Today I want to talk a bit about fruits in ACNL - specifically how to profit from them.
No doubt they're one of the easier ways to make money, if not always the fastest. They require no initial investment and can basically grow infinitely into your main source of revenue if you so choose. All you need is time, a shovel, and some pocket space to plant a whole grove of whatever floats your boat.
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Each town has a "native fruit" (apples, oranges, pears, peaches, or cherries).
In Arcadia (my main file), it's peaches. In TirNaNog (my secondary file), it's pears.
Non-native fruit (including tropical fruits like durians, lemons, lychees, mangoes, coconuts and bananas) typically sells for more than native fruit, but perfect fruit sells for even more.
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| Tropical Fruits |
When I started playing, I collected every kind of fruit there was and just planted them randomly around my town. I play a little smarter now.
Let's take a look at their going rates at Re-Tail:
Native Fruit - 100 Bells (or 120 with the Bell Boom Ordinance)
Tropical Fruit - 250 Bells (or 300 with the Bell Boom Ordinance)
Foreign Fruit - 500 Bells (or 600 with the Bell Boom Ordinance)
Native Perfect Fruit - 600 Bells (or 720 with the Bell Boom Ordinance)
Foreign Perfect Fruit - 3000 Bells (or 3600 with the Bell Boom Ordinance)
So obviously the best way to make money on fruit is to have a ton of perfect fruit that you sell in another town that has a Bell Boom ordinance in effect!
Just a batch of 9 (3 trees worth) would give you 32,400 Bells. A full inventory of 16 baskets of 9 would give you 518,400 Bells. You can see how this adds up. ^_^
How do you get perfect fruit?
You start the game off with one tree in town that has a perfect fruit in it.If you're like me, you didn't know what it was and ate it right away. >.>
But that's okay! (Sure makes your avatar happy when you eat them.)
All you have to do is plant a crap-ton of your native fruit and eventually another perfect fruit will appear. Instead of selling it off, plant it. Planting perfect fruit produces a fruit tree that ONLY grows perfect fruit.
(It also gives you a rotten fruit which can attract ants and flies - which is handy when collecting bugs. Either leave it on the ground to attract pests, or throw it out in your own garbage/pay to dispose of it at Reese's.)
If you plant a big grove of perfect trees, it's pretty easy (though a little time consuming) to just harvest them all up and, when one dies, chop it down and replace it with a new perfect tree by planting one of the fruits you just harvested.
Note that not all trees will grow properly this close together; they don't like to be squished. I just planted them in a grid and whatever takes is fine with me. I'll have another million or so peaches I can plant in a few days so it's not a big deal.
Once you harvest all your perfect fruit, it's a simple matter of going to someone else's town and selling them all to Reese at Re-Tail.
Assuming you have a friend that plays.
I've found people online and traded friend codes with them in order to do this, but it wasn't always convenient or easy to coordinate.
After a couple months of playing I decided to buy a second copy of ACNL and now I use that in my small 3DS as a secondary town called TirNaNog (I play Arcadia on my 3DSXL). I just open the gate in one game and visit from the other. It's a lot more convenient, and if you're hardcore about ACNL and happen to have two 3DS's at your disposal, I'd say go for it.
I've recently decided that I might as well terraform a nice grove of perfect pears over in TirNaNog so that I can harvest them and bring them back to sell in Arcadia on my way home. Every Bell counts when working on the 100,000,000 Bells badge. ;)
That's my take on fruit profits!
For a full breakdown on fruits for the total newbie, check out this great guide (they even talk about bamboo, which is something I haven't really gotten into here).
~ Mayor Blair
I really like the first picture.
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