Shovel

Artwork of a female Player using a Shovel from Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp

Shovels in the Animal Crossing series are used to dig holes and bury items in the ground. It is an essential tool for planting flora, unearthing fossils to donate to the museum, and removing stumps from trees that have fallen to an axe.

Usage

A player digging a hole

A shovel can be used to dig holes in any location where there is no obstruction, such as stone paths, ground designs, buildings, structures and trees. Flora such as flowers, fruit, saplings and bamboo shoots can be buried within holes in order to grow them. Items can also be buried in the ground, and are marked with a small star-shaped crack. Items can be unearthed with a shovel, while digging plants will destroy them. Tree stumps and bushes can only be removed by digging them out with a shovel.

Shovels can also be used on certain rocks. Daily in every game, a random rock in town will dispense Bells or ore when struck with a shovel. In Doubutsu no Mori e+, a random rock in town can be broken once a week to access the Resetti Surveillance Center. In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, a fake rock will appear somewhere in town and can be broken with a shovel to reveal a single piece of ore. Additionally, in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, all rocks except for one will yield resources, such as clay, stone, or iron nuggets, while the remaining one will yield Bells like in previous games

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Getting the Golden Shovel

In every game, there are more advanced versions of the shovel that have unique effects, though they differ between the games. The Silver Shovel has a slim chance of altering the Money Rock, causing it dispense double the usual amount of money, or ores instead of Bells. The Golden Shovel has the ability to bury Bells to plant Money Trees, or unearth random Bells from the ground.

Obtaining

Animal Crossing

Item	Image	Buy Price	Sell Price	Available From	Info
Shovel		500 Bells	125 Bells	Tom Nook	Standard Shovel
Golden Shovel		Not for Sale	125 Bells	Bury a Shovel in one of the glowing spots around town and it will grow into a tree bearing the Golden Shovel	Can randomly unearth 100 Bells from the ground Can bury Bells in glowing spots to plant Money Trees

Animal Crossing: Wild World

In Wild World and all future games up through New Leaf, Money Trees can only be planted with a Golden Shovel, however, unlike in Animal Crossing, they can now be planted anywhere a standard tree will grow.

Item	Image	Buy Price	Sell Price	Available From	Info
Shovel		500 Bells	125 Bells	Tom Nook	Standard Shovel
Golden Shovel		Not for Sale	125 Bells	Bury a Shovel and after three days it will turn into a Golden Shovel	Can bury Bells to plant Money Trees

Animal Crossing: City Folk

City Folk introduces a Silver Shovel with a unique effect, in addition to the standard and golden variations.

Item	Buy Price	Sell Price	Available From	Info
Shovel	500 Bells	125 Bells	Tom Nook	Standard Shovel
Silver Shovel	Not for Sale	125 Bells	Resetti Surveillance Center Received from Mr. Resetti after talking to him	10% chance to double money dispensed by money rock
Golden Shovel	Not for Sale	125 Bells	Bury a Shovel and overnight it will turn into a Golden Shovel	Can bury Bells to plant Money Trees

Animal Crossing: New Leaf

New Leaf changes the requirement to obtain the Golden Shovel, and adds the ability to fill in holes without a shovel by facing the hole and pressing the 'Y' button.

Item	Buy Price	Sell Price	Available From	Info
Shovel	500 Bells	125 Bells	Timmy and Tommy	Standard Shovel
Silver Shovel	500 Bells	125 Bells	Museum Shop For sale only after donating at least 15 fossils to the museum	Chance for money rock to dispense ore instead
Golden Shovel	Not for Sale	125 Bells	Garden Center Received from Leif after purchasing 50 bags of Fertilizer	Can bury Bells to plant Money Trees

Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Shovels in New Horizons will break after a specific amount of uses. Digging up items buried in the ground, uprooting plants and trees, and hitting rocks all reduce a shovel's durability. A shovel's durability is not reduced when hitting other players or characters, hitting objects that aren't rocks, digging holes without finding anything or when filling holes.

Unlike most other tools, shovels will not break for the certain actions even when they are no longer durable. This is to prevent the breakage from interfering with the action. Such actions include breaking rocks, uprooting full-grown trees, or when hitting a rock that dispenses an item. The shovel will remain usable until a short moment after such actions have stopped.

Item	Image	Buy Price	Sell Price	Available From	DIY Materials	Durability
Flimsy Shovel		800 Bells 100 Nook Miles	200 Bells	Crafting (Recipe received from Blathers after building the Museum tent) Nook's Cranny Wilbur	5× Hardwood	Breaks after 40 uses
Shovel		2,400 Bells	600 Bells	Crafting (Recipe available from the Pretty Good Tools Recipes Pack at the Nook Stop)	1× Flimsy Shovel 1× Iron Nugget	Breaks after 100 uses
Colorful Shovel	70px	2,500 Bells	625 Bells	Nook's Cranny (upgraded)	-	Breaks after 100 uses
Outdoorsy Shovel		2,500 Bells	625 Bells	Nook's Cranny (upgraded)	-	Breaks after 100 uses
Printed-Design Shovel	70px	2,500 Bells	625 Bells	Nook's Cranny (upgraded)	-	Breaks after 100 uses
Golden Shovel		Not for sale	10,675 Bells	Crafting (Recipe received from Gulliver after helping him 30 times)	1× Shovel 1× Gold Nugget	Breaks after 200 uses