Jeff's ACCF Blog

Scoot was sick today…maybe it was from eating all that ash during the fireworks festival. 😉 But I gave him some medicine, so hopefully he’ll start feeling better soon.

There was a new house in town, so I went inside to meet Iggly’s replacement: It was Bluebear the…blue bear. 😆

I like her, and she’s an improvement over Iggly. (Sorry, Iggly.) But it’ll be nice to have her around. Welcome to Forest, Bluebear!

Big Top recently asked me for a new catchphrase, and I told him to say “it’s Link.” I guess I’m a bit excited about the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake coming out in November. 😛

But speaking of Big Top, he asked me to play a game of hide-and-seek this afternoon. He gave me ten minutes to find him, Apollo, and Pecan. My eagle eyes led me to Apollo almost instantly. He was trying to hide behind Willow’s house.

About a minute later, I found Big Top behind a tree near Nook ‘n’ Go. He told me there was only one person left to find…but his catchphrase fit in quite nicely.

With 6+ minutes remaining on the game timer, I found Pecan next to Able Sisters. (It wasn’t Link after all.) But I was surprised to see that Big Top had already shared his new catchphrase with her!

I won the game, and Big Top rewarded me with his mega dingloid.

Shortly after that, I wrapped up my game for the afternoon. But I returned (briefly) tonight, mainly just to check out K.K. Slider’s concert. I asked him for a random song, and he performed “King K.K.” for me.

On Sunday night, I attended the final fireworks festival of the year. Cube was there for the show too, and he told me that he normally prefers dumplings over fireworks…but this particular night was an exception.

Tortimer mentioned this being the last fireworks festival of 2026, and he said he hoped I always remember this summer. That kinda made me sad for some reason.

When I made my way around to Iggy’s house, I saw that he was all packed up in boxes. I didn’t have another chance to save him. That’s too bad that his stay was so short; he didn’t even last a month!

After making my rounds, I went bug hunting during the fireworks. I played about an hour and a half, and the fireworks ended at midnight. It’s always sad when the festival is over, especially the last one of the year.

But there was still one more night for bug hunting, so I played again last night (Monday, August 31st). Pecan wanted me to catch a crucian carp for her, which she called the hippest fish around. 😆

But I didn’t want to help out on a fishing request. My focus was on bug hunting! I again played for about an hour and a half, and I kept going until midnight…when September began and most of the good bugs stopped appearing.

Today, I received Iggly’s goodbye letter in the mail.

Okay, so now that peak bug hunting season has ended, let’s talk about my summer goal. I ended June with 77,350,000 bells in savings, and my goal was to make 2.65 million by September 1st…so that my savings would reach 80 million. But as I mentioned last week, I met that milestone just over a week ago.

But I still kept bug hunting in that final week of August, and I picked up the pace. I played several days, hitting 81 million during the final fireworks on Sunday night. But my final bug hunt (Monday night), combined with my latest bank interest and some fruit I sold to reach a nice round number, bumped my savings up to 81.5 million bells today.

So I made 4.15 million bells over the summer, easily beating my goal of 2.65 million. It’s less than what I made last year, but I’d still consider it a success. It’s still going to take me a few more years to save up 100 million and earn that green feather, though. 😆

Did any of you have summer bug hunting goals, in any Animal Crossing game? If so, let me know how it went in the comments! And I’ll be back with another entry next week…when we’ll see who replaces Iggly. Never Stop Crossing!

Last Sunday night, I again participated in the fireworks festival. I shot down this balloon present and the screenshot almost made it look like the firework popped the balloon. (Or maybe that’s a stretch, but I still thought it looked cool.)

During my session, I officially met my summer goal, earning 2.65 million since July 1st. Why such an odd number? Because the objective was to get my savings balance to 80 million bells, and I’ve now done that.

Of course, that hasn’t stopped my bug hunting. I continued to play this week, and I’m going to play this weekend as well.

On Tuesday night, Willow noticed a giant beetle in my pockets, and she said it made me look less handsome!

She was wanting to give me an upright piano for it, but I declined the trade offer.

Tonight, Cube asked me to catch an olive flounder for him.

Once I did, he rewarded me with 720 bells.

Iggly has been telling me he’s planning on moving out of town. I’ve told him to stay, but so far he hasn’t changed his mind. So he may or may not be gone by next week.

I went bug hunting for about 90 minutes tonight, and I earned over 300k. I’m planning on two more bug hunts, Sunday during fireworks, and then again on Monday night for the last hurrah. I’ll be back next week with my final bug hunting totals.

I posted my latest City Folk Moments video this week, so please check it out if you haven’t seen it yet: