How To Do May Day Maze 2021

It'south May Day this Saturday, and to Animal Crossing: New Horizons players, this ways the return of the May Day Maze.

Terminal year'southward maze was i of the first seasonal events in the still-immature game. This year the May Mean solar day Maze will once once more be running between April 29th and May seventh — just other than that, things are a little bit different. The 2021 event boasts a brand-new maze and some different rewards, so even long-time ACNH players should see something new if they accept the time to play over again.

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Again the event will be hosted past Rover, the wanderlust-filled blue cat who was a major NPC in several previous Animal Crossing games. His part in ACNH is sadly reduced, and this ix-mean solar day event is the only opportunity you'll become to meet him all year — so become on it, Rover fans!

How to get and use May Day Tickets
Who can play the May Twenty-four hour period Maze 2021?
Animal Crossing: New Horizons — May Mean solar day Maze 2021 Solution
May Twenty-four hour period Maze: Things to know before y'all begin
May Solar day Maze 2021, Part 1: Crafting a ladder
May Mean solar day Maze 2021, Office two: Finding Rover
May Day Maze 2021, Office three: Collecting Bong Vouchers
What are the rewards for completing the May Day Maze 2021?

How to get and utilise May Day Tickets

The first time you play Beast Crossing: New Horizons on or after Apr 29th, Isabelle will mention the May Solar day celebrations in her morning announcement. If y'all talk to your animal villagers, chances are skillful they'll be pretty excited for information technology likewise. They all urge y'all to become to your island's Airdrome and pick upwardly a May Day Ticket.

So head into the Airport and talk to Orville at the counter. He'll inform you that at that place's a ticket for a special May 24-hour interval Tour back there with your name on information technology, courtesy of Tom Nook. You tin can use information technology any time between April 29th and May 7th by speaking to Orville. Merely say "I wanna fly!" and, when he asks you where you want to get, select "Utilize May Twenty-four hours Ticket".

Who can play the May Day Maze 2021?

The new maze is described as being available to "veteran" players. Players who didn't start their save until later 7th May 2020, or who just didn't complete final yr's event, will be doing the original maze first.

We don't know at the moment whether newer players will be able to do the 2021 maze direct away later, or if you'll need to wait some other yr to catch up.

Update: It seems that comment about "veteran players" was a bit of a red herring, and that anybody will be playing the 2021 maze regardless of when they started their save. Many thanks to the commenters who were able to set usa right about that!

Animal Crossing: New Horizons — May 24-hour interval Maze 2021 Solution

The new May Day Maze for 2021 can be split up into three stages: crafting a ladder, finding Rover, and collecting Bong Vouchers.

We'll tackle each of these in plough. Just beginning, a few words of advice about what you need to know earlier yous begin.

May Day Maze: Things to know before you begin

Due to the nature of the May Day Maze claiming, you'll be leaving everything in your inventory behind with Orville at the airport when you fly out. Don't worry, you go them dorsum automatically once yous make it back on your isle.

Once you arrive at the maze island, you can return to Wilbur at his station near the plane at any time and speak to him to receive hints if y'all're stuck. Even so, these hints — while useful — are fairly generic advice on how to navigate obstacles. Don't await him to provide yous with the solution. Furthermore, on this trip you won't be able to buy replacement tools from Wilbur like you usually would.

Finally, you tin can use your Nook Phone at whatsoever fourth dimension to telephone call the Rescue Service. While you lot're unlikely to get physically trapped, calling them will reset the maze, so they're very handy if you lot mess upwards and need to beginning again. Just be aware that information technology costs 100 Nook Miles per rescue/reset — though since this maze is but available to players who've been playing ACNH for a year or more, I'm guessing that scraping that amount together won't present much of a problem.

And with that, yous're ready to begin the maze.

May 24-hour interval Maze 2021, Function 1: Crafting a ladder

Outset, pick upwardly shovel and utilise information technology to dig up the shrub to the right. Choice up 1x Fruit.

Eat the Fruit and dig upwards the tree that is blocking the path. You can now enter the maze proper.

Collect everything that's immediately attainable: 2x Forest straight ahead and 2x Fruit to the right (for the latter, yous need to hop over a water pit).

Next, become all the manner to the left and dig up the shrub there. Proceed left, jumping over a water pit, and option upward 1x Softwood (and the Ladder recipe if you need it — which, let's be real, y'all about certainly don't). At that place'south a workbench but n of you, just you can't craft anything just yet.

Eat some Fruit and pause the rock with your shovel. Go up and right, cross the water pit, and choice up 2x Softwood.

Then swallow some Fruit and dig up the tree. This clears a path downward. Bound over the h2o pit and collect another 2x Fruit.

Loop all the way back around, navigating the h2o pits, until you are back at the fundamental clearing where you entered the maze. Become back to the right-manus side. Eat some Fruit and pause the rock that blocks the path.

Pick up some other 1x Fruit (you should now have two in full), consume one, and dig upwardly the tree. Choice upwards the 2x Hardwood. Then hop over the h2o pit, eat your last Fruit, and dig up the tree.

In the new area, choice up 1x Fruit and 2x Wood — the latter are semi-subconscious between hedges and tin can be hard to spot, then don't miss them!

Return to the commencement of this area, hop over the water pit, and collect 1x Softwood from the foursquare clearing.

