Animal Crossing: New Horizons lets players create their very own island getaway, and the game has seen massive success on the Switch. Countless fans have flocked to the leisurely title, and that's created some incredible possibilities.
Fans have used the game to recreate real-life events. among other things. Another side of Animal Crossing has also developed, however, a virtual economy that's sprung up around selling items, and a black market for selling villagers.
An entire economy has developed around Turnnips, given the nickname of the Stalk Market. Players have flocked to social media to try and get the best turnip prices out there and make some easy Bells. It's fascinating to see how the Turnip economy had developed, and some of the extremes fans have gone to in the process.
Turnips Have Taken Over the Animal Crossing Community
Players can purchase Turnips from Daisy Mae at set prices each day, and in turn, they can sell those Turnips as Timmy and Tommy's store for varying prices each day. The real profit comes by purchasing them for a small price, then selling them for maximum profit. Players buy hundreds or thousands of turnips at one time, hoping to make a massive profit. This has led to countless players looking for the best turnip prices, or if they have great turnip prices opening up their island to others. Simply searching turnips on Twitter will bring up thousands of tweets about what player's current prices are, and it's a great way to make money.
With so many people in quarantine right now, the Stalk Market has exploded in popularity. Even celebrities like Elijah Wood are getting in on the action looking for valuable turnip prices.
Fans Are Going to Great Lengths to Buy and Sell Turnips
Animal Crossing players have gone far past just exchanging codes to get to other's islands. There's a website that's been made called Turnip Exchange, where player can input their information or look up others. It's a huge database of islands that keeps a tally of current Turnip prices. On top of that, two different price predictor tools have popped, Turnip Calculator and Turnip Prophet, letting players input their price information to predict what their prices might be on any given day.
Past that, turnip storage has become an issue as New Horizons doesn't actually let players put them in their home storage. Because of that, players are forced to simply drop them on the ground inside their home or island. This has led players to create fun little holding areas for their turnips, both inside their house and out on the island.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is now available on Nintendo Switch.
