Animal Crossing: Wild World money guide Written by Migitoneo3 [email protected] Tiny Update: I now run my own gaming blog, which has the same sense of humor as this guide. So please support it! It's www.slapstic.com Go check that junk out. This is it. The final edition. The last one. The last samurai. The last of the Mohicans. The ugly duckling. The dolly llama (I don�t even know what that is someone please explain that to me) I ran out of comparisons. The point is I�ve finally gotten tired of filtering through countless emails all about the same thing. So here�s the deal. Stop. I�m done. While I appreciate everything that all of those who contributed had to say, I�m about done with the guide. Ready to move on. Saddle up ma horse and ride into the city. Time to hang up the water hose filled with sand and quit my faq updating ways. Plus I got a job as a game reviewer at gamehelper.com! I mean come on! How awesome is that?! It�s just a testament that writing faqs for this website actually can get you places. Anyway. No more contributions to the guide. If you have something that you contributed but that I didn�t add, it was because I had a reason. Like the whole money rock thing? I�d have to take out a whole joke if I added in that information, and honestly everyone knows about that anyway. So. See you guys later. It�s been a fun time. Approximately 350 people from all over the world have emailed me with questions, comments, and criticisms about my guide. I�ve gotten 70,000 hits on the guide since it�s release half a year ago. Hm. Not bad. Thanks for the run guys. And if you have something good(or bad) to say about the guide or just me in particular, I�ll still gladly answer any emails you send me. Although keep in mind that I�m not an animal crossing helpline. Thanks again. Later. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This has got to be a sign of the friggin apocalypse. I�ve received more crap mail in the last two months than I ever hoped to in my entire life. It�s official, the Animal Crossing: Wild World community is plagued with some of the most ignorant people on the planet. This, for your viewing pleasure, is the new, special edition of my guide: v.rant Also, the next update will be composed of what you think, not me. So read the new sections and then tell me what you think and I promise that I will add it in your original words in the next update. Introduction Okay, it's finally here. I know a lot of the walkthroughs have promised one of these in future updates, but for those tired of waiting, here it is. An in depth, fully detailed money guide. This is my first FAQ, but me cun spel gud, so you know I'm not a complete idiot. You may want to read this guide simply for entertainment reasons, as I plan to let my cynical humor shine. I'll try to use no longer than 2-syllable words, (Donut, Tractor, Dog)so the weak of heart and mind can under- I mean, get what I'm communi- never mind. Moving on to the topic of copyrights; look, I don't care what you do with this guide, post it anywhere, just don't change my quotes. For instance, you could change the word "quotes" in that last sentence to "pants" and post it somewhere and next thing you know I'm gettin all kinds of strange comments in my e-mail account. You get the idea. I fully invite anyone who wishes to contribute anything. My e-mail is [email protected] No I'm not kidding, that's really what it is. I'll contribute your um... contributy thingy if it's good enough AND RELEVANT. Okay... how's that for an introduction? Now for what the title claims this to be: the money guide. Nah. I'm just messin with you. You're still going to have to scroll through the contents and version history and my notes and- scroll! Scroll like the wind! Contents Version History Notes Using Money for More Money How to Fossils Fossils: Sell or Donate? How to Fishing Thoughts on Fishing How to Fruit Planting Strategy Thoughts on Fruit Foraging For Funds How to Money Trees Thoughts on Money Trees Online/Local Trading Cheating Your Friends and Family for Fun and Profit Local/Online Stalk Market Red Turnips Thoughts on Red Turnips White Turnips Investment Strategy Thoughts on White Turnips Notes on White Turnips Other Cash Making Techniques Interest Lyle The Flea Market Balloons Animal Deliveries Animal Hobbies "Magical" Rocks Rock Strategy Overall Best Overall Thoughts RANT: Your Emails RANT: The Online Community Frequently Asked Questions Cheats that I Know About but Won�t Tell You Because it�s Cheating Thanks and Contribution Recognition What's Supposed to be Copyrights The End Version History 0.1 3/23/06 11:15 PM I'm workin on everything. Got down the intro. Contents. Obviously this version history entry. Buckets of fun stuff. It's eleven o'clock, so I'm gone just leave it at this. Haven't contributed to GameFAQs yet, and I probably won't until this is near completion. I'm nice like that. Plus, I want to have a laugh on nearly every line to make this the most enjoyable guide possible. K. Maybe not line, but paragraph. I just want this to be as acceptable as possible. Expect this done in a week. I'm not adding any more v. history until I contribute. I swear. 0.2 3/23/06 11:16 PM I lied. 1.0 3/24/06 10:37 PM Wow. You know you're bored when you type an entire guide in 2 days. Yeah, I know I gave a week estimate, but this is pretty much done. You'll notice my sales pitch on the money tree section. Also, the online trading section I'm waiting for. Other than those two sections, this FAQ is ready for contribution to GameFAQs. Sweetness. I know I said this would have a laugh in every paragraph, but it kinda doesn't right now. I'm going to go through tomorrow and funny up the guide, because that is what for me makes writing this guide worth it. I'll have this baby pitched to GameFAQs by tomorrow night. Hopefully they won't let the baby hit the pavement, because that would probably kill it... That was the weirdest metaphor I've ever used. Anyway, this is it until tomorrow night. I'm crossing my fingers for good luck. 1.5 3/30/06 11:40 PM Woah. It got accepted. That's awesome. Yay for me! I is teh roxorness!!!1!1 Anyway, thanks GameFAQs. Another thing, I'm getting some seriously insane feedback. Keep it coming yall. I thought I was pretty well done with this guide. Obviously not. Thanks to simple short suggestions, this guide will be nearly double it's original planned size. Huge feedback. I really appreciate this. I know I've got a lot of stuff marked for release on the next update, that's because I'm going to use a lot of this guy Tim's suggestions, but it's nearly Midnight, and I'm going to pass out any moment. Later. 