Instead of conveying on in this area, retrace your steps all the way dorsum to the left-hand side. This volition involve a bit of looping around water pits, merely eventually you will reach the workbench y'all saw before. Consume some Fruit, break the rock next to the workbench, and grab the 2x Hardwood.

Now you have four of every type of wood. Return to the workbench and craft a Ladder.

May Mean solar day Maze 2021, Part 2: Finding Rover

At present you have a ladder, y'all tin can move between footing level and cliff level. You probably noticed a tool up on the cliff but higher up where you picked up that ladder recipe earlier (just below the workbench). Utilize your new ladder to climb upward there and choice upwards the Worn Axe.

Tempting equally information technology is to chop downward the 2 nearby trees, don't practise that. The Worn Axe is only skillful for iii swings (i.e. one felled tree) before it breaks, and you can't become another one, so you demand to make it count — or you'll have to phone call in the Rescue Service and restart the whole maze!

Instead, retrace your steps all the manner dorsum to the right-hand side. In the key strip of this area, leap across the water pit to the tree on the left that'south blocking the path.

You lot don't have any Fruit right at present, so yous can't dig it upwards. Instead, utilize your Worn Axe to chop information technology down. The axe volition intermission afterward, simply you don't need it any more. Use your shovel to dig up the stump.

Employ your ladder to climb up on the cliff and collect the 2x Fruit up there. Then dig up the shrub and climb downward dorsum to footing level in the spot it was blocking. You lot're now back in the area just south of the workbench.

Head up past the workbench to the 2 trees that are blocking your path. Eat the two Fruits yous merely picked up and dig both copse out of the ground.

Follow the path, climb upwards the cliffs that are blocking the way and pick upwards the 3x Fruit you find there. Then climb down the other side.

Dig up the shrub and hop over the water pit. You're once again dorsum in a familiar function of the maze.

This time, loop around the h2o pits (using the square clearing to turn around in) until you lot reach the tree at the very top of the maze. Eat a piece of Fruit and dig that tree upwardly!

Use your ladder to climb up the cliff and speak to Rover. He'll ask how you've been in the year since he concluding saw you lot: you can either put a brave face on things, or accept the opportunity to cascade your heart out. Either manner, he'll be very pleasant and hope to write to y'all shortly.

Optional: Climb down the cliffs to Rover's right, and so y'all're on the beach. Run all the way back to the beginning and dig up three shrubs, hopping over the water pit in the middle.

This will bring you back to the starting time of the maze, right adjacent to Wilbur and the plane. However, don't leave even so! This just makes it easier to explore the isle and go dorsum to conversation to Rover once again without having to run through the maze every time.

May Twenty-four hour period Maze 2021, Role 3: Collecting Bell Vouchers

You can go out the maze island later speaking to Rover, and if you choose to do so, you lot have technically completed the event successfully. But if you practise this, you'll miss out on several Bong Vouchers that are still waiting to exist picked upwardly within the maze.

So instead, utilize your ladder to climb downward the cliff to the left of Rover's campfire. The placement of shrubs here might make information technology look similar y'all tin can't become down there, but you can.

Dig up the shrub to the left and pick up the 4x Bell Vouchers.

Go to the top of the island. Run all the way along until you reach the upper left-hand corner of the maze. Eat some Fruit, break the rock, and option upward 2x more Fruit.

Leave this area again and head left, onto the beach. Run all the way downwardly to the lesser of the maze. Eat all your remaining Fruit (you lot should have iii left) and intermission the three rocks with your shovel. Pick up the five Bell Tokens in the area you lot just opened up.

Dig up the iii shrubs to the right, hopping over the h2o pit in the eye. You're now back at the showtime of the maze, only in a higher place Wilbur and the plane.

Congratulations, yous did it! Y'all're now free to explore the maze isle (although in that location's not much left to see, since y'all've dug up only about everything save one lonely shrub).

But you tin can head back up top and chat to Rover some more; or you could fifty-fifty phone call the Rescue Service to re-try the maze if you like. Nonetheless, this will crusade everything to reset, including your inventory, then you tin can't employ it to farm Bell Vouchers I'g afraid.

One time you're ready to get out, talk to Wilbur. He'll give you the usual spiel, merely with the additional reminder that he'south immigration out your inventory. While your tools and resources from the trip volition be gone for good, he promises to postal service you your Bell Vouchers.

What are the rewards for completing the May Day Maze 2021?

Once you lot get back from the maze isle, y'all tin head to Resident Services and talk to Tom Nook. This won't become you any concrete rewards, only you'll become a special bit of dialogue where he thanks you for taking part in the May Solar day celebrations, and expresses his gratitude for all that you do for the island and its customs. Information technology's a rare sweetness moment where he doesn't try to sell you lot anything, so make the about of information technology!

However, if you're all about more tangible rewards, you'll need to wait a day or two and and so check your mailbox. Wilbur will be mailing those 9 Bell Vouchers, so once they arrive you'll be able to have them to Nook's Cranny and exchange them for a cool 27,000 Bells.

You've also got that letter from Rover to expect forward to. Concluding year, the gift for completing the May Day Maze was Rover's Briefcase, which he handed off to you lot in person. This year, your gift arrives in the mail service and contains Rover's Photo.

This works merely like villager photos: you tin can place it on brandish, and interacting with information technology gives you a short bio most Rover. You can besides modify its frame to ane of 8 variants using 1x Customization Kit.

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