If you’re looking to increase how much you can build in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the Test Your DIY Skills recipe is a great way to add some exciting new DIY recipes to your building arsenal.
Not only is the Test Your DIY Skills recipe extremely easy to get, but it also offers eight new buildable recipes in one go. The Test Your DIY Skills is one of three DIY recipes from a set that offers multiple items from one recipe.
The Animal Crossing: New Horizons DIY recipe sets you can currently obtain are:
- DIY for Beginners
- Test Your DIY Skills
- Wildest Dreams DIY
How to Get the Test Your DIY Skills Recipe
Thankfully, getting your hands on the Test Your DIY Skills recipe is extremely straightforward, as with all three DIY recipe sets, you can purchase the recipe from Nook’s Cranny, however, you have to be far enough through the game to have built the store and must ensure that you have enough money to afford the recipe.
The Test Your DIY Skills recipe costs 2,680 bells, so if you’re new to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you might need to make some money first.

Before you can buy the Test Your DIY Skills recipe, you must have already purchased the DIY for Beginners recipe, but thankfully that recipe is extremely cheap, making it the easiest of the set to buy.
What Can You Build With the Test Your DIY Skills Recipe
While the Test Your DIY Skills recipe doesn’t offer the most exciting recipes, it does offer some great recipes for those who are just starting out in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
These are the eight new recipes the Test Your DIY Skills recipe offers:
- Mini DIY workbench
- Potted ivy
- Ringtoss
- Rocking chair
- Swinging bench
- Wooden-block bookshelf
- Wooden-block chair
- Wooden-block stereo
Thankfully, most of the new items are fairly easy to build, without much grinding needed, making them great recipes for beginners.