ACNH Harvest Festival Update Date, DIY Items, Rewards, Dishes, Ingredients | Animal Crossing New Horizons Thanksgiving Event
Turkey Day, which corresponds to Thanksgiving Harvest Festival, is the major event that comes in Animal Crossing New Horizons November update. Definitively the ACNH Thanksgiving Update - Turkey Day will bring a bulk of new seasonal items and activities such as Cooking DIY Recipes & Dishes, Harvest Festival Set Furniture, and more rewards from the cute turkey chef - Franklin.
Animal Crossing New Horizons Thanksgiving Event - ACNH Turkey Day
In addition to Halloween, Turkey Day is another big special event in Animal Crossing: New Horizons to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday.
ACNH Thanksgiving Turkey Day Release Date & Time
The Animal Crossing Harvest Festival Events takes place on the fourth Thursday in November, which happens to be the same day as the real-world Thanksgiving holiday, so: Animal Crossing New Horizons Thanksgiving Turkey Day will start on 26th November 2020 from 6:00 AM to 10:00 PM. While in order to help players to save a little time to prepare for the Thanksgiving day event, the ACNH November Update is set to start on November 19th.
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ACNH Turkey Day Items & Prizes
Surely, similar to the Halloween event, Harvest Festival will bring a huge new content featuring new seasonal Animal Crossing items, rewards from new characters, and also we can expect the brand new Turkey Day theme DIY recipes for craft Thanksgiving style items could be added to Animal Crossing New Horizons.
ACNH Turkey Day Items & DIY Recipes (Confirmed)
What is Turkey Day Set Items? They are Thanksgiving harvest themed furniture in Animal Crossing New Horizons, which are very suitable for the holiday decoration. Below is the full list of Thanksgiving Turkey Day Set & DIY recipes:
Turkey Day Casserole (5 Iron Nugget, 1 Clay)
Turkey Day Chair (5 Wood, 2 Softwood, 2 Hardwood)
Turkey Day Decorations (2 Softwood, 1 Clay, 5 Clump Of Weeds)
Turkey Day Garden Stand (8 Stone, 3 Clay)
Turkey Day Hearth (1 Campfire, 10 Clay, 30 Stone)
Turkey Day Table (10 Hardwood, 5 Softwood)
Turkey Day Table Setting (4 Clay, 2 Iron Nugget)
Turkey Day Wheat Decor (10 Clump Of Weeds)
Turkey Day Flooring
Turkey Day Rug
Turkey Day Wall
Cornucopia
How To Get Turkey Day Items & DIY Recipes In ACNH:
Most of the Turkey Day furniture can be crafted with related DIY recipes, while you could only get the DIY recipes by helping to gather the ingredients needed for Franklin to cook the Thanksgiving feast during the Turkey Day event time on November 26th.
And there are four items: Turkey Day Flooring, Turkey Day Rug, Turkey Day Wall and Cornucopia can be obatain diretly by cooking dishes for Franklin on Turkey Day.
Cornucopia (Confirmed)
What Is the Cornucopia In Animal Crossing: Cornucopia is a piece of furniture in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. You can use it to decorate your home or museum exhibit.
How To Get Cornucopia In Animal Crossing: Obtain from Franklin as a reward by giving all the secret ingredients without error for his dishes.
ACNH Harvest Series Items (To Be Confirmed)
What Is the Harvest Series Items In Animal Crossing: This is a Harvest Set furniture and most pieces are designed on feathers and turkey feet, a reference to the Harvest Festival. Below is the full list of Animal Crossing Harvest Series Furniture:
Harvest Wall Lamp
Harvest Bureau
Harvest Clock
Harvest Sofa
Harvest Dresser
Harvest Chair
Harvest Bed
Harvest TV
Harvest Table
Harvest Mirror
Harvest Lamp
Harvest Rug
Harvest Wall
How To Get These Thanksgiving Harvest Items: You can collect all Harvest furniture from Franklin as a reward for completing his four dishes.
ACNH Turkey Day Event - Thanksgiving Update Activities
Surely, you will need to complete some quest to get Harvest Festival Items and Rewards in Animal Crossing New Horizons. We have not gotten any official information about the Harvest Festival, but we can make some predictions according to the events in the previous AC series. Keep reading to get to know how does the Harvest Festival event goes on in Animal Crossing.
How Does The Thanksgiving Turkey Day Go On In Animal Crossing?
The Harvest Festival Process in ACNL:
1.Talk to Franklin and help him cook his dishes
2. Gather the ingredients (fishes, fruits, seasonal items) and take them to Franklin
3. Find secret ingredients by doing quests for the villagers and give to Franklin
4. Villagers will stay in their house and cook and will request a different type of fishes from you
5. Collect all the right ingredient and completing a salad, soup, main course, and dessert
6. If you get all the secret ingredients correctly, Franklin will reward you with a cornucopia
1. Meet ACNH Thanksgiving Feast Turkey Chef - Franklin
The harvest festival will be organized by Franklin the turkey who will prepare a festive meal and consists of helping him by collecting ingredients for his dishes which will be hidden in your village. You will have to collect fruits, mushrooms, and fish in total. The inhabitants will be able to help you by giving you milk, sugar, flour, etc. Each ingredient was given to Franklin will allow you to obtain a piece of furniture of his series.
When & Where To Meet Franklin?
You can meet Franklin in your town’s plaza from 3 pm-9 pm on the 4th Thursday in November (November 26th, 2020). Go talk to him so that he asks you to help him gather the ingredients needed to make the banquet.
