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?

Don't 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 materials and you won't come across many of these, so definitely hang on to them rather than selling them for some quick Bells.

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 everyday, 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?

Don't Sell Them

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.

Make 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

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	Golden Seat	Virgo Harp
Taurus Bathtub	Scorpio Lamp	Sagittarius Arrow
Pisces Lamp	Libra Scale	Leo Sculpture
Golden Wall	Gemini Closet	Capricorn Ornament
Aquarius Urn

You make make the Items above with Gold Nuggets.

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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