Almost everything inAnimal Crossing: New Horizonscosts bells, the franchise’s usual in-game currency. Players can get bells inAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsby selling fish, fruit, and bugs, as well as digging up buried treasure and knocking some bells out of rocks. However, some players have decided to bypass playing the game for bells, instead choosing to purchase a huge amount of bells online.
Utilizing theAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsitem duplication glitchto give themselves a basically infinite amount of money, some players are now selling their bells for real world cash. There are various pages on eBay and Etsy where players are selling bells, with one such seller being TikTok user gia.demonaco. According to arecent TikTok video from gia.demonaco, they were able to make a whopping $1,000 in a single night sellingAnimal Crossingbells for real money.
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Longtime fans of theAnimal Crossingfranchiselikely know that this isn’t anything new. Similar online shops have popped up forAnimal Crossing: New Leaf, proving that there are indeed players out there who are willing to fork over real world cash for in-game rewards, even when there aren’t any microtransactions built into the game itself for them to do so.
Of course, there are other ways forAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsplayers to get rich in the game, though it will take a lot longer. Now that Nintendo has patched out theNew Horizonsitem duplication glitch, one of the more popular methods to get rich is for players totime travel inAnimal Crossing: New Horizons, which will allow them to farm resources much more efficiently than if they play the game one day at a time as intended.
MostAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsplayers will likely just want to play the game normally and amass bells without using any kind of time-traveling or glitches. Luckily, there are a number of different ways forAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsplayers to get bells, fromplanting a money treeto the aforementioned method of selling their island’s resources.
UpcomingAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsevents may also provide an opportunity for players to get bells, like theBunny Day eventthat starts on April 1, or the Earth Day event that is scheduled to begin later in April.
Animal Crossing: New Horizonsis out now, exclusively for the Nintendo Switch.
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