Skip Kapp'n's Song
You can skip
Kapp'n's long song on the way to the
Tropical Island by tapping the touch screen repeatedly or hitting the B button. Kapp'n will stop singing, admonish your impatience and then take you directly to the island.
Avoid Beehives
If you'd like to shake trees in peace without the worry of a volatile swarm of bees chasing you and leaving you with a swollen eye after being stung with a terrible wrenching metalic sound, simply open your town's gate. As long as you are in a multiplayer mode, even if no players have entered your town, beehives will not fall from trees,or if you want the beehives ,but not the bees shake a tree and soon as the beehive falls hit the ground and they appear hit start and select "Save and Continue" and the bees will disappear!
Download Exclusive Best Buy DLC from Home
Can't get to a Best Buy location to download the exclusive items? Download it from the comfort of your home instead!
- Change the SSID on your router to Bestbuy (in the United States) or_The Cloud (in the UK).
- Set up a new internet connection in your 3DS system settings. Use the SSID above and, if necessary, your wifi password. (You may also need to disable your regular connection--just add or remove a letter in the old SSID).
- Start the game. Visit the Post Office and choose "Ask about a present" at the counter. Enjoy your new item!
BEST BUY NINTENDO ZONE 2013 ITEMS
- 6/16-6/29 RACCOON WALL-CLOCK
- 6/30-7/13 CAT TOWER (US) / SHAVED ICE (UK)
- 7/14-7/27 SUITCASE
- 7/28-8/10 DOUBLE NECK GUITAR
Get Villagers' Furniture
If a neighbor of yours has a piece of furniture you want, you can get it by sending them seashells. They will begin replacing their furniture with the shells and their furniture will appear at re-tail for purchase. Make sure there are empty flea-market spaces, though.
Time Traveling
You can change the time and date in your town on the New Leaf main menu screen before you enter your village. You can change the date and time to manipulate what
Bugs and
Fish are available, make
Bells by appreciating your bank deposits over the new year lapse (You recieve interest returns in your bank account), or skip ahead to force house expansions. Time Traveling is technically cheating, but people still exploit it to get ahead in the game.
Quick Method for Infinite Bells
You need two players both with Animal Crossing, one has to have a really strong price for turnips like 500 bells in their game (to be honest any price will do but this makes it quicker) and the other time travels (by setting the 3DS clock) to sunday morning. Now simply buy in the town that's on sunday and go and visit the friend's town and sell there and repeat with new money that you just got from the selling the turnips at like 5 times their normal value and you have a quick method of making huge amounts of bell. Have fun being a bellionaire.
WARNING: Time Travel may lead to lost neighbors and an abundance of weeds that will overtake your town. They are NOT easy to get rid of. It can also take the fun out of the game, but that's up to the player.
- See the Time Traveling Guide for a complete guide to changing your date and time for fun and profit.
Getting Rich with the Money Rock
Each day in your town one rock contains
Bells which you can liberate with a well-placed
Shovel strike. The more you hit the rock, the more Bells you get. To maximize the amount of Bells you get, find a rock stand next to it. Dig holes to the rear and either side of your character. This will trap you alongside the rock, and cancel the "push back" effect of your shovel strike. This allows you to rapidly hit the rock and make more money. Depending on what kind of tool at the time your shovel will have a different effect.
Hitting one of the permanent rocks in your village with a
Basic Shovelwill produce Bells totaling 16,000. Hitting one of the permanent rocks in your village with a
Silver Shovel will produce either
16,000 - 18,000 Bell, or make
8 colored Ores pop out, this can happen randomly on any day from only
ONE of the permanent rocks in your village, you can only get Ores or Bells on the day. The
Gold Shovel has same effect as Silver Shovel when striking a permanent rock in your village.
