Jeff's New Horizons Blog

On Monday (Feb. 9th), my old friend Puck showed up as a camper at the campsite! I really like Puck as a character throughout the series, but something about his design in New Horizons doesn’t seem quite right.

In the older games, his helmet kinda looks like it’s his head. And here, it’s very clearly a helmet…and his pink skin seems more prominent and noticeable. Maybe it’s just because I’m so used to seeing him on GameCube for so many years, but it doesn’t fully look like him to me. I did not ask him to move in.

I’ve submitted 300 DIY goods now, earning me the 4th (of five) stamps on the “DIY Goods Wanted” Nook Miles goal. But I still need to submit about 200 more (for a total of 500) to complete the final goal.

I tried out a new feature of Version 3.0 where Isabelle can suggest a town tune. (Thanks again for the tip, Joshua!) Even though I didn’t use her choices, I think it’s a great feature (much like La-Di-Day in Wild World) that gives you new options for town tunes without requiring you to manually enter in notes.

Nintendo posted a photo of a Game Boy standee design on Twitter, and I decided to download it and display it in my town. If you want it too, the code is MO-VVQ5-GW6D-1X5D.

On Tuesday, Mint was in town as a tourist. She was sitting on the Big Man bench eating a sandwich. So cute!

On Wednesday, a former villager showed up as a tourist: Claudia the tiger! I know she wasn’t my favorite, but I eventually felt like I let her go too soon. She was only in Forest for about a month, after all. I could’ve at least earned her photo first, but I didn’t.

She was wondering who still lives in town that she’d remember, and only two of my current villagers were here back then: Louie and Agent S. I could just imagine Claudia catching up with them (Agent S in particular), just gabbing and laughing about the old days with Rizzo, Tia, Hornsby, and Apple.

I found a scallop while diving, so of course Pascal popped up again to ask for it. He told me that we need a new word to describe tasty leftovers, and he suggested “re-licious” for that word. 😛

He gave me two pearls for the scallop.

On Thursday, I was surprised to see Isabelle telling me that Resetti was in town! She said he has a cheaper deal than usual, which was also a surprise. I didn’t know Resetti did discounts!

Moments later, I found him down on the beach. He was offering his Reset Service for just 30,000 bells, which is half the normal cost. That is a good deal, but I didn’t need the help.

Interestingly, I noticed that Saharah was also in town. So Resetti’s presence doesn’t bump other characters from their normal days. That’s good to know.

One of my New Leaf enemies (Eugene) was in town as a tourist, so I showed him the Forest way of life. Stay out.

Yesterday, Static asked me for a new catchphrase to replace “in my tail.” I told him to say “or I will” instead. I could imagine him using it after telling me to do something unpleasant, like “Go clean up your trash, or I will.” But he hasn’t used it in any interesting ways just yet.

Today is Valentine’s Day, and I received valentines in the mail from all my villagers and Isabelle. They sent me a lot of chocolate! 💖

I also went up to the Roost for another Valentine’s Day tradition that’s been around since City Folk: Brewster served me some hot chocolate instead of coffee. Sweet! ☕

Deirdre the deer was camping at the campsite today. She’s nice, but I didn’t invite her in.

Here are some other quick notes about this week:

• On Tuesday, I sold 21 bugs to Flick for 99,750 bells.
• I caught a dab for Static on Wednesday, and he rewarded me with some simple sunglasses.
• On Thursday, I returned a lost item to Bob. He gave me a snowy knit cap as a thank-you.
• Yesterday, I sold 27 fish (mostly sturgeon and football fish) to C.J. for 286,800 bells.
• I led two tourists to the hotel this week: Jacob on Monday and Teddy today. They both got standard rooms.
• I returned a lost journal to Merengue and she handed me a raincoat.
• K.K. Slider performed “Wandering” for me and Louie tonight. I wish tourists could sit and enjoy the concerts!

I posted the latest New Horizons Moments video this week. I hope you’ll check it out!

Happy Valentine’s Day! I’ll see you next time! 💌

Update: I’ve added a new page where I’ll answer some common Animal Crossing questions. It may be more helpful for new players, but I also have some of my catchphrase ideas on there too. Check it out: Animal Crossing Q&A.

Last Monday, June asked me for a new catchphrase to replace “in snow.” I’m a bit tired of winter and snow myself, so I decided to look forward a bit. Her new phrase is “in spring.” Hopefully we’ll get there soon. 😛

Because of all the crafting I’ve been doing lately (for the donation box submissions), I’ve also started going to Kapp’n’s islands again to stock up on materials. Believe it or not, weeds are one of the materials I’ve been frequently running out of.

On Tuesday, I ran into another unwanted tourist in Forest: Tabby! She even called herself a gorgeous tourist! Wow.

