If you've exhausted all your rocks for the day, you can wait until tomorrow - or head to a different island. There's a decent chance that even mining every rock on your island won't get you all the iron nuggets you need. What to do if you run out of rocks in Animal Crossing
Once the ten seconds are up, it'll stop producing materials and you'll have to wait until tomorrow. You have ten seconds to strike the rock as many times as possible. And on Easter Sunday (or 'Bunny Day') and the eight days leading up to it, rocks might also give you Stone Eggs.Īs soon as you strike a rock, a countdown will begin. Quick tip: One rock each day will also become a 'Money Rock' - when you strike these, money will pop out instead of crafting materials. Each rock can produce up to eight materials each day. Every day, you can strike these rocks with a shovel or axe to make iron nuggets, stones, clay, or (rarely) gold nuggets pop out. And if you're working on Tom Nook's request for 30 iron nuggets, your fellow villagers might occasionally give them to you when you chat.īut the absolute best way to find iron nuggets in Animal Crossing is by mining for them.Įvery town in Animal Crossing: New Horizons has six large rocks scattered across the island. You can find single iron nuggets by shooting balloons out of the sky. How to get iron nuggets in Animal Crossing