2.0 4/18/06 Sorry it took me so long to update... I went on like this trip with my church to Tampa, Florida and our van broke down and we ran out of food and I mowed the lawn at a homeless shelter and we shoveled horse crap at the YMCA... They hate the song. Anyway, I'm back... and surprise! Somebody made another money guide on the same freakin website! Alright! I'm not angry though. Yeah... I'm changing the copyrights at the bottom, as you people have no dignity. Welcome to America. On the subject of the guide, I finished adding everything that one guy that I recognized at the bottom sent me. Thanks. I also added the money tree section and my thoughts on it, thanks to Jared Molinaro, who gave me it. I'm also working on a Frequently asked questions section, because I'm getting e-mails with some good ones in them, and some not so good ones. Other than that I added some tiny things on turnips and some recognition to those who've helped me. Thanks guys! Version 2.00 is up and running. Don't expect anymore major changes, unless you guys can think of anything. Which reminds me, help me with online trading! Somebody! 3.0 6/18/06 Whoa. I am so sorry. It�s been exactly two months since the last update. I sincerely apologize to everyone that I�ve kept waiting. The one person that I owe the biggest apology to is Ariel Aguayo. Man, I am so sorry. I see that you finally just gave up and contributed to the other money guide, but I can understand your frustration entirely. This is, as the title suggests, the next- to-last edition of the money guide. I�ve been receiving some of the same old questions and suggestions over and over lately, so unless I get something truly original, it�s gonna be a while until I finally call it quits and label this the final version. Big thanks for the estimated 90 letters I�ve received, the reader�s have built this guide just as much as I have. And those letters were all interesting, whether they were helpful or not. From the ones like the letter with the useful flea market trip, to my conversation with that guy on why Redd is a worthless idiot, to that guy, Billy Klebe, who flooded my box with requests to play online with me, I�ve enjoyed every letter. Also, please check out my notes, as they�ve been updated massively, as has the frequently asked questions section. I also added an entirely new section, the �Cheats That I know About But Won�t Tell You Because It�s Cheating� section.� I also corrected every single misspelled word in the document, excluding the words that I either misspelled on purpose or just made up entirely. You�ll also notice the greeting at the top, reminding you that the guide has been changed a TON. I�ve added every single person who�ve ever sent me an e-mail helping with this guide or asking a new question, and why I�m thanking them to the contributions section. Once again, after the next update, you won�t have a chance to contribute any more, so please, whether you have new information, an unanswered question, or anything else that I wouldn�t deem to be complete garbage, send it to me. EXTRA ATTENTION READER: I�ve updated the guide massively, and I apologize for the wait. Email anything related to Animal Crossing. I need the support. After this I will be working on a new, weekly Animal Crossing Newsletter, which will have fanfics, joke articles, patterns, house and town makeover ideas, and ideas for games to play in multiplayer, among lots of other things. Look it up and try it out, not only will it bring new life to your worn ACWW game, it will have me as one of the main writers, so expect much of the same humor shown here. If you like my writing style, or just get a kick out of it, please give this newsletter a try. I�m not the editor, but from what I�ve seen it�s going to be good. We might post the first the first three editions as a FAQ on GameFAQs. Oh, and stuff on the Animal Crossing for Wii. It�s going to have it. Check it out. YOU CAN WRITE ARTICLES FOR THE NEWSLETTER. Or just contribute. E-MAIL ME IF INTERESTED. READ THE VERSION UPDATE COMPLETELY. It�s long, but it has some important stuff. 3.3 Another day, another update. Somethin like that, I don�t know, it�s been like two weeks since the last update. .rant As I stated in the new intro, half of you, the readers, are intelligent, well- mannered people with some very kind and uplifting words for my guide. I truly appreciate the immense support. On the other hand, the other half is composed of some of the most challenged people to ever walk the face of the earth. Since the nice people don�t make for good jokes, this version is dedicated to the stupidity of this game�s community. I�ve added two entire new sections, one based on all the emails I�ve received, and one based on just ignorant things that I�ve noticed about the people that play this game. I�ve censored the names of the people that these sections are based on, one by request, the others because they would probably thank me for including them in the guide. This, my friends, is gamefaqs magic. Welcome to v.rant .final (See intro) Notes I'm not an expert an online trading, as evidenced by some topics I've posted on the boards ("Nintendo Bench for a Bajillion Bells Der!!"), so I'd really appreciate someone who would e-mail me their own written rendition of that section so I can add it in. 100,000 Bells and a very big mention in the guide for whoever contributes the most helpful guide first. I swear, if I get one more e-mail about "u forgoteded teh tabel tricksess! duuuuuuur" my head is going to implode. I know about the table trick. I don't like it. It's cheating. Stop telling me about it please. I know I said that anybody could use my FAQ. But I never thought my info would be taken, copied, and used ON THE SAME WEBSITE. I can't believe that GameFAQs would actually allow it. Yeah. So much for common courtesy. Well, mine's going to be better. And I'm changing my copyrights. You bunch of rotten, egg sucking, yella bellied, squirrel shootin, grandma slappin city slickers... :) Never in all my life have I had so many people interested in my work. 100 contributions and 30,000 hits later, I�ve got myself a kickstart to a nice resume for jobs in Game Journalism. I�ve just been presented with a job on both that AC newsletter, but also as a reviewer for gamehelpers.com, a growing website. Life. Is. Gravy. Please, please, please email me anything you can think of related to AC. This is the guide�s final run, and I need to have absolutely everything perfect before I make the final casting call. In case you missed everything else in the guide but this note, my email is [email protected] If you want something to make your Animal Crossing game fun again, I�m going to ask you one more time to check out this newsletter. If you want to contribute to it, or even write an entire article, send me an email, and I�ll pass the good word along to the editor. We�ve got big plans