11 - Thick pencil |
| 2 - Main drawing window 12 - Straight line tool |
| 3 - Colour palette 13 - Draw heart tool |
| 4 - Current available colours 14 - Fill tool |
| 5 - Quit drawing and don't save 15 - Draw star tool |
| 6 - Quit drawing and save 16 - Polka dot tool |
| 7 - Thin pencil 17 - Undo |
| 8 - Medium pencil 18 - Clear screen tool |
| 9 - Box drawing tool 19 - Drawing tools |
| 10 - Oval drawing tool |
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You can draw with either the D-Pad and buttons of the Stylus. Freehand
drawing is better with the Stylus, however you can be more precise and
accurate with the D-Pad in case you're trying to draw something pixel by
pixel. Check out the "Menu Functions" section for a more detailed explanation
of how to actually apply the patterns you create to different things.
Tip - You know the less talkative sister who sits at the table sewing every
day? When you try and talk to her she won't say much, if anything. Well keep
talking to her once or twice a day, every day for awhile. Each day she'll get
a little bit more friendly before eventually she's more than happy to talk.
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The Civics Center is the counter on the left inside of the Town Hall. This is
where you take care of any generalized "town" options with five options:
The Environment! - This is where you find out how your town is doing, and
you're given recommendations. If you have "Perfect Town" then this is where
you find out. To get a perfect town you must do the following: make sure all
the weeds have been picked, even the ones behind trees where they are
difficult to see. You have to make sure you don't have any wilted flowers in
your town at all, if they start to wilt, water them. Make sure there aren't
any stray items lying around. Now here's where it gets difficult: just like
Animal Crossing on the Gamecube it's based on an acre-by-acre system. Each
acre is considered to be 16x16 panels wide. Each of these supposed acres must
have between 12 and 14 trees in them, the trees cannot be touching. Each acre
must have three flowers total. Do this and ask about the environment, she
should tell you that your town is perfect. Maintain this rating for a total
of 16 days and after doing that you will get the Golden Watering Can.
Town Tunes - You may not notice, but just about everything you do in this game
triggers some kind of rendition of the Town Tune. Speak to any animal in your
town and you'll hear the town tune composed of different sound effects
depending on who you're talking to. This is where you can create your own
Tune. Tell Pelly that you want to make a Town Tune. Use the Stylus to drag
the individual notes around between A and G, from low to high. The very
highest note means that it will play a random note at that point. The Zzz!
note means that it will play nothing, and the note above Zzz! means that it
will extend the sound of the previous note over top of this one. For some
example tunes, check out the specific Town Tune section of this guide.
Donations - This is where you make a donation to the next town over which is
suffering so badly that all they eat are Grilled Dirt Sandwiches! While
donating is its own reward, there are also a few materials rewards you can get
for doing this including the most expensive item in the game (in terms of how
much you pay for it.) The following is a list of all the rewards you get:
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|| Green Feather || 10,000 Bells ||
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|| Blue Feather || 200,000 Bells ||
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|| Yellow Feather || 500,000 Bells ||
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|| Red Feather || 800,000 Bells ||
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|| Purple Feather || 1,100,000 Bells ||
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|| White Feather || 1,400,000 Bells ||
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|| Rainbow Feather || 6,400,000 Bells ||
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Moving - Move your character from one town to another. Get the other DS with
the other copy of Animal Crossing ready and choose Immigration mode from the
title screen. Tell Pelly that you want to move and get ready for the change
to occur. If everything goes well then you should now live on another game.
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The counter on the right hand side of the Town Hall is where you take care of
your postal and financial needs. If you write a letter to someone in your
town this is where you come to mail the letter using the first option. You
can also save a number of letters you have received here. If you save a
letter with an attachment it serves as a great way to store more items. This
is also where you pay your mortgage to Tom Nook. Choose how much you wish to
pay back and he will automatically receive the payment immediately.
The Post Office is also where you access your savings account. You can make a
deposit or a withdrawal into and from your savings account respectively.
Money in the account will grow via interest, however the interest isn't very
much. Nonetheless if you've got extra Bells lying around it's the best place
you can put them. You can only hold so many on your person but you can
deposit almost as many as you like into the bank. Finally we have the Recycle
Bin which serves the same function as the dump from Animal Crossing on the
Gamecube. Dump old crap you don't want anymore, and check it often to find
other crap.
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The Museum is one of the main buildings that you'll find in your town. It
serves a number of purposes, primarily as a place to show off the various
valuables you have collected. There are four types of things you can show off
at the museum, Fossils, Bugs, Fish, and Paintings. Fossils are dug up around
town, there are usually about three of them per day and you will find them
under the X marks. Fish are caught using the Fishing Rod that you buy from
Nook's Store. Bugs are caught using the Bug Net. Lastly paintings are
purchased from Redd's tent, you can find more information about Redd elsewhere
in this guide. You may be wondering what the rewards are for completing the
museum. The ultimate answer is personal satisfaction at seeing your entire
collection displayed. The material answer is a simple "Museum Model," so as
you can see, the former is actually your main motivation. Speak to the owl in
the front hall of the museum to donate things that you have found. He will
also identify your Fossils for you, even if you choose not to donate them.
Downstairs under the museum is the Coffee. Brewster runs the Coffee Shop and
sells every cup for the reasonable price of 200 Bells. Buying coffee doesn't
actually get you anything special either, but it does serve one purpose. When
you first speak to Brewster he doesn't have much to say. Gradually as you
visit the Coffee Shop every day he will get more and more friendly toward you
character, and you can develop a happy relationship with him. The Coffee Shop
itself does serve one other purpose. On Saturday nights between 7:30 P.M. and
Midnight, K.K. Slider will perform there. Speak to him to get a song which
can be played on your radio. Also if you have the Country Guitar which you
may get while trading for the Golden Axe, give that to him to get the K.K.
Slider's picture. Overall this is just a nice place to sit and hang about.
Last but not least we have the observatory upstairs. Go up there and examine
the telescope. You can choose to either look at the stars or create some
constellations of your own. Connect the stars together using your Stylus and
create new constellations, you can even name them! The bird working up there
will tell you what day of the year and what time your constellation is seen.
