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.

Pitfall Seed: Basic Information

Pitfall Seed
Sell Price	140
How to Unlock	Coming soon.

Pitfall Seed Required Materials

Needed Materials	Amount
Tree Branch	6
Clump of Weeds	4

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.

What Can You Craft With Pitfall Seed?

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