ACNH Tools Unlocking Tips, Unlock Ladder And Vaulting Pole

Here's how to unlock every kind of tool in Animal Crossing New Horizons, from digging fossils to vaulting over rivers and climbing cliffs.

ACNH Tools Unlocking Tips - How To Get Ladder & Vaulting Pole, All ACNH Tools

After you complete the tutorial, day on the island and start your first real day get the Nook phone and then speak to Tom Nook in the resident services tent when Tom Nook offers a DIY workshop accept his offer and then bring him5 wooden branches. You can then use the workshop to craft a flimsy fishing rod that can be used along the edges of rivers ponds and beaches to catch fish. After a fish has dragged the lure under the water the flimsy version only lasts for about 10 catches. So be prepared to make more. 

Tom Nook will also give you the recipe for the flimsy net which can be used to catch a variety of insects and other floating objects and even annoy the heck out of villagers but you probably shouldn't do that to get the slingshot, you need to obtain the recipe which is only sold by Timmy for 300 bells. Press R to switch from his furniture selection to his miscellaneous items while it cannot be upgraded it will eventually break after many uses. You can use this item to fire upward at passing presents tied to balloons and you can also hold down the A button to ready your shot and let go to release the projectile at the target above. 

- To get an axe in ACNH, you must first obtain the flimsy net and flimsy fishing rod from Tom Nook when he encourages you to show him any bugs or fish you'd find give him at least two examples and he will reward you with the recipe for the flimsy ax. An ax has many uses from cutting wood to chipping rocks and even cutting down trees. But you'll need to get an upgraded recipe for an iron axe.

- To get a watering can in ACNH, catch at least for bugs and/or fish and show them all to Tom Nook and you'll be rewarded with the recipe for the flimsy watering can along with a bunch of flowers to plant. The watering can is used to help propagate flowers by increasing the rate at which they bloom and can be used to create additional colors of flowers that can't be bought at a store. 

- To get a shovel in ACNH, you'll need to entice the museum creator blathers to join your Island since you've already been giving Tom Nook assorted fauna, make sure he's given a total of 5 bugs and her fish and blathers would call prompting you to place a spot down for his 10 speak - blathers the next day and get a recipe for the flimsy shovel. A shovel can be used to dig up buried items, transplant trees and flowers and strike rocks. Along with a shovel you'll also get a recipe for the vaulting Pole, you can use it to quickly cross rivers with ease both on your Island and on mystery islands.

- To get the ladder in ACNH, you must progress through Tom nooks tasks of paying off your tent payment and building your home building nook's cranny and then a bridge to start work on the three villager homes that need furnishing. After placing the Lots down Tom Nook will inform you that one recipe will require the use of flowers atop the islands peaks and will give you the recipe to make a ladder. The ladder is a tool that will allow you to climb or lower yourself to different elevations on the island without having to use a ramp or incline just like the vaulting pole. Most of these tools are flimsy when you first get them.