The latest event for Animal Crossing: New Horizons has arrived and it revolves around solving a rather elaborate maze without any of your gear. Dropped on the island with just your bare hands, you’ll need to Macgyver your way through the various trees, rocks, and shrubs to reach Rover. Thankfully, the maze is exactly the same for everyone, so you don’t need to worry about randomization.
May Day Maze Guide
Below is a step-by-step walkthrough on how to complete the May Day maze, along with a video of the correct path from our Social Editor, Niki. This challenge largely relies on understanding how to navigate the terrain and when to use which tool or ability. If you mess up, break a tool, or somehow become trapped do not close the game. Instead, use Dodo Services on your phone to rescue you. Doing so will reset the maze, allowing you to try again from the beginning.
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- Pick up the shovel and use it to clear the shrub on your left.
- Pick up the fruit and then head back to the tree blocking your path.
- Eat the fruit and use your shovel to lift the entire tree out of the ground.
- Go straight and hop over the two opening and then take a right.
- Pick up the three pieces of wood on the ground and head back the way you came.
- From the central lane, go up, take a left, and hop over the hole.
- Grab the tree branch on the ground and follow the path as it loops back to the central corridor.
- Hop over each of three holes in a line, picking up the tree branches, stone, and worn axe.
- From where you grabbed the stone, head up and to the left until you jump over the hole in the center.
- Continue running left, hop over another hole, and then approach the tree to the north.
- Use the axe to chop down the tree, climb over the tree stump, and pick up another branch and two pieces of fruit.
- Head back the way you came, but this time take the first right where three lanes with holes are lined up.
- Use this to loop around to the rock blocking your path.
- Eat another piece of fruit, shatter the rock with your shovel, and pick up the iron nugget.
- Head back the way you came towards the tree you chopped down with the worn axe.
- When you reach the tree you cut down, head to the right, jump the hole, and continue going right. Do not head down the middle lane beyond the hole.
- Approach the rock, eat a piece of fruit, and shatter it with your shovel.
- Collect the DIY recipes and eat your last piece of fruit so you can remove the tree.
- Craft the Flimsy Axe and then the Axe.
- Head up and then take a left where the three holes are. Jump over each one to reach the center.
- Chop down the tree in front of you and pick up the pieces of fruit.
- From the tree you just chopped down, head north until you are unable to anymore.
- Take a left and run around until you loop back to the center.
- Using the first corridor with the hole on your right, make one last loop and head straight until you reach a tree.
- Chop down the tree, follow the path, and then clear the last three trees in your path.
- Speak to Rover and you will complete the maze!
Your reward for all the effort is Rover’s briefcase and 27,000 Bells in vouchers you can now access. These vouchers are pretty easy to get since you have excess fruit and the tools you obtained in the maze. The first set of vouchers are right next to Rover. Clear out the shrub with the shovel and then pick them all up. Now use the shovel to clear a path outside of the maze and then run around the entire perimeter until you reach the rocks blocking your path. Eat your fruit and shatter the rocks with your shovel to get the last of the vouchers.
Congratulations, you have completed everything the May Day event has to offer! Now go sell those vouchers at the store to make some easy Bells!