for this thing. Using Money for More Money Before I begin rattling on about all the wonderful nonsense mentioned in the contents, I have to make a few suggestions. Before you can even begin to buy things with all the wealth you will (hopefully) accumulate from following this guide, you need to pay off your house to the point where you have a usable second story. Trust me, you're going to have white turnips coming out your ears. Very painful. You'll need the space. That and the purchase of a dresser is all you need. I say this because you WILL need the storage and you WILL- no wait, there was only one reason. Anyway, keep that in mind. How to Fossils Only in AC would hundreds of dead critters show up on a daily basis in your back yard. Odd as it seems, three stars appear in your town every day. These stars can be dug up using the shovel, revealing either a pitfall, gyroid, or fossil, the latter of which is what this chapter is all about. Fossils sell for quite a lot of money usually, but you can't do anything with them until you get them identified by the museum curator, Blathers, whom from what I can gather, cannot move his legs. Simply talk to him, select "check fossil" and choose the fossil to be identified. Blathers will faithfully begin studying the fossil while making a series of disturbing grunts and gasps for breath. After this epileptic episode, he will ask whether or not you will donate the piece to the museum. He won't ask if that type of fossil has already been donated. Fossils: Sell or Donate? Here comes the eternal question, should you sell for the quick 2-5,000 bells, or Donate in order to make your museum a better place? I recommend using fossils as a form of making cash only in the beginning of the game. You'll need the extra dough to pay that house off as soon as possible (for the first few upgrades, anyway). After that, rely on some of the following methods for your income, while you soup up that museum. If you don't care about your museum, go ahead and sell. No skin off your back. Unless somebody you know needs a transplant. How to Fishing This is the best moneymaker that doesn't require an investment. Save the measely 400 for the fishing rod and you have an all new source of income. Fishing is a very simple concept. Stand facing a body of water and press A. This casts your line. You'll have a floatymajigger type thing that will dip when a fish bites. The most important thing to remember is that the fish has to be facing the thingymajigger to see it and to possibly take the bait. You have to take into consideration the flow of water when casting towards a fish. In case you haven't already figured it out, the fish is that fish-like shadow. No der. You also might want to let the line float a ways before pulling in so as to give a chance for the fish to react. When a fish nibbles on your line, don't pull in (A) right away. Wait until right after the floaty thingy goes under and makes the sploosh noise before reeling. Get some practice in, and learn to time it right, and the fish is yours. I tried eating them raw, but it seems that someone at Nintendo has some common sense. Sell the fish for quick cash, donate it if it's a first timer, or keep it as a pet. Practice, and you'll perfect the technique in no time. O. And the reason that I called it the "floatymajigger" thing, that was a joke. You know. Like, hah hah. I got an e- mail from some guy tellin me that it made me appear unintelligent. Tell you what, if you actually have nothing better to do than correct spelling errors in some unimportant online FAQ, do it to somebody else's. I don't find it humorous when I get insulted. I'll correct the spelling errors. If that bothers you, print it out and use white out, but don't tell me about it. I couldn't care less. Thoughts on Fishing This is the best quick cash method. Once you get good at it, you'll be haulin in squirming nuggets o gold faster than a Californian with magnet gloves. A full pack of fish can sometimes sell for 10,000. It isn't the fastest way to make money, but it is an unlimited supply source, and it doesn't require but a 400 bell investment. I highly recommend this technique until you're rich enough to live off of the "stalk market," which we'll get into later. So go out and start endangering species, their pitiful lives are worth tons! Of money! How to Fruit This is, without a doubt, the biggest moneymaker in the game. It is also one of the most time consuming, as it may take weeks before your orchard is complete. There are 6 types of fruit: Apples, Oranges, Peaches, Cherries, Pears and Coconuts. These are planted by digging a hole anywhere and dropping a fruit of any type in. If you don't trample the sapling like some clumsy oaf, a new tree that will produce three of the type of buried fruit every three days will grow. Trees can be planted in any soil but the sand on the beach. The one exception are coconuts, which can only flourish in the soil directly above the sand; NOT THE SAND. Planting Strategy You're town starts out with one of the normal five fruits (never coconuts). This fruit sells for 100 bells apiece at Nook's shop. Since each tree produces three fruits every three days, that adds up. But it's not where the real money's at. The reason this made this list is the selling price for fruit that isn't native to your town. 500 bells FOR A SINGLE FRUIT. The fact that you can get over 200 trees in your town, each producing 3 500 bell fruit, is literally a mind-blowing amount of bells. That equals 300,000 bells every 3 days. Yeah. That's a lot. How do you get these foreign fruits? Everybody recommends going online to get them. That's because everybody is an idiot. The quickest way to get some foreign fruit is to simply send a letter to a villager with one of your native fruits attached. They will probably send a foreign fruit back. Chop down a tree and plant the fruit where the stump used to be. This is so you are pretty much guaranteed that the fruit tree will grow successfully. After that, plant every fruit that grows from the tree (don't chop down anything for them), and every fruit that grows from those trees. Do this until the town hall attendant tells you that you have too many trees in your town. Chop down a few until she's satisfied, then start chopping down and replacing the stumps with that type of fruit. Doing this will not only give you a perfect town, but a near unlimited supply of bells. It's not balanced, but it'll make the other kids cry with jealousy. Thoughts of Fruit This is the way to get rich. The only problem is, if you do the 200 trees thing, you'll have to spend about 3 hours picking the fruit. If you are, you know, a nerd with no life, that's all fun and swell, but for me that just isn't worth it. I got like, chicks and