How To Get Pearls & Mermaid Recipe In Animal Crossing New Horizons - ACNH Pascal Guide

Since Animal Crossing New Horizons Summer update released, various new contents and new features added to the game, not only you can swim and dive in the ocean where pearls appeared, but also catch new sea creatures, the scallops, meet the red sea otter - Pascal. A lot of people want to know how to find Pascal in Animal Crossing New Horizons so he can give you a Mermaid Recipe. Once you get Mermaid Recipes you should know best ways how to get pearls in Animal Crossing New Horizons. This guide is going to show everything you need to know about how to find Pascal, as well as all the Mermaid Recipes in ACNH and how to fast get Pearls needed to craft them. 

How To Get Pearls In Animal Crossing New Horizons

There are a couple of methods to get pearls in Animal Crossing New Horizons:

- Receive Pearls from Pascal: Find your first scallop and Pascal, the Sea otter will come as a chat with you and he gives you a recipe that requires a pearl to be able to craft it, he doesn’t give you any pearls on the first time that you meet him, but he’s just telling you that he’s going to give you more pearls afterwards. Next, you can try to find more scallops on the same day. Once you go on to the next day and catch your next scallop, then Pascal shows up again and this time he does give you a pearl. 

- Swim & Dive Into The Water: Diving into the water & swim, you can collect pearls. If this is your first time to swim, you should get a wetsuit. Then what you want to do is you find some bubbles, press the A button to swim towards it, the Y button to dive and then the A button to hunt it down.

What Do Pearls & Scallops Look Like

The scallop’s shadow size being a bit bigger than the pearls. A pearl’s shadow is small while underwater and it doesn’t move. Some of these shadows will be large. 

How To Swim & Dive Into The Water

Diving is a little more important, you can release all of your sea creatures into the water just like you can with fish, so if you are collecting a bunch of duplicates and don’t want to sell them, that’s a nice way to make some extra ACNH Bells.

1. You can first buy a wetsuit from Nook’s Cranny which costs 3,000 ACNH Bells, or you can redeem one for 800 Nook Miles via the Nook Stop Terminal.

2. Walk towards water press A to jump in.

3. Press Y to dive near the bubbles. Tap A to swim faster.

4. Move over the shadow with A to swing

Where To Find Pascal In Animal Crossing New Horizons

After you install the new update you can meet a new NPC named Pascal. Once you're in the water and start diving for sea creatures, Pascal will eventually appear, but only when you find a scallop.

How To Get Mermaid DIY Recipe

You can find scallops and trade to Pascal to get pearls for your mermaid DIY. Pascal will often reward you recipe of mermaid item in return. 

What To Do With ACNH Pearls

You can sell ACNG pearls to Nook’s Cranny for 10,000 Bells a pop, or you can keep them to use in crafting DIY mermaid furniture. Or you can just hoard them in your home for decoration. They are similar to nuggets in their rarity, value and the fact that they can be used to craft Mermaid Recipes. You can not donate pearls to the museum.