Lost and found
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
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
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[nb 1]
When the police station is built, three furniture items from the town's common group appear by default.
Notes
- ↑ The lost and found is the only source of the tricky pitfall seed.
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