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|| Shovel || The Shovel is used for digging up various objects ||
|| || throughout your town, covering hole, poking rocks, ||
|| || poking people, and anything else you can think to do ||
|| || with it. The Shovel can be purchased at Tom Nook's ||
|| || shop for 500 Bells. When you have the Shovel equipped ||
|| || on your character and press the A button or poke the ||
|| || ground in front of you, you will dig a hole in the ||
|| || ground. You can use this hole to plant trees, ||
|| || flowers, and even money. The Shovel is also used to ||
|| || dig up those little X marks you see on the ground in ||
|| || your town every once in awhile. On any given day ||
|| || there will be approximately three of these X marks. ||
|| || When you dig them up you will most likely find a ||
|| || Fossil which can then be brought to the museum and ||
|| || identified. Sometimes you even find a Pitfall item ||
|| || which can be buried again and used as a trap for ||
|| || whatever reason. Maybe you want to annoy the other ||
|| || people living in your town. After using the Axe to ||
|| || cut down a tree, the Shovel is used to pry the stump ||
|| || out of the ground. The Shovel is used to poke magic ||
|| || money rocks that appear on a daily basis randomly in ||
|| || your town. More information on these can be found ||
|| || elsewhere in the guide. Finally the Shovel can also ||
|| || be used to cover up holes that you have already dug, ||
|| || just approach the hole and press A to cover it up. If ||
|| || you don't have a Shovel you can still cover these ||
|| || holes by press the B button and kicking dirt on them. ||
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|| Axe || The Axe is your typical chopping and slicing weapon. ||
|| || Used primarily for taking down trees which happen to ||
|| || be in your way rather than brutally murdering the ||
|| || villagers. Purchase the Axe at the Nook's store for ||
|| || 500 Bells. Stand beside a tree with the Axe equipped ||
|| || and start chopping, after about three or four strikes ||
|| || the tree will go down. You can pry up the leftover ||
|| || stump using the Shovel. If you start chopping down ||
|| || too many trees your Axe is going to break. At that ||
|| || point you'll either have to find a new one or get your ||
|| || hands on a Golden Axe. ||
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|| Fishing Rod || The Fishing Rod is used not surprisingly, for going ||
|| || fishing. The actual process of Fishing is explained ||
|| || elsewhere in the guide, but basically all you need is ||
|| || this rod. Equip it on your character and stand by the ||
|| || river or ocean. Press the A button or touch your ||
|| || character to launch it, wait for a fish to bite, and ||
|| || hit the A button or tap the screen again to hopefully ||
|| || catch the fish. It's a lot harder than it looks. ||
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|| Bug Net || The Bug Net is used for catching various bugs all over ||
|| || your town. Bugs appear at different times and dates. ||
|| || The net is sold at Nook's shop for a mere 500 Bells. ||
|| || Once you have it you can swing the net on the ground ||
|| || in front of you and catch either airborne or ground ||
|| || based insects. ||
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|| Slingshot || The Slingshot is sold periodically at Nook's store for ||
|| || 500 Bells. When you have the Slingshot equipped you ||
|| || have the ability to fire up into the air and knock ||
|| || things out of the sky. Every once in awhile something ||
|| || like a balloon for example will float by on the screen ||
|| || above you. Position yourself under the object and ||
|| || fire upward, if you can manage to hit it usually ||
|| || you'll get some kind of reward in return. ||
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|| Watering Can || The Watering Can is a basic tool that you can buy at ||
|| || Nook's Shop for 500 Bells. The Watering Can is used ||
|| || to water and revitalize any wilted flowers when they ||
|| || are dying to make everything look nicer and keep your ||
|| || town rating up. As far as I know, watering healthy ||
|| || flowers won't keep them from wilting any more than ||
|| || they normally would, you should focus primarily on ||
|| || watering only the flowers that are wilting already. ||
|| || Note that the Watering Can has no effect on trees. ||
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|| Golden || The Golden Shovel is an upgrade of the Shovel. The ||
|| Shovel || difference between it and the normal Shovel is that ||
|| || the Golden Shovel can be used to plant Money Trees. ||
|| || Dig a hole in the ground with the Golden Shovel and ||
|| || bury a bag of money that you have in your inventory in ||
|| || the hole. There's a slim chance that this bag of ||
|| || money will grow into a tree. That tree should then ||
|| || produce three bags of money with amounts equal to what ||
|| || you buried, maximizing at no more than about 30,000 ||
|| || Bells. The Golden Shovel is one of the easier golden ||
|| || tools to acquire. First you need to have two Shovels ||
|| || in your inventory. Dig a hole with one of the Shovels ||
|| || and then use that Shovel, to bury your second Shovel ||
|| || in the hole. Wait overnight and dig up that Shovel in ||
|| || the morning, overnight it became the Golden Shovel. ||
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|| Golden Axe || The Golden Axe is an upgrade of the normal Axe and is ||
|| || the most difficult of all the golden tools to acquire. ||
|| || It has the exact same functionality as the Axe with ||
|| || one single important exception, it cannot ever be ||
|| || broken. TO get the Golden Axe you must follow these ||
|| || exact steps. Every Sunday you will be able to find an ||
|| || animal named Joan who sells Turnips and Red Turnips. ||
|| || Purchase a Red Turnip from Joan and plant it in the ||
|| || ground with your Shovel. Dig it up one day later and ||
|| || give it to Wendell who appears in town on a random day ||
|| || of the week, to get the Turban. Give the Turban to ||
|| || Sahara who appears in your town on a random day of the ||
|| || week to get the Massage Chair. Wait until the next ||
|| || holiday and find Tortimer, the mayor out front of the ||
|| || town hall. Give him the Massage Chair to get the ||
|| || Scallop. Once you have the Scallop you need to trade ||
|| || it to Pascal who appears on a random weekday down near ||
|| || the beach to get the Golden Axe. The easiest way that ||
|| || I know of to find out which day of the week these ||
|| || people appear, is to talk to Booker each day and ask ||
|| || him what's new. He should tell you who has been ||
|| || passing through town recently. Booker is the dog on ||
|| || the left side of the main gate. ||
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|| Golden || The Golden Fishing Rod is an upgrade to the normal ||
|| Fishing Rod || Fishing Rod. When using the Golden Fishing Rod to go ||
|| || fishing, you will have a slightly extended period of ||
|| || time to reel in the fish when your line is caught, ||
|| || this can make or break your catch so don't ||
