How to Get Stones Fast | ACNH - Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch)

This is a guide to collecting Stones, a DIY material in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch). To learn how to get Stones and where they can be used, please read on.

How to Get Stones Fast

The Best Source is Rocks on Mystery Tours

The best way to get Rocks is by hitting rocks on the islands you visit on Mystery Tours, the tours you can go on by using the Nook Miles tickets. Remember to bring axes or shovels to hit the rocks with.

Mystery Tour Islands have 3 Rocks

The islands you go to on Mystery Tours will always have 3 rocks where you can get materials, as opposed to the 1 or 2 on your own island, so the chance of getting nuggets is better.

Also, once you've hit a rock on your island, you won't be able to get new materials from it until next day, but Mystery Tour islands will give you fresh rocks every time you go, so you can get as many materials as you want in a day.

Dig holes behind you to get the most materials

If you dig two holes behind you when you gather the various stones from rocks, you can avoid being bounced back too far, allowing you to hit the rock repeatedly to yield the maximum number of materials.

Next, get stones from your own island

The next best way to get stones is by hitting the stones in your own town with an axe or shovel.

The Materials are Random

You can find a variety of materials from hitting rocks, such as Clay, Stone and Gold Nuggets, but all of them have a random chance of dropping. Stones have a pretty high chance of dropping.

Catch them when fishing

You can even catch stones when fishing. Sometimes what looks like a small fish will turn out to be a stone.

How do you use Stones?

Use them for DIY crafting

Flimsy Axe	Stone Stool	Drinking Fountain
Birdbath	Wave Breaker	Stone Tablet
Stone Table	Garden Rock	Aries Rocking Chair
Bridge Construction Kit	Shell Bed	Cancer Table
Asteroid	Mossy Garden Rock	Fossil Doorplate
Deer Scare	Basement Flooring	Bamboo Partition
Flat Garden Rock	Stone Lion-Dog	Cherry-Blossom Pond Stone
Zen Fence	Virgo Harp	Taurus Bathtub
Stone Wall	Stone Fence	Shell Fountain
Scorpio Lamp	Rustic-Stone Wall	Pisces Lamp
Libra Scale	Leo Sculpture	Iron-and-Stone Fence
Gemini Closet	Capricorn Ornament	Aquarius Urn
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Stones are used as a DIY crafting item to create the item(s) shown above.

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List of Materials

How to Get Materials
Clay	Clump of Weed	Tree Branch
Hardwood	Wood	Softwood
Stone	Iron Nugget	Gold Nugget