How To Get Crops In Animal Crossing New Horizons.The new Animal Crossing New Horizons update adds a tonne of new features to the game, such as crop farming and cooking! The Animal Crossing New Horizons 2.0 Update adds five new crops to the game. We’ll show you how to raise crops in Animal Crossing New Horizons in this guide, as well as how the four-day life cycle and yield function.
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How to get crops in Animal Crossing New Horizons
You can begin cultivating crops in one of two methods. To begin, speak with Leif on Harv’s Island or in the Resident Services area. Leif will have a selection of seeds and seedlings available for purchase each week. Week after week, the inventory rotates, so you’ll have to wait a few weeks to collect all five starts and seeds for the new crops.
Here are all of the newly available crops:
- Carrot start
- Seed potato
- Sugarcane start
- Tomato start
- Wheat start
Every Monday, the inventory is reset, so you can go back and pick up any stuff you’ve forgotten about. However, because it is random, you may see some duplicates each week. Alternatively, you might visit Kapp’n’s island. There’s also a chance to pick up some crops in that place at random. However, you’ll need to utilise some Nook Miles, so you can choose which way to employ to obtain your begins.
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When you have the crop seeds and starts in your inventory, you can begin digging and planting them on your island.
Animal Crossing New Horizons life cycles of crops
The crops have a four-day cycle, meaning they grow each day. Here’s what the life cycle looks like for these crops:
- Day 1 – Small sprout
- Day 2 – Medium sprout
- Day 3 – Large Sprout
- Day 4 – Ripe plant
To put it another way, if you plant a Wheat seed and dig it up on the first day, you will get a Small Wheat Sprout. On day two, you’ll get a medium sprout, and so on until the plant is fully matured on day four.
Crops also don’t rot, so you don’t have to worry about planting them at the right time. You can even leave the things on the ground without fear of them spoiling or attracting insects over time.
Animal Crossing New Horizons crop yields
You can influence the yield of each crop by watering it a certain number of times. Here’s how to influence the crop yield:
To put it another way, if you plant a Wheat seed and dig it up on the first day, you will get a Small Wheat Sprout. On day two, you’ll get a medium sprout, and so on until the plant is fully matured on day four.
Crops also don’t rot, so you don’t have to worry about planting them at the right time. You can even leave the things on the ground without fear of them spoiling or attracting insects over time.
- 1 Crop – do not water.
- 2 Crops – water the crops once.
- 3 Crops – water the crops twice.
How to get more crops in Animal Crossing New Horizons
You won’t need to pick up any more seeds if you want to grow more crops. You may just dig a hole and chuck in any of your produced crops, such as a tomato. Select “Plant 1” from the menu that appears when you tap on the item. At the start of the life cycle, the newly planted crop will begin to grow (small Tomato sprout).
You can go through the four-day process to cultivate a fully ripened tomato after planting the tomato. Remember that you may plant these at any time of year, even in the dead of winter!
What do you need crops for in Animal Crossing New Horizons?
Okay, so you know how to cultivate various crops all year long, but what are they for? Crops are used in Animal Crossing New Horizons’ cooking recipes.
You can begin cooking by purchasing the Cooking DIY box from Resident Services. Following that, you’ll see DIY Recipes+ with a whisk icon, indicating that you have culinary access. Sweet and Savory is the cooking tab on the right side of the DIY Recipes menu.
- Sweet: Pancakes and Orange smoothie
- Savory: Flour, Sugar, Carrot potage, Pumpkin bagel sandwich, Tomato curry, Grilled sea bass with herbs
You’ll notice that some of these recipes call for the crops you’ve learned to plant. At Nook’s Cranny, you can get new recipes and the Basic Cooking Recipes for roughly 5,000 Bells. By purchasing the new recipes, you will be able to prepare some delicious new dishes as well as your first DIY kitchen.
Now that you know how to grow crops in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you may start your quest to become a master cook.
