How to Build DIY Items

This is a guide to DIY crafting in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH) for the Nintendo Switch. For information on DIY recipes and crafting materials, as well as how to craft items in Animal Crossing, read on!

DIY Crafting Recipes

DIY Crafting Recipes can be obtained through various mathods, such as getting them from washed-up message bottles, or receiving them from your neighbors!

For more information on Recipes and how to get them, check out our guide!
List of DIY Recipes

Buyable DIY Reipces

Some DIY Recipes are part of a collection and can be bought for Bells and Nook Miles. You can see which DIY recipes you get by buying each of them on their respective guides!

Limited-Time DIY Recipes by Series

Currently, here are the furniture and item sets that require time-limited materials and recipes, so make sure you get them while the events are ongoing!

Time-Limited Series
Bunny Day Series	Zodiac Series
Bamboo Series	Cherry-Blossom Series
Shell Series	Tree's Bounty Series
Maple-Leaf Series	Mushroom Series
Ice (Frozen) Series	Snowflake Series
Festive Series	-

DIY Crafting Materials

To craft items, you're going to need materials. Lots of them. We have guides on how you can easily farm each material for endless crafting fun!

Frequently-Used Materials

Clay	Clump of Weeds	Gold Nugget	Hardwood
Iron Nugget	Manila Clam	Softwood	Stone
Tree Branch	Wood

List of DIY Materials

All Golden Tools

Once you've had a taste of upgraded tools, the next natural step would be aiming for the Golden Tools.

In our guide below, you can see how to unlock all the Golden Tools Recipes so you can start working on getting those lovely, sparkling, sturdy tools!
List of All Golden Tools

How to Craft DIY Items

1. Obtain the Recipe for the Item

In order to craft your own stuff, you're going to need a recipe. Read through How to Get DIY Crafting Recipes and grab those recipes!

2. Gather the Needed Materials

Once you've got the recipe, you're going to need the ingredients. You can check the materials needed for by looking at the item recipe from a workbench, or through the DIY Recipes app on your NookPhone.

Make sure you have the Materials in your pockets!

3. Use a Workbench and Start Crafting!

Finally, use a workbench by pressing the A button in front of it, and select "Let's Craft!"

Unlock the Customization Feature!

By building many items and becoming a DIY master, you will unlock Customization, which lets you change an item's look!
How to Customize Your Furniture, Phone, and Tools

What is DIY Building?

Process of Crafting and Customizing Your Own Items

DIY (Do It Yourself) is the act of building or putting something together to create an item, rather than buying it from a store. This is the first game in the Animal Crossing series to have this feature, and this will surely step up your island beautification game!

Related Links

Animal Crossing Switch Wiki Guide