One day after Earth Day, New Horizons starts celebrating the Animal Crossing equivalent, Nature Day. Special Nook Miles+ activities will be available (such as planting shrubs for Nook Miles). Leif has a stand set up at the plaza, and he sells shrubs and flower seeds. He also offers to buy weeds at a better price than the Nooklings.
The Nature Day celebration continues through May 4th. That’s interesting that even minor holidays seem to be stretched out to nearly two weeks in New Horizons. But at least this one doesn’t seem obtrusive like that awful Bunny Day event with eggs everywhere you look.
I went to check out my private, northern beach, and Crazy Redd’s ship was there!
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to enter the ship. But I spotted Redd elsewhere in town, on the western beach. And he had a serene painting with him!
He initially offered to sell it for 498,000 bells, but that was a ploy to make his real price of 4,980 bells sound like he’s giving me a deep discount. For being his “cousin,” you know. I bought the painting at the dangerous cousin discount price, and quickly took it over to Blathers at the museum. It is apparently real, and Blathers informed me that it will allow him to add an art exhibit to the museum. 🙂
He said he needed to prepare for construction, but I’m not sure how long that will take. I tried exiting and re-entering the museum just in case it was an immediate thing, but no such luck. 😂 He didn’t mention the museum being closed tomorrow or anything, so hopefully it’ll be done tomorrow.
That’s not the only news in town, though. Nook’s Cranny is going to be expanding!
Nook’s Cranny will be closed tomorrow, so I won’t be able to sell anything. Even the drop-off box will be unavailable. But the Nooklings will be back on Saturday, bigger and better than ever.
At town hall, Tom Nook gave me a DIY recipe for hedges. While I was there, I decided to move my campsite. I moved it north of Tia’s house, so that I’ll have more room to expand my obstacle course at some point.
With all that stuff going on today, I didn’t even realize (until now) that Marcel did not send me a goodbye letter! Villagers always sent goodbye letters in previous games. So Nintendo apparently made a curious change to villager etiquette.
I bought a baseball uniform at Able Sisters, and I (later) noticed that it is represented with a dress icon! It is certainly not a dress, though. As great as New Horizons is, there sure seems to be a number of odd, head-scratching decisions Nintendo made with this game.
Since Marcel’s plot is now vacant, I decided to take a trip to mystery island to possibly find a new villager. But my plans quickly changed when I saw Violet the purple gorilla there. I had no interest in asking her to move in.
The island was filled with bamboo, so I chopped it all down. I’ve had a number of bamboo-related DIY recipes, and now I’ll be able to make some of them.
When I returned to Forest, I spotted Wisp up on the cliff. I began searching for his spirits, and I actually found one of them by my private beach. When I caught it, the camera shifted to angle you can’t normally see…and it showed me that I still had a few weeds on my backside. Uhh, the backside of my mountain, that is.
Midge taught me the “pleased emotion,” and I eventually found all of Wisp’s spirits. When I returned to Wisp, he gave me a mobile.
Friday Night Forest will be held tomorrow at the usual time (10 pm Eastern/7 pm Pacific). We can do an obstacle course tournament, but that’s really all I have planned this time. So I probably won’t keep my gate open as long as usual.
Have a good day, and I’ll be back late tomorrow night with another entry!