CRAFTING
That brings us to the biggest new feature in Animal
Crossing: New Horizons—crafting. You can use Tom
Nook’s crafting table (or make your own) to build tools
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Collecting wood from trees and minerals from rocks lets
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Eventually, you can customize the furniture you craft,
along with some pieces of furniture you buy, giving
them new color schemes. It adds a new dimension of
item-collecting to a game that’s already built heavily
around it. No longer are you limited to the stock of the
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Now you can make your own furniture!
You have to learn the recipe for everything you make,
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from bottles on the beach) those recipes to make those
items. It’s another step of busywork, which would be
frustrating in a game with structured goals and pressure
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like another way to get nice surprises to play with.
You can use
Tom Nook’s
crafting table
(or make your
own) to build
tools and
furniture from
materials
you find.