Animal Crossing: Didn’t Get an Ax? This is how you avoid the annoying bug

The ax is an essential tool in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Sometimes the capitalist raccoon Tom Nook doesn’t want to give out the recipe.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons takes you by the hand at the beginning and offers several tasks that you have to do every day. For one of them you also need an ax, which you will receive as a recipe for it. But through a bug it can happen that you simply do not receive any instructions and then you cannot cut trees. We’ll tell you how to deal with the problem.

Didn’t get a rocking ax recipe and so you’ll get it anyway

This is how it usually works: At the beginning of the first few days, Tom Nook instructs you to make a few items. Little by little, more and more recipes are added, including the rocking ax. If you copy the recipe, you can cut trees to collect wood. This is exactly what you need for a task that you can usually do very easily.

This is how it works with Bug: Usually here is an important keyword. This bug has existed since the game was released and Nintendo has not fixed it. It can happen that no recipe for the ax appears for the second character – but this can also happen occasionally with the first character. This is exactly what happened to an editor at GamePro after Update 2.0. Now he had Tom Nook’s job, but no ax at hand.

This is how you deal the problem: Of course the whole thing is a bit of a hindrance, but there are two ways that you can still get the recipe for the rocking ax. Both are related to Nook’s shop:

• Play with your first character until you have built Nook’s shop. Then switch back to the other character and buy the rocking ax recipe there.
• Go to a friend locally or via the Internet and buy the recipe in Nook’s shop. (A Nintendo Switch Online membership is required for the online version)

No wood, no nooks shop: The biggest problem with the whole thing is that while you can be given the task of building Nook’s shop, you can’t lock it. Because in addition to iron ore, you also need 30 wood, 30 softwood and 30 hardwood. So if you have the same mistake as our editor did with the first character, then you have to rely on others to give you the necessary resources.

To date (as of December 2021), the problem has not been solved by Nintendo.

We’ll tell you how to get the other tools here:

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a particularly popular game in December and Christmas. Regardless of whether you have just started or whether you are planning to return to work, we have the perfect tips for you. In the GamePro overview you get more than 40 tips on how to make island life easier.

Have you ever come across the bug? Do you have any other suggestions besides deleting the entire island?