Money tree

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Appearances Animal Crossing,
Animal Crossing: Wild World,
Animal Crossing: City Folk
Main appearances

Other appearances

Money Trees are a type of tree in Animal Crossing series. To grow them, the player buries a bag of money using a golden shovel. After the tree is grown, if it blooms there are three bags of the amount of bells the player has planted, or 30,000 bell bags; whichever is lower amount appears. The tree will bloom, and thus produce money, only once.

  • In Animal Crossing for the GameCube, money trees can be planted with the regular or golden shovel by burying money in the daily shiny spot in the player's town.

Money Tree Probability

The trees likelihood of blooming is based on the amount of bells buried. The maximum number of bells a tree will produce is 90,000 bells so burying more than 90,000 bells wastes bells. Despite the potential profit, Money Trees are not statistically profitable, having the player lose money on the long run because the expected return will never exceed the amount invested.P.S. they didnt know that the bell tree was IN animal crossing new leaf.>:(

Bells Buried Bloom Chance Bells Dropped Expected Return Percentage Return
1,000 1% 3,000 30 3%
5,000 5% 15,000 750 15%
10,000 10% 30,000 3,000 30%
20,000 20% 60,000 12,000 60%
30,000 30% 90,000 27,000 90%
40,000 40% 90,000 36,000 90%
50,000 50% 90,000 45,000 90%
60,000 60% 90,000 54,000 90%
70,000 70% 90,000 63,000 90%
80,000 80% 90,000 72,000 90%
90,000 90% 90,000 81,000 90%
100,000 100% 90,000 90,000 90%
110,000 100% 90,000 90,000 82%
120,000 100% 90,000 90,000 75%

DONT GO FOR 110,000 OR 120,000!

Use of a Clover

A 4-leaf-clover planted underneath the money tree does not affect the probability of the tree blooming and producing money. It will only prevent the tree from wilting as it does for a normal tree.

Dealing with Deforestation

The ability to grow money trees is tremendously useful with dealing with large amounts of deforestation, possibly caused by the player due to an inconvenient tree layout. Players with 10,000 bells can plant over 100 trees in one day. Though this is slightly more expensive than purchasing saplings from Tom Nook, it is much quicker.