|| || underestimate its usefulness. Unfortunately the only ||
|| || way to acquire the Golden Fishing Rod is to catch at ||
|| || least one of every type of fish in the game. A list ||
|| || of all the different fish can be found elsewhere in ||
|| || the guide. ||
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|| Golden || The Golden Bug Net is an upgrade of the Bug Net. It ||
|| Bug Net || doesn't have any special functionality, it is simply a ||
|| || larger version of the normal net and thus, it can ||
|| || catch bugs even easier. Like the Golden Fishing Rod, ||
|| || the only way to acquire the Golden Bug Net is to catch ||
|| || at least one of every type of bug in the game. ||
|+----------------++--------------------------------------------------------+|
|| Golden || The Golden Slingshot is an upgrade of the normal ||
|| Slingshot || Slingshot. Rather than shooting a single rock into ||
|| || the air, the Golden Slingshot shoots a total of three ||
|| || up into the air making it easier to hit your targets. ||
|| || In order to acquire the Golden Slingshot you must ||
|| || shoot down a total of 15 presents out of the sky. It ||
|| || doesn't matter if you miss any that float by, or shoot ||
|| || a total of 15 over a period of days, weeks, etc. Once ||
|| || you shoot down the 15th present it should have the ||
|| || Golden Slingshot inside of it. ||
|+----------------++--------------------------------------------------------+|
|| Golden || The Golden Watering Can is an upgrade of the Watering ||
|| Watering Can || Can. There have been rumours that watering your tree ||
|| || saplings with the Golden Watering Can will make them ||
|| || grow faster, but there is little to no evidence to ||
|| || support this. The Golden Watering Can serves two ||
|| || purposes. The first is to sit around, be golden and ||
|| || look nice. The second is a little more useful and ||
|| || that's to create Golden Roses. What you have to do is ||
|| || plant a bunch of Red Roses together, and over time ||
|| || they should seed some Black Roses. Wait for the Black ||
|| || Roses to wilt and then water them with the Golden ||
|| || Watering Can, they will grow back as not black, but ||
|| || Gold Roses. Gold Roses sell for approximately 2500 ||
|| || Bells. To acquire the Golden Watering Can you must ||
|| || get a perfect rating for your town (check your rating ||
|| || at the town hall) and maintain that perfect rating for ||
|| || a total of 16 days. To get a perfect town you must do ||
|| || the following: make sure all the weeds have been ||
|| || picked, even the ones behind trees where they are ||
|| || difficult to see. You have to make sure you don't ||
|| || have any wilted flowers in your town at all, if they ||
|| || start to wilt, water them. Make sure there aren't any ||
|| || stray items lying around. Now here's where it gets ||
|| || difficult: just like Animal Crossing on the Gamecube ||
|| || it's based on an acre-by-acre system. Each acre is ||
|| || considered to be 16x16 panels wide. Each of these ||
|| || supposed acres must have between 12 and 14 trees in ||
|| || them, the trees cannot be touching. Each acre must ||
|| || have three flowers total. Doing this should meet the ||
|| || requirements for a perfect town and get you a Golden ||
|| || Watering Can from Pelly. ||
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+-- (_/ REES ------------------------------------------------------- 05.02 --+
Trees are a very important part of any successful town, so you need to make
sure you know everything there is to know about them. The first question of
course, is what do you need to grow a tree? Well it depends on what kind of
tree you're trying to grow. For normal trees all you need is the sapling like
the ones that Nook gave you at the beginning of the game. To grow a Fruit
Tree, you need a piece of fruit, the same type as the tree you're trying to
grow. The same applies to Coconut Trees however there are a few more
restrictions on those. Lastly if you want to grow a Money Tree, you're going
to need a bag of money. To actually plant these trees you will need one of
two possible tools, either the Shovel (bought at Nook's) or the Golden Shovel.
To get the fruit, or money down from the tree you need to run up to the tree
and shake it using either the A button, or poking it with the Stylus. Don't
forget to shake all trees, even if they don't have fruit on them. There's a
good chance you will shake out a hidden bag containing about 100 Bells, and
also a small chance that you will shake down a hive of bees. If you cannot
escape their wrath your character will end up with a swollen face for awhile.
The following diagram covers visually what you should be considering when
trying to find a good place to plant a tree. Note the words "Grow" and
"Fail" which represent where a tree would likely grow is planted, and fail if
planted. Note that the boxes filled with "X"s represent obstacles of some
kind. An obstacles can usually be defined as any space on the ground which
cannot have a hole dug in it. For example if you try to dig where a tree is,
you can't, that's an obstacles. If you try to dig on solid stone ground, or
in a river, you cannot so both are considered obstacles. Don't plant trees
directly beside a river. Lastly you should note that these are not black and
white guidelines. Trees plants away from everything still have a chance to
fail (a fairly high chance for something like a Money Tree or a Coconut Tree.)
On the other hand, trees have been known to grow even when planted directly
next to obstacles. The diagram is meant to show where trees are most likely
to grow and fail, not where they are guaranteed to grow or to fail.
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|+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+|
||XXXXXX| |XXXXXX|XXXXXX|XXXXXX| |XXXXXX| |XXXXXX| ||
||XXXXXX| |XXXXXX|XXXXXX|XXXXXX| |XXXXXX| FAIL |XXXXXX| ||
||XXXXXX| |XXXXXX|XXXXXX|XXXXXX| |XXXXXX| |XXXXXX| ||
|+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+|
|| | | |XXXXXX| |XXXXXX| |XXXXXX| |XXXXXX||
|| | FAIL | |XXXXXX| |XXXXXX| |XXXXXX| |XXXXXX||
|| | | |XXXXXX| |XXXXXX| |XXXXXX| |XXXXXX||
|+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+|
||XXXXXX| |XXXXXX| | | |XXXXXX|XXXXXX|XXXXXX| ||
||XXXXXX| |XXXXXX| | | |XXXXXX|XXXXXX|XXXXXX| ||
||XXXXXX| |XXXXXX| | | |XXXXXX|XXXXXX|XXXXXX| ||
|+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+|
|| |XXXXXX| | | | | |XXXXXX| |XXXXXX||
|| |XXXXXX| | | GROW | | |XXXXXX| |XXXXXX||
|| |XXXXXX| | | | | |XXXXXX| |
THis is how you will make a perfect to
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+-- / | ELCOME TO TOWN! ------------------------------------------- 03.01 --+
The first person you are introduced to in your town is Pelly, who works at the
town hall. You will become better accustomed to her later. She mentions Tom
nook, the owner of the local shop who was kind enough to set you up with a
house here in town. When Pelly opens up the map for you, it will show you the
location of your house and most of the other stuff in town as well. The game
can be controlled in one of two ways. Using the D-Pad to move and holding the
B button to run. You can interact with things using both the A and B buttons.
The other way to control is with the Stylus. You will run by default if you
move it far enough away. You can interact with things by poking them.
Your first destination in this new town is going to be your home. Remember
that you can touch the arrow at the upper right corner of your screen to open
up the map and look to see where your house is. When you arrive there either
poke the door or press the A button to go inside. At this point in the game
your house is pretty empty. You've got a candle sitting on your box, you can
turn it on by pressing the A button. You can also turn on the radio with the
A button but you haven't got any songs at the moment. If you press and hold
the A button you can move objects around and spin them. Press the X button to
open the camera angle window. With this you can change the angle at which you
view your house. This isn't all, there's also an upstairs you might want to
check out. Upstairs in this house you'll find a bed and a telephone.
Examining the telephone allows you to change some game options and check out
downloads. Examine the bed to jump in it. Normal this will let you save the
game, but it's too early in your adventure to do that right now.
When you leave the house Tom Nook will run up to you. Tell him what you think
of the house and he'll introduce himself as the shopkeeper. The total cost of
your house is going to be 19,800 Bells (Bells are this game's currency.)
Obviously you can't pay it off right now, but perhaps if you worked part-time
in Nook's store for awhile you might just be able to take care of it. After
Nook is done talking open up the map and locate the shop (it's marked by the
leaf icon.) Head there now and go through the door to find Tom Nook.
Everyone who works in Tom Nook's store is required to wear the official Nook
uniform. Tom nook gives you the uniform but it's your responsibility to put
it on. No problem, open up the menu and go to the inventory. Touch the
uniform with the Stylus and drag it onto the picture of your character.
You'll automatically change into it. Your first task is to plant some flowers
and trees out front of Nook's place. Here's an interesting factoid, Nook
doesn't really care how you arrange them as long as you plant them somewhere.
Since this is the case, why not run back and plant some nice flowers around
your own house? It really makes no difference. Open up your inventory and
touch either one of the four plant seeds or three saplings. Choose the
"Plant" option when you get it and your character will automatically plant it
in the nearest available position. Do this with all of them and then go back.
Tom's next task is for you to introduce yourself to all the residents of your
town, including the mayor. The mayor's house is marked on your map in orange
while the rest of the residents have the houses marked in blue. Not all
residents are home at their houses however, some of them are wandering around
town and it's your responsibility to find them. Speak to the first person you
find more than once until her/she asks you what your birthday is. Everyone
else you can talk to once and that's more than enough. When you find the
mayor (the tortoise) tell him the mayor is the one you respect the most and
he'll certainly like that. When you're done head back to Ton Nook's again.
For your next job, Tom Nook will give you an item and tell you to deliver it
to a specific animal in your town. You have to go out now and find that
animal again. Give him/her the piece of furniture and you'll get one back in
return with instructions on how to place it in your house. We can do this
later, but for now there are still more jobs to be performed for Tom Nook!
The next task is to write a letter to one of Nook's values customers. He'll
give you some stationary to write the letter on. It can be about anything
really, but the customer will enjoy it even more if it's filled with words
like happy and love! Open up your inventory and choose to write a letter.
Select the recipient and then the writing menu will open up. Write your
letter and choose confirm. Now make your way to the town hall and approach
the desk on the right (that's the mailing desk.) Drag the letter you want to
mail into the mailing bag and select confirm. When you've done this you need
to head back to Nook's place again and report to him a job well done.
Another delivery needs to be made to one of the other animals in your town,
it's a carpet this time. Nook will give you a carpet and tell you who you
need to bring it to. Find that animal and deliver the carpet, you'll get
their old carpet in return. You can spread this carpet out in your house now
if you want. Head back to Tom Nook's again to get your next job. The next
task is deliver a Watering Can to the same person you sent the letter to.
Give them the watering can and they will show you the letter, explaining that
people in town will always write you back if you write letters to them.
The final task is to write something on the bulletin board out front of the
Town Hall. What you write on there remains forever, so make sure it's good.
You can post messages on the bulletin board whenever you want. Just examine
it and touch the post button. After doing this head back to Nook's place and
he's got no other jobs for you. Some Bells are deducted from your total
mortgage payment, but finding a way to pay off the rest of it is up to you.
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+-- (_/ ( UILDING A HOME -------------------------------------- 04.01 --+
The one true goal that you have right from the beginning of the game is paying
off your home. The original mortgage on your house is just over 19,000 Bells,
but you should be able to knock a solid 1400 off that from the introductory
deliveries and odd jobs that you did for Tom Nook. After this there are tons
of ways you can make money, some of them work well, and some of them don't.
Once you've gathered up enough money to pay off the mortgage (or if you just
want to pay it off in part) then you need to head to the town hall / civic
centre. Approach the mail counter and choose the "Pay Mortgage" option.
You'll get a screen which will allow you to enter a specific amount.
After paying off your entire mortgage and leaving the town hall your character
will celebrate. Head now over to Tom Nook's and speak with him. He'll
congratulate you on paying your first mortgage. He says that now that it's
been paid you need to start thinking about expanding your house (which is a
good idea.) He'll ask what colour you want on your roof with this new
expansion. There are quite a few colours to choose from, if you don't like
any of his first selection then choose the bottom option and he'll show more.
Nothing happens the day you pay off the mortgage and tell him this, but wake
up tomorrow morning and turn on your copy of Animal Crossing to be pleasantly
surprised. Your house has now been upgraded and is quite a bit bigger. Check
inside and you'll see that it has been upgraded from a 4 by 4 grid to a 6 by 6
grid. That's right, after doing this you've got a new more expensive mortgage
on the expansion. Pay that off and you can expand again, get a new mortgage
and repeat the process making your house just that much bigger every time.
