Animal Crossing: New Horizons Bamboo recipe list

During the springtime, Animal Crossing: New Horizons players on Switch are able to collect Young Spring Bamboo from bamboo thickets.

Based on our tests, it appears that players can only harvest the Young Spring Bamboo during spring months. This means it’ll be available from March to May for Northern Hemisphere players and from September to November for Southern Hemisphere players.

Recipes that require Young Spring Bamboo can only drop during these months. The recipes will drop from balloons. They can also appear in Bottled Messages on the beach.

Note that there are other bamboo furnishings in the game but these are the ones that the game considers “seasonal,” since they use resources (in this case, Young Spring Bamboo) that can only be collected at specific times of the year.

To get Young Spring Bamboo, just hit bamboo thickets with your Stone Axe. It will spit out Young Spring Bamboo and Bamboo randomly. It will still drop the regular Bamboo year-round.

If you don’t have any bamboo thickets growing on your island, you can find some on Mystery Island Tours.

Update (Dec. 14): We’ve added two new recipes that released with the Animal Crossing: New Horizons 2.0 update.

We’ve put together all of the seasonal bamboo recipes we know of below.

Light Bamboo Bath Mat

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• 3 Young Spring Bamboo

Yellow Bamboo Mat

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• 3 Young Spring Bamboo

Bamboo-grove Wall

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• 7 Young Spring Bamboo
• 3 Bamboo Shoots

Light Bamboo Rug

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• 6 Young Spring Bamboo

Bamboo Wand

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• 6 Young Spring Bamboo
• 3 Star Fragments

Basket Pack

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• 6 Young Spring Bamboo

Green-leaf Pile

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• 1 Young Spring Bamboo
• 10 Weeds

Steamer-basket Set

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• 6 Young Spring Bamboo

Bamboo-shoot Lamp

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• 4 Young Spring Bamboo
• 5 Bamboo Shoots
• 4 Clay

Bamboo Noodle Slide

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Isabelle will give you this recipe during morning announcements, but you can still shoot down the recipe from balloons.

• 7 Young Spring Bamboo
• 3 Wood

Pan Flute

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• 7 Young Spring Bamboo

Bamboo Doll

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• 6 Young Spring Bamboo

There are many other seasonal recipes to unlock, depending on the season:

• Cherry-blossom DIY (Spring)
• Summer Shell DIY
• Pine Cone and Acorn DIY (Fall)
• Mushroom DIY (Fall)
• Maple Leaves DIY (Fall)
• Snowflake DIY (Winter)
• Snowboy DIY (Winter)
• Festive season DIY (Summer/Winter)

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