Day 2
Welcome to day 2 of the game! By now, your player has woken up from their sleep, and the game is now synced to real-time. You should have completed the following:
- Placed your tent and your villagers’ tents.
- Paid off your first loan and upgraded to an actual house.
- Learned how to craft DIY items.
- Given 5 critters to Tom Nook and placed Blathers’ tent.
If you haven’t, please visit Day 1 for further guidance.
Additionally, the airport is now open.
Tasks
Visit Blathers
- Blathers
should have set up his tent in the location that you placed it. Go pay him a visit! - Upon first speaking with him, he should give you the Flimsy Shovel and Vaulting Pole DIY recipes. The former can be used to get materials from rocks, dig holes, and uproot tree stumps. The latter can be used to travel across rivers.
- He will then ask you to donate 15 unique bugs, fish, and/or fossils to him. You will need to complete this in order for Blathers to upgrade his tent to the full museum building.
Fossils can be found by digging up spots in the ground that look like X’s. Bring them to Blathers to be assessed.
Build Nook’s Cranny
- Head to Resident Services and speak with Timmy. As long as your tent was upgraded into a house, he should speak with you about building Nook’s Cranny.
- Timmy will ask you to gather the following materials:
- 30
Wood
- 30
Softwood
- 30
Hardwood
- 30
Iron Nuggets
- To obtain all types of wood, hit trees with your flimsy or stone axe, if you have a regular axe this will work too, but it will also cut the tree down. Note that a single tree will only drop 3 wood per day, but will replenish the next day.
- To obtain iron nuggets, hit the large rocks you see around your island. They tend to be the most difficult to obtain. We recommend reading the FAQ question here to see how to get the most material drops out of your rocks.
- Timmy will not take materials from you unless you have the full 30 he is asking for, so don’t worry about coming back to talk to him until you’ve collected 30 of any one material.
- This quest does not have to be completed in one day. In fact, it may take you awhile to gather all the materials you need. But if you want more, you’re in luck, Tom Nook is going to give you a free
Nook Miles Ticket, which will allow you to visit a mystery island and gather more materials.
Complete your first Mystery Tour
- Upon talking to Tom Nook, he should mention something called a Nook Miles Ticket (often abbreviated as NMT), and give you one for free.
- Take this to the airport and speak with Orville, the dodo bird at the desk. Orville will explain to you what mystery tours are, and offer to take you on one in exchange for one NMT.
- The mystery islands are fantastic for resource gathering and critter-catching. Additionally, the island may also have a villager who you can talk to and invite to live with you. For more info on mystery islands, visit here.
If you invite a villager they will not move in until you have a free plot for them which you can find information about later in this guide (here)
What else can I do today?
- Since you unlocked the Nook Stop today, it may be a good idea to redeem the
Tool Ring: It’s Essential! upgrade, which lets you quickly access your tools by using the D-Pad on your Switch. - Additionally, you may want to redeem the
Pretty Good Tools Recipes pack from the Nook Stop, which will give you DIY recipes for more durable versions of the axe, shovel, fishing rod, net, and watering can. - There might be a villager on the NMT island you visit. If you would like to invite them to live on your island, speak to them and ask them to move in. You are not required to invite that villager, though; if you’d rather wait and see who else you meet, feel free to just chat with them or ignore them altogether!