Jeff's New Horizons Blog

Today was opening day of the cafe in the museum, better known as The Roost. I attended the completion ceremony this morning.

I bought myself a hot cup of coffee, and then I used the amiibo phone to call Booker. He came to the Roost, and he also brought his partner Copper. They were surprised when they realized they came all this way and the Roost doesn’t even sell donuts. 😉

Since it rained yesterday, I’ve now started to find random gyroids buried underground. My newest ones are a twangoid, wallopoid, and arfoid.

K.K. Slider was in town, and he played a new song (K.K. Polka) for me, Tia, Marina, and Louie.

Apollo was in his house cooking tonight, and he taught me a cooking recipe for pickled veggies.

On Harv’s Island, Cornimer was again standing in for Tortimer. Redd unfortunately had the same items that he had yesterday. I was thinking his one-item-per-day limit meant that his stock was going to change every day…but it’s not looking that way now.

Leif opened up his stand, and as expected, he sells produce starts. Today, he had tomato starts and wheat starts, so I bought five of each.

I noticed that the Kicks stand already has 2,200 bells in donations (which I didn’t make). So apparently villagers can make small donations. But I put my money towards the Reese & Cyrus stand; it should open tomorrow.

At 9:30 tonight, I opened my gate for the first time in months. Bran, MaryAnn, Logan, Nami, Mike, Xavier, and Samzyy came over. Note: This was Mike’s first time in Forest, but I played with him in ACCF and New Leaf in the past. If you’re a long-time Youtube viewer, you may remember him from my final ACCF Wi-Fi Moments video.

We headed over to the plaza, and at first, I thought we couldn’t do aerobics because K.K. Slider was here. That turned out not to be the case, but there was another issue instead:

You can only do group stretching if all of your visitors are registered as best friends. The obvious question is: Why? It’s not like stretching is anything like using a shovel or axe in someone’s town; they’re not going to hurt anything by stretching? So I had to go through my list and add everyone as best friends, just so we could stretch for a minute. So the set-up is more complicated than it should be, but we did eventually get to participate. 🙂

After that, we tried to enjoy a performance from K.K. Slider. But as it was about to begin, Samzyy disconnected. We tried again, and K.K. performed K.K. Break for us. We discovered that we can now clap during the shows! That’s a nice new feature that was quietly added in the update!

William then joined in, and we headed up to the Roost for some coffee. While it’s simple enough to buy a cup of coffee for yourself, it’s a bit complicated to get coffee for everyone. Everyone in town has to be in the Roost for it to work, and everyone needs to be seated when one person goes to purchase the coffee, and then that person gets up and has to sit down again for the dialogue to commence. But I paid 1,600 bells and we all drank.

After a bit, we went over to Apollo’s house, where he was still cooking. Xavier and Logan had to leave, and then Timo came over and Samzyy returned. We went over to Nook’s Cranny, and we hula danced to the Nooklings’ “closing soon” song. 😛

I took everyone to meet my two newest neighbors, Marina and Static. Around 11:30, we did some group stretching again for the visitors that weren’t around the first time. After that, Nami, William, Bran, and Samzyy left for the night. Locuras came over, and we all danced to the song of the gyroids in my house. 😛

We then went up to the Roost. Yann left shortly after midnight, and Xavier came back. We all drank wayyyyyy too much coffee, and I ended the session at 12:30. Thanks to everyone who came! It was fun! 🙂

Today, I dug up my first three gyroids! A drummoid was my first one, followed by a squeezoid and a stelloid. Here’s a look at them; they’re cute!

As expected, the museum was closed for construction. It will reopen tomorrow with a cafe!

I used my new permanent ladder to reach a buried item (a rare mushroom) up on a cliff, and I was happy to discover that I didn’t need to put my shovel away to use the ladder! Sometimes it’s the small things that make us happy. 😛

I took a plane out to Harv’s Island, and I saw someone new. At Tortimer’s usual spot, I found Cornimer instead!