stuff. Seriously. Anyway, it IS the best way to make the moolah, so you pick. Foraging for Funds Heh. That has a nice ring to it. Tongue twister. Peterpiperpicksapeck- you know, it's not quite as challenging when you type it. Anyway, that was random, and I apologize. This is about using all the things you find to sell. I'm gone crack this off Dvd Duesday style, for all you AOTS fans. Seashells: Good. Quick. Good money. Takes a while to reappear. Native Fruit: Quick cash. Good for when you need a few extra bucks. Old Furniture: Not much cash. Sell it if it isn't rare. Recycled Furniture: If you don't want it, sell it. Gyroids: I hate em. Nearly 1000 bells apeice. Sell em all. Lost and Found stuff: Nearly always crap. Quick buck. Your own leg: I'm joking. How to Money Trees Finally. It's here. MONEY TREES!!! yay. whatever. To grow one of these, you first need a golden shovel. This will take about two days. Buy a shovel. Got it? Good. Now buy another shovel, like the next day or something. Got it? Good . Now bury one shovel with the first shovel, and just leave it. The idea is to wait at least 24 hours before you dig the second shovel up again. Before exactly that and this won't work. After your 24 hours, dig it back up and it will be a golden shovel. This would bring down the value of gold to nothing in a matter of hours if the media found out, so don't tell. After you've gotten the golden shovel, dig a hole. I know, you're tired of it. Suck it up. Now the interesting part. See, if you bury a money bag in this hole, there's a chance that it will grow into a tree that bears 3 bags containing the same amount of bells that was in the buried bag. But there's a catch. It might not grow AND the maximum you can get is three 30,000 bell bags, or 90,000 bells, for our less mathematically gifted viewers. So burying over 90,000 bells is pretty much pointless. Also, if you bury 1,000 bells, there's a 1% chance a money tree will grow. A tree will grow regardless, but it might not have money on it. If you bury 10,000 bells, on the other hand, there's a 10% chance a money tree will grow. 50,000 buried bells equals a 50% chance of growth, and so on. Every thousand bells adds one percent chance of growth to your overall chance. Got it? Good. Keep in mind that the tree won't grow more than 90,000 bells, though. Also, it will not regrow bells like a normal fruit tree. Thoughts on Money Trees It's Chancy. Your Choice Online/Local Trading I'm no expert at online trading, in fact, I suck at it. That's why I'm begging anyone to help me. PLEASE. Turnips I got, I just need maybe a list of items considered rare and that therefore sell for more, some strategies, and whatever else you throw in. There is a bell award. Cheating Your Friends and Family for Fun and Profit Now this is something I can tell you about. Once you already have a decent catalog, prepare to make some cash if you have access to online or local multiplayer. My dad is a really philosophical kinda guy. An engineer for NASA actually. Basically, he has way to much think time on his hands. Anyway, he one day explained the basis of trading. It's called the "greatest fool." Now you may be thinking, oh boy, here comes a sarcastic Migito moment. But it's really pretty practical. You see, everybody has wants. Depending on how much they value these wants, they set a price in their mind. You can always push this price up a bit. The trick is to not push the item you are selling up too far, or they will become stubborn and revert to that original price they had set in their mind. Here comes the fool part. When figuring out how much that particular item is worth, you must decide how much to pay for it. If you don't have an item in your catalog, where everything is pretty much cheap, you may have to go online to buy the item. If you buy the item for more than the customer is willing to pay, you have become the greatest fool. Don't ask how much the person is willing to pay, because then they'll figure out that they are at the moment they are the greatest fool, and then YOU once again become the greatest fool. That's about as complicated as I'm going to get this whole guide, so be wary of vampiric squirrels!!!(joke explained in thanks) Local/Online Stalk Market Here comes my take on the one thing that 90% of the topics on the boards are about. If you know nothing about turnips, skip this and go to the white turnips section. If you do have an IQ above 20, stay here and read on. As you know, everybody that owns the game has their own turnip price every day. Some are better than others. A lot better. This is where taking advantage of others begins. If you have an incredible price on turnips, (400+) and have an online connection, take your town to market. What I mean is post your price on a board and charge an entrance price. Before doing so, check out what other people have in their towns, and see what THEY are charging for entrance. No one wants to pay 100,000 for entrance to a town with turnips buying for 500 bells when some other guy has nook shelling out 600 bells a pop and he's only charging 75,000 bells for entrance. Local people will generally let you in for free, or for however much money you have, since it's assumed you're friends since you're playing together. If they won't let you in for cheap, simply lob something heavy at them, that way when they're passed out, you can open their gates. You could also blackmail. Lobbing things is more fun, though. When the cops ask, I didn't tell you that. Red Turnips Every Sunday from six to twelve in the morning, a creepy old hog type thing wearing a bonnet, named Joan, shows up randomly walking around your town. She's packing two typed of turnips, red and white, the former being the subject of this chapter. Good 'ol Joan has the memory of an elephant... that has had a lobotomy. Every single time she shows up, she only remembers to bring ONE PACK OF SEEDS. Aggravated? You will be when you find out how much these things are worth. Buy the pack, which cost only 1,000 bells. Find a easily visibly area, and plant it. (Doesn't require a hole, plant like a flower) Now here's the catch: you have to water this thing every single day or it will die. That doesn't sound so bad. I mean, you know, what's a thousand bells? The little wussy will die after a week also. BUT, if you water it every day and sell it the end of the week, Old Man Nook will take it off your hands for 15,000 bells. Now you know why it's aggravating that you can only buy one. Thoughts on Red Turnips This is an okay way to make cash, but it really doesn't feel worth the dedication in the end. If you play AC every day of the week, buy you a pack of big red. But if for any reason you can't make it to your ds even one day of a whole week, this is a waste of time and money. Not my favorite. Also, the fact that you can only buy one pack at a time makes this technique a pass. It pretty much sucks. How to White Turnips Heeeeeeeeeeere we go. Your one way ticket to "retirement" from picking fruit. Also from the large-headed Joan, these are AC's version of a one- product stock market. Joan will sell these at varying prices every Sunday. There is an unlimited supply, so buy all you like. Joan's selling prices usually hover around 100 bells, with exceptions. The reason you should spend all your hard-earned cash on the turnips? Tom Nook's buying price raises or lowers randomly from Monday-Saturday. Buy low, sell high, make a load, milk the system. Investment Strategy Like I said before, Joan's selling price is usually around 100 bells. The only time you should refrain from buying is when she's selling for more than about 130 bells. More than that and you're risking it. But if you feel lucky, go ahead. If you're rich to the point that you're just making more money for bragging purposes, invest every time. Though you'll probably want to rip off someone�s face when you get messed over. Fair warning. Check Tom Nook's every day. If you don't get a price that you would make a decent amount of money on by Wednesday, sell on the next price that comes up that will get you your money back. If Nook at any time offers 30 bells more than what you bought them for, sell. It's worth it. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL SATURDAY TO SELL. Why the urgency? Like their red counterparts, white turnips spoil after Saturday. These are some good rules to follow when investing. Don't follow them and you'll probably get hosed. Thoughts on White Turnips This is the way to make the REAL money. Paired with a good fruit orchard, you'll have your house paid off in no time with smart investments. Always check with Joan. ALWAYS. If you have to time travel a few hours to get her, do it. But the turnips don't survive tting, so be warned. You won't be able to change back till you sell. Suck on that, tters. Notes on White Turnips I got a very interesting e-mail from some random dude named Master5871 (whole lot of masters out there) who held a very interesting bit of knowledge that I'd never heard before. Turns out old man Nookinton changes his turnip prices after noon. That means you have two chances a day to make tons, not just one. I didn't know, so maybe you didn't. Then again, I also don't know what I ate for breakfast, so it's not a high standard. Interest Get a lot of money, put it in the bank, get a very small amount of interest. Not very useful if you're trashed, but if you have a ton of cash anyway, why not? You're better off putting your money into turnips though. Lyle Somebody kill this man. This is the biggest cash devouring monster in any game in my recent memory. Give the insane little stalker a good bug net whack, but for the love of God, don't talk to him. If you do make the mistake of speaking to this weasel, who shows up every Saturday, he'll make you answer a 3-question survey that always ends the same way: him offering you insurance. Sounds useful right? If so, you have an ear infection. This pays about a 100th of what you paid for the insurance in the first place. Sort of like insurance in real life. Anyway, if you get stung by a bee or hosed by Redd, he'll give you some money. And by money, I mean just enough to wipe your tail with. Not a lot. The Flea Market Every once in a while, every animal in town hosts their very own small shop in their home. Go, because they will buy some items for up to three times what Nook would pay. A very nice way to make cash. Not much else you can say. Just don't depend on it. It's not an every day thing. UPDATE: I�ve recently been informed of a trick you can use to exploit the foolish little villagers. Sometimes after you sell an item to an animal, it will appear in the recycle bin, where you can go and pick it up again. This allows you to potentially sell the same item multiple times to the same animal. Proving once and for all that not only that elephants DO forget, but also that there�s always someone dumber than you. Balloons Ever notice those little floaty things that, you know, float around on the top screen sometimes? Those are BALOONS. Much to the excitement of millions of brain-dead children around the world, balloons are in this game. It doesn't make much sense, but for some reason, balloons will float over your town about every ten minutes. There is a reason Nook has all those slingshots in his shop . That's what you use to shoot down those balloons. Animal Deliveries If you ever played the first Animal Crossing, you'll probably be expecting to have to do tons of deliveries in this game. Let's face it, in the first game there were about three things animals would say to you: "I lost my glasses, bought this shirt for (insert random pantless animal here), or I found (insert other random pantless animal here)'s Gameboy and you can't play it because this is a stupid game and Nintendo likes to torture people." It got old. Real fast. BUT, you were also expecting NES games, and we didn't get those either. Yes. No more stupid, repetitive animal deliveries. You can still deliver for animals by simply talking to them and hope it comes up in the conversation, but there is no longer the option to deliver on the screen. You know what I mean. Delivering for the animals is a pretty bad way to make cash. If you want furniture, or just brownie points with the animals, this is a good way to pass the time, but if the animals do decide to pay you, it probably won't be over 1,000 bells. Not really worth your time. On the other hand, you could sell the furniture and other items you are likely to get from them, which could bring in some cash flow. Your choice. It's almost worth it just to watch your neighbor pull a couch out of his pants. Animal Hobbies Okay, Animals have hobbies. These really annoying mindless desires for a certain type of thing, such as pink furniture, or the left leg of all the other animals. One of the two, I forget. Anyway, these hobbies pop up in random conversation with your townspeople AND DON'T GO AWAY UNTIL YOU FUFILL THEM. Sometimes they'll stay even though you fulfilled them, but I'm not sure. Anyway if you really just hate money, go right ahead. I bought a pink couch for Cesar, because, apparently, he's like that, and he paid me about half of what I paid to get the thing. Sometimes you get furniture, but you're safer off doing some deliveries. "Magical" Rocks I don't really care what you call them, magical or red, players of the original Animal Crossing for GCN will probably remember one of the tricks in the game that made even less sense than the others. Basically, hit a rock with a shovel, and money might come shooting out of it. Yeah. See, every day a different rock is... financial... um. Well, it has money in it. Basically just run around like an idiot every day hitting every rock in town. You could add some strategy to it. I'm serious. I'm literally about to give you a strategy for hitting a rock with a shovel. What has our world come to? Rock Strategy Okay, the more you hit the rock that has the money within a certain time limit, the more money comes out. It comes out in an order something like this. 1 hit- 100 bells 2 hit- 200 bells 3 hit- 300 bells 4 hit- um. More than that. Look, I don't know. Just hit the rock a bunch and money comes out. The details aren't really necessary. Although the way you stand is, see, you get knocked back every time you hit the rock, and since you only have a small amount of time that the rock will produce money, that's a bad thing. Luckily for you, some guy whose name I'll have to add in a later version came up with a way to stop the recoil. Simply dig two holes like this: Oh, crap. I accidentally made it so the graph is split between two pages... I'll fix that with some random thoughts. If you throw money at people, is that assault, or charity? How'd that whale fly over that kid at the end of "Free Willy"? It should of like, crushed him. That would have been a better ending. How much wood COULD a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Okay, I'm done. Wait, they don't have pages in FAQs, do they? God, I'm stupid. Key: R=Rock 0=Hole X=You RRRRRR RRRRRR RRRRRR XX 000 XX 00000 000 000 00000 000 I for one think that's a very good picture. Anyway, you stand approximately where the X is, and face the rock. Then start hitting and don't stop, if you placed the two holes correctly, you won't move backwards enough to the point that you will miss the rock. This will assure that you can hit the rock as many times as possible before it stops spitting out the cash. Overall Best Do some foraging and whatnot while you expand your foreign fruit orchard. Doing so will give you the funds to get into white turnip investment, which is the absolute best way to make money. That's pretty much all there is too it. Just have fun. Overall Thoughts Make your own strategy using any of the suggested ways to make cash, then buy what you want with it. That's the point of AC, customization and uniqueness on every cartridge. Don't conform. But remember, if you let your obsession with getting virtual money go to far, such as planting an orchard that takes 3 hours to pick, you've stepped over the line. There's more to life than video games, don't donate so much of yours to them. That's about it. Have fun and make some cash. Just don't expect it all to happen in one day, cuz it won't. I hope you enjoyed reading this FAQ, and found it useful. If you didn't, you can die for all I care. Thank you. RANT: Your Emails This is unbelievable. I�m about to hurt some people�s feelings. They deserve it. All of the following emails were sent to me within ONE MONTH AGO. After the biggest inside joke in my guide is the hated �table trick,� these people still sent me this, as if it was their idea. One person even went so far as to personally mail me about how much he hated my writing. I�ve withheld all names, because I have like, 1 kind bone in my body. Here we go. Email 1: hey, well, i just got done reading your guide, and i noticed your white turnip section. you said that they spoil the next sunday. but, if you place the turnips on a table, they will not spoil. eh? it always works for me... anyways, if you want to "recognize" me for this tip my GameFaq name is CENSORED. if you dont want to i dont care. nice guide though My Response: Holy mother of squirrels that is genius. I�m adding this Email 2: I would like to know how to get 5 million (or a million) bells on this game (Animal Crossing : Wild World), so that I can pay off my loan, on the game I have read your Animal Crossing : Wild World guide (money guide) and doesn't say nothing about getting 5 million bells I would appreciate your help as to how you can do this Could you send me this As Soon As Possible Thank you My Response: That�s a fantastic idea. Wish I�d thought of that (what the?) Email 3: this is a very nice guide but is not the best for someone that just bought the game, lol. i could use a few better tips and stuff. My Response: Well thanks for that little tip, CENSORED. Unfortunately, I don't care about your opinion, and i could have spent the time reading your message to do something important, like wiping my own butt. So now, i'm going to print out your email and use it as toilet paper. Thanks! Email 4: ok, I saw in your Animal Crossing money FAQ that you didn't have any thing about how to keep your turnips frsh for more than a week...it's a glitch, but a good one none the less. all you have to do is own a table. go to your table and drop your something (like a tool or paper). then drop your turnips. instead of them going onto the floor, they'll go onto the table and they'll never spoil!! I thought that was pretty neat... My Response: (Okay, this person I actually felt bad for, because they were very quick to realize their mistake, so I posted this anyway without their name) Email 5: Hi, I read your guide, nice job, it really helps. Anyway, you mentioned a tabley cheat, and even though I might not do it, I would like to know how to do it and what it does. My Response: Whoa. Thanks for that. I�m adding an entire section in your name buddy. (Side note, he did compliment my guide, so I still like that guy, but he did send me like 50 emails, and I�m just trying to prove my point, so there ya go) And that�s just a little sample of the horrors that I�ve endured. All of these are very recent. But for the love of not boring the reader to death, I�ve decided that that�s all you really need to see to get my point. Out of all 175+ emails I�ve received about the guide, about 1 out of 5 is like one of those. People correcting ma grammar and speelling in the guide (deep joke), people telling me they want a better guide, or people sending in the same trick over and over and over. I love every single one. Even the ones that are personal insults I enjoy. Why? Because I�m better at insults, and it brings me joy to shoot some right back at em. Some people mentioned above are not really ignorant, but you have to admit, I talk about how much I hate the table trick all over the place. It�s pretty bad. Now on the my next section of ranting. RANT: The Online Community These are the people that I don�t tolerate with a smile on my face. The people that I don�t just shoot some clever little remark at. The people that don�t like me, because I don�t like them. It�s you. It might not be. You might not even have a wifi