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Shovel
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Template:Cleanup Template:Infobox item Shovels are a type of tool that have been available throughout the Animal Crossing series. They are used to dig up buried objects in the ground such as Pitfall Seeds, Gyroids and Fossils. Shovels can also be used to hit rocks which may spawn new bugs or be a Money Rock.
Usage
Shovels are used to dig up fossils marked on the ground by a small crack (star shaped). They are also used to dig up other items, such as pitfall seeds and other buried objects. Shovels are the intended tool to use on rocks to find and exploit money rocks for Bells or ore. Likewise, a hole created by a shovel can be used to bury fruit and bamboo shoots to grow trees and bamboo, or time capsules and other objects to hide them.
Shovels are also the only way of removing stumps after a tree has been cut down using an axe. Likewise, they are used to remove bushes. Digging where a flower is planted will destroy the plant.
Holes dug by shovels can also be used to plant saplings, and plant and replant flowers, despite also being able to do this directly by hand.
A shovel can be used to dig a hole in any location where there is no obstacle blocking the ground, like patterns and houses.
Obtaining
In Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival, Animal Crossing and Animal Forest e+
In Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival, Animal Crossing and Animal Forest e+, the golden shovel was introduced to the series and can be obtained by completing a task. The player has a chance of digging up 100 Bells from anywhere on in the ground.
| Image | Name | Obtained from | Buy Price | Sale Price | Info |
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| File:AF-Shovel.png | Shovel | Tom Nook's Store | 500 Bells | 125 Bells | - |
| File:AF-Gold shovel.png | Gold Shovel | Bury a shovel in a Sparkling Spot. A tree bearing a gold shovel will grow. Basic tree growing rules apply. |
- | - | A chance of digging up 100 Bells |
In Animal Crossing: Wild World
In Animal Crossing: Wild World, the gold shovel was made easier to obtain than in any other game.
| Name | Obtained from | Buy Price | Sale Price | Info | |
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| File:Shovel.gif | Shovel | Tom Nook's Store | 500 Bells | 125 Bells | - |
| File:Golden Shovel.gif | Gold Shovel | Bury a shovel and dig it up the next day. | - | 125 Bells | Able to plant money trees |
In Animal Crossing: City Folk
In Animal Crossing: City Folk, the silver shovel was introduced to the series and can be obtained by completing a task. The gold shovel retains the same obtainable features as in Wild World.
| Name | Obtained from | Buy Price | Sale Price | Info | |
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| File:Shovel.png | Shovel | Tom Nook's Store | 500 Bells | 125 Bells | - |
| File:Shovel silver.png | Silver Shovel | Resetti Visit the Resetti Surveillance Center after 8 PM. |
- | - | 10% chance of increasing Money Rock Bells |
| File:Shovel gold.png | Gold Shovel | Bury a shovel and dig it up the next day. | - | 125 Bells | Able to plant money trees |
In Animal Crossing: New Leaf
In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, the method of getting the golden shovel has changed. Now the player must upgrade the Nookling Store to T&T Emporium and buy at least 50 fertilizer bags. The gold shovel retains the same abilities as in City Folk.
| Name | Obtained from | Buy Price | Sale Price | Info | |
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| File:NL-Shovel.png | Shovel | Nookling Stores | 500 Bells | 125 Bells | - |
| File:NL-Silver shovel.png | Silver Shovel | Museum Store Donate at least 15 fossils. |
500 Bells | 125 Bells | May produce ore when used against a Money Rock |
| File:NL-Gold shovel.png | Gold Shovel |
Leif |
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125 Bells |
Able to plant money trees |
In Animal Crossing: New Horizons
In Animal Crossing: New Horizons shovels are primarily crafted and all have limited uses. Shovels do not wear down from digging empty holes or refilling empty holes, but will wear down when digging up flowers, trees, fossils, or other buried goods.
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Gallery
Animal Crossing
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Second stage of growth.
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Third stage of growth.
Animal Crossing: Wild World
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Digging in Wild World.
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Trying to dig a stone road In Wild World.
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Trying to dig water.
Animal Crossing: New Leaf
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Shovel rock hit.
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Rock breaks apart.
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Digging a stump.
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Attempting to dig a pattern.
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Attempting to dig a flower bed.
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Digging up all 9 bells from a money rock
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A silver shovel revealing hidden Ore instead of the daily money.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
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Digging up items with a shovel in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
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Golden shovel icon
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Yellow Shovel
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Green Shovel
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Blue Shovel
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Purple Shovel
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Black Shovel
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Black Colorful Shovel
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Blue Colorful Shovel
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Green Colorful Shovel
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Pink Colorful Shovel
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Purple Colorful Shovel
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Red Colorful Shovel
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White Colorful Shovel
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Avocado Outdoorsy Shovel
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Beige Outdoorsy Shovel
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Black Outdoorsy Shovel
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Light Blue Outdoorsy Shovel
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Orange Outdoorsy Shovel
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Pink Outdoorsy Shovel
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Red Outdoorsy Shovel
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Black Printed-Design Shovel
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Blue Printed-Design Shovel
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Green Printed-Design Shovel
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Pink Printed-Design Shovel
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Purple Printed-Design Shovel
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White Printed-Design Shovel
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Yellow Printed-Design Shovel
Trivia
- In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, villagers with a shovel equipped will hold it in one hand.
- Curiously, first generation of games (Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival, Animal Crossing, Animal Forest+, and Animal Forest e+) feature unique sound effects when a shovel is struck against stone/metal and when a shovel is struck against wood. However, in all subsequent games, specifically between Animal Crossing: Wild World and Animal Crossing: New Leaf, the wood sound effect is omitted, meaning that all solid objects produce the stone/metal sound effect when hit with a shovel regardless of their composition.
In other languages
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