Summary
- Selling turnips in Animal Crossing: New Horizons can yield huge profits or significant losses based on player timing.
- The turnip trade in ACNH is known as the Stalk Market, where prices can fluctuate from 15 to 650 Bells.
- Tools like the Turnip Calculator and Turnip Prophet can help predict turnip prices and maximize profits in the game.
Knowing when to sell turnips in best way to make Bells in Animal Crossing. In order to buy them, players will need to log onto ACNH between 5 am and 11:59 am on a Sunday and find Daisy Mae wandering their islands. Players can buy as many turnips as they can afford, then make over six times the amount they invest in them by trading with Timmy and Tommy at Nook's Cranny. However, players can lose even more money by selling or not selling on the right day.
Considering that Daisy Mae sells her valuable turnips in Animal Crossing: New Horizons between 90 and 110 Bells, players need to be cautious about when they choose to buy and sell them. If a player buys at the lowest price and sells at the highest, they have the potential to multiply their investment sixfold; but if someone bought turnips at the highest price but could only sell them at the lowest, they could lose over seven times the amount of money invested. That's why it's important to understand the particulars of the turnip trade, and plan ahead for strategic buying and selling.
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The great rewards and drastic consequences of the turnip trade are why the entire mechanic is known as the Stalk Market. In the Animal Crossing series, the Stalk Market is a fluctuating marketplace in which the value of turnips rises and falls seemingly at random. Typically, turnips in Animal Crossing: New Horizons will sell for anywhere between 50 and 150 Bells, but their value can fall as low as 15 Bells and soar as high as 650 Bells. There's no real way for the player to control this, but with a little knowledge and forethought, it's possible to game the market. To help those looking to hop into the Stalk Market avoid such a financial tragedy, here are some tips on how to know when is the best day to sell turnips in ACNH.
Tips Of The Turnip Trade In Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Finding Daisy Mae & Checking Turnip Prices
To start becoming a turnip-trading master, one must first understand some of the general principles of how turnip trading works. This starts by looking at Daisy Mae and her practices. The young boar appears on players' islands to sell turnips on Sundays and stays there from 5:00 am to 11:59 am, although she will stay longer if players do not go inside. Finding Daisy Mae in Animal Crossing: New Horizons can be a difficult task because she can be anywhere.
Once located, though, she will sell turnips to players in stacks of 10. This fact is an important reminder that investing in turnips can obliterate a player's bank and take all of their Bells. The barrier of entry into the Stalk Market is at least 900 Bells, because players must buy 10 at a time. Most invest more to receive better returns, though.
Daisy Mae is the granddaughter of Joan, the original turnip seller in previous Animal Crossing games.
The price Daisy Mae sells turnips at can tell traders a lot about a week's prices. For instance, a week will only see the maximum value for turnips at 650 Bells if Daisy Mae sold her turnips at the maximum price of 110 Bells. However, Animal Crossing players on a budget should not become too excited if they see the boar is selling her turnips at higher prices. While the value of turnips is partially signaled by Daisy Mae's prices, it's not the only factor involved. Turnips bought at 90 Bells can net players tons of money if the sale prices rise, and turnips bought at 110 Bells can lead one to financial ruin if the sale prices drop in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
But no matter how the market performs, players should not let the risks of the Stalk Market prevent them from selling their turnips in ACNH, especially because not selling in time can result in the vegetables losing all of their value. A greater danger to players' bank s is turnips' one-week lifespan in Animal Crossing, as players must sell them before Daisy Mae returns lest they want their turnips to turn rotten and unsellable.
On every day other than Sundays, though, turnips can be sold to Timmy and Tommy. There are morning and afternoon prices that change at 12:00 pm each day. Thus, savvy players will want to to their games at around 11:50 am to check Timmy and Tommy's valuations, then return ten minutes later to see if that particular day's values are worth selling turnips or not.
Using A Turnip Calculator In Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Online Tools Help Understand The Stalk Market
If players want to side-step the risks of the Stalk Market in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the Turnip Calculator allows players to predict turnip prices with high accuracy, and without hacking or modding the game. The ACNH Turnip Calculator is a fan-made tool that can estimate the morning and afternoon prices of turnips for each day of the week. The device works by inputting the price turnips were purchased at, and each following day's turnip price, to see how this will affect ACNH's turnip algorithm. Typically, by the time players enter Tuesday morning's prices, the rest of the week's turnip prices can be determined with nearly 100% accuracy.
