Tool

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Tools are items held by the player, generally for the purpose of manipulating objects in the town.

History
Tools first appeared in the Gamecube version of Animal Crossing when the player is asked, during their part-time work, to deliver an axe to a villager. Following the end of the part-time tutorial, the player was able to purchase tools from Tom Nook.

Animal Crossing: City Folk
Animal Crossing: City Folk has all of the tools from previous games with a new twist: Silver Tools. Silver tools are slightly easier to obtain than Golden Tools but their effects differ from them.

Gold and Silver Tools
The list with effects and details of how to get them are as follows:

Axes

Axe: 400 bells from Nook's Store

Silver Axe: Serena (after throwing an axe into the town fountain)

Golden Axe: Serena (after throwing an axe into the town fountain)

Shovels

Shovel: 500 Bells from Nook's Store

Silver Shovel: Visit Mr. Resetti in the city

Golden Shovel: Bury a shovel, dig it up 96 hours later

Nets

Net: 500 Bells from Tom Nook's Store

Silver Net: Randomly sold at Nook's Store

Golden Net: Catch every bug

Rods

Rod: 500 Bells from Nook's Store

Silver Rod: Randomly sold at Nook's Store

Golden Rod: Catch all fish

Slingshots

Slingshot: 500 Bells from Tom Nook's Store

Silver Slingshot: Randomly sold at Nook's Store

Golden Slingshot: After shooting 8 presents, any after may be the Golden Slingshot

Watering Cans

Watering Can: 500 Bells from Nook's Store

Silver Can: Buy 50 seeds from Tom Nook

Golden Can: Keep a perfect town for 15 days

Timers

Timer: Buy for 500 Bells from Nook's Store

Silver Timer: N/A

Golden Timer: N/A

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Axe: 500 Bells from Nook's Store

Golden Axe: See Golden axe trading event. Chops trees quicker.

Net: 500 bells from Nook's shop

Golden Net: From Tortimer after catching every bug. Makes catching bugs easy.

Shovel: 500 bells from Nook's shop

Silver Shovel: Resetti Surveillance Center (On a random night each week after 8PM you can find the traffic cones moved from the tunnel in the city [turn right immediately after exiting the bus]. Walk into the tunnel to enter the Surveillance Center.)

Golden Shovel: Bury a Shovel for 24 hours.

The difference: A Silver Shovel gives you a 10% chance that each time you smack rocks the bag of money you would have originally received will be doubled(there will be a burst of white sparks instead of the usual 2 red when your money is doubled). The Golden Shovel allows you to plant Bell trees.

Fishing Rod: 500 bells from Nook's shop

Silver Rod: 500 bells from Nook's shop (after level 2 upgrade)

Golden Rod: From Tortimer after catching every fish.

The difference: Silver Rods have better lures than normal rods, making fishing a bit easier. Golden Rods 'is a real fish magnet!' plus makes the fish hold onto the bait for a little bit longer.

Slingshot: 500 bells from Nook's Shop

Silver Slingshot: 500 bells from Nook's Shop (after level 2 upgrade)

Golden Slingshot: Balloon (after shooting at least eight balloons)

The difference: The Silver Slingshot fires two pebbles instead of one, while the Golden Slingshot fires three.

Watering Can: 500 bells from Nook's shop

Silver Watering Can: From Nook's Shop after buying 50 bags of seeds

Golden Watering Can: From Town Hall after maintaining a perfect town for 15 days straight.

The difference: The Silver Watering Can has a wider radius for sprinkling water and can restore wilted Red Turnips. The Golden can has no information revealed but is most likely to have the same attribute as the Golden Can in Wild World... the ability to create Golden Roses.

Shovel
A shovel is one of the basic tools that can be bought from Tom Nook. It can be used to dig holes in the ground, bury things and even to hit people with (hitting neighbours too much can cause them to get angry and even leave your town). Burying a shovel, then waiting 24 hours, will result in a golden shovel when you dig it back up.

Net
The net is a tool bought from Tom Nook's store that can be used for bug catching. From butterflies to cockroaches, from spiders to locusts, this bug net is ready to be put to use. You can also use it to catch 5 spirits hidden around town that Wisp sends you to catch.

Axe
The Axe is an item in Animal Crossing and Animal Crossing: Wild World. It is used to cut down trees. After cutting down multiple trees or hitting rocks or houses, the axe will chip and eventually break. An upgrade, called the Golden Axe (Obtained through the Golden axe trading event) will not chip

Slingshot
A SlingShot is an item in Animal Crossing: Wild World. Slingshots can be bought from Tom Nook for 500 Bells. Slingshots are used to shoot; Presents, U.F.O.s, and even Pete, Slingshots don't specialize in aim, but when you shoot it, you must use timing, A Golden Slingshot, is an upgraded version firing three stones at once, and is obtained by shooting down 15 Presents.

Watering Can
To get the golden watering can you have to get your town the perfect environment. Then keep it 16 days in a row, and then you'll have to go to the town hall and talk to Pelly or Phyllis. She (both of them) wil give you the "GOLDEN CAN." The golden can can be used to make GOLDEN ROSES!!! But that isn't the whole story. To get the golden roses you'll have to get one or more black roses. Place them in your town, and wait for them to die (only gray of course). Them water the roses with the golden can, and the next day you'll have golden roses

Timer
Timer: 500 bells from Nook's Shop

While it's not a tool you can hold in your hands, and it doesn't have much use besides doing what timers do best: keeping time, it can be considered a tool, because it has a function that the player can control, and is sold in the same section of the other tools in Tom Nook's shop. It has no Silver or Gold varieties, because it really doesn't need them. It can keep time in 3, 5, 10, or 15-minute increments. The timer also keeps track of the number of fish and bugs you catch while it is running. When time runs out, the score is displayed over your head. The timer also replaces the normal clock on screen while active, and you will not be able to see the current time. The timer will continue to count down, even if you drop it on the ground. You can stop the timer early, however. If you activate it while you have friends over, they will also see the timer, and it will work the same for them, whether they have one or not. And, anyone with a timer can start and stop the countdown, regardless of whoever first activated it.