How do you get wheat in Animal Crossing

• Where to get wheat in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
• How to grow wheat in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
• How to make flour in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Where to get wheat in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

If you want to grow wheat on your island in New Horizons, then you first need to find a wheat starts and there are two ways to do this.

The first method is to buy the wheat start for Leif either when he visits your island or once you've opened his stall on Harv's Island.

The stock for Leif's stall on Harv's Island only changes every Monday, which means, if he's not currently selling wheat, you need to visit in a week's time to see if this stock has changed.

A single wheat start costs you 280 Bells, while a bulk of five costs 1,400 Bells.

You may also find wheat growing on one of the islands Kapp'n takes you to.

Remember - you'll only be able to find and grow wheat if you've downloaded the free Ver.2.0 patch for New Horizons.

The Animal Crossing 2.0 update and Happy Home Paradise is here! We can help you with the new additions - including where to find Brewster, Gyroids, new villagers, ordinances, new fences, storage shed, new hairstyles, Froggy Chair, group stretching and Kapp'n boat tours. Cooking is now unlockable, so you need to know how to make both flour and sugar, as well as how to grow carrots, potatoes and tomatoes. Meanwhile, if you're new to Animal Crossing, our New Horizons tips can help with the basics. From the off, there's fish and bugs to catch, flowers and fruit to grow with. One long term goal is building your Happy Home Academy score. Finally, you need tools such as the new ladder and vaulting pole to fully explore.

How to grow wheat in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Wheat starts in hand, it's time to actually grow wheat in New Horizons, which, especially if you've grown pumpkins, you'll find to be quite easy.

First, you need to find an open space on your island that you're comfortable transforming into a garden. After finding the perfect spot, open your inventory and select the wheat starts.

You'll want to select 'Plant 1' to plant a wheat start and, once you've planted as many as you want, you can start watering them! You don't, however, have to water them when it rains or snows.

It will take four days for wheat to fully grow and, while it will continue to grow without being watered, doing so will reward you with a bigger harvest, so it's definitely worth the effort. Once you've harvested your wheat, you will only have to wait two days for more to grow and, again, watering it will ensure you receive a bigger crop.

How to make flour in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

To make flour in New Horizons, you first need to grow wheat and, if you've followed the steps above, you've already collected your first wheat harvest.

Five bags of flour, or whole-wheat flour, requires five pieces of wheat.

You can make flour at your preferred stove and, afterwards, you can use it for other cooking recipes, such as making a Veggie Sandwich.

Being able to cook and grow new crops are some of the biggest changes in the new update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons. You can make all kinds of dishes and even regular DIY recipes. There’s just one problem. Most of these new delicious-looking recipes require items we’ve never seen before, and it’s not readily apparent how exactly you get them.

Fear not, I’ll walk you through the best ways to get these new vegetables quickly.

How to get the new crops in Animal Crossing

There is only one (reliable) way to get the new crops from the Animal Crossing update: Leif. Our sloth friend sells starts of each of these vegetables. If you’re like me, you may have seen less reliable tips like to go searching in the cabinet in Nook’s Cranny. Well, that’s bullshit.

Leif will sell two random starts each time you see him.

Now, I did say that’s the only reliable way. Another option is by visiting the island tours with Kapp’n, which were also added in the update. However, there are lots of island types, and you can only take one of these trips a day, so it’s not exactly a quick option to get all the crops you want. But they are free to dig up! After you pay the 1,000 Nook Miles to get there, that is.

G/O Media may get a commission

How often does Leif visit your island?

Like the other island visitors, Leif’s check-ins are fairly random. He’ll stop by about once a week or once every two weeks. You can guess at when he’s due based on the other recent visitors, but there’s no set schedule.

That said, there’s a better option for wannabe farmers.

How to unlock Leif on Harv’s Island

Leif has one of the stalls available on Harv’s Island as part of the entrepreneurial doggy’s new co-op in the 2.0 update. I highly recommend unlocking Leif’s shop first, specifically so you can get growing those vegetables. It costs 100,000 Bells to unlock, and once you do, he’ll set up shop the next day.

Leif will still visit your island, but on days he’s not there, you can reliably buy from him on Harv’s Island, which is free to visit. Leif will still stock two crop starts at a time, and his inventory seems to change every day.

Still, for whatever reason, I’ve noticed he tends to stock sugarcane and pumpkins the most often for me. It’s unclear whether this is seasonal, but rest assured, all the crops should eventually appear. Just be sure to check back each day.

How to grow the new crops

Luckily, Animal Crossing primed us for crop growing with the pumpkins it added last year. The mechanic works exactly the same. Plant a start, wait a few days for it to ripen, and then harvest. I recommend buying in bulk. Five is good to make a couple of recipes, then maybe save some to plant, which will give you a new sprout of that vegetable.

For sugarcane and wheat, buying 10 is ideal since you’ll need five of each to make flour, whole-wheat flour, sugar, and brown sugar (wheat for the flours and sugarcanes for the sugars).

The new crops include sugarcane, wheat, carrots, potatoes, and tomatoes. But the existing pumpkins are also used in plenty of recipes. These can be used to make all types of dishes, especially with fish or other fruit in the game. You’ll start uncovering more recipes as you speak with villagers and catch fish normally, as well.

How do you get flour or wheat in Animal Crossing?

How do you get wheat and sugar in Animal Crossing?

How do you get Leif to come to your island?