Players are often looking to get an edge in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and this helpful tip may be just to trick. With time travel and money trees, players can get rich fast in New Horizons.
Animal Crossing veterans know that planting money trees can be a great way to make quick bells in the game, and New Horizons planting money trees is the same. Players have the opportunity to plant one money tree per day, which can build up over time and certainly make a differenct. But combined with an insane time travel trick, it can be amazing.
Time Traveling in Animal Crossing has also been a combination of taboo and a much-used feature among the community. For the purpose of this trick, time travel can help players get rich very quickly. Money trees are a natural part of the game, players can use them at any point to get some extra bells. But with time travel involved, they can make more money than perhaps even the stalk market.
How To Combine Time Traveling with Money Trees in New Horizons
To plant any money tree, players must find the glowing yellow beam that pops up once per day on their island. Digging up (with the new unbreakable tools as an added bonus for fun) will reward each player with 1,000 bells, but then planting 10,000 bells in its place will make a money tree appear in time. Instead of putting down 10,000 bells to make a standard money tree, for the sake of this trick, plant 99,000 bells.
Next, save Animal Crossing: New Horizons and close the game out.
From the Home Menu, go to the "System Settings" screen and go to "Time and Date"
Then go to "Synchronized Clock via Internet" and turn it off.
Finally, change the date to 40 years in the future.
When players boot the game back up, they'll be able to earn hundreds of thousands of bells from the tree, though there will be downsides to time traveling in AC:NH. Players will lose turnips, any Nook mileage bonuses will be gone, the island can be infested with weeds, the house can get covered with cockroaches, and more. On top of that, some just consider the method to be cheating.
Some players time travel to see what the different seasons look like in New Horizons. Others like to see if today's turnip prices are better or worse than tomorrow's. This new trick of making hundreds of thousands of bells by planting money trees and jumping decades in the future is definitely a quick money-maker, as long as players understand the risk of time travel in the game.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available now exclusively for Nintendo Switch.