connector. If so, good. You aren�t hurting anybody. If you do have one, I�m talking to you. Since the launch of this game, people have been trying to find out ways to either A: Shoot through the game with absolutely no effort, making millions of bells so they can flood the community with cash, or B: Destroy other�s towns for laughs. If you think that�s funny, you�ll probably think this is funny too: You have no life. You probably have never had a girlfriend, and you are almost 100% to be overweight. Hard. Cold. To the point. That�s how I roll. Once upon a time an ugly little person came up with the fantastic concept of HACKING into AC. Squealing with joy over his brilliant idea, he then proceeded to flood the online community with his program, and billions of bells that no one worked for. This led to people having absolutely no life whatsoever, as they made it their only goal in life to collect every friggin item in the game using all their little hacker tools. In short, that person deserves to be stripped naked and drug out into a road, where he should then be flogged with a rabid squirrel tied to a stick. I hate hackers. Email me about it if you don�t like it. Other people are fed up with you too. Here�s a little rant that someone requested for me to add in. people with golden fishing rods and nets bug me because 1. the game hasn't even been out a full year and you either have to hack or TT to get them, both of which I highly disaprove of. second they piss me off because a lot of the people who have them probably didn't do all of the work to get them. (that may sound weird to you because you have the whole "don't let video games rule your life" thing which I agree with) but I've noticed that this game kind of reflects real life (only there are animals that talk and stand on two legs... but you get my point)and using hacks and cheating to get ahead is bad and I guess it proves that nice guys and fair players do finish last... it's a sad world... but the good thing is that you can't really time travel in real life and hacking in acww would be like using magic in real which is also impossible so that's one good thing to know that the hackers and cheaters won't be able to do that to get ahead in the real world. but it still pisses me off. booty He has horrible spelling, grammer, and method, but that�s not the point. He also asked me to �funny it up,� so I added the word booty at the end. That�s not the point either. The point is, you people are very very very aggravating. I plan on making a v.rant2, so I�d like any and all comments, questions and critisms, to be sent to my email address. I want your input, whether good, bad, or ugly. I even want it if you hate me. Send it to [email protected] The next update will be the peoples update. All new sections will be composed of what you think, no me. I just want your voice to be heard. I promise I will add every opinion, no matter how much I disagree with it. Get writing. And try to spell things correctly. Frequently Asked Questions Oh boy, here comes the mindlessness. These are the questions that I've received at my e-mail account since the launch of this guide. Some are good, some are bad, one of them was a virus. Whatever the case, I'd like to thank everyone who mailed me. Even if I did go off on you for the table thing. Question: Hey do yoo no abouted teh tableh trick!!?!!?!!1!1eleven1!?/!? I am contribooted to yoor faaq of teh website gamefaaqs.comn!!!1!1!pancakes1!!1 Yoooo will rekoognize me for telleen yoo bout teh talbeh trickss???1///? Answer: I'm going to scream if I get one more e-mail about the table trick using the turnips. I know what it is. It's cheating. This guide is not intended for cheaters. I know most of you don't care and probably don't consider it cheating. But it exploits a fault in the game and it opens up a whole new reason to time travel. Don't do it. It's way more interesting that way. Question: Table Trick Answer: GAH! Question: You said Redd is worthless, but what about the King Tut�s mask? Answer: Yes. I am aware that Redd pays you a small fee whenever you fall down, and I�m also aware that the King Tut�s mask makes you fall down. But here�s the thing. That fee that Redd pays you? It�s not big. In fact, if you play all day, you�ll get about 1000 bells. Even if you have no social life, and you enjoy playing a video game all day, this feature makes Redd even more worthless. What do I mean? It�s free MONEY! I�ll tell you. Every time you fall down, not only do you lost a couple of seconds of playtime, you lose a couple of seconds of your real life. Making 1000 bells not only requires about 5 hours of gameplay, it adds up to about 3 minutes of gametime lost. You could have spent this 3 minutes picking fruit to get 1000 bells in that amount of time: 3 minutes. Or, you could have spent 5 hours enjoying real life. This adds to my summary of Redd. Not only is he a waste of money, he is programmed to destroy your life. And that, my friends, is my conspiracy theory of the day. Question: Do money trees regrow money like fruit trees? Answer: In the immortal words of Mr. T, I pity da fool. No, it doesn�t regrow, and I�m sorry for not pointing that out originally. I�ve added that to the money tree section. Question: Can I play an online game with you? Answer: No. Question: Would you like the opportunity to invest in our hottest new stock? Answer: I literally get about 7 of these per day. And they all say the same thing, and they all come from (supposedly) a different person. Whoever the genius is, I have some words of wisdom for you. Stop the crap or I�ll track you down, and shut you down. This is the only time I�ve been serious in this guide, but I�m dead serious. I have the resources and boredom to fuel your demise. Cheats that I Know About but Won�t Tell You Because It�s Cheating. If you think about the title long enough, you�ll get it. I�m not going to explain how to do the trick, since all you filthy cheaters apparently already know how. I�m just going to name the cheat and why I think it�s wrong. Cheat: The tabley trickeysess!!11!1seven!11!!! Why Not: Okay. A lot of the reasons doing most of the tricks on this list is because of its affect to the online community. If you don�t have online, table trick your heart out. If you DO, however, DON�T DO IT. Why? Because it brings in tons. And tons. Of money. Anybody with half a brain and a wifi connector is of course going to go out there and buy lots of stuff. This floods the virtual community with money, and raises the value of even the most common of items. Most people like to call this cycle �bad.