Tools are those everyday items you can use to gather other items.
Gold Tools
Golden Shovel
Effect: Can be used to grow a money tree, and makes fertilizer more effective.
Requirement: Talk to Lazy the sloth after purchasing at least 50 fertilizers from the gardening shop.
Golden Axe
Effect: Never breaks, cuts down trees faster, and sometimes creates a rare stump pattern.
Requirement: Talk to Lazy the sloth after purchasing at least 50 tree saplings from the gardening shop.
Golden Net
Effect: Has a much wider capture range than a regular net.
Requirement: Talk to the bug catching tournament host after catching every bug in the game.
Golden Fishing Rod
Effect: Fish are much more likely to bite and will bite down much longer than with a regular rod.
Requirement: Talk to the fishing tournament host after catching every fish in the game.
Golden Watering Can
Effect: Has a much wider watering range than a regular can.
Requirement: Talk to Shizu after maintaining 15 days of perfect environmental conditions.
Golden Slingshot
Effect: Fires 3 shots at once.
Requirement: Shoot down the present with 3 gold balloons attached to it.
Silver tools
Silver Shovel
Effect: Striking the "money rock" can rarely produce ores instead of bells.
Requirement: Purchase from the museum's second floor extension after donating at least 15 fossils.
Silver Axe
Effect: More durable than a regular axe, and always creates a rare stump pattern.
Requirement: Purchase from the island shop for 8 medals.
Silver Net
Effect: Has a wider capture range than a regular net.
Requirement: Purchase from the museum's second floor extension after donating at least 30 bugs.
Silver Fishing Rod
Effect: Fish are more likely to bite and will bite down longer than with a regular rod.
Requirement: Purchase from the museum's second floor extension after donating at least 30 fish.
Silver Watering Can
Effect: Has a wider watering range than a regular can.
Requirement: Talk to Lazy the sloth after purchasing at least 50 flower seeds from the gardening shop.
Silver Slingshot
Effect: Fires 2 shots at once.
Requirement: Shoot down the present with 2 silver balloons attached to it.
