Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Readers, let me tell you: I cleaned up last week. My initial turnip price was a little high at 107 bells per turnip, but with most other people only starting out in the game I decided to just go for it and put in 100,000 bells rather than scope around for a better price. Come Wednseday, however, I hit the jackpot: 605 bells per turnip, a massive return that allowed me to finish paying off my home loan and finish up a bridge to boot. This week I’ve got a much better initial price at 91 bells per turnip, but there’s no guarantees here. In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the stalk market is not for the faint of heart.
It’s our second sunday here in Animal Crossing, meaning that people have some bells to play with when buying turnips. It’s buying day today, so here’s what I’ve learned both through my own experience and that of the wider internet:
- Buying prices are much more constrained than selling prices. They seem to travel mostly between about 90-110, so if you’re on the lower end of that , you’re in business. Don’t sweat it too much if you’re on the higher end, however, it’s not such a big deal.
- Buy before 12:00 PM, when Daisy Mae leaves the island.
- Selling prices vary wildly. I’ve seen as low as 40 bells per turnip, and as I noted before I’ve personally seen as high as 605, and 615 elsewhere. You might go a whole week with nothing all that great, and I sympathize. But generally speaking, if you’re getting a 2X return you should probably just jump on it.
- Prices change twice a day, once at the beginning of the day and once at noon.
- I can’t stress this enough: sell your turnips on Saturday afternoon, if you haven’t already. They rot after a week, and a 50% loss is better than a 100% loss.
If you’re just playing on your own island, you’re up the winds of fate. If you’re willing to head over to Dodo Airlines, however, you can likely wrangle a much better price. That’s because the price is unique to each island at a given time, and you can get a better price by shopping around.
So if you want a price, get some friends and start trading stalk market prices: you can get a much better chance of getting good prices if you’re checking multiple islands on a day. When someone has a good price, everyone can head over and sell there. You can do the same on Sundays for extra returns. With a larger enough sample size, a good price becomes basically assured.
If friends aren’t your thing, try strangers. Searching turnip prices on twitter will likely yield some results, or you can head over the the Turnip exchange subreddit. Someone out there is going to have a good price, though there might be serious competition over the good dodo codes. Hence why friends are a better option, if possible.
