
Summary
- If your Turnips in Animal Crossing: New Horizons spoil, consider crafting senmaizuke barrels to salvage them for decoration.
- Senmaizuke barrels can be a rare but useful creation using 30 Turnips, serving as a thoughtful gift for other players and Villagers.
- Unlocking the senmaizuke barrel blueprint requires patience, as it can only be obtained from a cranky Villager or through a message in a bottle.
When it comes to collecting and selling Turnips in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, it’s always a good idea to have a solution in the event that Saturday rolls around and the entire bunch spoils. The Turnip market is one of New Horizons most competitive features as players do their best to hold out for Timmy and Tommy to offer the best possible price for the valuable veges but sometimes, the brothers prefer to play hardball. On weeks when there’s no profit to be made, one player has the perfect solution for any massive Turnip collection.
Posted to Reddit by Leeuweroni, the frustrated player explains how they forgot to sell a haul of Turnips amount to 1.5 million Bells so to prevent them from going to waste, they instead used them to craft a massive collection of senmaizuke barrels.
A rare item that requires 30 Turnips to craft, players usually hate to use their precious vegetables on crafting the decoration but in the event they’ll all go to waste, the senmaizuke barrel can be a life-saver. Most would usually toss the entire entire lot but this way, they can still gain something out of it.

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Why Animal Crossing’s Turnips Rot After A Week
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How To Get The Senmaizuke Barrel
As With Most Animal Crossing Blueprints, It Requires Patience
While it may still sting to not make an exhorbitant profit on one’s Turnips, those who do end up turning them into senmaizuke barrels will at least be left with an excellent gift for visiting players and Villagers. As it turns out, it can be somewhat tricky to find the senmaizuke barrel blueprint, especially because it can only be provided by a Villager in a very specific mood: Cranky. Once players come across a character with said personality type, they’ll need to simply wait them out.
Cranky Villagers will either provide players with the senmaizuke barrel recipe when they’re building their house or through a message in a bottle which can randomly wash up on the island. Given the sheer volume of decorations and items in New Horizons, it could take a very long time to unlock the desired blueprint. Its usually much easy to just go to Reddit or a similar forum and request it as a gift from another player.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons‘ Turnip Market is one of the game’s most beloved yet frustrating mechanics as it represents a simplified version of the stock market. Situations like the one Leeuweroni found themself in aren’t uncommon as players are forced to sell all their acquired Turnips before Sunday in an effort to make some semblance of profit. The highest number of Bells Timmy and Tommy can offer for a single Turnip is 650 Bells, but when such a generous offer will come around is anyone’s guess.
Source: Leeuweroni/Reddit

Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Platform(s)
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Switch
- Released
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March 20, 2020
- Developer(s)
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Nintendo EPD
- Publisher(s)
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Nintendo