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How to Get Cowries Fast

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

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How to Get Cowries Fast

Farming Cowries quickly

Cowries will spawn randomly at the beach, several times a day. If you are searching for this type of seashell in particular, be sure and visit the beach periodically, and pick up all of the shells there. After a bit of time has passed, they will respawn (they can be picked up several times per day).

How do you use Cowries?

Use them for DIY crafting

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Cowries are used as a DIY crafting item to create the item(s) shown above.

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