Jeff's New Horizons Blog

Yesterday, Bones asked me to make a delivery to Tybalt. The gift was a lawn mower, and Tybalt had a surprising reaction to it.

As a reward, Tybalt gave me an orange. If I’m not mistaken, that’s the first time I’ve received a foreign fruit from a villager…although I did get some peaches in a letter from Mom before, early in the game.

Today, Hornsby sent me a letter asking if I liked artsy stuff. It didn’t even register in my brain that he was sending me a work of art until I actually opened the attachment. It was a basic painting, and I excitedly rushed it over to the museum. Blathers informed me that it was authentic! Wow! Thanks, Hornsby! 😀

Now that February is here, the game is gearing up for Festivale. Nook’s Cranny will carry some Festivale items, including this stall that I bought today.

Tommy also informed me that there is a collection of new Festivale reactions available in the cabinet, so I bought that as well. It cost a whopping 19,800 bells, but it gives you four reactions: confetti, viva, let’s go (which lets us hop on one foot), and “feelin’ it.” I think confetti is my favorite of the bunch.

Able Sisters also has some sparkly Festivale costumes you can buy.

Although I ended up buying an ogre costume instead. 😀

Nook Shopping also has two new items for Valentine’s Day that you can order: a chocolate heart and a heart-shaped bouquet.

Gulliver was washed up on the beach, and I collected his five communicator parts and returned them to him. What ugly hat will he send me this time? Find out in the next entry. 😛

Friga the snooty penguin was camping at the campsite. As far as snooty villagers go, Friga isn’t bad. I considered letting her move in but only if she chose to replace Rizzo. However, I kept losing her games (six times in a row), and I just gave up.

If it was a snooty that I really liked (such as Ankha, Purrl, or Opal), I would have kept trying. But Friga isn’t worth playing half an hour’s worth of guessing games for a 10% chance she’ll want to replace Rizzo. 😛

After cutting some wood from trees, I completed the final “Rough-hewn” goal. I earned 3,000 Nook Miles for chopping 5,000 chunks of wood from trees.

A few trees later, I caught a wasp for my 4,000th bug! It doesn’t earn me any miles (until I hit 5,000), but I have been keeping an eye on my bug count when I saw I was getting close to 4k.

Speaking of bugs, I’ve noticed that dung beetles sell for 3,000 bells…that’s more than wasps! So I’ve decided to start saving my dung beetles for when Flick visits.

And if you haven’t seen it yet, here is my holiday movie-based obstacle course video. I hope you enjoy it!

Today I received a football rug that I ordered yesterday. I put it in my football/Browns room.

I visited Midge, and she was glad to see me joining her, for lunch. But I was not interested in what she was serving.

One of today’s fossils turned out to be a coprolite…like the one I just paid 50,000 bells for the day before. Oof. 😂 I needed it for my obstacle course yesterday, so that’s why I had to buy one from somebody. 😛

For the first time in weeks, I updated the dream version of Forest. So you can now check out the obstacle course for yourself, even if you can’t compete with anyone in a dream.

Later on, I attended K.K. Slider’s show in front of town hall. I asked for a random song, and he asked if I was in the mood for K.K. Moody. Unfortunately, no other villagers of mine were in the mood.

After the show, I went diving for a bit. My very first catch was a scallop, which caused Pascal to pop up. I gave him the scallop, and in return, he gave me the DIY recipe for the mermaid fence. I didn’t make it yet, but it requires one pearl, five corals, and five sand dollars.

My obstacle course video should be up tomorrow. Enjoy the rest of your weekend, everyone! 🙂

Yesterday, I received my bean-tossing kit in the mail…although I’m just going to refer to them as beans. You can throw the beans, but the process isn’t as enjoyable as it was in New Leaf. The “launch” isn’t as powerful, the beans don’t go as far when you toss them, and they disappear before they hit the ground.

In New Leaf, the beans would sometimes bounce around after hitting the ground, and it was just so satisfying. Also, people and animals don’t make surprised faces when hit with beans any more. So it feels like they downgraded the beans.

I was working on my obstacle course last night, and I came to the conclusion that I needed to remove an incline to give myself enough room. So the ramp that went up to the campsite is now gone…along with the western half of the campsite area. 😛 It may return in the future, though.

Today, Rizzo informed me that he just patrolled the island for any shady characters, and he assured me that all is well. Having Rizzo watch out for shady characters is like a fox guarding a hen house.

Apple was talking about moving out of town, but I told her to hang around town. On an apple tree.

After I came out of Nook’s Cranny, I walked towards my house…and I saw a snowball spawn on the path! It was completely on-screen and it appeared out of nowhere! I always thought that would happen just off-screen, but that’s not the case.

At about 10:00 tonight, I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest. Logan and Timo were the first to show up. We threw beans at each other, shook our new maracas, and yelled through our megaphones…all items that were newly added with the recent game update.

By 10:15, still no one else had joined in, so I let Logan and Timo make a practice run on my new obstacle course. I actually ran along with them. But as soon as we were done (Logan won), Nami came over. We talked for a bit, and then hung out in my house.

About 11:00, Xavier joined in. Fortunately, everyone had their Elf outfits. After a brief discussion about tacos, I led the four elves over to the obstacle course. The theme is holiday movies (and specials), so I tried to recreate some elements from several of them. Here’s a quick summary of what they’re based on, and what racers had to do at each place.

• Elf: Start on a sleigh, cross a chair in an elf classroom, and “make a toy” by launching an RC helicopter.
• Frosty the Snowman: Use a magic hat and then move through a field of snowmen.
• Rudolph: Beware of the Abominable Snow Monster (called a “Bumble” by Yukon Cornelius) by using a vaulting pole to cross a small lake to safety. Bumbles can’t swim.
• National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation: Use a water pump to flush away the sewage from Cousin Eddie’s RV.
• Charlie Brown Christmas: Activate a doghouse to “pet Snoopy.”
• Cross an ice bed (this one isn’t based on a movie, I just thought it would be a good obstacle to add).
• A Christmas Story: “Lick the light post” by turning on the lamp.
• Race back to the starting point. On the return trip, no tasks needed to be completed.

Logan was the first one back to the starting point, followed by Timo. But I thought it looked like Logan missed one of the tasks, so I checked my video to confirm it. And indeed, he missed the magic hat. It looks like he was standing beyond it and basically grabbed the side of a sign instead. Sorry Logan, but I had to disqualify you. Timo wins! The prizes were 99k bells and ten large snowflakes.

After a bit, Logan went hiding and wanted to be found, while some of us just went swimming and diving. We eventually regrouped on the northwest beach, where we sat on clams and Logan changed his appearance to look like Nami first, and then me. 😛

About midnight, Logan and Nami left. Timo, Xavier, and I admired the northern lights up in the sky.

I threw some beans in Timo’s eyes, we vaulted across the river, and then we beat up Rizzo. 😛 It was a pretty good night. About 12:30, I ended the session for the night. Thanks to all who came!

I’ll be posting my video of the obstacle course at some point this weekend, but it probably won’t be until Sunday morning. Have a good weekend everyone, and I’ll see you all next time!