re: Animal Crossing: New Horizons Official Thread (March 20)

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Anybody have any tricks for farming Iron Nuggets? I'm upgrading Nook's store and getting 30 of these bastards is going to be challenging.

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Hit each rock with a shovel as fast as possible (shovel hits quicker than an axe). Don’t eat any fruit first or the rocks will break. Get and use Nook miles tickets to fly to random islands and hit all those rocks (if memory serves me correct , there’s 4-6 rocks on each island).

If you hit fast enough and have some object or tree behind you to brace you, you will spit out 8 pieces each rock. Usually they yield 5-6 small rocks and 2-3 iron on average and much much less frequently a gold nugget.

You could probably collect 30 iron pieces within an hour. Within 2 hours easily.

ETA:
I forgot about clay too.