The Turnip Calculator shows that there are 4 set patterns turnip prices will follow on any given week. These patterns are fluctuating, small spike, large spike, and decreasing. Each of the patterns varies a bit, as large spikes can go anywhere between 200 and 650 Bells, and declining patterns can be moderate or severe. The Turnip Calculator helps players find out which of these patterns is to be the most likely for any given week, so that buying turnips isn't Animal Crossing: New Horizons's most annoying task.
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To get a basic understanding of how likely each of the patterns are in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, one can enter the average price for a Daisy Mae turnip at 100 Bells into the Turnip Calculator. Doing so shows that the fluctuating pattern is generally the most likely of the four at 35% on any given week. This means that prices will usually fall within the 50- and 150-Bell range for the week, although higher or lower prices will be more likely on specific days depending on how the week develops. This is the most difficult pattern to compensate for, although not the outright worst. But players will be happy to know that the second most likely is the high spike at 26.25%, followed by the small spike at 25% and the decreasing pattern at 13.75%.
A notable takeaway from these probabilities and patterns is that very low prices at the beginning of the week does not mean players cannot make money on their turnip investments. In actuality, getting 15 Bells as the first price of the week makes it virtually impossible for players to get the decreasing pattern because prices are unable to go any lower. They may not get the type of money Tom Nook makes, but players can wait just a little longer and expect to make at least some of their Bells back. If they're lucky, they may even turn a profit that week with a fluctuating or small spike pattern.
ACNH's Stalk Market Patterns Change Over Time
How One Week's Turnip Prices Affect The Next
But as easy as the Turnip Calculator makes things, it can sometimes give the player too wide a range of potential turnip prices. That's because it fails to factor in an additional variable that affects each week's Stalk Market pattern: last week's pattern. Turnip price patterns are unlikely to repeat two weeks in a row, so the probability of getting, say, two large spikes in a row is incredibly low. As a result, an alternative online tool, Turnip Prophet, can sometimes provide a more accurate projection. The following table explains how each different kind of Stalk Market pattern affects the likelihood of the following week's.
Last Week's Pattern |
Probability of Fluctuating |
Probability of Small Spike |
Probability of Large Spike |
Probability of Decreasing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Fluctuating |
20% |
35% |
30% |
15% |
Small Spike |
45% |
15% |
25% |
15% |
Large Spike |
50% |
25% |
5% |
20% |
Decreasing |
25% |
25% |
45% |
5% |
What this ultimately reveals is that ACNH's Stalk Market is pretty fair. If the player had a bad week with a decreasing pattern, the next week is much more likely to show a sharp increase, so they can make their money back. Sharp increase weeks aren't punished, per se, but they're more likely to give the player a more difficult price range to contend with in a fluctuating pattern the week after. As a whole, this system prevents the player from racking up too much money too quickly, but also from losing everything two weeks in a row. This ensures that saving, budgeting, and spending remains challenging, but fair, in ACNH.
In short, the best day to sell turnips in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is whichever day and time has the best price; there's no easy, universal best time to sell. Using the Turnip Calculator and Turnip Prophet can help players determine exactly when this is. But if a week starts with prices anywhere over the 400-Bell range, Animal Crossing: New Horizons players may regret not immediately capitalizing on this opportunity, even if the Turnip Calculator shows a possibly higher spike later in the week.
Source: Turnip Calculator, Turnip Prophet
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Released
- March 20, 2020
- ESRB
- E for Everyone: Comic Mischief
- Developer(s)
- Nintendo EPD
- Publisher(s)
- Nintendo
- Engine
- Havok
- Multiplayer
- Online Multiplayer, Local Multiplayer
- Cross-Platform Play
- no
- Cross Save
- no
- Expansions
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons — Happy Home Paradise
- Franchise
- Animal Crossing
- Platform(s)
- Switch
- How Long To Beat
- 100 Hours
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