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|+-------------------------------------++-----------------------------------+|
|| Default House || 19,800 Bells ||
||-------------------------------------||-----------------------------------||
|| First Expansion || 120,000 Bells ||
||-------------------------------------||-----------------------------------||
|| Second Expansion || 298,000 Bells ||
||-------------------------------------||-----------------------------------||
|| Third Expansion || 598,000 Bells ||
||-------------------------------------||-----------------------------------||
|| Fourth Expansion || 728,000 Bells ||
||-------------------------------------||-----------------------------------||
|| Fifth Expansion || 848,000 Bells ||
||-------------------------------------||-----------------------------------||
|| Sixth Expansion || 948,000 Bells ||
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+-- (_/ ' OOK'S STORE -------------------------------------------- 04.02 --+
Nook's Store is the place where you do most of your shopping in the Animal
Crossing world. Tom Nook is the nice shopkeep who is always willing to extend
a helping hand. All of the basic tools can be purchased at Nooks, along with
plants, decorations, stationary and furniture. When you buy something it
disappears from his inventory, each day he restocks with new things so if you
need an Axe and he doesn't have it today, just check tomorrow. Nook offers
decent prices for your items as well, selling things is one of the best ways
to make money in the game. Nook also runs a catalog ordering service where
you can pay to order just about any item that you have owned before.
Just like your home, Tom Nook's store can be upgraded a number of times to get
not only bigger, but sell quite a bit more stuff too. Here's what you have to
do. Every time you either buy something or sell something to Nook, it records
the Bell value of your transaction. When you reach a certain number of total
Bells that you have purchased and sold at Nook's store, he will spend one day
upgrading his shop. The following is a chart that shows what you have to do:
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|| Nook's Cranny || Available from Start ||
||-------------------------------------||-----------------------------------||
|| Nook 'n Go || Buy / Sell 25,000 Bells ||
||-------------------------------------||-----------------------------------||
|| Nookway || Buy / Sell 65,000 Bells ||
||-------------------------------------||-----------------------------------||
|| Nookingtons || Buy / Sell 240,000 Bells ||
|| || ||
|| || You must also have a friend ||
|| || visit your town through Wifi and ||
|| || have him / her buy at least one ||
|| || item from Nook's Store. ||
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When you upgrade to Nookingtons, not only does the store stock more items and
more of just about everything, it also opens up a brand new hair salon. At
the hair salon you can answer a few questions and pay a total of 3000 Bells to
have your hair done. Check the Hairstyles section of the guide to get an
explanation of what styles you get in a similar format to the first questions.
New to Animal Crossing: Wild World, is a point system which has been
implemented in Nook's Store. Every time you spend 100 Bells at Nook's place
you are rewarded with a single point. When your points reach a certain total
then Nook will mail you special prizes and you'll also be awarded special
discounts for future purchases in his store. The following chart shows how
many points you need for each level, and what bonuses you get for each one:
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|| POINTS NEEDED || REWARD || DISCOUNT ||
|+========================++===========================++===================+|
|| 300 Points || Nook's Cranny Model || N/A ||
||------------------------||---------------------------||-------------------||
|| 5000 Points || Nook 'n Go Model || 5% ||
||------------------------||---------------------------||-------------------||
|| 10,000 Points || Nookway Model || 10% ||
||------------------------||---------------------------||-------------------||
|| 20,000 Points || Nookingtons Model || 20% ||
||________________________||___________________________||___________________||
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+-- (_/ BLE SISTERS ----------------------------------------- 04.03 --+
The Able Sisters run the clothing store right next door to Tom Nook's. One of
them acts as the shopkeeper while the other is always hard at work on the
latest project. There is where you go is you want to purchase new clothing
and accessories for your character. At the back of the store there are
usually some nice accessories, shirts, umbrellas etc that you can look at and
purchase. This is also where you come to design your own patterns. You can
have a total of eight patterns saved with you, whether they be patterns that
you drew or just that you took from someone else. If you want to draw your
own pattern, speak to the sister who follows you around and tell her that you
want to design something. It costs 350 Bells to make a pattern, and if all
eight slots are currently in use you're going to have to give one up. When
the pattern drawing window opens up, it will look something like this:
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| +----------------------+---------------------+ +-----------+ |
| | | | | +--+ +--+ | |
| +---+---+ | | | | |7 | |8 | | |
| | | | | | | | +--+ +--+ | |
| +---+---+ | | 19 | | | |
| | | | | / | \ | | +--+ +--+ | |
| +-\-+---+ | / | \ | | |9 | |10| | |
| \ ___/ | \____ | | +--+ +--+ | |
| \ / | | \| | | |
| 1 / | | \ | +--+ +--+ | |
| / | | |\| |11| |12| | |
| 2 +----------------------+---------------------+ \ +--+ +--+ | |
| | | | |\ | |
| | | | | | |
| | | | | +--+ +--+ | |
| | | | | |13| |14| | |
| 3 | | | | +--+ +--+ | |
| / | | | | | |
| / | | | | +--+ +--+ | |
|+----/----+ | | | | |15| |16| | |
|| 1 / /\ | | | | | +--+ +--+ | |
|| -- V | | | | | +--+ | |
|| 16 | +----------------------+---------------------+ | +--+ |18| | |
|+---------+-------------------------------------------------+ | |17| +--+ | |
|| | | | | / | | | | | | | | | | | | +--+ | |
|+----------------/------------------------------------------+ +-----------+ |
| ___/ +--------------+ +-----------+ |
| / | NEVER MIND 5 | | CONFIRM 6 | |
| 4 +--------------+ +-----------+ |
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| |
| 1 - Show / remove grid 11 - Thick pencil |
| 2 - Main drawing window 12 - Straight line tool |
| 3 - Colour palette 13 - Draw heart tool |
| 4 - Current available colours 14 - Fill tool |
| 5 - Quit drawing and don't save 15 - Draw star tool |
| 6 - Quit drawing and save 16 - Polka dot tool |
| 7 - Thin pencil 17 - Undo |
| 8 - Medium pencil 18 - Clear screen tool |
| 9 - Box drawing tool 19 - Drawing tools |
| 10 - Oval drawing tool |
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You can draw with either the D-Pad and buttons of the Stylus. Freehand
drawing is better with the Stylus, however you can be more precise and
accurate with the D-Pad in case you're trying to draw something pixel by
pixel. Check out the "Menu Functions" section for a more detailed explanation
of how to actually apply the patterns you create to different things.
