- How to unlock the ax in Animal Crossing New Horizons
If you have just started playing Animal Crossing New Horizons, you will surely have noticed that among the tools there is no ax, with which you can obtain useful materials for the construction of various projects.
In this article we will explain how to get the ax project or buy one.
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How to unlock the ax in Animal Crossing New Horizons
The ax as anticipated is a tool that allows you to hit trees, obtaining various types of wood or to split rocks to obtain minerals, stones and iron.
Proceed as follows to get the ax blueprint:
- Earn 5000 miles by completing various objectives
- Go to the Service center and talk to Tom nook
- Select the item relating to the debt to be paid
- So pay back Tom nook with the 5 thousand miles accumulated
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From here the real adventure will begin, you will receive the fragile ax project as a reward, so you can either craft it by recovering the necessary materials from the workbench or buy it.
Using the ax is very simple, once you have held it, hit a tree or a large rock to obtain materials that you cannot normally find around.
The materials in question will allow you to create more complex and indispensable projects.