Animal Crossing: New Horizons – A Guide to Farm Pumpkins for Halloween
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The highly anticipated Fall update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons went live recently, introducing Halloween-themed content to the game. To best prepare for the big Halloween night, players can collect spooky items and DIY recipes throughout October.
All-new pumpkin plants became available to grow and harvest with the update. Players can use these pumpkins to craft and customize a unique collection of Halloween-themed items known as the Spooky Set. YouTuber Mayor Mori has provided a guide to farm pumpkins items to craft the special items and gear up for the Halloween celebrations.
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For starters, there are two ways to purchase Pumpkin Starts, or seeds, to begin farming. Players can buy the seeds from Leif’s Flower Shop when he’s randomly visiting their islands. Else, Pumping Starts are also on sale at Nook’s Cranny for the entire duration of October.
Obviously, to start growing pumpkins, the Pumpkin Starts need to be planted first. Here are a few essential points for growing and harvesting pumpkins to eventually craft the spooky items.
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- Pumpkins can grow in four different colors, but the color is chosen randomly. Orange pumpkins are by far the most common. Meanwhile, yellow, white, and green pumpkins are quite rare comparatively.
- There is no limit to how many pumpkins a player can farm. It takes 4 days for a pumpkin to grow fully. Players don’t need to water Pumpkin Starts for them to raise at least one pumpkin. However, watering the plant every day until fully grown will produce a maximum of 3 pumpkins. If not watered as frequently, the Pumpkin Start will instead give rise to one or two pumpkins in its final stage.
- Harvesting the pumpkins on the fourth day of the growing cycle reverts the plant to the second stage. Therefore, leaving two more days until it produces the next batch of pumpkins, depending on how much a player waters them.
- Players can replant harvested pumpkins of the desired color to produce more of that specific type. Therefore, planting the first rare colored harvested pumpkin will guarantee them even more pumpkins of that particular color.
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Crafting spooky items with pumpkins
Players can use the harvested pumpkins to craft the brand new Spooky Set DIY Recipes. There are 17 Halloween-themed spooky items, and some of those are Spooky Arch, Spooky Candy Set, Spooky Carriage, Spooky Chair, Spooky Fence, Spooky Garland, Spooky Lantern, and Spooky Lanter Set.
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Other such items include Spooky Scarecrow, Spooky Standing Lamp, Spooky Table, Spooky Table Setting, Spooky Tower, Spooky Wand, Spooky Flooring, Spooky Wall, and Spooky Rug.
All the Spooky Set items are initially crafted using orange pumpkins. After that, yellow, white, and green pumpkins can be used to customize the spooky items further. Players can learn some of these Pumpkin DIY crafting recipes from villagers as well as purchase them from Nook’s Cranny, throughout October.
In contrast, the rest of the pumpkin crafting items can be obtained from villagers or Jack by giving them candy or lollipops on October 31.
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Halloween night celebrations are still at a distance. Meanwhile, players can collect DIY recipes and spooky items to prepare for the grand occasion. Those interested can check out Mayor Mori’s video above for a detailed breakdown.