Month: January 2026

On Thursday, I went to the hotel to design Room 8. I could choose a luxurious room or an antique room, and I chose the former. I used mostly elegant furniture, and some marble items as well.

I finally upgraded to the Switch 2 version of the game, and I bought the megaphone at Nook’s Cranny. However, it didn’t seem to work as intended half the time. Sometimes the wrong villager would respond. I know the New Leaf megaphone wasn’t perfect either, but this one seems to be even worse (from what little I’ve used it).

I also used a Zelda amiibo to unlock the Zelda items, so I’ve been continuing to order those and Splatoon items in recent days.

On Friday, I had two more repeat tourists, Miranda and Tangy. And they did remember me, and they remembered visiting Forest.

So the situation with Chester before seems to have been a very specific situation. Because I only chatted with him in the store the first time, he didn’t properly introduce himself and his name plate still said “Tourist.” When that happens, they apparently won’t remember you. But otherwise, they will.

At the hotel, Leilani told me about a new type of guest room: the VIP room!

VIP rooms are only for guests I specifically invite, but the room only stays that way for one day! Seems like such a waste! But still, I wanted to do it at least once. Leilani asked me to choose one of the day’s tourists, so I gave it to Tangy.

I could choose my own theme, and I chose a stellar room. I used a crescent-moon chair, Luna’s bed, and many of Celeste’s astrological items in here.

Tangy loved the room, and Leilani said that I can now use an amiibo scanner to invite guests. But considering you need to decorate the room from scratch every time, I doubt I’ll be using this feature very often.

At 10 p.m., I went to the airport to open my gate for Friday Night Forest. It was my first FNF in 18 months! Now that I’m on Switch 2, Orville gives me an option: I can choose a regular (8-player) session, or a Switch 2-only 12-player session.

I didn’t want to exclude anyone who was playing on a regular Switch, so I just chose the regular session. Sam and Tsu were the first to arrive. Tsu is actually the Sammy that has commented on this blog before. So with a Sam and a Sammy, I joked that the three of us made a Jeff Sam-wich. 🥪

After messing around with ocean sunfish and handheld items, we went over to the hotel. But I was shocked and disappointed to see that we can’t visit hotel guest rooms during multiplayer! That seemed like such a fun, obvious thing we should be able to do! Oof.

After walking around town a bit, we played a few games of sumo. I didn’t win a single round. 😆 But Tsu won two games, and Sam won one.

Shortly before 11 p.m., Michael came over to visit as well. We talked Animal Crossing on GameCube, and how ACNH 3.0 must take forever to load 12 players. 😆 We then posed for a group photo near the shore. You can also see Gullivarrr back there.

We did some crab walking on the beach, and it was pretty funny. 😆

We then competed in a 10-minute diving contest; Mike and I finished tied for the lead with 22 catches apiece. I was a fraction of a second from catching #23, though. This last one didn’t count. 😛

But that was a very close game! Good game, everyone!

We eventually went back to my house for a bit until I ended the session around midnight. Thanks for coming, Sam, Tsu, and Micheal!

Yesterday, Grams told me her selection of souvenirs has now expanded to the maximum! It included a few Nintendo items like the Ultra Hand and Love Tester, but most importantly, it included seven game systems!

I ordered five of the systems (starting from the bottom of the list and going up).

When I checked the hotel guests, I was not happy to see Beardo has made his return! At least it’s just for a day. 😛

Today, I received my first five systems. Of course, they give you a warning/reminder that you can only play the games with a Nintendo Switch Online membership. We knew that already, of course, but it still annoys me a bit. The original Animal Crossing had NES games not only as a free bonus, but as a major selling point for Animal Crossing in the first place! Kind of a shame to see the games require a subscription.

But I tried out all five. The Famicom Disk System plays Ice Hockey, and the computer scored three goals on me before I could figure out how to control my player. 😆

The Game Boy played Dr. Mario, which is always fun…even though playing a game based on three colors of pills isn’t an ideal game to play in black-and-white.

The Super Famicom plays Panel de Pon, which is basically Tetris Attack. Great puzzle game! Of course, the menus are in Japanese, though.

And finally, both versions of the Super NES play F-Zero. That’s a really good game too, but I wish one of them played something different, just for more variety.

Keaton became the latest former villager to return as a hotel tourist today, and it was good to see him in Forest again!

Here are a few other quick notes about the past few days:

• I delivered a gift (a paper tiger) from June to Bob. He thanked me by giving me a safe.
• I helped out Gullivarrr on Friday, and he sent me a pirate dress yesterday.
• Last night, K.K. performed “K.K. Lovers” for me and Ankha. He must have the wrong idea about us! 😛
• I gave medicine to a sick Agent S today, and she gave me a fitness tank in return.
• I returned a lost item to Bob, and he rewarded me with a pinball machine.

See you all next time!

On Monday, I saw a tourist I definitely did not want to see in my town: Jambette!

So of course, I just had to pitfall her. It’s the law here in Forest. 😛

At the hotel, I asked about designing Room 5. Leilani asked me to choose a skyscraper room or a diner room, and I chose the former. I mostly used the cool furniture up here, and I hope my tourists will enjoy the view.

Leilani paid me the usual 200 tickets for my work, but I also earned 1,000 Nook Miles for designing my 5th room. Unfortunately, I learned that for the final decorating achievement, you have to design twenty rooms! Yikes. I guess that means we’ll eventually have to re-design rooms to keep earning the miles. Not my idea of fun.

Anyway, Monday’s other hotel guests included Hamphrey, Cousteau, and Miranda. I guess the Ugly Convention was in town.

