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

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

How to Get Clay Fast

The Best Source is Rocks on Mystery Tours

The best way to get Clay is by hitting rocks on the islands you visit on Mystery Tours, the tours you can go on by using the Nook Miles tickets. Clay has a pretty high chance of dropping.

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.

Hit Rocks on Your Own Island

The next best way to get Clay is by hitting the stones in your own island 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.

How Do You Use Clay?

Use it for DIY crafting

Ocarina	Pot	Plain Sink
Iron Wall Lamp	Hearth	Classic Pitcher
Brick Oven	Bamboo-Shoot Lamp	Wave Breaker
Water Pump	Palm-Tree Lamp	Bridge Construction Kit
Shell Bed	Shell Lamp	Cherry-Blossom Bonsai
Cherry-Blossom Branches	Jungle Flooring	Zen Fence
Tree's Bounty Lamp	Shell Table	Rustic-Stone Wall
Pine Bonsai Tree	Cherry Lamp	Brick Fence
Aroma Pot

Clay is 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