Wild World Bells: Fruit, Turnips & Money Making
The best ways to earn Bells in the DS game: foreign fruit, the daily money rock, turnips, red turnips, summer beetles and the money tree.
- Native fruit
- 100 Bells
- Foreign fruit
- 500 Bells
- Coconut
- 500 Bells
- Money rock
- up to 8,500
Ways to make Bells
| Method | How it works |
|---|---|
| Money rock | Each day one rock in town spits out Bells when you hit it with a shovel or axe: up to 100, 200, 400, 800, 1,000, 2,000 and 4,000, or 8,500 in all. Dig holes behind you so the recoil doesn’t push you back, and hit fast: you only get a few seconds. |
| Foreign fruit | Plant an orchard of non-native fruit and sell it at 500 Bells each; a full tree is worth 1,500 every three days. |
| Turnips | Buy white turnips from Joan on Sunday morning and sell them to Tom Nook when his price jumps. Prices change at noon. Unsold turnips rot by the next Sunday. |
| Red turnips | Joan sells one bag of red turnip seeds a week for 1,000 Bells. Water the plant every day; after six days it sells for 16,000 Bells. |
| Beetles and sharks | Summer nights are worth the most: Horned hercules 12,000, giant beetle and rainbow stag 10,000, sharks 15,000. Coelacanths (15,000) bite in the sea on rainy or snowy nights all year. |
| Money tree | Bury a bag of Bells with the golden shovel. Each 1,000 Bells buried adds about a 1% chance; if it takes, the tree bears three bags of 30,000 Bells whatever you buried. |
| Fossils | Three fossils are buried each day. Once the museum has one of each, sell the spares to Tom Nook for 1,000–6,000 Bells. |
Fruit
- Every town has one native fruit: apples, cherries, oranges, peaches or pears.
- Fruit regrows three days after you shake a tree.
- Get other fruit by visiting friends’ towns, from villagers’ letters and from Mom’s gifts. Plant it to grow your own orchard.
- Coconuts wash up on the beach and grow into palm trees on the sand.
- Wild World has no perfect fruit.
Turnips
- Joan visits on Sunday mornings until noon and sells white turnips in bundles of ten.
- Tom Nook’s buying price changes twice a day (at opening and at noon), Monday to Saturday.
- Turnips you are holding rot at 6 AM the next Sunday; turnips placed on a table in your house don’t.
- Red turnips are grown, not traded: they are also the first step of the golden axe trade.
Top-earning fish and bugs
| Catch | Sells for | Where | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
 Stringfish | 15,000 | River | 4 PM–9 AM |
 Dorado | 15,000 | River | 4 AM–9 PM |
 Shark | 15,000 | Sea | 4 PM–9 AM |
 Coelacanth | 15,000 | Sea (rain or snow) | 4 PM–9 AM |
 Horned hercules | 12,000 | On palm trees | 11 PM–8 AM |
 Arowana | 10,000 | River | 4 PM–9 AM |
 Arapaima | 10,000 | River | 4 PM–9 AM |
 Blue marlin | 10,000 | Sea | All day |
 Giant beetle | 10,000 | On trees | 11 PM–8 AM |
 Rainbow stag | 10,000 | On trees | 7 PM–8 AM |
 Hammerhead shark | 8,000 | Sea | 4 PM–9 AM |
 Atlas beetle | 8,000 | On palm trees | 7 PM–8 AM |
FAQ
What is the fastest way to make Bells in Wild World?
Catch beetles and sharks on summer nights, hit the money rock every day and plant foreign fruit. Turnips can pay off hugely if Nook’s price spikes.
How much is foreign fruit worth?
500 Bells each, against 100 for your native fruit.
How does the money tree work?
Bury a bag of Bells with the golden shovel. Each 1,000 Bells buried adds about a 1% chance of a tree, and a tree always bears three bags of 30,000 Bells.
Sources & picture credits
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