Animal Crossing: New Horizons takes area in your very personal abandoned island, and as such, you may ought to perform a little Animal Crossing Items hard work and heavy lifting for a number of the stuff you want. That calls for equipment. While the sport offers you most of the tools you want right away, the shovel is substantially absent from the start. 

First, you'll want a fishing rod or a net. Catch 5 unique bugs and/or fish and give them to Tom Nook at Resident Services. He'll name up his buddy Blathers the museum curator, and Blathers will show up in your island the following day. There's nothing you can do to accelerate this element, so you'll just need to wait.

Once Blathers has set up his tent, move speak to him--he's going to come up with the DIY schematics for the shovel so you can dig up fossils, however there are different uses for the shovel too. (Blathers will also come up with a DIY recipe for the vaulting pole, to be able to assist you get across Animal Crossing Items for Sale rivers.) Read on for extra details.