Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

My old friend Jane has left town…again. She’s not in the newer games, so it’s rare that I see her anywhere. But it was nice to meet her once again last month.

Jingle sent me a gift in the mail, the Balloon Fight NES game. He sends the same thing every Christmas. But unlike most years, I actually decided to play a game of it this time. I ended up scoring 43,250 points.

I got a nice surprise when I dug up the daily glowing spot: 30,000 bells instead of the usual 1,000. Nice!

Forest now has a part of town just for squirrels, it seems. Static lives in Acre E-4, and Nibbles lives right above in Acre D-4. And next door in Acre D-3, Blaire just moved in. She has a lot of fruit furniture!

Blaire also lived in Forest back in 2013.

Belle insulted my sense of fashion tonight, telling me I should stick to shopping from the discount racks. What, so a Rubik’s Cube shirt isn’t in style? 😉

Hank was telling me about the New Year’s Eve party coming up tomorrow night. I probably won’t be participating in this game, but I should do it one of these years!

Have a great New Year, everyone! Stay safe, have fun, and I’ll see you all again soon. Never Stop Crossing! 🙂

Alli the gator has moved out of town since last time; I received her goodbye letter in the mail today.

In Acre C-4, I spotted a new house in the spot where Jane the gorilla once lived in the early days of Forest.

I thought to myself, “wouldn’t it be funny if Jane returned to the same exact spot where she lived before?” When I walked in, I couldn’t believe it. It was Jane!!! I audibly said to myself “Get out of here!” 😆😆😆

Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t particularly like Jane. In fact, I always thought she was rude and annoying (as snooty villagers tend to be). But having her back after all this time, and especially living in the same exact spot, is kind of a nice dash of nostalgia that I certainly wasn’t expecting when I started up the game today. Welcome back, Jane. 🙂

Today is the day after Thanksgiving (also known as Black Friday), and Animal Crossing celebrates the occasion with a Sale Day at Nook’s shop. The first floor of Nookington’s is filled with grab bags, which can be purchased for 2,022 bells.

I bought four grab bags, and each one contains three items. My 12-item haul included two furniture items, two wallpapers, one carpet, four pinwheels, and three shirts. Here’s the full haul:

• reel-to-reel
• exotic wardrobe
• green wall
• parlor wall
• cabin rug
• 2 green pinwheels
• striped pinwheel
• fancy pinwheel
• puzzling shirt
• five-ball shirt
• caveman tunic

I kept the puzzling shirt and one of the green pinwheels. I don’t think I’ve ever thought about why this shirt was “puzzling,” but then it hit me like a ton of bricks: I think it’s supposed to look like a Rubik’s Cube!

It was snowing in town tonight, and Static said it was best to spend a night like this indoors with a cup of iced coffee, listening to some music. Sounds great to me! Maybe this is why I like Static so much. 😉

Baabara was also talking about the snow, and how beautiful it is. But she was enjoying it through the window, instead of being outside standing in it.

She mentioned how quiet the snow is, and I think she was hinting that she wanted me to leave so she could enjoy it in silence. Fine by me. 😛

If you haven’t seen annual slideshow of best screenshots that I posted late last month, here it is: The 20th Year in Pictures. Enjoy!

See you all next time! Happy holidays! 🎄

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: