Game News Video Games Reviews & News
Related Articles
Animal Crossing: New Horizons pearls are a brand new resource that’s basically your newest hard-to-get resource. You’ll need these iridescent lumps in order to craft the rather beautiful new Animal Crossing: New Horizons mermaid DIY recipes (opens in new tab), which should give your home the siren chic you never knew you needed.
There are one of two ways to nab yourself a pearl or twenty, but it’s going to take a little bit of grinding and daily toil – as you’d expect for anything so shiny. Here’s how to get Animal Crossing: New Horizons pearls:
1. Find them on the ocean floor
The main way to earn pearls is to go diving for them. Like the brand new Animal Crossing: New Horizons sea creatures (opens in new tab), they have the potential to be found wherever there are little bubbles rising to the surface of the water as you swim out in the open. Here’s the cheat sheet on how to swim in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (opens in new tab) and dive:
- Grab a wetsuit from the Nook’s Cranny cabinet, Nook Shopping or Nook Miles Rewards
- Put on your wetsuit
- Go to the beach or rocks near the ocean
- Press A to get in the sea
- Press A to swim
- Press Y to dive when near bubbles rising to the surface
- Move over the shadow using A to swim
- Once over the top, you’ll automatically dive down to grab your prize
There are 40 new sea creatures to find, plus pearls, so they are pretty rare spawns, meaning it’s worth checking regularly.
2. Get them from Pascal in exchange for scallop shells
Our pal Pascal is a little otter who has a hunger for scallops. In exchange for your scallop shells he’ll gift you a mermaid DIY recipe, or sometimes a pearl. It’s much easier to nab them via diving, but it’s worth noting that he may also gift one to you on occasion too.
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons tips (opens in new tab)
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons fish (opens in new tab) guide
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons bugs (opens in new tab) guide
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons flowers (opens in new tab) guide
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons sea creatures (opens in new tab) guide
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons Nook Miles Rewards (opens in new tab)
- How to evict a resident in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (opens in new tab)
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons amiibo (opens in new tab) support explained
- How to improve your Animal Crossing: New Horizons island rating (opens in new tab)
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons turnips (opens in new tab)
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons golden tools (opens in new tab)
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons art (opens in new tab) guide
- How to trade a villager in New Horizons (opens in new tab)
- How to swim in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (opens in new tab)
- KK Slider secret songs in Animal Crossing
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons mermaid DIY recipe set (opens in new tab)
