Recipes

Materials are the easy half of crafting in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Wood, clay and petals are all lying around; the recipe card that tells the workbench what to do with them is the thing you actually hunt for. Our three recipe pages list what hardwood, clay and cherry blossom petals can make, and the hardwood page in particular records where each card was obtained. Read across all three and every recipe in the folder arrives one of four ways: someone hands it to you, the Nook Stop or Nook's Cranny sells it, it turns up by luck in a bottle or under a balloon, or it only exists for ten days a year.

That is the order this guide uses, because it is also the order of effort. Handed recipes come with story progress, bought ones cost miles you were earning anyway, luck recipes reward a daily beach walk and a slingshot, and the seasonal set rewards being there on the right dates. The craft itself is covered on our DIY crafting page; this guide is about the cards.

Where the cards come from

Handed to you: the recipes that come with progress

The hardwood recipes page is the one that names its sources, and its opening rows are the first week of the game. Blathers gives the flimsy shovel (five hardwood) when his tent goes up, Timmy gives the slingshot (five hardwood), and Tom Nook hands over log stakes with your very first recipes, the ladder once the second house plot is placed, and the log bench, log dining table and log garden lounge after the first three housing kits. Villagers fill in the rest of the log set over time: the log bed at 30 hardwood, log sofa at eight, doghouse at ten wood and seven hardwood, the natural garden and square tables, the clackercart and the boomerang. None of these can be bought, so the page's source column is effectively a schedule of whom to talk to.

Bought: the Nook Stop and the recipe books

A smaller set is simply for sale. The Nook Stop terminal inside Resident Services lists the barbed-wire, country and spiky fences at 1,000 Nook Miles each (crafted ten at a time from four to eight hardwood, plus iron nuggets for the wire), the destinations signpost at 1,500 miles, and the silo at 3,000 miles, which then wants 12 iron nuggets, six hardwood, 12 clay and 12 stone to build. Nook's Cranny sells two recipe books the hardwood page cites: Wildest Dreams DIY, which teaches the hearth and wild log bench, and Test Your DIY Skills, which teaches the mini DIY workbench. The clay recipes page lists the same hearth (two bamboo pieces, five iron nuggets, four clay, five hardwood) and silo from the material's side, along with the brick oven, water pump, wave breaker and ocarina.

Luck: bottles on the sand and balloons in the sky

The third source is the daily gamble. Message bottles wash up on the beach carrying a recipe, and the hardwood page credits them for the log round table, music stand, natural garden chair, simple DIY workbench, tea table, wooden-plank sign and wooden-knot wall. Balloons carry the rest, the jungle wall and log pack among the hardwood set, and the balloon presents page covers how to bring them down without dropping the present in the sea. The clay page adds a supply note for everything in this tier: clay comes from striking rocks with an axe or shovel, breaking a rock yields only a single item, so leave them standing, and when the island's rocks are spent a 2,000-mile mystery island has more. Our resource materials page covers the other raw inputs.

Seasonal: ten days of cherry blossom

The cherry blossom page is the one set with a calendar. Non-fruit hardwood trees turn pink from April 1 to 10 in the north and October 1 to 10 in the south, petals drift down to be netted (more reliably by day than at night), and the recipes for the 13 items are found almost entirely by shooting balloons during those ten days, with bottles a distant second. The set runs from a petal pile at six petals to the outdoor picnic set at ten, the cherry-blossom branches at eight petals, five clay and four branches, the cherry-blossom wand at three petals and three star fragments, and the sakura-wood wall and flooring, which want wood rather than hardwood. Spare petals sell for 200 Bells. The window overlaps Bunny Day in the north, as the events guide notes, and the time travel page is the fallback for anyone who missed it.

Frequently asked questions

Can I buy every recipe?

No. Only the fences, signpost, silo and the two recipe books are sold. Everything else is handed over, found in bottles and balloons, or limited to a season.

How do I get cherry blossom recipes outside the season?

You cannot, short of changing the console date into the ten-day window. Recipes learned during it stay in your list afterwards.

Which other pages list recipes?

Event sets such as Bunny Day, Spooky and Turkey Day live on the events pages, the wand and zodiac recipes on the star fragments page, and the golden tool recipes on our tools guide. The Animal Crossing: New Horizons hub ties them together.