How to get Golden Tools in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons gives players various tools to farm for resources. Slingshots, axes, nets, shovels, and other tools break after a certain amount of use. To counter this, players can use golden tools. Golden tools are upgraded versions of these tools that do break but are more durable than their normal counterparts.

To get the golden variant of normal tools, players will have to satisfy certain conditions associated with each of them. The golden tools in the game include: Axe, Fishing Rod, Net, Shovel, Slingshot, and Watering Can. Players will need to use the normal versions of these tools extensively throughout the game before receiving a DIY recipe for a golden variant of each of them.

Tools play an important role in Animal Crossing: New Horizons and are integral to minute-to-minute gameplay. The standard versions of these tools break easily, while the golden variants last longer. It is thus lucrative to have them in your inventory. However, completing the requirements to earn the golden version of these tools can take weeks.

Golden Axe can be crafted after breaking 100 axes. To break an axe, you can keep playing the game naturally by chopping down trees that eventually break an axe after roughly 20 or so uses. Another way is to keep hitting rocks after digging holes around them so that you don't keep rolling backward after hitting a rock. Once you break 100 axes, a DIY recipe will pop up, indicating your feat.

Golden Slingshot can be achieved by shooting down 300 balloons. After popping 300 floating balloons, a golden balloon will appear in the sky, and you will have to shoot it down to get the DIY recipe for a golden slingshot. If you wish to fasten this grind, the Bunny Day event in April is an ideal time