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How to get an ironwood dresser in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Where do you find it, and what do you need to make it?

You want to have your room look its best while you live on your island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. An ideal room reflects your personality, and the game has a variety of different furniture pieces available for you to choose from when making your choice. Something you can add to your Animal Crossing: New Horizons house is called the ironwood dresser.

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How to get the recipe for an ironwood dresser in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

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To craft an ironwood dresser, you first need to obtain the recipe for this item. You won’t always be able to find them by speaking to villagers or finding one on sale in Nook’s Cranny. Instead, you need to rely on the luck of locating it in a message in a bottle.

Messages in a bottle come to your home once a day. You can find them washed up on your beach after the new day starts. When you open it, they come with a message inside of them and a random DIY recipe. Finding the ironwood dresser inside the bottle is one of the best, easiest ways to locate it. When you find it, it will require seven pieces of wood and four iron nuggets to craft.

In the Happy Home Paradise DLC, the ironwood dresser is unlocked for use in designing when doing a vacation home request for Angus, Aurora, Axel, Beardo, Boomer, Boyd, Chabwick, Chief, Curt, Gala, Merry, Miranda, Pompom, Portia, Ribbot, Spike, Sprocket, Tad, Ursala, and Vivian.

What is an ironwood dresser in Animal Crossing: New Horizons?

Ironwood dresser in all five of its wood finishes in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
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The ironwood dresser in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a customizable furniture item that is part of the Ironwood Series. It functions as a wardrobe and allows you to change your clothes in the game and customize the outfits that you have. You can also place smaller items and furniture on top of it.

You can obtain the ironwood dresser from crafting, while its lumber type can be changed to your liking by using customization kits or through Cyrus at Harv’s Island in exchange for 4,500 Bells.

What are the other items in the Ironwood Furniture Set?

Some of the villagers in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
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There are a total of 10 different furniture items in the Ironwood Furniture Set in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Each of them is available in five different color variations: Birch, Teak, Walnut, Old, and Oak. This depends on the wood you use in the crafting recipe. Here are the item requirements for each of the furniture pieces in the Ironwood Furniture Set:

  • Ironwood Bed – 20 Wood, 10 Iron Nugget
  • Ironwood Cart – six Wood, four Iron Nugget
  • Ironwood Chair – three Wood, two Iron Nugget
  • Ironwood Clock – three Wood, two Iron Nugget
  • Ironwood Cupboard – 12 Wood, six Iron Nugget, 1 Ironwood Dresser
  • Ironwood DIY Workbench – 12 Wood, six Iron Nugget, 1 Mini DIY workbench
  • Ironwood Dresser – seven Wood, four Iron Nugget
  • Ironwood Kitchenette – four Wood, three Iron Nugget, one Ironwood Dresser, one Cutting Board
  • Ironwood Low-table – six Wood, four Iron Nugget
  • Ironwood Table – 12 Wood, six Iron Nugget
  • Ironwood Table – 12 Wood, six Iron Nugget

There are numerous other tasks to finish in Animal Crossing, such as gathering up all of the bugs, fish, and fossils found throughout the islands, or learning how to make hybrid versions of all the flowers. There’s always something to keep you busy.

How to get more recipes for items in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

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Be diligent in visiting your villagers in their houses to chance upon potential recipes. Once you’ve spent enough time building a good relationship with them, you can chance upon them crafting a random recipe by talking to them. The ironwood dresser is a furniture item that can be seen in the homes of Cyd, Drift, and Wolfgang. Because of this, it has a chance to be purchasable if you were invited by any of them.


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