Best Selling Prices
You can make most of your money by selling rare and valuable items from Fossils, Fish, Bugs, and other items. But knowing where to sell them might be a little tricky, in Animal Crossing New Leaf you can sell your items at both
Re-Tail (Recycle Shop) and
Nooklings in the main street area where all your other shops are at. If you take your items to Nooklings you will only be able to sell them at their lowest average price, if you take your items over to Re-Tail (Recycle Shop) you will be able to sell them for a little more than what they are if the price is reasonable, if you set them on auction at the Recycle Shop you can sell them for double their worth, the max amount your villagers will pay for that item depends if it's worth that value or not
ie: Say you were to sell Amber which is usually about 1,200 you can double that to about 3,300 bell. the max limit for most rarest items can go for about 9,500 bell, any higher and the villagers may decline from buying it if you are offering it to them when they see it on the stall.
It should also be noted that you can change the price after a villager expresses interest in your item if you did not use this advice initially. The moment you see them take interest, go to your item and simply increase the price times 4 minus 1 bell. [EX: Item is offered for suggested 400 bells and you are selling it for less than 1,599 bells (400 * 4 = 1,600 - 1 = 1,599).
You can also sell your items directly to
Re-Tail (Recycle Shop) by talking to
Reese, she can take just about any or all items you want to sell, and they usually sell a lot higher than what you can get from
Nooklings. Any rare items such as Silver and Gold
Tools will only sell for about 150 Bells.
Reese may decline buying fake items such as paintings and sculpts you may have obtained from
Crazy Redd's store which appears as a tent on certain days inside your village.
Reese will offer to trash these fake items for free, or you can place them in your own trash bins if you have them in your village.
Trash and Lost Items
Unlike in previous Animal Crossing games, where you had a single dedicated recycle bin found inside the Civic Center, in New Leaf you can place trash cans in your village through Public Works, which cost 53,000 bells. Any items you throw into the trash are permanently gone forever. Your Lost and Found items can be obtained from the Police Box by picking them up from the row of desks. Booker stands watch over lost and found items and you are free to take them as you wish. In a dream at the House of Dreams you cannot pick up these items from the Police Box, nor can you pick them up while over in someone else's village if they've invited you over. If you don't have a trash can, you can have Reese dispose of the trash for a fee (or you can mail trash to villagers to avoid the fee).
Free Furniture
If you go through a neighbors drawers, vanity, anything that qualifies as a storage unit, they may actually give you a piece a furniture for free. They will say something along the lines of not needed it anymore and simply give it to you.
Secret Photo Filters
When having your TPC photo taken in the photo booth, holding down either shoulder button will apply a special filter to your photograph!
CHEAT | Effect |
Black and white | L Button |
Sepia tone | R Button |
Unlockable Locations
Most, if not all of these require it being 10 days past the start of the game, and most will all be available in the public works list.
HOW TO UNLOCK | Unlockable |
Have Nookling Junction upgrade for the first time, give Dr. Shrunk permission when he visits your house, and obtain signatures from other villagers. | Club LOL |
Pull 30 weeds, plant 30 flowers or trees, OR water 30 plants. | Garden Center |
Donate at least 20 items (at least one from each category) to the museum, and talk to Blathers daily; the shop will become a works project. | Museum Shop |
Spend at least 8000 bells in the Able Sisters' shop. | Kicks |
Spend at least 10,000 bells in Able Sisters' or Kicks. It must be at least 10 days since Kicks was built. | Shampoodle |
Have your fortune read (which happens whenever Katrina visits your town) 20 times. Then speak to her and the shop will be added to the works list. | Fortune Teller Shop |
(Req: 7 days after game start) Talk to Isabelle when she is sleeping. Dream Suite will be added to the public works list. | Dream Suite |
Donate 50 items to the Museum, and have the Museum Shop already unlocked. Talk to Blathers 7 days after the Museum Shop's opening. | The Roost Café |
Start up the game after finishing your upgrade to a house. Tortimer will greet you at the start up; meet him at the docks. You can go one day later. | The Island Resort |
Turn off your 3DS without saving, and when you start up your town, Mr Resetti will say that the Reset Centre closed, then its a works project. | Reset Center |
Silver & Golden Tools
These are tools in the game that you unlock.
