Animal Crossing New Horizons Tools Reliability Guide

This Animal Crossing New Horizons Tools Reliability Guide will show you how to get reliable tools in the game, and how you can make the most use out of every tool before they break and become useless.

When you begin the game, you will have many DIY crafting recipes for flimsy tools that will only work a few times before breaking and having to craft a new one. This not only requires more crafting materials but is also quite annoying. Let’s look at ways you have more durable tools for all types of needs in the game.

Animal Crossing New Horizons Tools Reliability Guide

Below we have detailed how to get more reliable tools in the game.

How to Get Better Tools

Animal Crossing New Horizons does its best to have to start with whatever you have in the beginning. This means that the more you play the game, the better tools you will have and the more your island will grow.

This is why the tools you start with will mostly be flimsy items that will do their job but will break quite often. Over time, you will need better tools to perform bigger tasks, and depending on flimsy tools will not help your cause.

To get better and reliable tools, you need the Pretty Good Tools Recipes. This recipe list contains all the good tools and the materials required to craft them. However, this list is quite tough to get in the early stages of your gameplay. Simply put, you need at least 3,000 Nook Miles to unlock it. If you need more tips on how to earn Nook Miles, read our Nook Miles Guide here.

Once you have enough Nook Miles for the Pretty Good Tools Recipes, heard over to Resident Services and you will unlock this lit. With recipes in hand, you can now all good and reliable tools like the axe, shovel, fishing rods and more. These items are far better than the flimsy tools and break less often than them.

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