In a Nintendo direct back in mid-October, Animal Crossing: New Horizons revealed that a new update would bring exciting features, including gyroids! With the long-awaited update finally arriving, players have been running through the island and trying out cooking and planting and gyroid hunting. Gyroids aren't exactly new, but many may still wonder—what exactly are gyroids? How do you find and grow them? Well, we've got the answers for you in this Animal Crossing Gyroid Guide!
Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Guide to Gyroids
What are gyroids?
Long-time fans of the Animal Crossing franchise may remember that Brewster used to store gyroids at The Roost in City Folk. Then in New Leaf, gyroids were buried underground for players to dig up and collect. Now in New Horizons, players can also obtain these pieces from underground, but more on how to find them in a bit.
Gyroids are semi-sentient decoration pieces—in other words, they are quite like fossils except they sing and dance. How they appear and what sounds they make wholly depend on the type of gyroid, so there's a whole diversity of them that we'll list in the next section. Their names do try to give a rough description of the type of sound they make. For example, “Whistloid” has a, well, whistling sound, while “Oinkoid” copies the sounds that pigs makes. What's more, they can imitate the music if you're playing some songs nearby, syncing up with K.K. Slider tunes.
Besides their strange yet adorable appearance, gyroids can be customized to match your room decorations. Just head over to a DIY workbench and have a customization kit ready so you can change their colors. And by planting them (again, more details down below), you can grow them to create even more gyroids to spice up your Animal Crossing lives. What cuteness (or horror)!
Complete list of gyroids in New Horizons
Now that we've got a sense of what gyroids can do or are useful for, here's a rundown of all 36 gyroids that you can find in New Horizons.
- Aluminoid
- Arfoid
- Babbloid
- Bedoid
- Bloopoid
- Boioingoid
- Boomoid
- Brewstoid
- Bubbloid
- Bwongoid
- Clatteroid
- Crumploid
- Dootoid
- Drummoid
- Flutteroid
- Jingloid
- Laseroid
- Oinkoid
- Petaloid
- Rattloid
- Ringoid
- Rumbloid
- Scatteroid
- Spikenoid
- Sproingoid
- Squeakoid
- Squeezoid
- Stelloid
- Thwopoid
- Tockoid
- Tremoloid
- Twangoid
- Wallopoid
- Whirroid
- Whistloid
- Xylophoid
Where to find gyroids
Players can find gyroids buried underground and it's actually quite easy to spot them. You'll be able to notice small, star-shaped holes, signaling you to dig them up. That being said, remember that gyroids will only appear on the island if it rained the day before.
If it didn't rain, no need to worry! Players can still collect gyroids by going on Kapp'n boat tours. Do note, however, that you can only go on the boat ride once per day. Players will then get to explore new islands with new stuff to discover—including gyroids. Or rather, gyroid fragments.
If you ride the boat and head to a new island, you'll still see the star holes. However, when you dig them up, you won't be able to retrieve a whole or fully grown gyroid. Instead you get a fragment of it. Think of it as a baby gyroid or a seed of a plant, or a branch that you can replant (sort of like how some plants can be regrown, not from the seed but from a part of the mature plant). We'll discuss planting and growing these fragments in the next section.
How to grow gyroids from fragments / What to do with gyroids
Now that you've headed back to your island, you can now plant your gyroid fragments and soon enough turn them into full gyroids. Just dig a hole, bury the fragment, and then water it. It's a bit of a strange indicator, but players will see the buried fragment to start steaming up. And voila, by the next a day, you can “harvest” the gyroid as a fully grown singing-dancing decor.
If you'd rather decorate using the fragments, feel free to do so, too. With the gyroids, players can add some color and singing madness on the ground, on tables, and so on. Otherwise, you can also sell these gyroids, though they don't rake in much. Although, if you grow enough of them, you'd be able to collect a substantial amount too—I can respect the hustle.
Aside from direct sale, though, you actually earn Nook Miles rewards from collecting gyroids. When you find your first gyroid, you get 300 Miles, alongside the titles “Rain-Soake” and “Gyroid.” After that, there are three “Gyroid Getter” levels or tiers for gyroid collection. On the first level, you need to find 5 gyroids to get the “Distinctive” and “Curator” titles, while the second level requires 15 gyroids for “Whimsical” and “Statue” titles. Finally, the third level entails collecting 20 gyroids so you can earn the “Novel” and “Symbol” titles.
Whatever you choose to do with gyroids, and whether you try to collect all 36 at all or just the ones with not-so-strange sounds, these gyroid mechanics are sure to add some (noisy) cute twists to your Animal Crossing: New Horizons experience.
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