How to Get Different Fruits in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

The most reliable way to get every fruit in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is to trade with another player. Mystery Island Tours may turn up fruit that is not native to your island, but the destination is a surprise; a player trade is more direct when you need a specific variety. A friend can also visit or send a fruit gift.

There are five regular fruits: apples, cherries, oranges, peaches, and pears. Your island starts with one native variety. Coconuts are an additional fruit that grows on palm trees. Once you bring a different fruit home, plant it to grow more. Nintendo notes that fruit and coconuts from other islands sell for more Bells than native fruit in its orchard guide.

1. Try a Nook Miles Ticket

Redeem 2,000 Nook Miles for a Nook Miles Ticket at the Nook Stop terminal in Resident Services. Take it to the airport and speak with Orville to book a Mystery Island Tour. Nintendo says these surprise trips may offer fruit or flowers that are not native to your island, which you can bring home and plant. Its Mystery Island Tour guide covers this option.

Check the trees when you arrive. If you spot a fruit you do not have, shake the tree and pick up the fruit that falls. A ticket is worth trying if you play solo, but it does not let you choose a fruit. If the island only has your native variety, return home and try another route instead of expecting a ticket to complete your collection.

2. Visit a friend or receive a fruit gift

For a specific missing fruit, ask a friend who grows it to host you. The host opens the airport gate with Orville; you choose I wanna fly at your own airport, then find the friend or enter the Dodo Code they shared. Nintendo’s multiplayer instructions explain the visit steps.

Ask permission before taking anything. If the host agrees, shake a tree and collect the fallen fruit; you do not need to chop down a tree or become Best Friends just to be a polite visitor. Nintendo’s island etiquette advice says to ask before taking another player’s items or materials. Nearby players can use local wireless; online visits require an internet connection and Nintendo Switch Online membership.

If you cannot meet in-game, ask the friend to send fruit as a gift through the airport postcard stand when you are available as a recipient. Nintendo’s guide to letters and gifts explains the card stand. This is useful for getting one piece to plant, while a visit can be quicker if you need several varieties.

3. Arrange a fruit swap with players

If you do not know anyone with the fruit you need, look for an Animal Crossing trading group and arrange a direct swap. List the varieties you have and the ones you want, then agree on the amount and whose island you will visit. A few pieces are enough to start an orchard; you can grow more at home.

Use a Dodo Code only for the visit you arranged, and follow the host’s rules. An open gate does not mean every tree or dropped item is available. A Dream Address is not a substitute for a real visit: Nintendo’s Dream Island instructions say these visits do not let you change the owner’s actual island, so you cannot take fruit home from one.

Plant your fruit and grow an orchard

1. Return to your island with at least one piece of an unfamiliar fruit.
2. Select the fruit in your pockets and plant it in an open spot.
3. Plant coconuts on sandy beach; palm trees do not grow inland.
4. When a tree bears fruit, harvest it and plant more pieces if you want a larger orchard.

Nintendo confirms that unfamiliar fruit can be planted at home and that coconut palms need beach sand in its fruit-growing advice. Keep a few fruits for planting before selling the rest. Trees give you a repeatable supply, and nonnative fruit sells for more Bells than your island’s native variety.

Why you may still be missing a fruit

A Nook Miles Ticket sends you on a surprise trip, not to a menu where you can select each fruit. If tours have not filled your gaps, arrange a direct trade or ask a friend for the missing varieties. For collecting items, use a regular multiplayer visit rather than a Dream Island and take only what the host has offered.