HOW TO UNLOCK | Unlockable |
Purchase from the museum's second floor extension after donating at least 15 fossils. | Silver Shovel |
Purchase from the island shop for 8 medals. | Silver Axe |
Purchase from the museum's second floor extension after donating at least 30 bugs. | Silver Net |
Purchase from the museum's second floor extension after donating at least 30 fish. | Silver Fishing Rod |
Talk to Leif the sloth after purchasing at least 50 flower seeds from the gardening shop. | Silver Watering Can |
Shoot down the present with 2 silver balloons attached to it. | Silver Slingshot |
Talk to Leif the sloth after purchasing at least 50 fertilizers from the gardening shop. | Golden Shovel |
Talk to Leif the sloth after purchasing at least 50 tree saplings from the gardening shop. | Golden Axe |
Talk to the bug catching tournament host after catching every bug in the game. | Golden Net |
Talk to the fishing tournament host after catching every fish in the game. | Golden Fishing Rod |
Talk to Isabelle after maintaining 15 days of perfect environmental conditions. | Golden Watering Can |
Shoot down the present with 3 gold balloons attached to it. | Golden Slingshot |
ATM Savings Rewards
Save the following amounts of bells in the ATM (located in the post office) to have a gift mailed to you.
HOW TO UNLOCK | Unlockable |
Achieve a balance of 100,000 bells | Box of Tissues |
Achieve a balance of 500,000 bells | Letter Set |
Achieve a balance of 1,000,000 bells | Piggy Bank |
Achieve a balance of 5,000,000 bells | Aluminum briefcase |
Achieve a balance of 10,000,000 bells | Post-office poster |
Achieve a balance of 20,000,000 bells | Safe |
Achieve a balance of 50,000,000 bells | Mailman's Hat |
Achieve a balance of 100,000,000 bells | ABD |
HHA Prizes
HOW TO UNLOCK | Unlockable |
Get a score of 10,000 | HHA tee |
Get a score of 20,000 | HHA Pennant |
Get a score of 50,000 | Silver HHA Plaque |
Get a score of 70,000 | Gold HHA Plaque |
Get a score of 90,000 | Silver HHA Trophy |
Get a score 100,000 | Gold HHA Trophy |
Get a score 150,000 | Gold House Model |
Get a score 300,000 | Golden Roof |
Get a score 500,000 | Golden exterior |
Get a score 700,000 | Arched golden door |
Get a score 900,000 | Golden fence |
Get a score 1,100,000 | Golden mailbox |
Get a score 30,000 | HHA Jacket |
Nookling store upgrades
HOW TO UNLOCK | Unlockable |
10 days after your town is open and the you have spent at least 12,000 bells in Nookling Junction. Also, you must have moved out of a tent. | T&T Mart |
T&T Mart must have been open for 10 days, and you must have spent 25,000 bells there. Also the Gardening Store must have been open for 10 days. | Super T&T |
You must have spent 50,000 bells at Super T&T and it must have been open for 21 days. | T.I.Y |
You must have spent 100,000 bells at T.I.Y and completed 4 Gracie Fashion Checks at Satisfactory level, and T.I.Y must have been open for 30 days. | T&T Emporium |
Badges
Occasionally, when you complete certain requirements, Phineas will arrive in your town to give you a badge for accomplishments in the game. These accomplishments range from the amount of Bells saved, to how often you catch bugs, fish and sea life. Badges appear as a section of your town ID card.
