Animal Crossing: New Horizons Player Comes Up With Ridiculous Tool To Craft Items

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Creating items and furniture is a key part of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and the new Happy Home Paradise DLC and 2.0 Update have only added more options to the game. Players now have around 600 different recipes to craft, a number that may be a bit overwhelming to some. As such, one Animal Crossing: New Horizons player has come up with a ridiculous tool to make crafting items easier.

This isn't the first time an Animal Crossing: New Horizons fan has been driven to take their creative energy into the real world. However, it may be one of the first times a fan has created an intricate tool in the real world to help them play the game more efficiently.

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons offers gamers a number of in-game tools to use to accomplish a variety of goals. However, Redditor jmichael has created a new tool in the real world to make crafting items less of a time sink. The result isn't a fan-made Animal Crossing app, but a bizarre real-life device designed to repeatedly hit the A button on a switch controller. This means that jmichael doesn't have to wear out their thumbs by constantly hitting the same buttons when they're trying to craft a large number of the same item.

The post includes a video showcasing the device in action, demonstrating both how the tool looks when it's working and how effective it is in the game. In the clip, the tool appears to take the form of a circuit board, a clip of some sort that attaches to a flat block of wood, and small arms that hold a long, cylindrical object that resembles a pen. With the Switch controller positioned properly on the block of wood, the cylinder is quickly tilted back and forth to hit the A button over