Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

Now that Animal Crossing (and my town, Forest) are 20 years old, I decided to finally do something that I have never done in the game: Go mushrooming! Even though mushrooms are easy to find in later games, they have very limited availability on GameCube.

In fact, you can only find them for one hour (starting at 8 a.m.) for about ten days in October (from the 15th through the 25th). What makes it even more challenging is that one of the five mushrooms will disappear each 15 minutes. So I started right at 8:00 on this rainy autumn Sunday morning, and I found my first mushroom near the lake at 8:01.

I later found one near the bottom of my eastern ramp, one near the museum, and one near the police station. I never found the 5th one, but that’s okay. I was satisfied just to finally participate for the first time. 🙂

I spotted Joan in town, which is a very rare occurrence for me (since I almost never play this game in the morning). I didn’t buy any turnips from her, but I did stop to say hello.

Later on (when the shop opened), I sold my four mushrooms to Tom Nook for a total of 20,000 bells. That’s 5k each, which is actually quite good. This isn’t a bad way to make some extra money if you’re more of a morning person than I am. 😉

Forest Life… Goes On

Of course, mushrooms aren’t the only thing going on in Forest. Life goes on. When I played earlier this month (on October 5th), I received a goodbye letter from Mint in the mail. Her replacement was Alli the gator.

Alli previously lived in Forest ten years ago. But the most interesting part is that she moved into the same spot where she lived in 2012, with the river right behind her house!

Today, I learned that Dotty has also moved out. Her replacement was Nibbles the squirrel. Nibbles previously lived in Forest back in 2011…but not in the same spot.

Tonight, Belle stopped to gloat that she goes mushrooming every year, while suggesting that I never have. She would have been right about that before today, but not any more!

Meanwhile, Ursala tried to sell me a cherry for 2,370 bells. I had no need for it…especially at that ridiculous price.

She insisted that I’ll never find another cherry around here, which is completely false. I have plenty of cherry trees around. 😛

Here is my video of the mushrooming:

Yesterday, I received a letter in the mail from Cashmere. The rude sheep has cashed out and fled town.

Her replacement was Mint the green squirrel. Even though Mint is also a snooty villager, she’s a big improvement over Cashmere. Welcome to town, Mint!

Mint previously lived in my town back in 2011.

Tom gave me a free cherry, and Kody gave me a free pear. Getting two foreign fruits from villagers on the same day, especially for free, is a very rare thing in this game!

Since it’s the first half of September, I went to do some fishing in the ocean.

Unfortunately, the sea bass have started to return by now…but I still caught more good fish (red snappers and barred knifejaws) than sea bass. I filled up my pockets with fish, throwing back any sea bass I caught. I ended up with 11 red snappers and four barred knifejaws, which was good for 53,000 bells. That was more than enough to bump my savings up to 21 million bells.

Today, I asked a few villagers for jobs. Genji asked me for a bug, and I caught him a pill bug. He rewarded me with a groovy wall. Ursala asked me to make a delivery to Dotty, and she gave me a slot machine. And then Belle asked me for a ball…

So I found a volleyball and kicked it back to Belle. She rewarded me with a shrine lantern before joking about kicking me into next week. 😛

Emerald had some kitchen flooring she didn’t need, and she wanted to trade it for the groovy wall that I got from Genji. I didn’t prefer one over the other, so I agreed to the trade.

See you all next time!

Sadly, I received a goodbye letter from Portia in the mail today. Doggone it!

Tom was all stressed out because of the morning aerobics that are still underway (but only through tomorrow).

When I visited Baabara, she wanted me to buy a mystery item for 3,000 bells. I declined, and of course that made her angry. 😛 She told me the item was a neutral corner, and she assumed I regretted my decision. She’ll never learn.

But she wasn’t the rudest villager of the day. That title belonged to Ursula, who wondered how a “steakhead” like me got ahold of a flat stag beetle.

She called it an injustice that a woefully uncultured person such as myself could have one…so she said I should give it to her.

Of course, I refused, and then she acted as if she never really wanted it to begin with. Sour grapes, much?

Rudeness was the theme of the day as I met my new villager, Cashmere. Before she would even introduce herself, she yelled at me to stop shouting. But I was not shouting.

The whole time, her two gyroids were buzzing or screaming, whatever it was, really loudly and obnoxiously! Cashmere should be yelling at her own gyroids, not me! They’re as annoying as her!

When I checked my previous entries to see if Cashmere lived here before, I found that she moved in ten years ago. But the most interesting part is that in 2012, she replaced Portia! Just like she did today! I’ve seen coincidences like this before too, so I’m starting to think there’s some sort of pattern to it all.

I posted a new video today, comparing many aspects of the five main (core) Animal Crossing games. It updates and combines the comparisons I used in previous videos, with some new ones as well. Check it out!