If you’re not aware, he’s an obscure character who hosts the Acorn Festival in Animal Crossing: Wild World. Some may say he is really Tortimer in disguise, but where on earth would they get that idea? 😉

But anyway, he gave me three acorns to use for crafting…before offering to access my storage, just like Tortimer would do. I’m not sure if he only appears in the autumn, but it seems plausible.

Next, I made my way over to the new stand belonging to Jolly Redd. He told me I was limited to buying one piece of art per day…and I was thrilled! To have a selection of art every day is amazing compared to seeing him once every two weeks. This may mean I’ll complete my museum in a matter of months instead of years. 🤞

He had a real famous painting and a fake tremendous statue. I didn’t need either of them, but I’ll be back again tomorrow to check again.

But art isn’t all that Redd has to offer. He has raffle prizes, much like you’d see at the fireworks festival. For 500 bells, you can get a random item. I got three different ice cream cones, so I’m not sure what other types of items you can win. But handheld items are always fun (and sometimes delicious).

Since I still need to get ahold of some vegetable seeds for cooking, I funded Leif’s stand next. I’m assuming he will sell them, since Nook’s Cranny hasn’t had any yet. Although, T. Zelda did send me a few carrot starts in the mail…so thanks, TZ!

Of course, I also made my daily trip out to a mysterious island.

I found another gyroid fragment and I also caught a tarantula there. But otherwise, there wasn’t really anything interesting about the island. I still haven’t seen an island that has vines.

As a reminder, I’ll be opening my gate to friends tomorrow night (Saturday) at 9:30 p.m. Eastern time. That also means tomorrow’s blog entry will probably be posted quite late. 😛

This morning, I dug up my gyroid fragment to find…that it was still a gyroid fragment. I forgot to water it! So I’ll have to wait until tomorrow to get my first gyroid(s).

That disappointment was followed with another when I learned that the plaza train and plaza ferris wheel that I ordered could not be placed in the plaza. And while the ferris wheel is fairly big, it’s clearly not big enough for villagers to use. I was hoping we’d get some of those Pocket Camp style attractions that villagers can actually use. That’s a missed opportunity by Nintendo, IMO.

But on a brighter note, these items would fit in great if I eventually decide to bring back my amusement park.

I took a plane out to Harv’s Island, where I got to meet Tortimer! Harvey introduced him as someone who can deliver and hold my belongings. But Tortimer quickly chimed in that that’s not all he does! That is very good to hear!

But nothing else was revealed so far. I’m obviously not expecting a multiplayer mode at this point, but I’ll take whatever I can get. And I was unable to break into enter his RV. 😛 But I did take an antique photo with the antique special character.

Harriet offered to give me a haircut, and I accepted…but I soon regretted it. Fortunately, she allowed me to revert to my previous hairdo.

Next, I took a boat ride to today’s mysterious island. There, I found Brewster! He agreed to come to my town, and he also gave me a gyroid fragment.

I also found another gyroid fragment on that island. When I returned home, I made sure they were all watered. They exhale a little puff of air to show that they’re alive, and they’ve been watered.

When I told Blathers the news about Brewster, he said he has to prepare the museum. So it will be closed tomorrow, and will reopen on Saturday with the Roost!

At Nook’s Cranny, I found a digital book of basic cooking recipes for sale in the cabinet. I bought it, but unfortunately, the shop did not have any food ingredients today. So I still can’t do much cooking.

As I did some fishing, I learned several new food recipes after catching different types of fish. That includes sea bass pie, which sounds completely disgusting. 😛

Celeste was in town for a meteor shower, and she now has new recipes to share! I learned how to make a yellow star rug. ⭐

Thanks to the night owl ordinance, Nook’s Cranny is now open beyond the usual 10 p.m. closing time. But unfortunately, we only get one extra hour instead of the three extra hours we got in New Leaf! The shop now closes at 11:00 p.m., which isn’t that much of a help. Oof.

I posted my video today, showing my highlights from last night and this morning. Check it out if you’d like.

And I have an update on my next online session. I plan to open my gate to friends on Saturday night (not Friday, since the Roost won’t be open yet), around 9:30 p.m. Eastern time. Anyone on my roster is welcome.

See you all next time!