Lost and found

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The player taking a Maple Bonsai from the lost and found in Animal Crossing

The lost and found (formatted as the Lost & Found in Animal Crossing) is a feature in the Animal Crossing series where items appear for the player to take for free. It appears in Animal Crossing, Animal Crossing: Wild World, Animal Crossing: City Folk, and Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Random items appear in the lost and found occasionally, and if a structure is built over a dropped item, it will appear in the lost and found.

Appearances

In Animal Crossing

In all the first-generation Animal Crossing games, the Lost & Found is in the police station. There can be up to twenty items in the Lost & Found; any subsequent items replace the oldest one. Items listed below can appear in the lost and found:

Item	Rarity Group	Chance
Furniture	Common	31%
Clothing	Common	26%
Stationery	Common	20%
Carpet	Common	5%
Wallpaper	Common	4%
Flower Bag	-	5%
Umbrella	-	4%
Non-Golden Tool	-	3%
Sapling or Cedar Sapling	-	2%

In Wild World and City Folk

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The lost and found in Animal Crossing: Wild World

The lost and found in Animal Crossing: City Folk

In Animal Crossing: Wild World and Animal Crossing: City Folk, the lost and found is accessed by speaking to Booker at the checkpoint.

There are fifteen item slots in Wild World and twelve in City Folk; however, only ten items can naturally appear in either game. A new item has a 50% chance to appear in each empty slot in the lost and found every day, up to a maximum of five items per day. Below are the items that can appear in the lost and found:

• 20% – Pitfall Seed
• 10% – Furniture from Tom Nook's store
• 10% – Stationery from Tom Nook's store
• 10% – Top from the Able Sisters

The furniture, stationery, or top that may appear is affected by the town's rarity groups and the player's item fêng shui. Upon town generation, three items—either furniture, stationery, or tops—will appear in the lost and found.

In New Leaf

The lost and found in the classic police station in Animal Crossing: New Leaf

In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, the lost and found is in the police station like in Animal Crossing.

There can be up to ten items in the lost and found; however, only five items can naturally appear. Each day, a number of empty item slots corresponding with the number of days since the player last saved each has a 50% chance to be populated with an item. Below are the items that can appear in the lost and found:

• 10% – Furniture from the town's common rarity group
• 10% – Top from the Able Sisters
• 10% – Flower bag
• 7% – Pitfall Seed
• 5% – Stationery from Timmy and Tommy's store
• 5% – Umbrella from the Able Sisters
• 3% – Tricky pitfall seed

When the police station is built, three furniture items from the town's common group appear by default.

Notes

Gameplay elements

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