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You've simply started Beast Crossing: New Horizons and looking to go your hands on a shovel. You'll need to arts and crafts your tools using the DIY recipes y'all observe or are given by characters equally you progress through the outset hours of the game.

To unlock the shovel recipe y'all'll need to accept washed ii things already — crafted yourself a Flimsy Axe and donated v critters (fish or bugs) to Tom Nook which leads him to invite his pal Blathers the Owl to your deserted island and fix the makeshift tent which volition eventually become the Museum. In one case he has arrived, speak to Blathers and he'll give you the recipe for the Flimsy Shovel, the weakest shovel in the game (speaking to Blathers also unlocks the Vaulting Pole).

Beast Crossing: New Horizons Flimsy Shovel

To create a Flimsy Shovel, you'll demand:

  • x5 Hardwood

Hardwood can be collected by swinging your Flimsy Axe at trees (upwardly to three times each) and collecting the woods that falls. Hardwood is one of 3 available varieties of wood, the darkest of the three.

Flimsy Shovel

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Shovel

The flimsy shovel is a decent start when you need to dig a hole or bash a rock to harvest materials like iron nuggets, simply you'll before long desire something more robust.

To upgrade your Flimsy Shovel to the stronger Shovel, you'll need to purchase the 'Pretty Good Tools DIY Recipe' from the Nook Stop terminal in Resident Services. It costs 3000 Nook Miles, so if y'all don't accept enough, better get fishing, catching bugs and generally topping up your Nook Miles.

Once you lot've got the required recipe, yous'll need the post-obit items to create the shovel:

  • x1 Flimsy Shovel
  • x1 Iron Asset
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