How To Get A Golden Shovel In Animal Crossing

Animal Crossing New Horizons (ACNH) - How to Get the Golden Shovel Guide

Get the Golden Shovel by getting recipes and doing some challenging tasks in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH).

Check out our guide below to find out what you need to unlock and craft the Golden Shovel!

All Golden Tools
Golden Axe	Golden Shovel	Golden Net
Golden Fishing Rod	Golden Watering Can	Golden Slingshot

List of Golden Tools

Step	Instruction
1	Help Gulliver 30 times.
2	Open your mailbox.

ACNH - Golden Shovel Guide - Gulliver washes up ashore

Occasionally, Gulliver will wash up on the shore of your island needing to be rescued. After you've rescued Gulliver 30 times, he'll send you the DIY Recipe for the Golden Shovel.

How to Help Gulliver the Seagull

ACNH - How to Get Golden Shovel Guide - Help Gulliver

Translation: "Thank you for helping me so many times! As thanks, I want to send you this Very Very Rare Golden Shovel DIY Recipe! Hope it helps out!"

After helping Gulliver, access your mailbox the next day. You'll receive a letter from Gulliver containing the Golden Shovel DIY Recipe!

Golden Shovel
Sell Price	10675
Durability	200 Uses

Needed Materials	Amount
Gold Nugget	1
Shovel	1

Don't forget that a rare Gold Nugget is required to make a Golden Shovel. Make sure you know how to get your hands on one of these first before trying to craft the Golden Shovel.

How to Get Gold Nuggets Fast

ACNH - The Golden Shovel can break

Translation: "Oh no! The Golden Shovel broke! Guess I wore it out..."

Unlike previous games in the series, it's been confirmed that the Golden Shovel can break. Based on our tests, the Golden Shovel breaks after only around 200 strikes, so currently, it doesn't appear to be significantly worth the effort to upgrade.

Hovever, it can be used as a cool decoration to flex up your tools!

In previous games, the Golden Shovel had the unique ability to create a Money Tree by planting a Bell Bag anywhere in the ground. According to our tests, this doesn't seem to work in New Horizons.

When compared to other Shovels, the Golden Shovel doesn't seem to be any faster at digging or hitting rocks.

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All Shovels
Flimsy Shovel	Shovel
Golden Shovel

List of Shovels

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