How to Get Acorns Fast | Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch)

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

How to Get Acorns Fast

Available During Fall

Seasonal Material	Northern Hemisphere	Southern Hemisphere
Acorn	September 1 to December 10	March 1 to June 10

You can get Acorns for 3 months, during the season of Fall. Isabelle will also mention when Fall officially starts, and when the season will be coming to an end.

List of Seasons and Seasonal DIY Items

Shake Hardwood Trees

During this season, you can also get acorns from shaking Hardwood (non-fruit bearing) Trees instead. The probability of this Material falling is slow, so try to be patient and shake the tree as much as you can until the Material falls.

If you'd like, you can shake a tree at least 10 times, then move on if Acorns still have not fallen.

You can also get pine cones from hardwood trees

You can also get Pine Cones from shaking Cedar (Pine) Trees.

How to Get Pine Cones Fast

How Do You Use Acorns?

Use Them for DIY Crafting

Tree's Bounty Little Tree	Yellow-Leaf Pile	Tree's Bounty Mobile
Tree's Bounty Lamp	Tree's Bounty Big Tree	Tree's Bounty Arch
Traditional Balancing Toy	Acorn Pochette

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

List of Tree's Bounty Series Furniture & Item Recipes

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