Tip - You know the less talkative sister who sits at the table sewing every
day? When you try and talk to her she won't say much, if anything. Well keep
talking to her once or twice a day, every day for awhile. Each day she'll get
a little bit more friendly before eventually she's more than happy to talk.
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+-- (______) IVICS CENTER [Town Hall] ------------------------------ 04.04 --+
The Civics Center is the counter on the left inside of the Town Hall. This is
where you take care of any generalized "town" options with five options:
The Environment! - This is where you find out how your town is doing, and
you're given recommendations. If you have "Perfect Town" then this is where
you find out. To get a perfect town you must do the following: make sure all
the weeds have been picked, even the ones behind trees where they are
difficult to see. You have to make sure you don't have any wilted flowers in
your town at all, if they start to wilt, water them. Make sure there aren't
any stray items lying around. Now here's where it gets difficult: just like
Animal Crossing on the Gamecube it's based on an acre-by-acre system. Each
acre is considered to be 16x16 panels wide. Each of these supposed acres must
have between 12 and 14 trees in them, the trees cannot be touching. Each acre
must have three flowers total. Do this and ask about the environment, she
should tell you that your town is perfect. Maintain this rating for a total
of 16 days and after doing that you will get the Golden Watering Can.
Town Tunes - You may not notice, but just about everything you do in this game
triggers some kind of rendition of the Town Tune. Speak to any animal in your
town and you'll hear the town tune composed of different sound effects
depending on who you're talking to. This is where you can create your own
Tune. Tell Pelly that you want to make a Town Tune. Use the Stylus to drag
the individual notes around between A and G, from low to high. The very
highest note means that it will play a random note at that point. The Zzz!
note means that it will play nothing, and the note above Zzz! means that it
will extend the sound of the previous note over top of this one. For some
example tunes, check out the specific Town Tune section of this guide.
Donations - This is where you make a donation to the next town over which is
suffering so badly that all they eat are Grilled Dirt Sandwiches! While
donating is its own reward, there are also a few materials rewards you can get
for doing this including the most expensive item in the game (in terms of how
much you pay for it.) The following is a list of all the rewards you get:
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|| Green Feather || 10,000 Bells ||
||-------------------------------------||-----------------------------------||
|| Blue Feather || 200,000 Bells ||
||-------------------------------------||-----------------------------------||
|| Yellow Feather || 500,000 Bells ||
||-------------------------------------||-----------------------------------||
|| Red Feather || 800,000 Bells ||
||-------------------------------------||-----------------------------------||
|| Purple Feather || 1,100,000 Bells ||
||-------------------------------------||-----------------------------------||
|| White Feather || 1,400,000 Bells ||
||-------------------------------------||-----------------------------------||
|| Rainbow Feather || 6,400,000 Bells ||
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Moving - Move your character from one town to another. Get the other DS with
the other copy of Animal Crossing ready and choose Immigration mode from the
title screen. Tell Pelly that you want to move and get ready for the change
to occur. If everything goes well then you should now live on another game.
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+-- (_/ OST OFFICE [TOWN HALL] ------------------------------------- 04.05 --+
The counter on the right hand side of the Town Hall is where you take care of
your postal and financial needs. If you write a letter to someone in your
town this is where you come to mail the letter using the first option. You
can also save a number of letters you have received here. If you save a
letter with an attachment it serves as a great way to store more items. This
is also where you pay your mortgage to Tom Nook. Choose how much you wish to
pay back and he will automatically receive the payment immediately.
The Post Office is also where you access your savings account. You can make a
deposit or a withdrawal into and from your savings account respectively.
Money in the account will grow via interest, however the interest isn't very
much. Nonetheless if you've got extra Bells lying around it's the best place
you can put them. You can only hold so many on your person but you can
deposit almost as many as you like into the bank. Finally we have the Recycle
Bin which serves the same function as the dump from Animal Crossing on the
Gamecube. Dump old crap you don't want anymore, and check it often to find
other crap.
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+-- (_/ HE MUSEUM -------------------------------------------------- 04.06 --+
The Museum is one of the main buildings that you'll find in your town. It
serves a number of purposes, primarily as a place to show off the various
valuables you have collected. There are four types of things you can show off
at the museum, Fossils, Bugs, Fish, and Paintings. Fossils are dug up around
town, there are usually about three of them per day and you will find them
under the X marks. Fish are caught using the Fishing Rod that you buy from
Nook's Store. Bugs are caught using the Bug Net. Lastly paintings are
purchased from Redd's tent, you can find more information about Redd elsewhere
in this guide. You may be wondering what the rewards are for completing the
museum. The ultimate answer is personal satisfaction at seeing your entire
collection displayed. The material answer is a simple "Museum Model," so as
you can see, the former is actually your main motivation. Speak to the owl in
the front hall of the museum to donate things that you have found. He will
also identify your Fossils for you, even if you choose not to donate them.
Downstairs under the museum is the Coffee. Brewster runs the Coffee Shop and
sells every cup for the reasonable price of 200 Bells. Buying coffee doesn't
actually get you anything special either, but it does serve one purpose. When
you first speak to Brewster he doesn't have much to say. Gradually as you
visit the Coffee Shop every day he will get more and more friendly toward you
character, and you can develop a happy relationship with him. The Coffee Shop
itself does serve one other purpose. On Saturday nights between 7:30 P.M. and
Midnight, K.K. Slider will perform there. Speak to him to get a song which
can be played on your radio. Also if you have the Country Guitar which you
may get while trading for the Golden Axe, give that to him to get the K.K.
Slider's picture. Overall this is just a nice place to sit and hang about.
Last but not least we have the observatory upstairs. Go up there and examine
the telescope. You can choose to either look at the stars or create some
constellations of your own. Connect the stars together using your Stylus and
create new constellations, you can even name them! The bird working up there
will tell you what day of the year and what time your constellation is seen.
