How To Get A Floating Present In Animal Crossing

First, You Need a Slingshot

A Slingshot is the only way to pop the balloons that hold floating presents, so, naturally, you’ll need one. Players can purchase the Slingshot DIY recipe from Timmy after completing Tom Nook’s DIY workshop during the tutorial. After that, you can buy a Slingshot from Nook’s Cranny if you don’t feel like crafting one.

How to Get a Floating Present

What Can You Get From Floating Presents?

Floating presents can contain any of the following: Bells, materials (such as Iron Nuggets or Clay), DIY recipes, furniture, and clothing. Community data mining suggests that Bells are most common, appearing in about 38% of presents. Materials are the next most common, occurring in 32%. Recipes appear in about 17% of them, furniture in about 9%, and clothing in almost 4%. The color of a balloon seems to influence what’s in a floating present.

Yellow balloon: Floating present is very likely to contain Bells but may have other items.Blue balloon: Floating present is very likely to contain materials but may include other items.Green balloon: Floating present is likely to contain a DIY Recipe or Clothing and might hold Furniture. It will never have Bells or materials.Red balloon: Floating present is likely to contain Clothing, Furniture, or a DIY Recipe. It will never have Bells or materials.

Advanced Tips for More Floating Presents

You can’t ‘farm’ floating presents by forcing them to appear. However, if you’re interested in maximizing your gains, you can improve your chances with a better understanding of how and when they appear.

Floating presents only appear on your island’s eastern and western shores, and they follow an east-to-west (or vice-versa) flight path. You can improve the odds of spotting a present by searching your island’s eastern and western shores.Presents switch the side on which they appear on a 12-hour, night-an-day cycle. In other words, if you see a floating present appear on the eastern side of your island during the day, you can expect additional ones to appear on the east side until that night.Time matters, as well. Floating presents appear at times that end in a 4 or 9, such as 3:24 or 3:29. It’ll take about a minute for the present to reach the shore of your island. They’re not guaranteed to appear at these times, however.Floating presents won’t appear if you have a visitor on your island.