Animal Crossing: Wild World - Turnip Guide Written by: miknayl In order to make things easier to find, press Ctrl+F (or Command+F) and type in the 4-letter code next to the section you are looking for. ================================= Table of Contents [TOCO] ================================= I. Introduction/Welcome! [INTR] II. Version History [VRSN] III. What are Turnips? [TRNP] IV. Red Turnips [REDT] V. White Turnips [WHTT] VI. Stalk Market Online! [ONLN] VII. Unconfirmed Rumors [UNCF] VIII. Cheating = Bad [EBAD] IX. Contact Information [CTCT] X. Credits and Thanks [THNX] XI. Legal Information [LEGL] ================================= ================================= I. Introduction/Welcome! [INTR] ================================= Welcome to the Turnip Guide for Animal Crossing: Wild World! This is my first FAQ, and though this game is a bit dated, I found that there was no complete guide to turnips, so I decided to write this in the hope that the reader will become more educated about turnips and the "stalk market." Read on! ================================= II. Version History [VRSN] ================================= 1.0 7/19/11 12:35 PM The guide is finished, but I may need to add sections later on, like FAQs and unconfirmed rumors. Awaiting acceptance... 1.2 7/19/11 4:09 PM Added an Unconfirmed Rumors section, as well as a Cheating = Bad section. Corrected some spelling and grammar errors. Also changed some wording and contact information. Updated Credits and Thanks. 1.5 7/23/11 This FAQ has been accepted! Let's hear it, people. I'm getting about 30 hits a day, as of 7/20/11. Added websites that are permitted to post this FAQ in the Legal Information section. 1.6 9/11/11 First off, pray for the families of the victims of 9/11... 10 years ago on this day, planes crashed into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center. The Pentagon was hit as well, and one plane was hijacked and intended for the White House. The passengers overpowered the terrorists, and the plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania instead. There were no survivors. On a happier note, this FAQ has reached 1596 hits on GameFAQs! Let's here it, people! Added a couple questions to the Unconfirmed Rumors section. An FAQ section is not yet available at this time, since I've only had 6 emails, but I won't give up hope! Also updated Credits and the Stalk Market Online! section. ================================= III. What are Turnips? [TRNP] ================================= Turnips are your key to succeeding at your AC:WW game. You will make lots of money if you are wise with your turnips. Even if you aren't being wise, you could still make loads by randomly getting lucky with the stalk market. Anyway, the fundamental key with turnips is the same with stocks: Buy low, sell high. Seasoned veterans with turnips, feel free to skip this section."How do we get these wonderful turnips?" you implore. Simple. Every Sunday, a sow (or boar, not really sure which) named Joan will be in your town from 6 AM to 12 PM. Find her, and she'll tell you all about turnips. The first thing you need to know about turnips is that there are two kinds of turnips: red and white. ================================= IV. Red Turnips [REDT] ================================= Joan obviously has short term memory loss, because she only remembers to bring ONE pack of red turnip seeds with her every Sunday. Not frustrated yet? Don't worry: you will be if you don't know how much money you can make of these things? I recommend buying the pack: after all, it's only 1,000 bells. Now, find area that you are sure you will see every day for at least the next week, and plant the turnip seeds like a flower, so you don't have to dig a hole. Here comes the hard part: you must water this turnip every day until Saturday, or it will die. Not so tortuous, if you play everyday. The catch is that it will die next Sunday anyway, so you MUST sell it on Saturday in order to earn the most money off of it. The frustrating part is that Nook will buy the fully grown red turnip for 15-18,000 Bells. That's why only being able to buy one at atime is so frustrating. And also, if there are days you know you won't be able to play AC:WW, this is a waste of time and money on your part. I suggest doing this only at the beginning of the game as a way to pay off your house debt. The only other time you need a red turnip is to start the secret trading quest amongst town visitors. Read the Special Visitors FAQ by pixelblues to learn more. Moving on, let's get to the nitty-gritty of this guide: white turnips and their awesomeness. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ White Turnips [WHTT] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THIS is the real deal. No more picking fruit, selling fossils, or pawning furniture. Welcome to the main source of income for the rest of your virtual life. Once again, these turnips can be bought from Joan for around 100 bells a piece. Note that turnips must be bought in groups of 10. There is an unlimited supply so buy as many as your greedy little heart desires. You probably want to have a fully upgraded house to get as much money as possible in a short period of time. If you don't have a mansion, you soon will once you start investing in the "stalk market," as Nook calls it. Though most of Joan's white turnip prices hover around 100 bells, the lowest I've ever seen is 90, and the highest I've seen is 131. I suggest buying them at any price up until around 115 bells, because after that, you'll be risking it. Anyway, check Tom Nook's turnip prices every day over the course of the week. As Migitoneo3 says in his money guide, "If you don't get a price that you would make a decent amount of money on by Wednesday, sell on the next price that comes up that will get you your money back. If Nook at any time offers 30 bells more than what you bought them for, sell. It's worth it. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL SATURDAY TO SELL. Why the urgency? Like their red counterparts, white turnips spoil after Saturday." Most of the time, Nook will buy white turnips for between 58-109 bells per turnip. However, about once a week, white turnips will become in low supply and high demand, and he will buy them for between 110-144 bells per turnip. It is in this instance that you want to sell and watch the cash come flowing in. In very rare cases, Nook will buy turnips past the 300 mark. Highest I've seen in my town is 627 bells. I mean, come on! How insanely awesome is that!?!? Granted, this happens maybe once every year, but still. If this happens, preferably when Nook will buy turnips for 300+, take your town to the online stalk market. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stalk Market Online! [ONLN] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you want others to share in your good fortune, post your price on the boards along with your friend code. If you're well known on the boards and have lots of friends, just post something like "ATTN: Friends of (name): High Turnip Prices!" Make sure that you check some of the older board posts regarding brickers, hackers, and seeders to make sure your game stays in good condition. Also, unless you're playing locally with friends that you actually know, you may do well to charge an entrance fee. What this means is that other people who visit your town have to pony up some of their cash to give to you. A good rule of thumb is to charge by this formula: Take the price Nook is buying for. Multiply it 100. Add 15,000 and round up to the nearest thousand. There ya go. As a note, most local people (who you know) will let you in for cheap or free, unless they're like me, and try to make as much money as possible off of everything. Some websites, like Animal Crossing Community (ACC) actually ban entrance fees, and you can get your account deleted if you charge one if you go online through their site. As another note, if a seeder/bricker/hacker comes to your town andmesses it up, SHUT OFF THE POWER IMMEDIATELY. This way whatever they did will(hopefully) not save. Good luck with your turnips and the stalk market! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unconfirmed Rumors [UNCF] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here is the most mysterious part about this guide: unconfirmed rumors. Mainly, rumors about the stalk market that have been circulating around. I'll try to confirm these rumors, though it is very likely that I won't be able to confirm or disconfirm these rumors. On that note, let the questions begin! Rumor: Tom Nook changes his prices after noon of every day. Status: Confirmed. Most of the time, it's only a +/- 15 bell difference, but he does, in fact, change his prices at noon. Rumor: Before Tom Nook offers 300+ bells for turnips, prices will decrease, and then suddenly increase two days before. Status: Still Unconfirmed. Someone had asked me about this a while back, and I never really gave it much thought until I read Liquefy's FAQ. Liquefy analyzed four different "patterns," and from what I could see, he is right: prices will decrease for a few days, then occasionally spike and render some 300+ bell prices. Until I get more notification, or see this for myself, however, this rumor is still unconfirmed. *UPDATE* I have witnessed the "small-spike pattern," but I am still waiting for the "large-spike pattern." Rumor: Turnips do not survive Time Traveling. Status: Confirmed. One of my friends was willing to let me test this out, and this rumor is absolutely true. Turnips will spoil when TTing. Rumor: Tom Nook will buy red turnips from you for different prices, even if they have been watered the same amount of times and you sell them to him on Saturday. Status: Still unconfirmed. Most of the FAQs on here state that Tom Nook will buy fully grown red turnips for 15,000 bells, but my experience is that he buys them from me for 18,000 when I grow them. Interesting... Rumor: If the 25th of December falls on a Sunday, Joan will give you a free pack of red turnips. Status: Busted. There's no way that this could happen, and here's why. First of all, Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, or other religious holidays were never programmed into the game. Second