Animal Crossing: New Horizons Young Spring Bamboo recipe list

During the springtime, Animal Crossing: New Horizons players on Switch are able to collect Young Spring Bamboo from bamboo thickets.

Based on our tests, it appears that players can only harvest the Young Spring Bamboo during spring months. This means it’ll be available from March to May for Northern Hemisphere players and from September to November for Southern Hemisphere players.

Recipes that require Young Spring Bamboo can only drop during these months. The recipes will drop from balloons. They can also appear in Bottled Messages on the beach.

Note that there are other bamboo furnishings in the game but these are the ones that the game considers “seasonal,” since they use resources (in this case, Young Spring Bamboo) that can only be collected at specific times of the year.

To get Young Spring Bamboo, just hit bamboo thickets with your Stone Axe. It will spit out Young Spring Bamboo and Bamboo randomly. It will still drop the regular Bamboo year-round.

If you don’t have any bamboo thickets growing on your island, you can find some on Mystery Island Tours.

We’ve put together all of the seasonal bamboo recipes we know of below.

Bamboo-grove Wall

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• Seven Young Spring Bamboo
• Three Bamboo Shoots

Light Bamboo Rug

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• Six Young Spring Bamboo

Bamboo Wand

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• Six Young Spring Bamboo
• Three Star Fragments

Basket Pack

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• Six Young Spring Bamboo

Green-leaf Pile

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• One Young Spring Bamboo
• 10 Weeds

Steamer-basket Set

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• Six Young Spring Bamboo

Bamboo-shoot Lamp

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• Four Young Spring Bamboo
• Five Bamboo Shoots
• Four Clay

Bamboo Noodle Slide

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• Seven Young Spring Bamboo
• Three Wood

Pan Flute

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• Seven Young Spring Bamboo

Bamboo Doll

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• Six Young Spring Bamboo

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