Gold Nugget Farming | How to Get Gold Nuggets | ACNH - Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch)

This is a guide to farming Gold Nuggets, a rare DIY material in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH). Read on to learn how to get Gold Nuggets, where to farm Gold Nuggets, how they can be used, whether or not you should sell Gold Nuggets, and more!

Rare Materials
Gold Nuggets	Iron Nuggets

Should You Sell Gold Nuggets?

Do Not Sell Them! Use Them for DIY!

Gold Nuggets very rarely drop from rocks and can be used in DIY items. Some items can only be obtained through DIY crafting with Gold Nuggets as a material and you won't come across many of these, so definitely hang on to them rather than selling them for some quick Bells.

Get the King Tut Mask Recipe

After updating your game to ver 1.4.0 or later, you can get a King Tut Mask recipe by finding and picking up a Gold Nugget. This item is infamous for the bad luck it brings to players.

King Tut Mask Recipe and Required Materials

How to Farm Gold Nuggets

The Best Source is Rocks on Mystery Tours

The best way to get Gold Nuggets 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 Island Tours and Nook Miles Ticket Guide

Get Gold Nuggets from Rocks on Mystery Tours

You can only get Materials from the Rocks on your island once per day, but you always have a chance to find them on Mystery Tour Islands.

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 materials from rocks, you can avoid being bounced back too far, allowing you to hit the rock 8 times repeatedly and get the maximum number of materials.

The Materials are Random

Rock Materials
Clay	Stone	Iron Nugget	Gold Nugget

You can find a variety of materials from hitting rocks, such as Clay, Stone, and Iron Nuggets, but all of them have a random chance of dropping. Gold Nuggets have a low chance of dropping and are extremely rare.

Hit Your Island Rocks Every Day

With their incredibly low drop rate, Gold Nuggets are very hard to obtain in large amounts. If you hit the rocks on your island with a shovel every day, you'll eventually come across a gold nugget, so the only option is to do this daily.

Things to Do Every Day

What Gold Nuggets are Used For?

Sold for 10,000 Bells

While Gold Nuggets can also be sold for a crisp 10,000 Bells, they are so hard to come by that we recommend against selling them.

Craft Golden Tools

You need 1 Golden Nugget every time you make a Golden Tool. Seeing as the Golden Tools also break, you'll want to stock up on as many as possible!
How to Get All Golden Tools

Use as DIY Material

King Tut Mask	Robot Hero	Golden Dishes
Aries Rocking Chair	Cancer Table	Golden Axe
Golden Shovel	Golden Wand	Golden Watering Can
Golden Fishing Rod	Golden Arowana Model	Golden Net
Golden Slingshot	Gold Helmet	Gold Bars
Golden Candlestick	Golden Seat	Virgo Harp
Trophy Case	Taurus Bathtub	Scorpio Lamp
Sagittarius Arrow	Pisces Lamp	Modeling Clay
Lucky Gold Cat	Libra Scale	Leo Sculpture
Golden Wall	Golden Toilet	Golden Gears
Golden Flooring	Golden Dung Beetle	Golden Casket
Gold-Screen Wall	Gold-Armor Shoes	Gold Armor
Gemini Closet	Capricorn Ornament	Aquarius Urn

You make the Items above with Gold Nuggets.

Related Links

List of Materials

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