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Hardwood Farming Guide: How to Get Hardwood Fast

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH) - Hardwood

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

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How to Get Hardwood Fast

Hitting Trees is the Most Efficient

ACNH - Axe DIY recipe screenshort

The most efficient way to get Hardwood is by hitting trees with an axe.

Be careful or you might chop the tree!

ACNH - A resident readies to chop down a tree

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Flimsy Axe Axe
Stone Axe

There are two types of axes: one can chop trees down and one cannot. The number of wood obtained is not affected by the type of axe used.

Remember that when your are using the Axe, hitting the tree 3 times will chop the tree and it will become a stump.

The type of wood that comes out is random

ACNH - Wood comes out of the tree as it is being chopped

The three types of wood you can get from hitting trees are Wood, Softwood, and Hardwood. Among them, normal wood seems to come out more frequently.

Hardwood Can Sometimes Be Found in the Recycle Box

You may sometimes find Wood in the Recycle Box found in the Resident Services.

How Do You Use Hardwood?

Use it for DIY crafting

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