Nook's Cranny

Template:Infobox nookstore Nook's Cranny (Japanese: タヌキ商店 Tanuki Shop) is the first incarnation of Tom Nook's Store in games prior to Animal Crossing: New Leaf, where it is replaced by Nookling Junction. It is open from 9 AM to 10 PM (8 AM to 10 PM in City Folk).

Nook's Cranny returns in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, but with some significant differences: it is operated by Timmy and Tommy, its inventory is larger, and upgraded versions of the store are also named "Nook's Cranny". Like City Folk, it is open from 8 AM to 10 PM, but the upgrades may change this.

Appearances

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The interior of Nook's Cranny in Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival.

Nook's Cranny has a generally similar layout with minor variations in Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival, Animal Crossing, Animal Crossing: Wild World, and Animal Crossing: City Folk. In the back of the store 2 pieces of furniture stand alone. To the left of them is a long table that spans the whole wall except for space for Nook's Point-Tracking System. In the middle there is a table for three tools. To the bottom right of the table, there are some vases.

The store itself resembles a shed, made with wooden planks and held together with metal sheets. In fact, it is even stated that Tom Nook's shop may be Tortimer's old gardening shed before he became mayor.

In Animal Crossing: City Folk, Nook's Cranny supplies a wallpaper, a flooring, a flower seed, medicine, two pieces of furniture, three tools (two in Animal Crossing: Wild World, and one in Animal Crossing (GCN)) and some writing paper. During the month of October, one of the tools will be replaced with a piece of candy (except in Wild World). The player must spend and/or sell a total of 25,000 Bells and play for at least eight days for an upgrade.

This store is also available as a model after spending at least 30,000 Bells in Wild World and City Folk.

In New Horizons

Construction and initial layout

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the deserted island initially has no store building. Players can still buy and sell goods with Timmy in the Resident Services tent in the meantime, but constructing a store requires reaching several milestones:

• Pay off the initial 5,000 Nook Miles debt
• Upgrade from a tent to a house
• Donate 5 unique bugs/fish to Tom Nook and place Blathers' tent

The next day, upon entering Resident Services, Timmy and Tom Nook will be seen discussing opening a store on the island. Speak to Timmy to learn more and be asked to supply crafting materials for the store's construction:

• 30 softwood
• 30 wood
• 30 hardwood
• 30 iron nuggets

These materials do not need to be submitted all at once, but Timmy will insist that each material be given to him in full. He will turn down any quantities lower than 30. After submitting all materials, Timmy will hand over a tent for the player to choose the store's location, and the new Nook's Cranny will open at 8 AM the following day. Timmy and Tommy mention that they decided to name the store after a shop that Tom Nook ran long ago.

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Nook's Cranny offers four pieces of furniture (two that are limited and two that are unlimited), a full set of flimsy tools plus the slingshot, three types of flower seeds, two types of saplings, the island's native fruit, medicine, an umbrella, wrapping paper, Party Poppers, Customization Kits, DIY Recipes for flimsy tools and some furniture, four wallpapers, and four floorings. Everything aside from the two limited furniture items has an unlimited stock and can be purchased multiple times.

First upgrade

In order to upgrade Nook's Cranny, the player must spend/sell 250,000 Bells and have Resident Services upgraded from a tent to a permanent building. Once these thresholds have been met, Isabelle will mention during daily announcements that business at Nook's Cranny has been booming and as a result, it will be expanded. The store will close down for renovation the next day, and re-open the day after.

This second iteration of Nook's Cranny offers six pieces of furniture (four limited and two unlimited), eight tools of varying quality, two umbrellas, two wrapping papers, medicine, party poppers, nine types of flower seeds, Customization Kits, nine DIY Recipes, the island's native fruit, a Timer, eight wallpapers, and eight floorings.

Design

Exterior

• Animal Forest

  Animal Forest

• Animal Crossing

  Animal Crossing

• Dòngwù Sēnlín

  Dòngwù Sēnlín

• Animal Crossing: Wild World

  Animal Crossing: Wild World

• Animal Crossing: City Folk

  Animal Crossing: City Folk

• New Horizons

  New Horizons

Interior

• Animal Forest

  Animal Forest

• Animal Crossing

  Animal Crossing

• Animal Crossing: Wild World

  Animal Crossing: Wild World

• Animal Crossing: City Folk

  Animal Crossing: City Folk

• New Horizons

  New Horizons

Trivia

• 'Nook's Cranny' is a pun on 'nook and cranny', meaning a small corner or hole.
• It is the only one of Nook's shops without an automatic door.
• Nook's Cranny appears in the Mario Kart 8 Animal Crossing track.
• Despite having two brown pots in the front of his shop, they aren't for sale. In fact, they weren't even furniture items in this game yet.
• In Animal Forest, after closing hours, you can hit a shovel at his door. After 3 times, the lights fade to turn on as the door opens. You see him in his pajamas, and for intruding his shop, he will increase the regular item price by 20%.