Jeff's ACCF Blog

Wednesday was July 1st, and I received Rosie’s goodbye letter in the mail. I hate to see her go, but that’s how life goes in City Folk (and Wild World). You can’t help but lose villagers sometimes.

That night, I went on a short (30-minute) test run for bug hunting. I caught two sharks, and a staggering three golden stags in that span. I earned about 139k in that half hour or so. But more on bug hunts a bit later in this entry…

I played again today, and Willow sent me a letter in the mail. She is over her cold now, and she sent me a paulownia closet to thank me for the medicine. When I saw her in person, she said that anyone who’s anyone these days has a mosquito! Who knew a mosquito was the latest fashion buzz?

It’s Apollo’s birthday, but unfortunately there are no birthday parties in this game. But at least he gets this notice on the bulletin board? That counts for something, right? 😆

I helped him out by making a delivery to Pecan for him. Apollo then gave me a kiddie carpet. Happy birthday, Apollo!

Cube asked me for a fossil, so I gave him a dinosaur egg that I dug up today. Unfortunately, he only rewarded me with 520 bells.

I played again tonight, and I checked out K.K. Slider’s show at the Roost. He performed “K.K. Marathon” for me.

Okay, let’s talk about my summer bug-hunting goals for 2026. Last week, I mentioned that I finished June with 77,350,000 bells in savings. My summer goal has typically been to earn around 2 million bells by September 1st. Even though I actually made nearly six million last year, I’m going to stick with a fairly conservative goal of 2.65 million…so that my balance reaches 80 million. But again, there’s a decent chance that I’ll exceed it.

I went on another 30-minute mini-bug hunt tonight, earning about 146k. And even though I wasn’t going to give an update so soon, I just had to when I saw I was close to doing this:

I still haven’t had a full, proper, hour+ long bug hunt, but I’ll be sure to do that sometime next week. And yes, I’ll record a long gameplay session of it, too. So keep an eye out for that. In the meantime, check out my video comparing all five versions of Forest, if you haven’t seen it yet. It’s updated for July 2026, and includes a few categories that weren’t in the previous 2024 version.

Unfortunately, I didn’t catch a mosquito for Willow yet. Maybe next time…if she still wants it by then.

When I started up the game today, I received a letter from Big Top, thanking me for the medicine I gave him last week. He sent me a red drum.

I was glad that the letter from Big Top wasn’t a goodbye letter. But I soon found out that another one of my favorites actually was leaving town: Rosie! 🙁

I hate to see her go. She has lived here for just over a year, but it seems shorter than that. So long, Rosie! I hope we meet again!

Big Top’s sickness has now moved on to Willow. I gave her some medicine too.

It was raining in town tonight, and I caught a couple of rainbow stags. I can’t wait for the peak bug-hunting season that starts next Wednesday, so I can catch all the good summer bugs! Woo!

As for my villagers, they had a wide variety of opinions about the rain today. Cube loved having fun splashing around it!

While Sydney has just had enough of the rain already.

Once 8:00 rolled around, I went over to the Roost to check out K.K. Slider’s Saturday night show. I asked for a random song and he performed “K.K. Etude” for me.

After the show, I ran into Big Top just outside the museum. He said it would be nice for him to have a memento of me. So he asked if he could have my rainbow stag! I didn’t want to give it away for free, but I asked if he’d like to buy it instead. And he really came through: He offered me 14,038 bells for it! You got a deal!

Assuming tonight was my last time playing for the month, I’m ending June with 77,350,000 bells in savings. I haven’t yet set my summer bug-hunting goals for this year, but I’ll be sure to decide on that next week. I’ve also (finally) cleaned up my leftover candy on the ground from Bunny Day. So my town is all ready to start bug hunting!

See you next week! 🪲

On Thursday, I found a new house in town on the western edge of the river (near the waterfall). Inside, I found Pecan the snooty squirrel.

I’m generally not a big fan of snooties, but I’ll give her a chance. Welcome to Forest, Pecan!

Yesterday, Willow asked me to play a game of hide-and-seek with her, Antonio, and Apollo. She gave me ten minutes to find them, but I found them all within six minutes. Two of them were hiding behind sign posts! 😆

Willow rewarded me with a mega fizzoid for winning the game.

Today, the June Bug-Off was held. Unfortunately, I played too late in the day to participate. But Nat informed me that Sydney was the big winner. She caught a 56-point diving beetle. Congrats, Sydney!

Big Top has been sick with a cold this week, so I gave him some medicine Thursday, Friday, and today. He tried to trick himself into thinking the medicine tasted good. 😆 Get well soon, B.T.!

I went over to the Roost to catch out K.K. Slider’s Saturday night show, and he performed “Mr. K.K.” for me. But my screenshot caught him mid-blink with his eyes closed. 😛

After the show, I stopped into Pecan’s house for a visit. So I got to see the interior of her house now that she has unpacked. The place looks nice, but it’s kind of irking me to see a toaster just sitting on the floor (with toast in it). 😆

I posted a gameplay video of yesterday’s full session, so check it out if you’d like. I was running into a number of old friends in the city, so it was nice to see them all!