HOW TO UNLOCK | Unlockable |
Catch 500 or more insects. | Skilled Bug Catcher |
Catch 2,000 or more insects. | Expert Bug Catcher |
Catch 5,000 or more insects. | Master Bug Catcher |
Catch 500 or more fish. | Skilled Angler |
Catch 2,000 or more fish. | Expert Angler |
Catch 5,000 or more fish. | Master Angler |
Catch 100 or more sea creatures. | Skilled Diver |
Catch 200 or more sea creatures. | Pro Diver |
Catch 1,000 or more sea creatures. | Dive Master |
Catch 50% or more of the insect specimens. | Insect Maniac |
Catch 80% or more of the insect specimens. | Insect Encyclopedia |
Complete the insect encyclopedia. | Insect Entomology |
Catch 50% or more of the fish specimens. | Fish Maniac |
Catch 80% or more of the fish specimens. | Fish Encyclopedia |
Complete the fish encyclopedia. | Prof. of Ichthyology |
Catch 50% or more of the deap-sea specimens. | Seafood Maniac |
Catch 80% or more of the deep-sea specimens. | Seafood Encyclopedia |
Complete the deep-sea encyclopedia. | Prof. of Seafood |
Shoot down 30 or more balloons. | Balloon Hunter |
Shoot down 100 or more balloons. | Balloon Buster |
Shoot down 200 or more balloons. | Balloon Master |
Earn 300 or more medals from the tropical island's tour games. | Bronze Medalist |
Earn 1500 or more medals from the tropical island's tour games. | Silver Medalist |
Earn 5,000 or more medals from the tropical island's tour games. | Gold Medalist |
Plant over 100 trees and flowers from the state of seeds or sapplings. | Backyard Gardener |
Plant over 250 trees and flowers from the state of seeds or sapplings. | Village Gardener |
Plant over 500 trees from the state of seeds or sapplings. | Gardening Specialist |
Pull 500 or more weeds. | Weed Hunter |
Pull 2,000 or more weeds. | Weed Buster |
Pull 5,000 or more weeds. | Weed Menace |
Deposit 1,000,000 or more Bells into your savings account. | Avid Bell Saver |
Deposit 10,000,000 or more Bells into your savings account. | Wealthy Bell Saver |
Deposit 100,000,000 or more Bells into your post office savings account. | Tycoon Bell Saver |
Earn 500,000 Bells worth of profit in Joan's turnip trade. | Amateur Turnip Trader |
Earn 3,000,000 Bells worth of profit in Joan's turnip trade. | Pro Turnip Trader |
Earn 10,000,000 Bells worth of profit in Joan's turnip trade. | Master Turnip Trader |
Purchase 500,000 Bells worth of items at Timmy & Tommy's, Leif's gardening store, Abel Sisters, Kicks, GracieGrace, Redd's, or the Museum gift shop. | Good Shopper |
Purchase 2 million Bells worth of items at Timmy & Tommy's, Leif's gardening store, Abel Sisters, Kicks, GracieGrace, Redd's, or the Museum gift shop. | Expert Shopper |
Purchase 5 million Bells worth of items at Timmy & Tommy's, Leif's gardening store, Abel Sisters, Kicks, GracieGrace, Redd's, or the Museum gift shop. | Master Shopper |
Refurbish 30 or more items at Re-Tail. | Refurbishing Beginner |
Refurbish 100 or more items at Re-Tail. | Refurbishing Expert |
Refurbish 200 or more items at Re-Tail. | Refurbishing Master |
Unlock 20% of Timmy & Tommy's shop catalog. | Catalog Maniac Bronze |
Unlock 50% of Timmy & Tommy's shop catalog. | Catalog Maniac Silver |
Unlock 80% of Timmy & Tommy's shop catalog. | Catalog Maniac Gold |
Earn 50,000 points or more from the Happy Home Academy (HHA). | Happy Homer Bronze |
Earn 100,000 points or more from the Happy Home Academy (HHA). | Happy Homer Silver |
Earn 150,000 points or more from the Happy Home Academy (HHA). | Happy Homer Gold |
Watch K.K. Slider perform at Club LOL on Saturday nights more than 20 times. | K.K. Slider Fan |
