Animal Crossing: How to get star shards

The star shards in Animal Crossing are not that easy to collect. It takes patience to get all the possible shooting stars.

How to get star shards in Animal Crossing

To collect star shards, you should check in on your island in Animal Crossing very regularly. If Melinda announces a starry night with shooting stars when she greets you, you know that you have a particularly high chance of collecting them.

• Come to the island at night and look up at the sky by moving the stick on the controller up. Now wait to see shooting stars in the sky.

• As soon as you see a shooting star, press A on the controller. Make sure you don’t have any tools in your hand. You won’t get the star shards immediately. However, it’s worth looking at the sky for a while and catching as many shooting stars as possible.

• The next day, take a good look around your island. You’ll find as many star shards as there were shooting stars the night before.

How to use star shards

The star shards you collect can be used for various things in Animal Crossing.

• At the beginning, you can use the star shards to create the star staff, for which you received the instructions from Eufemia. The staff helps you to change your clothes faster.

• Eufemia will give you further instructions that can be created with star shards. It is important to note that there are different star shards for different seasons and that the instructions vary accordingly. This is how star sign items can be created.

• By the way: If you have entered your birth date correctly, it is worth looking at the sky particularly often during your own star sign. During this time, you have a higher chance of getting special star shards.

• Of course, you can also take the collected star shards to Nook’s shop and get Staris in return. However, it is much more profitable to first create items from the star shards and then sell them.