Of course, I just had to pitfall her. She almost dropped her sandwich. 😛

On Thursday, Klaus was camping at the campsite for the 4th time. I keep getting ugly campers and they keep coming back again and again. 😛

On Friday, Pascal popped up after I caught a scallop. He told me he had a nightmare that a scallop was eating him!

Over the past week, I’ve led three new tourists to the hotel: Bluebear, Anchovy, and the super cute duck, Molly. 😍

I’ve put them all in standard rooms. I know I’ll need to design more rooms at some point, but I’m not in a rush right now.

Yesterday, one of the bonus items at the shop was a pile of cash! I decided to make one to see how much it would sell for. It requires three 99k bags of bells to make it (297,000 bells). I crafted it and took it over to Timmy and Tommy. But even with the double bonus price, it sold for…297,000 bells. So all I did was break even. 😛

I suppose it would be a different story if you had the bell boom ordinance. And that would work particularly well now that we can multi-craft items. But in my case, there was no benefit.

Today, Static was sick with a cold. I used his own workbench to craft him some medicine (using materials from my storage). He took the medicine and started to feel better right away. He thanked me and gave me a patchwork tulip hat.

Here are some other quick notes about the past week:

• I returned a lost item to Kid Cat last Tuesday, and he thanked me with a peacoat.
• C.J. was in town, and I sold him 32 fish for 251,250 bells.
• I recovered Wisp’s spirits for him, and he rewarded me with a bathroom sink.
• I helped out Gulliver on Wednesday, and he sent me an elder mask.
• Friday, I played a treasure hunt game with Bob. I found the item in time, and I won a pleather trench coat.
• I returned a lost book to Ankha, and she said I should have some head bandages! 😛
• Last night, K.K. Slider performed “K.K. Flamenco” for me and Bones.

See you next time!

Last Monday, I received the other three video game systems I ordered: The Famicom, NES, and Nintendo Switch 2. The Famicom plays Clu Clu Land (which was also in the GameCube version of Animal Crossing), and the NES plays Ice Climber.

Unfortunately, the Nintendo Switch 2 does not play a game. When you turn it on, it plays the “Switch” sound effect and displays a red screen with the Switch 2 logo. So even though New Horizons has eight video game systems, there are just six playable games in total.

On Wednesday, a tourist had a thought bubble above his head. It was Clay the hamster, and he was enjoying his visit but didn’t have a place to stay for the night. I had the option to invite him to the hotel, so that’s what I did.

Leilani suggested that I put him in a VIP room. I chose the amusement park theme, so Clay got a fun place to play!

But then he said he was going to have the best sleep ever in here. Um…oops. Not only is it likely to be very loud in here, but I didn’t actually give him a bed. 😆

With that task done, I earned 500 Nook Miles in a new category: “Take Tourists to the Hotel.”

I’ll have to do this quite a few more times to complete it, but at least I know what that (formerly) empty space on the Nook Miles page is for.

I later ran into another tourist. It was Rizzo! He has some nerve to show his rat face in Forest again, after I spent a whole year trying to get rid of him! So I grabbed a pitfall seed from storage and buried Rizzo once again. Stay out!

Hans was camping at the campsite for the third time, and I still didn’t want him. Strike three, you’re out!

On Thursday, I ran into Pascal after finding a scallop in the sea. He told me some words of wisdom about trash and recycling bins before giving me a pair of pearls.

There was another tourist without a place to stay on Friday. It was Leopold the lion, and I led him to the hotel. But I didn’t want to design another VIP room, so I put him in a standard room instead. But that didn’t stop him from thinking he was getting star treatment.

I only earned 50 hotel tickets for putting him in a regular room, but I didn’t mind. It still counted as progress towards my next “Take Tourists to the Hotel” goal. 👍

Yesterday, I decided to go ahead and pay for my final storage upgrade. It cost a whopping 1.8 million bells this time! So the total cost of going from 5,000 items to 9,000 items is 3.3 million bells! 😱

As of today, my storage is maxed out, as Tom Nook confirmed for me.

Here are a few other quick notes about Forest over the past week or so:

• Last Monday, I sold 25 bugs to Flick for 117,000 bells.
• I crafted a bunch of DIY items for the donation box, but I eventually hit a bottleneck. They needed items with certain hybrid flowers that I didn’t have, so production halted.
• I recovered Wisp’s spirits on Thursday, and he rewarded me with a striped maxi dress.
• Last night, K.K. Slider performed “K.K. Swing” for me, Ankha, Kid Cat, June, and Bob. I like when there are several other animals enjoying the show with me. 🙂
• Today, Moe was the latest tourist without a place to stay. I put him in a standard room, which ended up being Room 4 (the kiddie room).