Animal Crossing: City Folk is like a toned down version of life.  In life there are always some tricks, tips, or even cheats that can help you succeed in whatever you want.  This game is no exception!

Money Tricks

Okay we all have to admit that we can’t enjoy some of the essentials in life without money (food, electricity, water, clothes, you get the point), well in Animal Crossing, you don’t really need those essentials, but still having money brings you respect, pride, and a whole bunch of things you wish to buy.

Magic Rock

Everyday there is a rock that has tons of money inside it.  The more you hit it the more money pops out with bigger amounts too!  How do you know where the rock is?  You don’t.  You have to run around town with your shovel, hitting every rock you find.

If you want to maximize the amount of money you get from it, dig holes around yourself like this:

O = Rock

V = You

X = Hole

Q = Random space

QQQ
QOQ
XVX
QXQ

You have to this, because each time you hit the rock you get knocked back.  The holes prevents you from being knock back so you just have to keep on hitting the rock for money!

Stalk Market

This is a slow, but effective way to make money.  Every Sunday Joan the Boar comes to town to sell turnips.  This is pretty much a simplified version of the stock market.  You can buy turnips at 100 per space so you can’t get a lot of turnips.

Now the trick here is that everyday Tom Nook changes his price on turnips.  If he’s willing to buy it higher then what you bought if for then you my friend have made a profit.  Warning: Don’t wait too long (a week), because they’ll rot.

Another good trick is if you have friends that have Tom Nook buying for a high price, then you should go visit them for old time sakes (and to make a nice wad of cash )

Digging Up Fossils

If you see star marks on the ground then dig it up to get items.  It can be things like furnitures, pit seeds, gyroids, dinosaur fossils, or whatever your friends decided to bury.  Fossils can be identified by taking them to the museum to get them identified.  The moment it’s identified Blathers he’ll ask you to donate it.  Now it’s up to you to donate it, or sell it to make a nice fat profit…

Catching Bees

We all know bees are dangerous, but do you know they’re expensive too?  Well maybe not in life, but in Animal Crossing: City Folks.  After getting stung by bees over 40 times I finally figured out how to catch them.

1. First set it so that you can easily scroll down to your net by pressing the d-pad.
2. Then go find a bee
3. Run 2 seconds away from in any direction
4. Turn around and wait for the bees to come
5. Swing the net the moment you see them coming in screen

Fruits

Every town has native fruits.  They will cost 100 in your town.  How do you get more fruits?  Well that’s easy.  You could go visit your friends and then simply take their fruit, or you can send letters to your foolish little villagers with your native fruit inside.  Eventually they’ll send new fruits to you, but they might send you other things (still that’s a nice deal a 100 bell fruit for a nice expensive furniture)

Now once you have the fruit, if you want to be safe cut down a non fruit tree and then plant the fruit there instead, to almost guarantee its survival.

Money Trees!

First you have to get a golden shovel (explained below) you can dig a hole with it and then put money inside it.

• For every 1000 you have 1% chance that the tree will grow.  So 100,000 bell will have a 100% chance of growing.
• The problem here is that the maximum amount of bell you can get is 90,000.
• Whatever you buried is tripled.  So 10k becomes 30k.

Wisp

At the dead of night (12:00 PM) at any random day you might encounter Wisp.  Wisp is a ghost that can do some of the sweetest things in the game.  You’ll know he’s around if you find a lamp lying around in your town.

You don’t really know if he’s there, because he’s invisible.  Just run around and you’ll eventually bump into him.  He’ll ask you to look for his lamp.  Afterwards he’ll ask you to bring it to your attic and rub it.  When you do that he’ll grants you 3 options to choose (Sorry guys, no 3 wishes).  You can ask for some de-weeding, de-cockroaching in your house, or for a item.  Now there’s no trick, but if you ask for items, you can get a crown, a headwear, which is worth a 1,000,000 bell.

Balloons

If you see a balloon, shoot it down with a sling shot.  If you do you’ll find a nice free item inside it.

Dream Equipments

Silver Equipments

To get silver equipments you have to:

• Net – Find it in Tom Nooks shop.  Sometimes he’ll sell it.  This improves your chances of catching bugs
• Shovel – Sometimes past 8:00 PM in the city the cones at the sidewalk on the right side of the city may be gone.  If you go in there you’ll find Resetti’s secret HQ.  Since it’s a secret he’ll give you the silver shovel for you to keep quiet.  The shovel sometimes double the amount of money you receive from the magic rocks
• Fishing Rod – Like the Net, buy it from Tom Nook.  It helps you catch fish easier.
• Watering Can – You can easily get this by buying 50 flower seed from Tom Nook.  Then you’ll receive a letter with the can in it.  This allows you to water more spaces.
• Axe – Getting it could be hard, or easy (depends on your luck).  All you have to do is donate 500k to your town.  Then you’ll have a water fountain.  Throw the axe in and you might get a silver axe in exchange.  It’s indestructible.
• Slingshot – Buy it from Tom Nook.  It shoots two pebbles instead of one!

Golden Equipments

• Net – Catch all of the bugs.  It makes catching bugs easier, with a bigger range.
• Shovel – First you have to get 2 shovels.  Bury one of them and then wait 24 hours before you dig it up.  If you did it right you’ll have a golden shovel.  The golden shovel allows you to make money trees!
• Fishing Rod – To get this you have to catch all fishes.  With this rod you’ll have the ability to catch fishes even easier (it’s probably the fishing lure).
• Watering Can – You have to keep your town in a perfect enviorment for 15 days.  You have to talk to Pelly in the Town Hall for information.  This allows you to water even bigger area.
• Axe – You have to use the same method as the silver axe.  Not only is the golden axe indestructible,but it also chops down trees faster, just like what my grandpapa told me gold is better then metal!
• Slingshot – You have to keep on shooting the balloons to find one.  With this you get to shoot 3 pebbles at once per shot!

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