If you’ve come across a gold nugget in Animal Crossing: New Horizons then you’re no doubt wondering what you can do with it! Well, we’ll walk you through the recipes and uses for this item in our Gold Nugget Guide!
Gold Nugget Recipes
Gold Nuggets aka Gold Ore are only used in very rare recipes, and those are forGolden Tools. These tools can be obtained by completing difficult tasks like catching all of the bugs and fish in your Critterpedia. Once you’ve completed the task, you will be given the DIY recipe for the particular tool. Each of these requires one Gold Nugget to craft:
While you would think these tools would be indestructible… they aren’t. These can break the same as any other tool, they just obviously have way more durability. It might be better just display these somewhere rather than use them since finding Gold Nuggets is pretty difficult.
You can also craft some rare furniture. The DIY recipes for these can be hard to find, and we’re likely missing some of the options available at the moment.
How to Get Gold Nuggets
Gold Nuggets are a rare drop out of boulders you can smack. These are the same ones you hit daily to get clay, rock, and iron. They are a very rare drop, so if you find one you should hold onto it unless you know for sure that you aren’t going to craft any Golden Tools. Your island has a set amount of rocks/boulders on it, so ensure you smack all of them each day. If you don’t like the position of one of your rocks, you can break it by eating a piece of fruit before hitting it. The rock will respawn in a different position the next day, so hopefully it becomes easier to farm for you.
Once you’ve run out of rocks on your own island, you can always take a flight to a mystery island. Each of these islands will usually have rocks to hit on them. So, if you’ve got quite a few Nook Miles, you can fly at 2,000 a pop to other islands to smack rocks and farm some gold.
Selling Gold Nuggets
I wouldn’t recommend selling your Gold Nuggets. They will get you 10,000 Bells, but money is pretty easy to get (check out ourmoney guide). I’ve smacked quite a few rocks myself and have only gotten a couple of nuggets. I would save these for the time being, and wait and see what kind of recipes you find or look to create some golden tools!
