Fruit in Animal Crossing has been a financial and aesthetic staple in the series - and now it's a dietary one. Fruit is a tried and tested method of money making - so learning how to plant fruit trees and how long fruit takes to grow back is useful in knowing when your next influx of cash is coming in. New Horizons also has a new purpose for fruit - eating - which offers some benefits that can be useful for managing your island. On this page: Every island has fruit growing on its island, which can be removed by shaking the tree. Fruit has three uses: Here's more on these latter two points... As well as the fruit which grows on your island, there are five other types available out there to collect and grow. Not only does this give you Nook Miles as a reward, but selling fruit which isn't native to your island yields a higher price to your own - 500 versus the usual 100. These varieties are:
There are two ways to get other varieties beyond what grows on your island originally:
Once you have the fruit you want to plant - whether it's from your own island or someone else's - equip a Shovel and dig a hole in the ground where you want the three to be planted. Now enter your inventory and highlight the fruit. Select 'Plant 1', and a sampling with begin to grow. Remember to keep trees around three holes away from another tree in order for them to grow. Additionally, Coconuts only grow in sand, so plant them on the beach - which is a useful way to make use of that beautiful, if often barren, real estate. The Animal Crossing 2.0 update and Happy Home Paradise is here! We can help you with the new additions - including where to find Brewster, Gyroids, new villagers, ordinances, new fences, storage shed, new hairstyles, Froggy Chair, group stretching and Kapp'n boat tours. Cooking is now unlockable, so you need to know how to make both flour and sugar, as well as how to grow carrots, potatoes and tomatoes. Meanwhile, if you're new to Animal Crossing, our New Horizons tips can help with the basics. From the off, there's fish and bugs to catch, flowers and fruit to grow with. One long term goal is building your Happy Home Academy score. Finally, you need tools such as the new ladder and vaulting pole to fully explore. Once you have shaken fruit from a tree, the branches will be bear for a short time. Based on previous Animal Crossing games, fruit takes three days to grow back. Fruit not originally from your island can usually take a little longer - up to five or six days. As for new fruit trees you have planted, trees take three days to grow, followed by an additional day to bear fruit - again, based on timings seen in previous games in the series. A top tip if you wait to avoid this lengthy process is thanks to one of the new abilities you gain from eating fruit. If you eat one fruit to grow your strength, you can unearth a tree with a Shovel in a single go, placing it on your inventory. You can then plant the fruit tree in its entirety back on your island - skipping that three day growing step entirely.
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To get all the Animal Crossing New Horizons fruit you are going to have to travel and work with friends. There's six types of fruit in total, but you only get one growing natively on your island. That means to collect the full set you'll have travel to random islands in the hope of finding different specimens, or coordinate with friends to swap and trade across the range. Not only is getting everything satisfying but you can also sell 'foreign' fruit for lots of Bells. And making money is always handy. So to help you out, here's all the Animal Crossing New Horizons fruit types and how to get them.
You will get one natively growing per island, as we've mentioned, but here's how to get the rest: Use Nook Miles Tickets to visit random islands(Image credit: Nintendo)Once you've paid off your initial moving fees for the island - that 5,000 Mile toll from Tom Nook - you'll unlock the ability to spend your Miles on all sorts of things, including Nook Miles Tickets. Purchased from the Nook Stop in Resident Services for 2,000 Miles a pop, they allow you to temporary travel to another randomly generated island, which will have the chance of spawning a different fruit type - along with a tonne of other resources of course. Plus, these islands will always have palm trees on the beach, for nabbing yourself a coconut or 10. Make sure to plant your 'nuts on the beach when you're back home too, they won't grow anywhere else. (Image credit: Nintendo)If you really want to get all the Animal Crossing: New Horizons fruit fast, you'll need to coordinate with your fellow Animal Crossing-playing buddies to do a fruit swap. Or, put out your shout on the internet and see who replies. It can be a wonderful world out there so get travelling. You can do this via the Airport of course, you'll just need their Dodo ID, or already be friends on Switch, in order to make the trip. Can you get perfect fruit in Animal Crossing: New Horizons?Animal Crossing: New Horizons perfect fruit feels like a bit of a myth right now. In New Leaf, you had a high chance of getting a perfect fruit version of your native fruit growing on a single tree. These perfect fruit will retail for 3000-odd bells instead of the usual 600, so it was quite the little money maker. But so far, it seems it's unconfirmed whether you can get perfect fruit in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, but we'll keep you posted if we discover, or hear, anything different. |