� That�s because it is. Very. It destroys the online community. Cheat: Centennial TT for cash. Why Not: It requires you to tt ahead 100 years. This one is just stupid. Not only does it completely destroy your town, It only gives you like 10,000 bells every time you do it. It�s like you people have all had lobotomies of something. Seriously. Go ahead and do this one. If you�re a cheater you deserve to have your town destroyed. Cheat: TTing. Why Not: I could go on all day with this one, as it is the root of all evil in AC. Not only does it flood the online market with money by the gallons, it floods it with items that no one else has yet. This one cheat is the thing that completely destroyed the Animal Crossing online community. If you don�t go online, it�s still not completely fine as it disrupts what makes AC AC. That�s not quite as bad as what the fools with their little wifi connectors have done, but just don�t do it. Cheat: Hacking. Why Not: If you are simply making landscape changes are adding some �hacked� items, I encourage this. Things like Mansion Seeds cause no harm to the online community, and it�s a great distraction for when you become otherwise bored with your game. However, if you use your hacking ability to create tons of rare items, like crowns, this is even worse than tting. I�ve been in towns where you could literally see nothing but golden crowns. They filled the entire screen, and covered about 1/4 of his town. It reminded me of those harvesting fields in the Matrix. Bad. Cheat: TT for interest Why Not: Ok. This is the thing that Ariel sent me. I told him I would put it in, and kept him hanging for about 3 months. I feel kinda bad about it, so I�m going to go against the good name of this section and explain this trick. Basically, what you do Is put all you money in the bank and tt ahead about thirty years. Then you collect your interest and add it back into the bank, then you tt ahead another 30 years, collect the interest again, and add it back to the bank. Repeat the process one more time and you will have increased your funds by a huge margin. Yes. It�s cheating. But I�d be a complete jerk to let Ariel down after 3 months. So, there you go. Cheat: CHEATING IN GENERAL Why Not: I�m going to say this in Caveman form, so even the least gifted of you can understand. Table Trick BAD. TTing BAD. Hacking BAD. Flooding the online market with hundreds of items and a surplus of bells BAD. YOU NO DO THESE OR NO MORE COOKIES FOR YOU. Thanks and Contribution Recognition I just updated this massively. To be exact, if you�ve ever contributed or attempted to contribute by emailing me, you got a recognition here. If I left out anybody, I apologize. Tell me and I�ll add it. My insomnia and ADHD, which worked together to form an uncontrollable urge to stay up till 3:00 in the morning and to type this in two days. Jesus, because I felt like it, have free speech, and am a Christian. Offended? Oh well. Don't be. Welcome to America. GameFAQs, because I'm guessing if you're reading this, they accepted it. My Uncle Clyde, who gave me this laptop. FEMA, who helped my devastated hometown recover to the point that we now have electricity, internet, and everything that basic life in the US of A requires. Took a while, but we got it done. A special thanks to the guy who invented chainsaws. We'd be hosed without you. Master5871, for his vital info on White Turnips. Tim Burrows, for giving me the greatest constructive criticism I've ever had. The man practically wrote this guide. Thanks a bundle. And I'm so sorry I got your name wrong the first time. Seriously, my bad. Jonathan Broom, for his reminder that you can cheat people you know out of cash. He also requested that I make a vampiric squirrel joke. So I did, look for it. By the way, dude, that was weird. :) A special thanks to "Jizzah a.k.a. Dawg from the Netherlands." His name on his e-mail account was Jay Wie. Also to his girlfriend, (And I have no idea what this means) SonjaMortalKombatBanneDeluxe. That was a weird request man. Whatever. Shout out to his girlfriend though. Or somethin. Jared Molinaro, for sending me an entire guide on money trees. I mean like ten pages. Thanks man. Ariel Aguayo, and I finally got his name right, and added his contribution. Plus I have a G-rand total of about 19 references and apologies to him scattered randomly throughout the guide. He gave that evil tt cheat that I was forced to add. Sorry for the wait man. Devin Walker, for reminding me to include info on money tree bell regrowth. �Derek,� for inspiring me to do the rant on the King Tut�s mask. Caleb Coulter, for the flea market recycle bin trick. Ian Fagan, for inspiring my rant on the Centennial tt trick. Paul Sheperd, for making me laugh at his illiteracy. Joe Vandee, for again, reminding me about money tree regrowth. Paogio Cartasegoa- For having such an unusual name that all of his messages went straight to the spam folder, and for correcting himself after he sent me a blank email. Billy Klebe, for flooding my box with the most random garbage I�ve ever heard in my life. (sarcasm implied) �Shadez,� for info on Redd. Christophe Baudet, for his kind and uplifting words about the guide. Sian Steen, for his positive feedback. Nathan Schneekluth, for reminding me about money rocks. Sally Kiner, for showing her appreciation for my openness about being a Christian. Polly Jordas, for wasting half my life (inside joke) Ben Fletcher, for having a name that sounds like an actor, and for questions about money tree regrowth. Kaylz Mcdonald-Lawson, for her compliments about my writing. Daniel Rouse, for his strategy for fruit picking. �Suicide Queen,� for a red turnip strategy and info on the flea market. Alexander Schirling AKA �Rayne,� for a massive amount of info on everthing from magic rocks to fishing. That was helpful. Big thanks. Lars-Christian Gylland, for his unique info on balloons, which I would have doubtless never found anywhere else. Vina Bahrag, for the kind words. John Shamsholan, for his 10/10 rating for the guide. Erik Ingeman, more info on the flea market. Jared Slate, for further fuel on the King tut/Redd rant Mark A Kral, for more flea market info. Lauren Claoninger, a fellow Christian with kind words Tristan Theburge, for the very invaluable info on the Red Turnips. �Noah,� both for his fuel for the king tut rant, and for that whole �putting the animals on the boat so they don�t go extinct� thing. What's supposed to be Copyrights I now know what copyrights are for. If I see one more thing that I wrote first pop up on this website, (the other money guide) I'll report it. I don't care if you link to this, or post it on your own website, or tape it to your fridge! Just don't make another money guide on the same website I did! Is it that difficult? Common sense people! Anywhere BUT DIRECTLY UNDER MINE, post it anywhere, just not HERE!!! And don't change my words, or take credit. I'll throw a taco at you. The End