Iron nuggets are one of the most needed resources in Animal Crossing New Horizons and this will allow you to craft and upgrade your weapons and other tools in the game. Iron nuggets aren’t available in plain sight and you have to find them. This guide will show you where to find iron nuggets in Animal Crossing New Horizons.

How to Get Iron Nuggets for Crafting Tools

The best thing about Animal Crossing is the fact that you do not need any special tool to look for iron nuggets in the game, all you need is either your flimsy axe or your flimsy shovel and you need to break open every rock that you find on your village.

The bigger and darker rock you hit the better, you stand to earn items like stone, clay, iron nuggets or even money from breaking up these rocks. All you have to make sure is that you keep breaking them up at different times of the day as the drop rate is randomly generated.

But, no matter how many rocks you break in your own village it will soon be not enough and you will need to go find new rocks to break this is where you can use your Nook Miles Tickets and use them to go to a Mysterious Island.

There you can find more rocks as well as fruits, and other resources that you can bring back to your island. Break as many rocks as possible and you will surely get enough iron nuggets.

Make sure that you break rocks every time you get the chance, every day, this ensures that you never run out of iron nuggets when you need them the most. This is all there is to know about how to get iron nuggets in Animal Crossing.

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