Watch K.K. Slider perform at Club LOL on Saturday nights more than 50 times. | K.K. Slider Fanboy/Fangirl |
Watch K.K. Slider perform at Club LOL on Saturday nights more than 100 times. | K.K. Slider Diehard |
Help your neighbors by performing 50 favors for them. | Good Samaritan |
Help your neighbors by performing 100 favors for them. | Great Samaritan |
Help your neighbors by performing 300 favors for them. | Town Concierge |
Mail 50 or more letters. | Letter Writter |
Mail 100 or more letters. | Letter Author |
Mail 200 or more letters. | Postmaster |
Get tagged via Streetpass more than 100 times. | Streetpass Beginner |
Get tagged via Streetpass more than 300 times. | Streetpass Expert |
Get tagged via Streetpass more than 1000 times. | Streetpass Master |
Visit a different town over 100 times. | Neighborhood Traveler |
Visit a different town over 250 times. | World Traveler |
Visit a different town over 500 times. | Space Traveler |
Invite more than 50 other players to visit your town. | Good Host/Hostess |
Invite more than 200 other players to visit your town. | Great Host/Hostess |
Invite more than 500 other players to visit your town. | Goodwill Ambassador |
Visit Dream Suite 50 times or more. | Dreamer |
Visit Dream Suite 200 times or more. | Heavy Sleeper |
Visit Dream Suite 500 times or more. | Mr./Mrs. Sandman |
Exceed 50 hours of play time. | Village Representative |
Exceed 200 hours of play time. | Village Leader |
Exceed 500 hours of play time. | Village of Honor |
Fortune Cookie Prizes
Buy purchasing a Fortune Cookie from any of the Timmy and Tommy-owned stores, you can trade in a Lucky Ticket for any of the prizes below.
HOW TO UNLOCK | Unlockable |
Fortune Cookie #01 | Mushroom Mural |
Fortune Cookie #02 | Block Floor |
Fortune Cookie #03 | Hero's Clothes |
Fortune Cookie #04 | Random Item |
Fortune Cookie #05 | Hero's Pants |
Fortune Cookie #06 | Random Item |
Fortune Cookie #07 | Peach's Parasol |
Fortune Cookie #08 | Hero's Cap |
Fortune Cookie #09 | Majora's Mask |
Fortune Cookie #10 | Samus Mask |
Fortune Cookie #11 | Midna's Mask |
Fortune Cookie #12 | Toad Hat |
Fortune Cookie #13 | Red Pikmin |
Fortune Cookie #14 | Blue Pikmin |
Fortune Cookie #15 | Yellow Pikmin |
Fortune Cookie #16 | Random Item |
Fortune Cookie #17 | Block |
Fortune Cookie #18 | Coin |
Fortune Cookie #19 | Goal Pole |
Fortune Cookie #20 | Fire Flower |
Fortune Cookie #21 | Super Mushroom |
Fortune Cookie #22 | Green Shell |
Fortune Cookie #23 | Super Star |
Fortune Cookie #24 | 1-Up Mushroom |
Fortune Cookie #25 | ? Block |
Fortune Cookie #26 | Pipe |
Fortune Cookie #27 | Fire Bar |
Fortune Cookie #28 | Bill Blaster |
Fortune Cookie #29 | Yoshi's Egg |
Fortune Cookie #30 | Random Item |
Fortune Cookie #31 | Triple Red Shells |
Fortune Cookie #32 | Kart |
Fortune Cookie #33 | Pikmin |
Fortune Cookie #34 | Blue Falcon |
Fortune Cookie #35 | Master Sword |
Fortune Cookie #36 | Arwing |
Fortune Cookie #37 | Triforce |
Fortune Cookie #38 | Random Item |
Fortune Cookie #39 | S.S. Dolphin |
Fortune Cookie #40 | Virtual Boy |
Fortune Cookie #41 | Wii Balance Board |
Fortune Cookie #42 | Varia Suit Pants |
Fortune Cookie #43 | Varia Suit Shoes |
Fortune Cookie #44 | Bad Bro's Stache |
Fortune Cookie #45 | Big Bro's Mustache |
Fortune Cookie #46 | Varia Suit |
Fortune Cookie #47 | Metroid |
Fortune Cookie #48 | Triple Bananas |
Fortune Cookie #49 | Hero's Boots |
Fortune Cookie #50 | Fi Mask |
Having the opposite gender's hairstyles
After getting your haircut about 15 times, Harriett will offer to let you get the male hairstyles if you're female and female hairstyles if you're male.
