Animal Crossing: New Horizons Spooky Pumpkin DIY recipe list

Celebrate the scariest time of the year with some pumpkin decor

By Julia Lee@hardykiwis Sep 30, 2020, 3:08pm EDT

A horned Animal Crossing character ominously stares at the camera while surrounded by pumpkin furnishings

Julia Lee (she/her) is a guides producer, writing guides for games like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Genshin Impact. She helped launch the Rift Herald in 2016.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons now has pumpkin-themed Spooky DIY recipes to collect so you can celebrate the Halloween season.

Recipes for the Spooky set will only be available during October. While you can use the recipes during other months once you have them, you’ll only be able to find them during October.

Marshal offers a player a recipe for a Spooky Tower

During this period, you will be able to find seasonal recipes that use Pumpkins talking to your villagers who are crafting in their houses. Other players have reported that you can shoot the Spooky recipes down from balloons, but we haven’t confirmed this ourselves.

If you’re still missing recipes on Oct. 31, your villagers will give you them in exchange for Candy, which can be bought from Nook’s Cranny. The Spooky Rug, Flooring, and Wall belong in the set, but they have no recipe. You can only obtain them from giving your villagers Candy on Halloween. There are some recipes that you can only get on Halloween as well. If you don’t grab all of the recipes by the time October ends, you’ll be out of luck until next year (unless you time travel).

You can also customize a bulk of the Spooky items, though you’ll need different colored Pumpkins to do so, rather than using Customization Kits.

A customization screen in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, showing turning a Spooky Tower green from orange.

Throughout the month, you’ll also be able to buy a bulk of these items from Nook’s Cranny. You’ll only need the recipes if you want to be able to make these items year-round.

To get Pumpkins, you’ll have to grow them using seedlings you can buy from Nook’s Cranny.