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| || 05.00 || Items & Activities || 05.00 || |
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|| NORMAL || ||
|+================++========================================================+|
|| Shovel || The Shovel is used for digging up various objects ||
|| || throughout your town, covering hole, poking rocks, ||
|| || poking people, and anything else you can think to do ||
|| || with it. The Shovel can be purchased at Tom Nook's ||
|| || shop for 500 Bells. When you have the Shovel equipped ||
|| || on your character and press the A button or poke the ||
|| || ground in front of you, you will dig a hole in the ||
|| || ground. You can use this hole to plant trees, ||
|| || flowers, and even money. The Shovel is also used to ||
|| || dig up those little X marks you see on the ground in ||
|| || your town every once in awhile. On any given day ||
|| || there will be approximately three of these X marks. ||
|| || When you dig them up you will most likely find a ||
|| || Fossil which can then be brought to the museum and ||
|| || identified. Sometimes you even find a Pitfall item ||
|| || which can be buried again and used as a trap for ||
|| || whatever reason. Maybe you want to annoy the other ||
|| || people living in your town. After using the Axe to ||
|| || cut down a tree, the Shovel is used to pry the stump ||
|| || out of the ground. The Shovel is used to poke magic ||
|| || money rocks that appear on a daily basis randomly in ||
|| || your town. More information on these can be found ||
|| || elsewhere in the guide. Finally the Shovel can also ||
|| || be used to cover up holes that you have already dug, ||
|| || just approach the hole and press A to cover it up. If ||
|| || you don't have a Shovel you can still cover these ||
|| || holes by press the B button and kicking dirt on them. ||
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|| Axe || The Axe is your typical chopping and slicing weapon. ||
|| || Used primarily for taking down trees which happen to ||
|| || be in your way rather than brutally murdering the ||
|| || villagers. Purchase the Axe at the Nook's store for ||
|| || 500 Bells. Stand beside a tree with the Axe equipped ||
|| || and start chopping, after about three or four strikes ||
|| || the tree will go down. You can pry up the leftover ||
|| || stump using the Shovel. If you start chopping down ||
|| || too many trees your Axe is going to break. At that ||
|| || point you'll either have to find a new one or get your ||
|| || hands on a Golden Axe. ||
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|| Fishing Rod || The Fishing Rod is used not surprisingly, for going ||
|| || fishing. The actual process of Fishing is explained ||
|| || elsewhere in the guide, but basically all you need is ||
|| || this rod. Equip it on your character and stand by the ||
|| || river or ocean. Press the A button or touch your ||
|| || character to launch it, wait for a fish to bite, and ||
|| || hit the A button or tap the screen again to hopefully ||
|| || catch the fish. It's a lot harder than it looks. ||
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|| Bug Net || The Bug Net is used for catching various bugs all over ||
|| || your town. Bugs appear at different times and dates. ||
|| || The net is sold at Nook's shop for a mere 500 Bells. ||
|| || Once you have it you can swing the net on the ground ||
|| || in front of you and catch either airborne or ground ||
|| || based insects. ||
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|| Slingshot || The Slingshot is sold periodically at Nook's store for ||
|| || 500 Bells. When you have the Slingshot equipped you ||
|| || have the ability to fire up into the air and knock ||
|| || things out of the sky. Every once in awhile something ||
|| || like a balloon for example will float by on the screen ||
|| || above you. Position yourself under the object and ||
|| || fire upward, if you can manage to hit it usually ||
|| || you'll get some kind of reward in return. ||
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|| Watering Can || The Watering Can is a basic tool that you can buy at ||
|| || Nook's Shop for 500 Bells. The Watering Can is used ||
|| || to water and revitalize any wilted flowers when they ||
|| || are dying to make everything look nicer and keep your ||
|| || town rating up. As far as I know, watering healthy ||
|| || flowers won't keep them from wilting any more than ||
|| || they normally would, you should focus primarily on ||
|| || watering only the flowers that are wilting already. ||
|| || Note that the Watering Can has no effect on trees. ||
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|| Golden || The Golden Shovel is an upgrade of the Shovel. The ||
|| Shovel || difference between it and the normal Shovel is that ||
|| || the Golden Shovel can be used to plant Money Trees. ||
|| || Dig a hole in the ground with the Golden Shovel and ||
|| || bury a bag of money that you have in your inventory in ||
|| || the hole. There's a slim chance that this bag of ||
|| || money will grow into a tree. That tree should then ||
|| || produce three bags of money with amounts equal to what ||
|| || you buried, maximizing at no more than about 30,000 ||
|| || Bells. The Golden Shovel is one of the easier golden ||
|| || tools to acquire. First you need to have two Shovels ||
|| || in your inventory. Dig a hole with one of the Shovels ||
|| || and then use that Shovel, to bury your second Shovel ||
|| || in the hole. Wait overnight and dig up that Shovel in ||
|| || the morning, overnight it became the Golden Shovel. ||
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|| Golden Axe || The Golden Axe is an upgrade of the normal Axe and is ||
|| || the most difficult of all the golden tools to acquire. ||
|| || It has the exact same functionality as the Axe with ||
|| || one single important exception, it cannot ever be ||
|| || broken. TO get the Golden Axe you must follow these ||
|| || exact steps. Every Sunday you will be able to find an ||
|| || animal named Joan who sells Turnips and Red Turnips. ||
|| || Purchase a Red Turnip from Joan and plant it in the ||
|| || ground with your Shovel. Dig it up one day later and ||
|| || give it to Wendell who appears in town on a random day ||
|| || of the week, to get the Turban. Give the Turban to ||
|| || Sahara who appears in your town on a random day of the ||
|| || week to get the Massage Chair. Wait until the next ||
|| || holiday and find Tortimer, the mayor out front of the ||
|| || town hall. Give him the Massage Chair to get the ||
|| || Scallop. Once you have the Scallop you need to trade ||
|| || it to Pascal who appears on a random weekday down near ||
|| || the beach to get the Golden Axe. The easiest way that ||
|| || I know of to find out which day of the week these ||
|| || people appear, is to talk to Booker each day and ask ||
|| || him what's new. He should tell you who has been ||
|| || passing through town recently. Booker is the dog on ||
|| || the left side of the main gate. ||
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|| Golden || The Golden Fishing Rod is an upgrade to the normal ||
|| Fishing Rod || Fishing Rod. When using the Golden Fishing Rod to go ||
|| || fishing, you will have a slightly extended period of ||
|| || time to reel in the fish when your line is caught, ||
|| || this can make or break your catch so don't ||
|| || underestimate its usefulness. Unfortunately the only ||
|| || way to acquire the Golden Fishing Rod is to catch at ||
|| || least one of every type of fish in the game. A list ||
|| || of all the different fish can be found elsewhere in ||
|| || the guide. ||
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|| Golden || The Golden Bug Net is an upgrade of the Bug Net. It ||
|| Bug Net || doesn't have any special functionality, it is simply a ||
|| || larger version of the normal net and thus, it can ||
|| || catch bugs even easier. Like the Golden Fishing Rod, ||
|| || the only way to acquire the Golden Bug Net is to catch ||
|| || at least one of every type of bug in the game. ||
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|| Golden || The Golden Slingshot is an upgrade of the normal ||
|| Slingshot || Slingshot. Rather than shooting a single rock into ||
|| || the air, the Golden Slingshot shoots a total of three ||
|| || up into the air making it easier to hit your targets. ||
|| || In order to acquire the Golden Slingshot you must ||
|| || shoot down a total of 15 presents out of the sky. It ||
|| || doesn't matter if you miss any that float by, or shoot ||
|| || a total of 15 over a period of days, weeks, etc. Once ||
|| || you shoot down the 15th present it should have the ||
|| || Golden Slingshot inside of it. ||
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|| Golden || The Golden Watering Can is an upgrade of the Watering ||
|| Watering Can || Can. There have been rumours that watering your tree ||
|| || saplings with the Golden Watering Can will make them ||
|| || grow faster, but there is little to no evidence to ||
|| || support this. The Golden Watering Can serves two ||
|| || purposes. The first is to sit around, be golden and ||
|| || look nice. The second is a little more useful and ||
|| || that's to create Golden Roses. What you have to do is ||
|| || plant a bunch of Red Roses together, and over time ||
|| || they should seed some Black Roses. Wait for the Black ||
|| || Roses to wilt and then water them with the Golden ||
|| || Watering Can, they will grow back as not black, but ||
|| || Gold Roses. Gold Roses sell for approximately 2500 ||
|| || Bells. To acquire the Golden Watering Can you must ||
|| || get a perfect rating for your town (check your rating ||
|| || at the town hall) and maintain that perfect rating for ||
|| || a total of 16 days. To get a perfect town you must do ||
|| || the following: make sure all the weeds have been ||
|| || picked, even the ones behind trees where they are ||
|| || difficult to see. You have to make sure you don't ||
|| || have any wilted flowers in your town at all, if they ||
|| || start to wilt, water them. Make sure there aren't any ||
|| || stray items lying around. Now here's where it gets ||
|| || difficult: just like Animal Crossing on the Gamecube ||
|| || it's based on an acre-by-acre system. Each acre is ||
|| || considered to be 16x16 panels wide. Each of these ||
|| || supposed acres must have between 12 and 14 trees in ||
|| || them, the trees cannot be touching. Each acre must ||
|| || have three flowers total. Doing this should meet the ||
|| || requirements for a perfect town and get you a Golden ||
|| || Watering Can from Pelly. ||
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Trees are a very important part of any successful town, so you need to make
sure you know everything there is to know about them. The first question of
course, is what do you need to grow a tree? Well it depends on what kind of
tree you're trying to grow. For normal trees all you need is the sapling like
the ones that Nook gave you at the beginning of the game. To grow a Fruit
Tree, you need a piece of fruit, the same type as the tree you're trying to
grow. The same applies to Coconut Trees however there are a few more
restrictions on those. Lastly if you want to grow a Money Tree, you're going
to need a bag of money. To actually plant these trees you will need one of
two possible tools, either the Shovel (bought at Nook's) or the Golden Shovel.
To get the fruit, or money down from the tree you need to run up to the tree
and shake it using either the A button, or poking it with the Stylus. Don't
forget to shake all trees, even if they don't have fruit on them. There's a
good chance you will shake out a hidden bag containing about 100 Bells, and
also a small chance that you will shake down a hive of bees. If you cannot
escape their wrath your character will end up with a swollen face for awhile.
The following diagram covers visually what you should be considering when
trying to find a good place to plant a tree. Note the words "Grow" and
"Fail" which represent where a tree would likely grow is planted, and fail if
planted. Note that the boxes filled with "X"s represent obstacles of some
kind. An obstacles can usually be defined as any space on the ground which
cannot have a hole dug in it. For example if you try to dig where a tree is,
you can't, that's an obstacles. If you try to dig on solid stone ground, or
in a river, you cannot so both are considered obstacles. Don't plant trees
directly beside a river. Lastly you should note that these are not black and
white guidelines. Trees plants away from everything still have a chance to
fail (a fairly high chance for something like a Money Tree or a Coconut Tree.)
On the other hand, trees have been known to grow even when planted directly
next to obstacles. The diagram is meant to show where trees are most likely
to grow and fail, not where they are guaranteed to grow or to fail.
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||XXXXXX| |XXXXXX|XXXXXX|XXXXXX| |XXXXXX| FAIL |XXXXXX| ||
||XXXXXX| |XXXXXX|XXXXXX|XXXXXX| |XXXXXX| |XXXXXX| ||
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|| | FAIL | |XXXXXX| |XXXXXX| |XXXXXX| |XXXXXX||
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||XXXXXX| |XXXXXX| | | |XXXXXX|XXXXXX|XXXXXX| ||
||XXXXXX| |XXXXXX| | | |XXXXXX|XXXXXX|XXXXXX| ||
||XXXXXX| |XXXXXX| | | |XXXXXX|XXXXXX|XXXXXX| ||
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|| |XXXXXX| | | | | |XXXXXX| |XXXXXX||
|| |XXXXXX| | | GROW | | |XXXXXX| |XXXXXX||
|| |XXXXXX| | | | | |XXXXXX| |
THis is how you will make a perfect to
