Watering can

Artwork of a player with a watering can from Animal Crossing: New Horizons

The watering can is a gardening tool, first introduced in Animal Crossing: Wild World and appearing in all subsequent games. It is used to water flowers in order to prevent them from wilting and dying, and can restore wilting plants to full bloom.

Usage[edit]

A watering can can be used to water the ground in the spot directly below the player. Watering flowers will prevent them from wilting or dying, and restore wilted plants the very next day. Watering the ground or any other item will simply have no effect. Watering flowers can promote the growth of new flowers through hybridization. In New Leaf, flowers that have been watered will show droplets of water falling to the ground, and will sparkle throughout the day to indicate that they do not need further watering.

The watering can is crucial to gaining and maintaining a perfect town environment, as it keeps flowers thriving. With the Beautiful Town ordinance in New Leaf, the watering can is made redundant as flowers will never wilt and have increased chances of producing hybrid flowers.

More advanced versions of the watering can that have unique effects can be obtained, though their effects differ between the games. In City Folk, the silver can is able to revive red turnips that are wilting, and can increase the chances of growing hybrid flowers and money trees. In all appearances, reviving wilting black roses with the golden can will turn them into golden roses. In New Leaf, both watering cans have increased range from the standard variant.

Villagers can be seen carrying watering cans and using them to water flowers. In New Horizons, villagers with the nature hobby can be seen walking around and watering multiple flowers. Other villagers can only water one flower at a time. Gifting a watering can to a villager will replace the watering can item as their default watering can.

Obtaining[edit]

In Wild World[edit]

Watering cans in Animal Crossing: Wild World

Item	Image	Buy price	Sell price	Available from	Info
Watering can		500 Bells	125 Bells	Tom Nook's store	Standard watering can
Golden can		Not for sale	125 Bells	Pelly (after maintaining perfect town status for 15 days) Phyllis (after maintaining perfect town status for 15 days)	Watering a wilting black rose will turn it into a golden rose

In City Folk[edit]

Centered on the watered flower, the standard watering can waters in a five-tile "plus" shape, while the Gold and Silver watering cans water 9 tiles in a square. All watering cans boost hybridization rates.

Watering cans in Animal Crossing: City Folk

Item	Buy price	Sell price	Available from	Info
Watering can	500 Bells	125 Bells	Tom Nook's store	Standard watering can
Silver can	Not for sale	125 Bells	Received in a letter from Posy Farm after purchasing 50 packets of flower seeds from Tom Nook	Can revive wilting red turnips
Golden can	Not for sale	125 Bells	Tortimer (after maintaining perfect town status for 15 days)	Watering a wilting black rose will turn it into a golden rose

In New Leaf[edit]

New Leaf changes the effects of the silver can and golden can, which are now more efficient as they can water multiple flowers at once.

Watering cans in Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Item	Buy price	Sell price	Available from	Info
Watering can	500 Bells	125 Bells	Garden Shop Isabelle (after finishing her tasks)	Standard watering can
Silver can	Not for sale	125 Bells	Leif (after purchasing 50 packets of flower seeds)	Waters 5 flowers at once
Golden can	Not for sale	125 Bells	Isabelle (after maintaining perfect town status for 15 days)	Waters 9 flowers at once Watering a wilting Black Rose will turn it into a Golden Rose

In New Horizons[edit]

Watering cans in Animal Crossing: New Horizons will break after a specific amount of uses. Each use of the watering can on dry flowers will reduce a watering can's durability, and watering ground with no flowers will reduce durability by 1/20 of the usual rate. A watering can's durability is not reduced when watering flowers that have already been watered. The flimsy watering can can only water one tile at a time, while every other watering can water multiple tiles.

Watering cans in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

#	Item	Buy price	Sell price	Available from	Durability	Customizable
35	Colorful watering can	2,500 Bells	625 Bells	Nook's Cranny (upgraded)	60	Yes
39	Elephant watering can	2,500 Bells	625 Bells	Nook's Cranny (upgraded)	60	Yes
48	Flimsy watering can	800 Bells	200 Bells	Timmy Nook's Cranny Crafting	20	No
60	Golden watering can	Not for sale	10,675 Bells	Crafting	180	No
91	Outdoorsy watering can	2,500 Bells	625 Bells	Nook's Cranny (upgraded)	60	Yes
138	Watering can	2,400 Bells	600 Bells	Crafting	60	Yes

Includes data sourced from the Data Spreadsheet for Animal Crossing New Horizons, compiled and edited by 6480, noizhub, Ricky, chaiinchomp, saberslime, robotic_scarab, mollumisc, sunmarsh, kyrokey, obstinateRixatrix, jackiwi, Zalex, SuperHamster, kait, hyuum, Azarro, Czarcasm, cinnamon_swirlix, astronomyfortwo, Welcius, glowtopia, BriKun, Alyrei, dodocodes.com, StevieCoops, sneeze, Shiny190, TwistedPeach, LavaToaster, capstone, vmario, rocklamp, Alexis, Aeon, and PanchamBro.