AC:NL Guide

How to get bells Quickly?

There is multiple ways to obtain bells within animal Animal Crossing: New Leaf and this page will go over a few methods
to obtain bells in the fastest ways. a bell bag.

Selling Fruit

Fruit trees are common within your animal crossing town, and your town will contain one of the fruit:

From top line left to right:


Only one of these fruits will naturally grow on your island, and not every tree is a fruit tree. Every native fruit will sell for 100 bells each. Which means if you collect a few, you can make a few thousand bells. You can also find rare "perfect" fruits which will sell for more. You can tell if they're perefect fruit by the shiny and different colour texture.

A tree with fruit, one being perfect

Selling Shells

If you head to either of the beaches in your animal crossing town, you can find shells and corals along the shore. Pick these up and sell them at ReTail for a nice profit!

A shell on the beach

Rocks

Once a day, there will be a 2 rocks in your town that will contain bells or an ore.

This is random and can be any rock that is in your town. To obtain the bells from the bell rock, make sure to repeately hit it and bells wil fall out. You can usually get max 8 stacks of bells from one single rock, and the amount in the bell stack will increase with every hit, upto 8000. If you fail to repeeatly hit it, it will stop dropping bells. Reminder this resets daily.
A rock with bells surrounding

A rock can also be smashed and drop an ore, and this ore can be sold at ReTail for a profit.
Field of ores

There are also many other ways to obtain bellls in new leaf, but these are some of the main and quickest ones!