To unlock the recipe for the ladder, players need to collect a total of 2,000 Nook Miles. Nook Miles are a form of in-game currency that can be earned by completing various tasks and achievements.
When you first begin your game on Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you won't be able to access every part of your island. To reach those cliffs you're going to need a ladder. Here's how to get one.
Animal Crossing gave me structure in a shapeless year
The game that reminded me time was still passing
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I broke ground on my
Animal Crossing: New Horizons island, Honkland, just three days before the UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that the country was going into lockdown. I’d pitched up my tent, and I was just about to deliver a pile of materials to Timmy Nook to help him build the island’s general store.
I was enjoying my first
Animal Crossing, but I hadn’t quite hit that point of “getting it” just yet. The menus were slow to navigate, and I wasn’t really sure what I was working toward. Mining the most material out of each of my island rocks involved a convoluted process of digging two holes and then hitting them repeatedly over the course of several seconds. Picking fruit involved first shaking a tree and then picking up each piece individually. It felt deliberately inefficient.