Jeff's ACCF Blog

Purrl was feeling sick today, so I bought some medicine for her. Get well soon, kitty cat.

I got some good news from Lucy tonight: She told me that she’s moving out of town! I did not try to stop her.

Tom locked himself out of his house, and I fished his key out of the river for him. He’s my new buddy here in Forest, so I should be nice to him…for a while. 😉 Until his grumpy butt starts getting on my nerves in a few weeks. 😀

He appreciated the help, and he said he would tell everyone that I helped.

He gave me exactly 600 bells for my reward.

Goldie asked me to find some trendy furniture for her. I tried giving her a school chair that I shot down from a balloon, but it wasn’t trendy enough. So I bought a cabana lamp from Nook’s; she would accept it either. When I later shot down another balloon present, it had a starman inside: She refused it too. I like Goldie, but she’s being very picky tonight. Buying for her is ruff, ruff.

After I was done with all my regular tasks, I went bug-hunting. Back and forth across the beach, sometimes moving to other parts of town as well. At one point, I spotted three moths hanging out in front of Kitty’s house! Three moths in one place may be a common occurrence in real life, but it doesn’t happen very often in Animal Crossing games. I ran around to scare them all away.

And just seconds later, I spotted two sharks together…after not seeing any sharks for nearly an hour of play time before that.

I played for about an hour and 20 minutes tonight. Some of my notable catches include a scorpion, a hercules beetle, three giant beetles, two rainbow stags, an elephant beetle, two atlas beetles, three scarab beetles, two goliath beetles, two hammerhead sharks, one regular shark, and at least five emperor butterflies. My best run of the night scored me 70k bells, but I made about 230,000 bells overall.

Of the three scarab beetles I found, two of them were appeared at the same time, right next to each other. I seemed to be finding many bugs and fish in bunches tonight. 😛

Are any of you enjoying the summer bug-hunting fun? If so, tell me how it’s going in the comments! I’ll see you all next time. 🙂

If you’re interested, check out my new video where I rank my favorite villagers by species:

Goldie is over her coldie cold, and she sent me a thank-you letter in the mail. She attached a cello to the letter, which seems like a totally reasonable reward for medicine. 😂

On the beach, I was a bit surprised when I ran into Wisp. I guess it’s been a while since I’ve seen him in City Folk.

I just realized a difference in Wisp’s behavior when comparing City Folk and New Horizons. In City Folk, Wisp typically appears in the south part of town near the beach, and in New Horizons, he generally appears in the northern part of town, on the cliffs.

Anyway, he asked me to find his lamp for him.

When I visited Lucy, she asked how I liked her outfit. But she was standing behind a screen, so I couldn’t exactly see it very well.

Goldie asked me to make a delivery to Tom, and I agreed to help out. But Tom seriously disliked the gift.

Goldie was sad to hear the news, but she gave me a kitschy wall for helping her out.

I ran into Tom again later, and he was talking about using wildflowers as decorations inside your house. But the interesting part is that Wisp was spawning as I spoke with Tom, and Wisp’s animation froze in this frame for the duration of my conversation!

I eventually found Wisp’s empty lamp, and I took it back to him. He made me meet him in my attic to get my reward; he gave me a fan palm for helping out.

I listened in on a conversation between Wolfgang and Tom, and they were talking about food. Wolfgang said that his favorite thing to eat is an almond jelly with cream and honey on top. He said he had it recently when he took his niece out for lunch. Tom couldn’t believe the girl was his niece; he thought Wolfgang was blackmailing the girl into having lunch with him! 😮

I went bug-hunting, but I think it was a bit too early for the bugs to peak. I was playing in the 9 p.m. hour, and I typically have better luck after 11 p.m. I did end up making 110,000 bells on the night, but that took me about half an hour longer than my session last week (when I earned 150k).

After starting up the game tonight, I checked my bank account balance at town hall. I currently have 40,660,000 bells in the bank. Long time readers may remember that I’ve set goals of making a total of two million bells in July and August (a million a month) the last couple years.

While I’m (basically) going to try to do that again, I’m going to scale it down just a bit (partly because I’m not starting at a round number and partly because I’m going to be busier with New Horizons this year). So my goal is to hit 42.5 million bells by September 1st.

But before I got to bug-catching, I had villagers to catch up with. Also, Saharah was in town, looking for old flooring. Violet was the first beast I asked for flooring, and she actually helped me out!

As I made my way around town, I spotted a new house in a spot that’s rarely used by villagers. It’s in the northern part of town, a bit southwest of my fountain, and right next to the river. This is where I recorded Pitfall Pandemonium. I can’t remember the last time a villager lived here.

But I went inside, and I was very happy to see my old cranky friend Tom! He’s lived in my GameCube town for ages, and I had him in New Leaf for a while too. (But surprisingly, not here in City Folk). Welcome to Forest, you big grump!

Goldie was sick with a cold, so I bought some medicine for her. Get well soon, Goldie!

As for my old flooring search, it didn’t go very well. Purrl also gave me one, but that’s it. I needed three for a rare carpet, and I didn’t have any in storage. Oh well, these will go into storage for next time.

I shot down a balloon present, and it contained a boxing mat.

With my regular tasks out of the way, I began hunting for bugs! I caught a lot of good ones as I made way across the beach and back, over and over. Of course, I also ventured around a bit just to keep the bugs on their toes. 😉

I caught giant beetles, goliath beetles, emperor butterflies, Hercules beetles, an atlas beetle, a scarab beetle, and more. I also caught a gar and two sharks on my hunt. Ahh, I love this time of year. 🙂 I made over 150,000 bells on the night.

Enjoy the hunting season and I’ll see you next time!