Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

It’s been a while (7.5 weeks) since I last checked in on Forest, but I ended that streak today. I found a goodbye letter in the mail: Goose is cooked.

Many of my villagers were talking about Halloween, which is coming up on Monday.

It didn’t take me long to find Goose’s replacement. Over in a spot where Jane the gorilla once lived (many years ago), I found Snake the ninja rabbit. I’ve had him in my City Folk town before. Those eyes though…they’re a bit disturbing.

Even though I don’t plan on playing on Halloween, I thought I would buy a new shirt for the occasion. But the store didn’t have much in the way of spooky clothes, so I settled for this danger shirt. At least it’s orange and black, right?

There seemed to be a party going on at Static’s house, with Hank and Hambo joining Static, all hanging out there. But the happiness didn’t last. Hambo apparently said (or did) something that made Static steaming angry, while Hank just kept rotating in circles while standing next to a rock.

When I chatted with Hambo, he said it feels like autumn. But then he immediately changed course, and said it doesn’t feel like it yet. Why would he try to deny that it’s autumn? Could he be afraid that we’re going to serve ham at the harvest festival next month?

When I passed by the wishing well, I saw that Belle was mad. But I continued my walk around town, pulling lots of lots of weeds. Once I was done, I returned to the wishing well to verify that Forest was back to perfect town status. Even though it had been nearly ten minutes, Belle was still angry! I think this mad cow has some serious anger issues.

If you like the older Animal Crossing games, be sure to check out my new Wild World Blog! I’m updating it regularly, so I hope you’ll follow along with the ACWW version of Forest too! 🙂

I noticed that Puck was hanging out in Acre B-4 today. That’s the acre where Candi lives, but more importantly, it’s where I use a glitch to push animals off the bridge and into the river. I don’t recall using the glitch on Puck before, so I figured he was overdue for a good bath.

I was tired of wearing my whirly shirt, so I tried on this green tie-dye shirt at Nookington’s. I decided to buy it and wear it.

Today is Labor Day in the U.S., so I went to visit with Tortimer at the wishing well. He spoke about the holiday, telling me that I shouldn’t work my fingers to the bone for the example.

He also suggested that I could use him as a role model. And hero.

If you haven’t played on Labor Day before, he will give you a shop model. But I got mine many years ago, so I didn’t get it again.

I then found Gulliver washed up on the beach.

After waking him up, he gave me a compass. I think he needs this more than I do, as often as he gets lost.

And since it’s early September, this is the best time of the year to earn big bucks! There are no sea bass in the ocean, so any ocean fish you catch will be worth at least 3,000 bells (as long as you avoid one specific acre–see the September Fishing Guide for more info).

I emptied my pockets and filled them up with fish. I also caught a piece of garbage (a boot), but I dropped it back down for now. (Ursala actually applauded me when I caught it. I may include that in a future video). I kept going until I had 15 fish–that included nine red snappers and six barred knifejaws.

That earned me 57,000 bells. If you have the time, you can keep doing this over and over, earning hundreds of thousands of bells in a relatively short time. If you wait for a rainy day, you’ll also catch coelacanths, which sell for 15,000 bells each. That will really speed things up.

No villagers moved in or out this time, but I’m sure that won’t be the case next time. I’ll see you all then. Happy fishing!

Sadly, Teddy’s return was a short one. He has already moved on out of Forest; I got his goodbye letter in the mail today.

It didn’t take me long to meet his replacement. Goose the chicken has moved in near Kody’s house. He seems alright. I’m sure he has a tough side and a tender side, it just takes a while to cook get to know him.

After stopping at Nookington’s to sell some stuff, I accidentally scared away a huge fish! Ugh! I hate when that happens.

Down in Acre F-1, I found the tent of a summer camper! This is the last weekend for campers this year, even though this is the first one I’ve seen this summer.

Jay the bird was inside, and he wanted to play a game with me. He listed four types of fish, and then asked me which one he caught. If I guessed correctly, he would give me something for my ptera left wing (fossil). If I guessed wrong, he would get my fossil for free.

I guessed that he caught a salmon, and that was wrong. He took my fossil, and then I quickly left his tent without speaking to him again.

Over at the wishing well, Maple and Belle apparently had a fight. Belle was running around steaming mad. But despite her anger, she couldn’t resist kicking a soccer ball.

And up at the police station, Copper and Kody were getting friendly. Copper seemed to lean in, but Kody didn’t. Maybe Copper was just trying to sniff him out.

Copper told me that Crazy Redd would be in town on Monday, but I don’t plan on playing then.

Anyway, I wrapped up my day after making stops at the post office and dump. See you next time!