Fruits!

One of the first things you may notice when you start playing animal crossing is that there are many trees. Among those trees you find that you only have trees with one certain type of fruit, that is your towns native fruit. Selling fruit is the simplest way to earn the initial money to start construction on your home. Foreign fruit sells much higher but if you are just starting out and have no friends it may be difficult to get any. The types of fruits available in the game are oranges, apples, pears, lemons, peaches, cherry, banana, persimmon, mango, durian, lychee, and coconuts.

Each towns native fruit is assigned randomly, thus if you have friends that also play the game you could all have different ones and exchange fruits with each other. Planting the fruit will produce a tree. Coconuts is a fruit that you could get randomly by one washing up on your shore. Unlike most trees that produce three fruits the coconuts and banana trees only produce two. One way to get the fruits is to play a game on the island, in certain games you can bring things back with you such as fruits.

There are also perfect fruits in the game. Each player starts out with a tree that is filled with perfect fruit, I actually did not realize this and sold that fruit when I started playing. Perfect fruit sells for a bigger amount of money. Villagers like asking the player for perfect fruit but it is way too rare to give away. Fertilizers in the game increase the chance of getting perfect fruit but it is completely random. It is easy to tell when you have a perfect fruit because the color will be much different than the original fruit tree.