How to get iron nuggets in Animal Crossing

In Animal Crossing, iron nuggets are a useful resource for building more items and crafting more tools. If you find yourself running out, you’ll need to farm more of them. Let’s review how to get iron nuggets in Animal Crossing.

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How to get iron nuggets in Animal Crossing

There are many ways to get iron nuggets in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. However, aside from buying them, getting them from villagers, or getting them from balloons you shoot out of the sky, there is one surefire way to farm them. This would be by hitting rocks with a shovel or axe.

Step one is to craft either a shovel or an axe. After that, equip it and find a rock on your island.

Press the A button to use your shovel. Hit the rock as fast as possible. Every rock can yield up to eight items, including iron nuggets.

If an iron nugget appears, it will look like a rock with black pieces sticking out. Walk over to it and press X to pick it up.

As soon as you hit the rock for the first time, a timer starts counting down. You have a very short amount of time to hit the rock as many times as you can.

Another tip is to not eat fruits before hitting rocks. If you eat fruits beforehand, you will destroy the rock after only a few hits.

How to get more rocks in Animal Crossing

New rocks spawn on your island every day. If you find that you’ve mined all of your island’s rocks for the day, you will need to wait until the next day for them to spawn again in new, random locations.

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