Magic Rocks
Like in the previous Animal Crossing games, there is a rock in each town that, if you hit it with a shovel or axe, gives out money. It only does this once per day, of course, but you can get up to 16,000 bells if you hit it enough. Every day there will be an extra rock in your town. Hit it with a shovel and it will break and reveal a different mineral. You can take these to Cyrus (once he wakes up) and use them as an additional way to make your furniture different. Or you can just sell them. Once you have the silver shovel, you have a chance of making gems come out of the money rock instead of bells. Also, you can take 3 gold gems to Cyrus and he'll make you a random piece of a special gold furniture set.
Hit Balloon Presents with Net
If ballooned presents come from the coastal side of town, go to the cliff the rest of town is on. Before the balloon reaches the cliff, hit it with your net. Also, if the present comes from the other side of the town, as the balloon reaches the cliff it will lower allowing you to hit as well.
Easier bug and fish catching!
When hunting for a certain type of catch, such as sharks or palm tree bugs, this trick will help. Search the area where you are looking for the creature, and if it isn't there hit start and save, but continue playing. This will reset the bug and fish spawns in your game, and it only takes a few seconds.
Avoid Bee Stings Easily
To easily avoid being stung by a bee, simply press 'Start' and select 'Save and Continue.' This will refresh the environment and cancel the flying bees, avoiding the need to run into a building or to try and catch them. The beehive will still be on the ground after the save completes.
Balloon Frequencies
Whenever the time on the clock ends in 4 (i.e. 12:34 or 8:54), a balloon may appear on one of the sides your town. This means you can get up to 6 balloon presents an hour. You must be outside for the balloon to appear.
Avoid Triggering Beehives in Trees
To shake trees for money and furniture safely without fear of getting attacked by bees, go to the Train Station and open your train gate to visitors. Beehives will not spawn when your train gate is open.
Skip Kapp'n's Song
While traveling to or from the Tropical Resort, while Kapp'n is singing tap the the B button rapidly. He'll suddenly stop singing and say a few things and then drop you off. This saves a lot of time.
Extra item space
Whenever you're full of items in your inventory, you can store your items inside letters, preventing you from having to come back to get whatever you missed. This gives you 10 extra item spaces, handy for selling your bug/fish load from the island.
Change the Club LOL Gyroids
If you go into Club LOL during the morning or afternoon before the show you can walk up on the stage. If you click A on one of the Gyroids you can choose to swap it with one in your inventory. This can give a new back beat to some of KK's songs while he is DJing or playing guitar!
Approval Rating
In order to pass ordinances and commission public works projects after becoming mayor, you must increase your approval rating around town to the maximum 100 percent. There are several ways to increase your approval, and you'll likely need to accomplish them all!
Action | Approval Points |
Playing the game | Up to 3 points per day |
Upgrade the tent you start with to a house | 20 points (awarded once only) |
Introduce yourself to villagers | 1 point per villager |
Perform errands for villagers | 3 points per errand (repeatable) |
Change town music | 3 points (awarded once only) |
Change town flag | 3 points (awarded once only) |
Sell anything to Re-Tail | 3 points (awarded once only) |
Sell junk/trash to Re-Tail | 1 points (repeatable) |
Post on the bulletin board next to train station | 3 points (awarded once only) |
Send letters | 1 point each (repeatable) |
Donate fish/bug/fossil/artwork to museum | 7 points (awarded once only) |
Pull weeds | 1 point each (repeatable) |
Water flowers | 1 point each (repeatable) |
Fish out trash from water | 1 point each (repeatable) |
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