Animal Crossing New Horizons: How To Get Gold Roses, 5 Secretes About Gold Roses You Need To Know In ACNH

The Animal Crossing New Horizons golden roses are one of the prettiest flower types and the result of hard work between the improvement of your island and the successful hybridization of your red roses. Here Akrpg shares a guide covering how to get & grow gold roses and 5 secretes about gold roses in Animal Crossing New Horizons.

How To Get Golden Roses In Animal Crossing New Horizons 

• 1. Get the golden watering can. Isabelle gives you the DIY recipe after you achieve a 5 star island rating.

• 2. Crossbreed two red roses to spawn some black roses. Plant red roses in a checkerboard pattern. Then water them with any watering can. Wait multiple days.

• 3. Repeat the process, crossbreed black roses to spawn golden roses. 

5 Tips & Secrets About Gold Roses In Animal Crossing New Horizons

1. Infinite Gold Water Trick

There is a way to get an infinite amount of golden water within your golden watering can, simply by pre-watering. Grab any one of your watering cans, you can purchase one, you can craft one, do whatever you want and go to whatever you want to water. You can water your black roses or red roses, simply water them and once they’re watered, they will start to sparkle and that’s called pre-watering, and then once you go through and you pre-water something. If you go over this way to the golden watering can. When they’re pre-watered, all you have to do is water over here and it's not going to take a single durability away from you simply because they were already pre-watered. So there's no more need to use or ask or trade for any kind of gold nuggets simply because once you get your hands on one of these gold watering cans and you start pre-watering all over the place you'll then have an easier way of not using any durability on your gold watering can.

2. Gold Flags Concept

The second secret about gold roses that you didn't realize was the fact that there is such thing as a gold flag that gets put onto gold roses as soon as you water them with the gold watering can. For example, as we know every time you press the A button on any particular field, it's going to do a 3×3 watering formation for you, so literally all these entire spots are going to get watered with the golden water, but only the spot in the direct middle or the direct in front of your character. As soon as you do it will receive a golden flag and the golden flag will net the chance of you getting some gold roses. So if you want every single one of these flowers to actually have a golden flag, you'll have to go through and you'll have to water every single one of these in the way that you're doing it right in front of them.

One more thing about the gold flagged roses is that you can indeed grab your shovel and dig up any of black roses that have been gold watered and have that golden flag within them, and then you can transplant them anywhere. 

3. Watering Pity Rate & Odds

The third gold rose secret is going to be the secret of a built-in pity rate of spawns for the black roses and gold roses. So taking a look at it every time you water a specific plant in the game. There's a 5% chance that this specific plant will have an offspring. If you're taking a look at exactly how much of an odds you're going to get for the gold rose after you've gone through pre-watered and then use your golden watering can that's going to be a 50% chance. So you have to jump through two different hoops if you want to get yourself a golden rose. Check out this picture and you can see the built-in pity rates involved.

So you're not guaranteed to get an offspring the next day, it's always a 5% chance on day 1 of watering same thing with day 2 and day 3. But once day 4 starts kicking in, you're able to get an additional 5% built-in pity rate. In order to help you get your offsprings same thing with day 5, 6, 7 all the way through 20, you're gonna be building up 5% chances and more pity rate equals more chances of you getting the golden roses, it's a 50/50 shot. 

4. New Time Saving Tips

The fourth secret about golden roses is going to be a time saver. Once you've gone through and watered your regular black rose and then switch over to your golden watering can in order to save yourself one durability. You get the golden flag planted on it. If you go through the next day and this particular plant did not get an offspring, then all you have to do is just regular water it. There's no need to continuously gold water it because the gold watering flag on the black roses sticks around until it produces a gold offspring. So that'll save you so much time, you don't necessarily have to water every single day and then switch on over to your gold one on every single one of these, you can just pay attention to when exactly a specific black gold flagged rose gives out a golden offspring and then you can jump in and then start using your gold watering can.

5. New Optimized Layouts 

The last tip is going to be about optimizations with your gold rose growing. There's so many different layouts. You can do a checkered layout, a nine square, a 5×5 and you can do dozens of different combinations. But you need to keep in mind that as long as you're keeping track of your breeding partners and which flowers have the golden flags on them. You're going to be set as long as there's one empty spot around the breeding partner and or singular clone that you wish to make. Your best optimization is going to be doing it in singles and this is going to be your best layout for it.

So that's everything you need to know about the secrets of golden roses in Animal Crossing New Horiozns, hopefully you can grow a whole bunch of the gold roses.