While out diving, I found a scallop. Pascal popped up, as usual, but he gave me something different instead of a pearl: a pair of pearls! Pearls are worth 10,000 bells each, so he basically gave me 20k for a scallop! Nice!

Yesterday, I designed Room 6 at the hotel. I chose to decorate it as a lodge room instead of a Japanese-retro room. I used mostly log furniture, and I thought it looks really cozy.

The hotel guests for the day were Chester, Tangy, Tipper, Cally, and Cephalobot. Tangy even said Forest slays at night! 🥰

Chester was a repeat tourist, because he also visited the hotel two days earlier (on the 18th). But interestingly, he didn’t remember me!

So even though former villagers will remember you, repeat tourists apparently won’t…even if it’s only been two days! Wild.*

I later found Tangy enjoying some coffee at the Roost. 🙂

Today, I designed Room 7 at the hotel. I chose a frozen room instead of an exquisite room, so of course I used mostly ice furniture here. Looks like a good place to just chill. It even has a little snowman as a bartender. 😛

Today’s tourists were Cherry, Nana, Mac, Lionel, Maelle, and Elvis. I like those first three, but not the last three. 😛

I scanned my Inkling squid amiibo, which invited Viche to the campsite.

I’m not interested in her, but I just wanted to unlock the Splatoon items in the “Special Goods” section of the Nook Shopping app. I’ve actually forgotten about these, so I haven’t even ordered any of the Lego items yet either. But I’ve started the process now; it’ll just take a while with the 5-items-per-day limit.

On Monday, I posted a new video: Pitfall Pandemonium 2026! I used a Slumber Island to summon some previous villagers of mine and let them fall into some pitfalls. Good times. 😆

I’m still planning on opening my gate for Friday Night Forest on Friday at 10 p.m. Eastern (US) time. Anyone on my roster is welcome. Again, just don’t expect any big new obstacle courses or anything because I haven’t even started on such a thing yet. But we can hang out in Forest, check out the hotel, meet the villagers, and maybe play some sumo or something. But note that the blog entry probably won’t be up until the weekend.

*Update: Some commenters on Tumblr said they’ve had repeat tourists that did remember them. When I met Chester the first time, he was shopping in Able Sisters…so I’m wondering if it doesn’t “count” if they’re shopping? Not sure, but I’ll keep an eye out for repeat tourists in the future!

One cool thing I’ve noticed about Slumber Islands involves the animals you can invite to appear there. The list contains not only your current villagers, but also your previous villagers. Remember seeing these villagers in Forest?

After paying Tom Nook 1.5 million bells Wednesday night, my storage was expanded to hold 7,000 items on Thursday. I know I can expand it again to 9,000, but I’m not in a rush to do that right now.

I encountered my 2nd tourist on Thursday, it was O’Hare the rabbit.

Leilani told me about the mannequins, and I displayed a frog suit on one of them. The mannequin outfits will be useful for multiplayer sessions, although I don’t have anything specific themes in mind so far.

I designed another hotel room, and I was given an option to design a Japanese room or a modern room. I chose the latter, and I used some iron, tubular, and cool furniture.

I earned another 200 hotel tickets for designing the room, but no tourists showed up to rent it like they did with the first room.

I was informed by Mr_DotoroBear that you can use the “L” button jump and slide. I later learned that it’s actually to help when using the Island Designer app (so you can clearly discern which space you’re on and move to the next one quickly). But I noticed that if you press L on a bridge, it doesn’t work…and your character makes a disappointed face. 😆

On Friday, I went to design Room 3. For the theme, I could choose a simple room or a ranch room. I chose the latter, and of course I mostly used ranch furniture. I’m not putting tons of effort into these things. 😛

Anicotti and Jacob were the tourists for the day. I found Anicotti over by Resident Services, and she said somebody should offer a swim/dive/fish tour. That’s pretty bold of Nintendo to mention tours when it just reminds me of the island tours from New Leaf that aren’t in this game. 😛

Yesterday, I designed Room 4 at the hotel. I chose to make a kiddie room instead of a dreamy room, and I used a lot of these new kiddie items. Unfortunately, this kiddie slide still can’t be used. Slides need to be usable items! 😆

Tipper, Axel, and Coco were the tourists for the day. Interestingly enough, Coco wanted cocoa! What a co-incidence.

Today, I spotted Monty the monkey walking around outside my house as I checked my mail. Monty recently moved out of my City Folk town, so it caught me off guard to see him here. I guess I’ll have to get used to these surprises. 😛 Bubbles, Chester, and Fauna were the other tourists for the day.

I didn’t design a hotel room today, but I think it might be a bit overwhelming once I get to the point where there’s eight tourists in town every day! That seems like overkill, especially considering we can only have ten villagers of our own.

I found Chester in Able Sisters, so you can indeed find tourists in shops as well.

Here are a few other quick notes from the past few days:

• On Thursday, Gulliver sent me a tubeteika.
• I learned that customization kits can also be used from storage, so there’s no need to carry them with you.
• Friday, I sold 32 bugs to Flick for 144,750 bells.
• Last night, K.K. Slider performed “K.K. Mambo” for me, June, and Bob.
• I built a perfect snowboy yesterday, and he sent me another three-tiered snowperson today.

I recently posted a video showing highlights of my first two days with the Version 3.0 update. So please check it out if you haven’t seen it yet.

I may also have another video for tomorrow, so stay tuned for that!

And FYI, I’m still planning on having a Friday Night Forest this week (January 23rd). But don’t expect me to have a new obstacle course ready just yet.