Watering can

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Watering Cans are a type of tool in the Animal Crossing series, introduced in Wild World. They are used to water flowers.

Usage[]

Watering cans are used to water flowers to prevent them from wilting and dying, or to promote hybridization and the breeding of new flowers. When a wilted flower is watered, it will return to life the following day.

The player must stand next to a flower to water it. A watered flower will show water droplets dropping to the ground, followed by sparkles indicating that it has been watered.

Watering flowers with the watering can is considered crucial to having and maintaining a perfect town environment, because it keeps flowers thriving and helps promote new growth (including hybrid flowers).

In games where the silver and gold watering cans exist, they come with special properties that can be useful to the player. For instance, the silver watering can revive red turnips in City Folk, while the golden watering can has a chance to produce golden roses when wilted black roses are watered with it.

In New Leaf, the function of the improved watering cans vary from the previous games, and the Beautiful Town Ordinance removes the necessity of using a watering can on flowers (they do not wilt when it is in effect).

In New Horizons, flowers no longer wilt by default, and only need to be watered to produce hybrids. A black rose that has been watered once by a gold watering can has a 50% chance of producing a gold rose until it produces one. Better watering cans water more tiles at once.

Obtaining[]

In Wild World[]

Below are the watering cans in Wild World:

	Name	Obtained from	Buy Price	Sale Price	Additional Info.
	Watering Can	Tom Nook's Store	500 Bells	125 Bells	-
	Gold Watering Can	Tortimer* Maintain a perfect town status for 15 days.	-	-	Creates a Gold Rose when a wilted Black Rose is watered.

• Note: Tortimer will appear the next time the game is played to give the player the watering can.

In City Folk[]

Below are the watering cans in City Folk:

	Name	Obtained from	Buy Price	Sale Price	Additional Info.
	Watering Can	Tom Nook's Store	500 Bells	125 Bells	-
	Silver Watering Can	Posy Farm* Purchase 50 flower seeds from Tom Nook's Store	-	-	May increase the chance of growing hybrid flowers or money trees
	Gold Watering Can	Pelly or Phyllis* Maintain a Perfect Town status for 15 days.	-	-	Creates a Gold Rose when a wilted Black Rose is watered

• Note 1: A letter will appear in the mail containing a silver watering can.
• Note 2: Upon maintaining a perfect town for 15 days, Talking to Pelly or Phyllis will give the player the watering can.

In New Leaf[]

Below are the watering cans in New Leaf:

	Name	Obtained from	Buy Price	Sale Price	Additional Info.
	Watering Can	Gardening Store Isabelle (after completing her tips)	500 Bells	125 Bells	-
	Silver Watering Can	Leif* Purchase at least 50 flower seeds	-	-	Waters 5 flowers at once
	Gold Watering Can	Isabelle* Maintain a perfect town status for 15 days.	-	125 Bells	Waters 9 flowers at once

• Note 1: Leif will give the player the silver watering can after they have made the purchase.
• Note 2: Isabelle will give the player the gold watering can when the town has achieved the final day of perfect town status requirements, after asking about the environment again.

In New Horizons[]

In New Horizons, all watering cans have limited uses. Watering an unwatered flower will degrade a watering can by one unit. Watering an already watered flower will not degrade a watering can, however.

Below are the watering cans in New Horizons:

Name	Image	Durability	How to obtain	Crafting materials	?	Buy	Sell
						Price
Flimsy watering can		20	Recipe obtained from Tom Nook after donating 4 bugs or fish to him	x5 softwood	✘	800	200
Watering can		60	Recipe obtained from Pretty Good Tools Recipes, purchased for 3,000 on the Nook Stop	x1 flimsy watering can x1 iron nugget	✔	2,400	600
Golden watering can		180	Recipe obtained from Isabelle after getting a 5-star rating	1x watering can 1x gold nugget	✘	N/A	10,675
Colorful watering can		60	Purchased from the cabinet at Nook's Cranny after the first upgrade	N/A	✔	2,500	625
Elephant watering can		60	Purchased from the cabinet at Nook's Cranny after the first upgrade	N/A	✔	2,500	625
Outdoorsy watering can		60	Purchased from the cabinet at Nook's Cranny after the first upgrade	N/A	✔	2,500	625

Gallery[]

Wild World[]

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City Folk[]

New Leaf[]

New Horizons[]

Other Appearances[]

Trivia[]

• The watering can is the only tool that can be used while sitting down on a Public Works Project.
• When flowers are watered, the data flag for being watered is not stored in the flower itself, but instead on the square the flower is on.

In other languages[]

Watering can
Language Name Translation Dutch Gieter -

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Basic	Axe • Fishing Rod • Net • Shovel • Slingshot • Watering Can
Terrain	Ladder • Vaulting pole • Wet suit
Grades	Flimsy toolsNH • Pretty good toolsNH • Silver toolsCF-NL • Golden tools
Wands	WandNH (Bamboo wand • Bug wand • Bunny day wand • Cherry-blossom wand • Cosmos wand • Fish wand • Golden wand • Hyacinth wand • Ice wand • Iron wand • Kiki & Lala Wand • Lily wand • Mums wand • Mushroom wand • Pansy wand • Rose wand • Shell wand • Spooky wand • Star wand • Tree-branch wand • Tulip wand • Wand • Wedding wand • Windflower wand)
Others	Balloons • Boba drinks • Hammer • Light stick • Frozen treats • Megaphone • Sparkler • Shopping card • Timer • Tweeter