You want to make a lot of money?

Don't listen to Tom Vu! He's a loser! There are three main ways to make money in Wild World:Fishing, Fruit, and Turnips. When you’re starting out the best way to earn money is by fishing. You can easily bring 10k bell batches of fish to Tom’s every half an hour to an hour. It is extremely time consuming but quite lucrative and your only overhead is a fishing rod.

1. When you’re starting out the best way to earn money is by fishing. You can easily bring 10k bell batches of fish to Tom’s every half an hour to an hour. It is extremely time consuming but quite lucrative and your only overhead is a fishing rod.

2. While you’re earning your days fishing start building up your fruit orchards. Selling non-native fruit to Tom can bring you upwards of 200k bells every three days. Once you start selling fruit you’ll only pick up a rod in order to complete your fish collection. To get started in fruit dealing, replace all your native fruit trees with non-native ones. So if your town started with apples, cut down your apple trees and non-fruit bearing trees and dig up the stumps. Plant pears, peaches, or oranges in those holes. You do that because a tree is guaranteed to grow where one was growing before. If you don’t have the non-native fruits yet visit a friend’s town to find them or make it real easy on yourself and just mail your native fruits to the animals in your town. They’ll send you non-native fruits you can plant. Once you get a couple of trees you can pick its fruit and plant those. Continue until you’re swimming in non-native fruit trees. Every three days you’ll have to spend a couple of hours harvesting your fruit but your bank account balance will skyrocket.

3. Once you’ve built up your bankroll a bit you can start trading turnips. The stalk market has the best potential to make you rich. You’ll need some space to warehouse your turnips too. I wouldn’t start with less than 100k bells and a two-room house. Once you’re ready, find Joan the Turnip Trader. She arrives in your town every Sunday between 6am and noon. Whatever her price, buy all the turnips you can afford. It’ll take you a few trips between Joan and you house so you can drop off the turnips. Starting Monday morning, Tom Nook will quote you a price at which he’s buying turnips. His price changes at noon. So everyday you have two chances to sell your turnips at a profit. Once his price is higher than what you bought at—even if it’s only a bell—sell all your turnips. Don’t wait for a higher price; the risk is too high. The turnips all go bad Saturday night so you can only hold onto them for a week. Sell them by Saturday night because losing some or most of your money is still better than losing all of it. Of course, if you’ve got a friend who’s playing or can find one on Nintendo Wifi then you have a much better chance of making money. If Tom isn’t offering a good price in your town you may find he’s offering a great price in another. The only pain is the number of trips it’ll take you through the gates to get your turnips to another town. Personally, I buy over 10k turnips a week and have never lost money. Just this week I bought 1.5 million bells worth of the tasty treats and sold them this morning for a 100k bell profit. Not the best margin on my money but it’s possible to earn 500% on your investment quite easily.

By using these methods I’ve paid off my entire mortgage, started sending donations to Boondox, increased my catalogue significantly—I can buy anything I want without even thinking about it—and even hired people to harvest my fruit for me. ( I pay 50k bells to pick all my trees clean.) All this in only a couple of months. Remember: fish, fruit, turnips. In that order. If you’re just starting out and don’t even have a fishing rod yet there are some other ways you can make a little coin to get yourself started: shake trees, mail junk to your little animal friends and sell what they send you, find the money rock and hit it with a shovel, catch and sell bugs, pick up shells, do chores for your pals, and raid the lost and found and recycling bin for cash. But once you have enough to buy a fishing rod hit the beach and starting pulling in those bells. Use those to set up your orchards, and then get into the turnip game as soon as you can. You’ll be sitting on a pile of bells in no time.