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How to Get Pitfall Seeds & What to Do With Them: Pitfall Seed Recipe
Learn how you can get pitfall seeds and its recipe in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH). Read on to also learn its required materials for crafting, as well as what you can do with them.
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Pitfall Seed: Basic Information
 Pitfall Seed
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| Sell Price | 140 Coming soon. |
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| How to Unlock | Unlock Nook's Cranny |
Pitfall Seed Required Materials
| Needed Materials | Amount |
|---|---|
 Clump of Weeds
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4 |
 Tree Branch
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6 |
How to Get Pitfall Seeds & Recipe
Receive the Recipe from Residents
You can get recipes, including the Pitfall Seed recipe, from your neighbors by talking to them when you see them crafting on their workbench. Visit them frequently to get recipes!
You will know if someone is home if smoke is coming out of their chimney.
Get the Recipe from Message Bottles
Another way to get the Pitfall Seed recipe is from message bottles. Walk around your beach at least once a day to pick up a message bottle.
Dig Up from the Ground
If you see a star shaped hole on the ground, it could most likely be a pitfall seed! After placing it in your pocket, you will automatically learn the recipe.
Note that pitfall seeds do not spawn naturally, and you can only dig them up if other players buried them. You can ask your friends for the recipe or you could try asking someone on the message boards if they have an extra pitfall seed handy!
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How to Use Pitfall Seeds
Create Pitfalls
You can create a pitfall by burying the seed using a shovel. Players and residents can fall in the pit upon walking over it, so be careful when doing this!
You will get stuck after falling in the pit!
After falling, you will be stuck for a while! Press the A button repeatedly to get out. Note that you cannot learn the recipe this way.
Residents will get mad after recovering
When a resident falls in the pit, they will get themselves out regardless of whether you talk to them or not. Once getting out, they will get mad and you will not be able to talk to them for a while.
Bury Seeds for Others to Dig Up
You can also have other people learn the recipe by burying pitfall seeds and have them dig the seeds up.
Earn Nook Miles!
You can even get 600 Nook Miles just from playing around with pitfall seeds.
| Pit-y Party | ||
|---|---|---|
| Activity Summary | Miles | Titles |
| Create a pit with a pitfall seed. | 300 | Wild-Child/Troublemaker |
| Overcoming Pitfalls | ||
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| Activity Summary | Miles | Titles |
| Fall into a pitfall trap. | 300 | Trapped/Reckless One |
What Can You Craft With Pitfall Seed?
| No DIY Items are made with this material, or the Items made have not yet been confirmed. |
Related Links
| Head Back to List of DIY Recipes |
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How to Get Pitfall Seeds & What to Do With Them: Pitfall Seed Recipe
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