How To Get Ornaments In Animal Crossing

Animal Crossing: New Horizons - How to Get Ornaments

Ornaments are needed to craft festive DIY recipes during the winter season in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, so here's how players can get them.

With the holidays nearly here, players in Animal Crossing: New Horizons can start collecting ornaments, which can be used to decorate cedar trees around their islands.

Winter has begun inAnimal Crossing: New Horizons, signified by the snowfall on the ground, and there are a number of activities players can partake in to get ready for the holidays. Through February, players can find snowflakes and make snowflake DIYs like the Ice Wand or the Ice Table. They can also try to make the perfect snowboy by rolling around big balls of snow — or make a disproportionate snowboy for a funny surprise.

But December inAnimal Crossingis also time for the annual Toy Day event, taking place on December 24th. To get geared up with the proper decorations around the island, players can decorate the cedar trees with Christmas ornaments between December 15th to January 6th, which is considered the festive season for both Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere folks. After obtaining all red, blue, and gold ornaments, players can also craft 14 different festive DIY recipes.

How to Find Ornaments

To find ornaments, firstAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsplayers will need to look for festive trees around the island, which aren't difficult to spot. They're lined with bright Christmas lights, but this can only happen randomly with cedar trees, so make sure to have some previously planted and fully grown. After locating a festive tree, players will have to shake them to have a chance of a red, blue, or gold ornament falling from them. If it's an ornament-bearing tree, it'll make a unique sound of shaking ornaments when bumped into. It may take a few shakes before an ornament falls from it, though.

Keep in mind, there's no limit to the number of ornaments players can get from a single festive tree, but there will need to be clear space around the tree in order for an ornament to fall. Ornaments can still fall down on customized pathing. If players want to quickly get enough ornaments to make all 14 festive DIY recipes, they'll need to obtain 35 red ornaments, 43 blue ornaments, and 42 gold ornaments. They can also be sold to Tom Nook's kids at Nook's Cranny for 50 bells each.

If it's similar to previousAnimal Crossinggames, Toy Day means the arrival of Jingle will show up and ask players for help with delivering gifts after their villagers drop sly hints of want they want for the holidays.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is out now for the Nintendo Switch.

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