Jeff's New Horizons Blog

Today is Toy Day (Christmas Eve), and Jingle the black-nosed reindeer was hanging out in town. I met up with him at the plaza, and he informed me that he forgot to bring the wrapping paper!

He gave me a DIY recipe for the wrapping paper, and surprisingly, it’s made out of ornaments. 😛 So I shook a tree to collect the ornaments and then crafted the required three sheets of paper. When I took them to Jingle, he rewarded me with a set of Toy Day stockings…which he hinted that I should hang up in my house.

Next, he had another task for me: He asked me to deliver gifts to all of the villagers in town. He gave me a magic bag full of presents. I went home to change into my Santa outfit, although it’s apparently not necessary since Jingle didn’t mention it at all.

The potential problem was that none of my villagers had given me any hints on what they wanted for Toy Day! But as I started making deliveries, I found out that it doesn’t matter. Each villager automatically gets the gift meant for them, so there’s no way to screw it up (unlike in New Leaf).

Another difference is that in New Horizons, the villagers know you’re not Santa. They can tell you’re just dressed up in a Santa suit.

I made all ten deliveries and then returned to Jingle. He gave me a DIY recipe for a gift pile, and he also gave me a Toy Day sleigh. So there’s not really a Toy Day (or Jingle) furniture set in New Horizons.

Even though I was done working for Jingle, I wasn’t done giving gifts. Villagers wanted to do separate gift exchanges with me as well (since the previous gifts were from Santa, not me).

So I took more gifts to each of my ten villagers.

In return, they had gifts for me as well. But they were all among the Toy Day gifts that Nook’s Cranny has been selling all month (the dinosaur toy, RC helicopter, dollhouse, etc.). The good news is that I got several different color variations (including a couple of new puppies I didn’t have already).

When I rolled up today’s snowballs, the snowboy taught me how to make a frozen table. (Yesterday’s snowboy taught me how to make a frozen-treat set.)

At Able Sisters, I noticed that Mabel was wearing a Santa hat…but Sable wasn’t!

Overall, Toy Day on New Horizons is like a simplified version of the New Leaf event. With no hints to keep track of, it is certainly easier. But there’s really not much to it, so it left me feeling a bit disappointed. Still, it is a quick event to complete, so that’s helpful if you’re busy with real-life last-minute preparations on Christmas Eve.

I will be posting a video of my Toy Day, but it probably won’t be up for a couple days or so. I will have another blog entry tomorrow, though.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

I visited Agent S today, and she was crafting. She gave me a DIY recipe for a shell table. I then gave her a gift, a train set that I bought for her at Nook’s Cranny. In return, she gave me her photo!!!! YES!!! Finally!

I took the photo home and put it in my house. Her favorite quote on the back is “You gotta put the pedal to the metal!” which is the same quote she had in New Leaf.

Of my ten villagers, that only leaves two villager photos I need: Louie and Midge. I really hope Rizzo asks to move out soon, because this town could really use some fresh blood. Bones, who moved here in October, is the only new villager in the past five months. (Tybalt is 2nd newest, and he moved in way back in July.)

Over at Candy Cane Lane, I rolled up a snowboy. But for the first time, I didn’t make it perfect! 😮 I’m guessing the head was a tiny bit too big?

So I didn’t get a new frozen recipe, but at least I still got my large snowflakes from the other three snowboys that were still hanging around…including this one that was on his last legs. So to speak.

An interesting thing about the frozen pillars is that you can actually place items on them! Unfortunately, it doesn’t show your character jumping all the way up there. 😛

Wisp was in town, and he was actually in the southern part of town! He has almost always been in the northern part of the map, or at least near the center. This may be the first time I’ve seen him down this far. But I caught all of his spirits for him, and he rewarded me with a common wall.

Friday is Christmas Day, and I think most people will be busy that day, either with family, or just busy spending time with new gifts. 😀 So I don’t plan on having Friday Night Forest this week. However, I do want to have a delayed Christmas party at some point after Christmas, but before the year ends. I’m just not sure which day yet. So stay tuned if you’re on my Switch roster!

Happy holidays, everyone! 🙂

Yesterday’s snowboy gave me a DIY recipe for an ice wand. That’s obviously my least favorite ice/frozen item yet, but oh well. It’s not like I can wave a magic wand and make it disappear. 😛 But I also earned 500 Nook Miles for building my 10th quality snowperson.

At Nook’s Cranny, I ran into Rizzo. He was looking at a skeleton, saying that he used to have one of those himself!

Today, I was surprised to see Celeste right outside my house as I started up the game. She taught me the DIY recipe for the galaxy flooring.

C.J. was in town, and I caught five fish in a row to complete his freestyle challenge.

I grabbed some fish out of storage, and I sold him 7 red snappers, 5 pikes, 3 football fish, 3 oarfish, 3 sturgeon, an arapaima, a koi, and a goldfish for a total of 164,700 bells.

Today’s snowboy taught me how to make an ice wall (the wallpaper, not the actual wall of ice, which is called a frozen partition). And two of the balloon presents I shot down today contained new seasonal recipes: I learned how to make a snowflake pochette and illuminated snowflakes. I made the snowflakes, and placed them (along with some of my other seasonal items) around Candy Cane Lane.

I’m not turning this area into a game or obstacle course yet, but maybe it can be a cool place to hang out this winter.

Note: Even though today was the winter solstice (in the northern hemisphere), the game didn’t do anything special for the occasion. Unless, of course, you count the two seasonal items from the NookStop which have been available all month. I think New Leaf spoiled us with a multitude of seasonal events, even if many of them were very minor happenings.

Have a good day, and I’ll see you all next time! ❄️❄️❄️