If you keep breaking your tools in Animal Crossing: New Horizons , you are probably interested in moving to the Golden Equipment as soon as possible. While gold cannons can still break, it takes much longer to do so, which means less time to replace buildings and more time to absorb island life.

Here's how to find the recipes for all the golden tools.

How to get gold items in Animal crossing

None of this is something you can actually get in the afternoon. You need to keep these unlock conditions in mind as you go about your daily activities. Trying to bypass the unlock conditions will eventually lead to your frustration.

All gold tools have approximately the same recipe: one Golden Nugget and one typical version of this tool, made without the prefix. For example, to make a golden axe, you need a golden nugget and an axe; a brittle or stone ax will not work.

Gold nuggets, in turn, can be found by hitting rocks with your shovel, although they are much rarer than iron nuggets. You can sell gold nuggets for 10 bells, so it can be tempting to use them as a source of quick money, but they are hard to replace. Some of the rarest crafting recipes in the game require gold nuggets, so in the long run - and almost everything in New Horizons is long term - it's best to stock up on them.

Getting the Golden Ax

Use 100 other axes until they break. Brittle axes are probably the easiest to produce, as they are cheap and not durable.

After your XNUMXth broken axe, you will receive a golden ax recipe in your mail.

Getting the Golden Beetle

Complete the "Bugs" section of your Critterpedia, catching all 80 bugs on your island, including hard to reach, such as fleas . You will receive the gold bug recipe in the mail.

You don't have to sacrifice any bugs to unlock the recipe for the golden version. Just take them to your Critterpedia.

Getting the Golden Rod

Complete the Fish section of your Critterpedia by catching all 80 fish on your island. You will receive the golden rod recipe in the mail.

Since the fish you can find in the waters around your island are seasonal, you'll need to take your time or indulge in "time travel" by manually changing the date in the Switch's system menu.

Getting the Golden Shovel

Approximately every week and a half, whether it is day or night, Gulliver bathes on the beach of your island. He will ask for your help, which requires you to dig up five communicator pieces with your shovel. Look for water spouts on the beaches and dig there to find one.

Notably, if you wait until the next day to give Gulliver the communicator piece, he will turn into a rusty piece. This makes them useless for Gulliver, but you need 30 rusty parts to make a giant robotic hero figurine.

Every time you help Gulliver with his communicator, he sends you new hats or furniture as a thank you gift. After you've done this 30 times, you'll receive the golden spatula recipe in the mail.

Getting the Golden Slingshot

Shoot down a total of 300 gift balloons with your slingshot. They usually fly out of the ocean every five minutes or so. This also completes the Raining Treasure Miles map.

Once you've done that, the next gift that's blowing in from the ocean should have a shiny gold balloon attached to it. Shoot it down and take the golden slingshot recipe from the gift.

Getting a golden watering can

Raise your island to a 5-star rating and ask Isabelle to rate it. She'll be impressed enough to reward you with the golden watering can recipe on the spot.