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Animal Crossing games have always featured fun holiday events that players look forward to all year. If you’re seeking an enjoyable activity on a special day, try the Turkey Day event in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. During this event, you help Franklin prepare a feast by gathering various ingredients.
While helping Franklin set up a banquet at the plaza, he will reward you with limited-time holiday decoration items to make your home feel festive. To do this, gather ingredients for four delicious dishes and enjoy celebrating with your villagers.
Turkey Day Overview
If you log into Animal Crossing: New Horizons on Thanksgiving in the United States—held on the last Thursday of November—you can participate in Turkey Day. The event runs from 9 a.m. to midnight outside Town Services, in the plaza area.
In the plaza, Franklin, the turkey chef, will be busy preparing a big feast. He’ll be standing in front of a table with a variety of dishes, but he needs missing ingredients to complete his recipes. Your task is to collect these ingredients for him, completing four fetch quests. Each dish requires an initial ingredient Franklin asks for. Some dishes also have a secret ingredient, and bringing these will earn you extra rewards.
How to Gather Ingredients
The main way to collect ingredients for Turkey Day is by sourcing them around your island. Franklin requests fish, produce, and other items, so if you’ve set up a garden with crop seeds, you probably already have some of what he needs.
You can also find villagers cooking inside their homes. They often need one missing ingredient. If you help them out, they’ll reward you with an ingredient to use for your Turkey Day quests.
Participate in the event between 9 a.m. and noon to enjoy a festive Thanksgiving celebration with your villagers.
All Turkey Day Meals
| Meal | Requested Ingredients | Secret/Bonus Ingredient |
|---|---|---|
| Clam Chowder | – | Scallop |
| Fish Meunière | Dab, Flour, Olive Flounder, Red Snapper, Sea Bass | Barred Knifejaw |
| Gratin | Carrot, Flat Mushroom, Oyster, Potato, Mussel, Round Mushroom, Skinny Mushroom | Dungeness Crab |
| Pumpkin Pie | 1 Orange Pumpkin, 1 Green/White/Yellow Pumpkin | The other two pumpkin colors |
(Note: ingredients may vary slightly depending on whether you’re playing in the Southern Hemisphere, where spring harvests occur instead of autumn.)
Rewards for Completing Turkey Day
Completing the event rewards you with various harvest-themed decor items for your home or town. Since Franklin randomly requests these meals, you’ll have a total of eight rewards—two for each dish.
| Dish Number | Requested Item Reward | Bonus Reward |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turkey Day Rug | Extra DIY pack for the rug |
| 2 | Turkey Day Wall | Extra DIY pack for the wall |
| 3 | Turkey Day Flooring | Extra DIY pack for flooring |
| 4 | Cornucopia | Extra DIY pack for the cornucopia |
The bonus rewards include three DIY recipes for Turkey Day furniture. The final reward, the Cozy Turkey Day DIY Pack, contains DIY recipes to craft all the furniture items received from Franklin, plus some cute extras if you want to make duplicates.
By participating in the event and helping Franklin, you get to enjoy a festive holiday with your villagers and add charming harvest-themed decorations to your island.
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