An Animal Crossing: New Horizons YouTuber has shared a way to change the tools that in-game villagers use, which lets players select tools that better match their villagers' personalities and aesthetics. Players utilize many tools in the Animal Crossing series, using them to catch creatures and collect materials. The massively popular simulation game was released in 2020, and although the game received its last addition of large content with the Animal Crossing 2.0 update in November 2021, players are still finding new details about the game almost two years after its release.
Gameplay in Animal Crossing: New Horizons necessitates the use of a myriad of tools in order to progress. Players use them to collect materials like wood and stone in order to craft items and to catch fish and bugs to work towards completing their museum's creature collection. In-game tools can be purchased in different styles from Tom Nook, who sells several different design options. The player isn't the only one who can hold these items — the game's animal villagers will frequently be seen bug hunting with a net, fishing in the river, or holding an umbrella in heavy rain. However, the villagers won't actually ever catch any bugs or fish, even during an event based around it like an Animal Crossing Fishing Tournament.
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Animal Crossing YouTuber Crossing Channel shared an unknown detail about gifting tools to villagers for them to use permanently. It's widely known that if players gift clothing and accessories to villagers, they will be occasionally seen wearing it from that point on. Crossing Channel discovered that the basic style of tool villagers all use can be changed
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