Here’s how to build the Robot Hero in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
By now, many of you have probably met Gulliver, the cantankerous seagull that occasionally shows up on the beach and asks for your help with his communications equipment. If you were left on an island after abandoning ship, you’d probably be pretty upset too.
If you help Gulliver out, he’ll leave you with two gifts. While one is presented to you just as soon as he gets “rescued,” the other is left for you to discover at the Resident Services building.
You see, after helping Gulliver in his travels, you’ll be able to start collecting Rusted Parts from the Recycling Bin in Resident Services. As best we can tell, every time you help Gulliver out he’ll leave you with a Rusted Parts in the bin. Since Gulliver drops by a few times per week, this means acquiring Rusted Parts can take some time, but if you get enough, you’ll be able to make one of the highest-level items in New Horizons: the Robot Hero.
The Robot Hero blueprint can be acquired from the Nook Stop terminal for 5,000 Nook Miles. Crafting the Robot Hero is no small feat, as you can see in the ingredients list here:
- 30 Rusted Parts
- 90 Iron Nuggets
- 10 Gold Nuggets
- 1 Gold Armor
- 1 Rocket
That’s right: 30 Rusted Parts. That will easily be the biggest bottleneck in creating the Robot Hero, but the Rocket and Gold Armor are also going to be tough components to come by. Both the Gold Armor and the Rocket are DIY recipes that can only be acquired randomly from villagers, balloons, or messages in a bottle. Gold Armor requires 8 gold nuggets, while the Rocket requires Star Fragments (which you can read about their acquisition here).
But if you manage to get all those ingredients, you’ll be able to place a 9x9 giant robot statue anywhere you can find room. You can even interact with it to hear a fun jingle and have it shoot laser eyes--sort of.