2. Start Harvesting From November
From the beginning of November, you can start setting aside the mushrooms needed to make Franklin recipes. It will save you time on the big day. Mushrooms grow at the foot of trees and stumps: walk around your town and fill your basket! Also, think about planting fruit trees, and save your harvests for the big day. In Animal Crossing New Horizons, more vegetables such as potato, tomato, and wheat are rumored to be added for farming and harvesting, with which you would use for cooking by yourself with related Food DIY recipes.
3. Franklin's Dishes - Four Course Meals
In the square, our feathered cook will explain to you that he wants to prepare four dishes: a salad, a soup, a main course, and a dessert. For each dish, he will ask you to provide him with three ingredients as well as a secret ingredient. He won't tell you what these secret ingredients are, but if you get them, Franklin will give you a basket of fruit, a cornucopia, and two pieces of furniture from the Harvest set.
Franklin Cooking Recipes & Required Ingredients
Here is the list of possible recipes that Franklin may ask you to help him prepare. There are five for each dish (in parentheses: the secret ingredient).
Salads
Fish Salad: Horse Mackerel, Red Snapper, Vinegar (Lemon)
Fruit Salad: Apple, Orange, Vinegar (Beehive)
Mixed Salad: Apple, Horse Mackerel, Skinny Mushroom (Vinegar)
Mushroom Salad: Flat Mushroom, Round Mushroom, Vinegar (Apple)
Oyster Salad: Oyster, Seaweed, Vinegar (Lemon)
Soups
Soup de Poisson: Olive Flounder, Red Snapper, Sea Bass (Lemon)
Tom Yum Goong: Lobster, Skinny Mushroom, Vinegar (Coconut)
Mushroom Stew: Flat Mushroom, Milk, Round Mushroom (Butter)
Shellfish Cream Soup: Clam, Milk, Scallop (Butter)
Fruit Soup: Cherry, Milk, Peach (Lemon)
Main Courses
Barred Knifejaw Sauté: Barred Knifejaw, Butter, Round Mushroom (Lemon)
Dab Meunière: Dab, Skinny Mushroom, Flour (Vinegar)
Olive Flounder Meunière: Olive Flounder, Flat Mushroom, Flour (Vinegar)
Red Snapper Poele: Red Snapper, Skinny Mushroom, Flour (Lemon)
Sea Bass Sauté: Butter, Round Mushroom, Sea Bass (Lemon)
Desserts
Apple Pie: Apple, Lemon, Flour (Beehive)
Banana Custard Pie: Banana, Lemon, Sugar (Beehive)
Cherry Pie: Cherry, Lemon, Flour (Beehive)
Coconut Cream Pie: Coconut, Lemon, Sugar (Beehive)
Full Fruit Pie: Butter, Orange, Pear (Lemon)
ACNH Franklin Dish Normal & Secret Ingredients
Here you will find the list of ingredients that Franklin may request from you. It is strongly recommended to start early enough in the month to gather as much as possible in order to have enough for each dish on the day of the Festival. Following each ingredient is indicated the maximum number you may need. Note that all fish and shellfish can be caught during this time of year. Some ingredients, on the other hand, can only be obtained on the day of the Festival by giving fish to your inhabitants who will be at their home cooking.
List of All the Normal Ingredients You Need For Franklin Dish and How To Collect Them:
Apple (2): Shake fruit trees
Peach (1): Shake fruit trees
Pear (1): Shake fruit trees
Cherry (2): Shake fruit trees
Banana (1): Shake fruit trees
Coconut (2): Shake fruit trees
Lemon (12): Shake fruit trees
Orange (2): Shake fruit trees
Beehive (5): Shake fruit trees
Flat Mushroom (3): Find next to trees in November or tree stumps all year round
Round Mushroom(4): Find next to trees in November or next to tree stumps year round
Skinny Mushroom (4): Find next to trees in November or next to tree stumps year round
Barred Knifejaw (1): Fishing
Dab (1): Fishing
Horse Mackerel (2): Fishing
Olive Flounder (2): Fishing
Red Snapper (3): Fishing
Sea Bass (2): Fishing
Shellfish and Sea
Clam (1): Diving
Oyster (1): Diving
Scallop (1): Diving
Lobster (1): Diving
Seaweed (1): Diving
Milk (3): Give fish to villagers who are wearing chef uniforms in their houses
Butter (5): Give fish to villagers who are wearing chef uniforms in their houses
Sugar (2): Give fish to villagers who are wearing chef uniforms in their houses
Flour (5): Give fish to villagers who are wearing chef uniforms in their houses
Vinegar (8): Give fish to villagers who are wearing chef uniforms in their houses
Tips To Collect Ingredients:
After receiving Franklin’s list of ingredients, go to your neighbors. You will find three or four of them at home also busy cooking. They will ask you to provide them with different fish. In return, they will give you the above ingredients, not found elsewhere.
If you want to recover for sure the ingredient that you cannot get yourself, contact the cooks had already in your inventory the other ingredients necessary for the recipe you are preparing! This will prevent you from accumulating lemons when you want vinegar.
4. Get Secret Inhabitant Hints From Villagers
Franklin asks if you have a secret ingredient to complete the dishes. In order to get a reward from him, you need to give him the right secret ingredient.
Listen carefully to what they will tell you at the end of the exchange because they will be precious clues to discover what are the secret ingredients. You may need to go back to them several times to gather the special ingredients needed or if you want to keep them.
5. Bring Right Ingredients To Franklin & Get Harvest Rewards
Once you have gathered the required ingredients, go join Franklin. Entrust him with the food to prepare the various dishes for the banquet. If you bring him the right secret ingredient once, you will get a basket of fruit as a reward for your efforts. Otherwise, you will get a piece of furniture from the Harvest Set.
This guide is based on the information from ACNL, we do think most of this content will return in Animal Crossing New Horizons Harvest Festival, with new features added, such as the new vegetable farming & cooking. You can get more information about the upcoming ACNH November Update here.
