Through your dozens or hundreds of hours in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you'll collect a ton of different items. This will include furniture and crafting materials as well as fish and bugs, among other things. Putting it all together is the main goal of the game for many, and with online play there's always the temptation to help each other trade items. Your friend is maybe a week or two ahead of you and can give you tons of valuable tools and items you might need. So here's how to trade items, tools, and fish between players in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, though the latter may disappoint many.
How to trade items and tools between players
We've covered how to play multiplayer here, so make sure you know how it all works. Once you've done that, just decide which island you want to visit to handle the trade. All you have to do is decide what you're going to trade between players and make sure it's in your inventory. Once together, simply open your inventory and select the item, then choose Drop Item. This will place it on the ground, where your friend can pick it up. There are restrictions on who can drop and pick up items while playing co-op, but as long as you're best friends you should be fine. But now, for the bad news, there are restrictions on the types of items you can trade.
How to Trade Fish and Bugs
This is where you can get frustrated as there is no way to trade fish or bugs between players in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Each player must catch them all themselves, if they want to complete the museum collection. You can place fish or insects on the grouns to display them, but other players cannot pick them up by themselves. You also cannot send fish or bugs by post, which is also blocked. It's still early days for New Horizons, so systems might change with updates, so check back to see if Nintendo changes the rules, but for now, this is how to trade items, tools, and fish between players in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, even if you're sad about that last answer.