of all, Joan NEVER gives away free turnips, neither red nor white. Lastly, this happened in 2005, and nothing special happened with Joan on that day. Rumor: You can control turnip prices with good "yellow" feng shui, Wishy the Star, lots of Bells in your account, Tom Nook fully upgraded, or a fully upgraded house. Status: Busted. There is no known way to raise Tom Nook's prices for turnips. Someone had emailed me about feng shui, and although I did read the guide posted by pNin01, it appears that turnip prices are not affected by high feng shui. The rest of these are busted, for a better reason: The first day I played my game, Tom Nook bought turnips for 627 Bells apiece. I have never come close to that price again, and I have a fully upgraded house, fully upgraded Tom Nook, approximately 30 million Bells in my bank account, and I've gotten Wishy the Star about thirty times. So unless you have the ultimate feng shui, plus proof, this is a complete fallacy. Rumor: If you TT to get 99,999 bells of interest in your bank account, the turnip prices for the rest of the time you play the game will not exceed 100 bells. Status: Confirmed. That same friend that I tried the TT turnips on let me do it again. Not only will Tom Nook's turnip prices cap out at 100 bells, but a Rafflesia, a big red flower, will spawn in your town, cockroaches will run rampant in your house, and weeds will cover every spot that they can possibly grow. Which brings us to our next section... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cheating = Bad [EBAD] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Okay, here is what annoys me. People should just be able to play this game with minimal complaints and be happy with what they have. Uh uh. SOME people just HAVE to have more bells than their neighbors, so they hack the game or they TT. That, my friends, is cheating. I understand if you want to seed your own town with flowers, trees, or something that won't actually effect you or others that much. I can live with that. The problem is that some people just don't seem to understand that, and instead flood the online community with literally millions of bells. Take, for example, the "table trick." I am not going to explain how to do this, but you can basically store turnips on tables so that they won't spoil. This exploits a loop in the game's coding and defeats the purpose of the stalk market. In real life, would turnips spoil if you put them on a table? For those of you who don't know, yes, they would. Because this doesn't happen in the game, the objective of the game (virtual life) has been defeated by this one, simple glitch. Fortunately for the good, dedicated players, the programmers took into account the issue of time traveling, and coded the game so: 1. Turnips will spoil if you TT, and 2. If you change your in-game clock by means of the telephone in your room, Joan will refuse to sell you any red turnip seeds on Sundays. Take that, cheaters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Contact Information [CTCT] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The first thing I am going to say is this: NO SPAM, VIRUSES, FLAMING, TROJAN HORSES, ETC. HAVE I MADE MYSELF CLEAR!?!? Thank you. Now then, e-mail me if: you have information that I overlooked. you have constructive criticism or compliments. you have worthwhile suggestions on what to include or not include. you have information on the online stalk market that I forgot to mention. you have questions about my guide or turnips in general. you have found spelling or grammar errors. Do NOT e-mail me if: you have info in downloads. I don't trust them, and they will be deleted. you have criticism that is not constructive. the subject line is off-topic. Put something like "AC:WW Turnip Guide". you want to go online with me. For all I know, you could be a deranged lunatic. Any e-mail with downloads, blank or off topic subjects, online requests, or hate mail/unconstructive criticism will be deleted on sight. E-mail me at: miknayl AT gmail DOT com. Take out the AT and DOT and replace it with @ and . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Credits and Thanks [THNX] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -GameFAQs, SBAllen, and the rest of the mods, for hosting this guide and keeping things running smoothly. -Migitoneo3, from whom I quoted his money guide. -pixelblues, from whom I referenced the secret trading quest. -My friend, Ryan H., for letting me test some unconfirmed rumors on his game. -pNin01, for the amazing Feng Shui guide. -DoL Lee, for the question on controlling turnip prices. -Amy Shipley, for the Christmas turnip question. -Me, miknayl, because I wrote this guide and because I can. -Lastly, you, the reader, for taking the time to read this guide. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Legal Information [LEGL] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This file may be reproduced for personal, private use only. It may not be placed on any web site or otherwise distributed publicly without my advance written permission. 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