Jeff's New Horizons Blog

Gulliver sent me my latest reward in the mail: a nutcracker. I suppose that’s a good thing to have around with Christmas coming up next month.

I also received a letter from Tia, thanking me for the birthday gift yesterday. She sent me a trench coat. 😛

At Nook’s Cranny, I grew very excited when I saw that today’s turnip price was 535 bells!

I ran home and grabbed my 1,100 turnips and took them back to Timmy. He bought them all for a grand total of 588,500 bells. Nice! I also earned 1,000 Nook Miles for the third stalk market achievement (earning over 100k in turnip profits).

Leif was in town, and he did have pumpkin starts for sale this time (not that I needed any). So he does still carry them outside of October, just not every time he visits.

Before it got dark, I straightened up my town a bit and updated my dream. I still had a few DIY recipes on the beach, and I still have some of my Halloween stuff up, but at least my town is semi-presentable this time. 😛 Just go to dream address 6717-1633-3682 to visit!

Later on, I added a few flowers (but not too many) to my new cliffs. Since most of the flowers were cosmos, the name “Cosmos Canyon” came to mind…but I’m not sure if I’m going to stick with that. 😛

Since my shop had such a great price for turnips, I decided to share the wealth. Around 9:30, I posted a Dodo Code on Twitter and Youtube for anyone who wanted to sell some turnips. Caitlyn, Puo, Mr Egg, Liz, and Jan came over. As Calvin tried to join in, we all got disconnected. Oof.

I reopened, and Jan, Liz, Andy, Calvin, Benjamin, and JP9 came over…but by that point, there was only two more minutes until Nook’s Cranny closed! Several of the visitors also checked out my free DIY recipe pile, and I let a couple people get some fruit and pitfall seeds.

Even though I said tipping wasn’t necessary, I still got some tips. JP9 actually gave me 90 gold nuggets, which I said I didn’t need, but he insisted… so I’ll probably use them as future game prizes.

I ended the session a few minutes after 10:00. I’m sorry if anyone didn’t get to sell their turnips (particularly before the disconnection), but I hope you all enjoyed your brief time in Forest and made some money and/or learned some new recipes. I may do this again sometime if I get a great turnip price…although I might do it differently. It would be much less chaotic if I just invited a few people at a time. It’s hard to get things done when there’s another person joining every two seconds. 😛

Anyway, I’ll be back tomorrow with another entry. I’ll be opening with a Dodo Code, but friends will get the first opportunity to join.

Once I get a full house, I’ll be hosting my final Halloween races before I remove the course. There will be two semifinals, with the top two finishers from each semifinal advancing to the final. Hope to see you then!

Gulliver was in town today, and I helped him out by finding the five pieces of his communicator for him. In return, he’ll send me a gift in the mail tomorrow.

Today is Tia’s birthday, so I made my way to her party (where Agent S was also in attendance). I gave her a mama bear that I bought at the store. Happy birthday, Tia!

When I visited Louie, he started talking about “Buster,” and I was really confused. But he told me that Buster is the name of his favorite bicep.

Shortly before 10:00 tonight, I downloaded the new winter update. I received a letter from Nintendo thanking me, and a yule log was attached to the letter.

I went in my house and went to bed to speak with Luna. She informed me that we can now visit “surprise” (random) dream islands. She asked if I would like to allow other people to visit my island when choosing to be surprised, and I said yes.

However, agreeing to this also updates your dream town immediately! So my dream is now updated with my house littered with turnips, my town littered with free DIY recipes on the ground, and at nighttime. (I usually like to update my dream after cleaning up and in the daytime). I’ll have to try to clean up and update it properly tomorrow or the next day.

After that, I headed to town hall to take advantage of some other new features of the update. I spoke with Tom Nook, and he told me about the ability to upgrade my item storage. It requires 500,000 bells…immediately. He does not offer a loan for this upgrade. I got the money out of my account and paid him. My storage will be available tomorrow morning.

Next, I went over to the Nook Stop. I redeemed 1,800 Nook Miles for the six new hairstyles, and another 2,700 Nook Miles for the new reactions. They include “sit down,” “wave goodbye,” “take a picture,” “sniff sniff,” “work out,” yoga, “here you go,” excited, and “ta-da.”

I really like the new emotions, but I think “sit down” has got to be my favorite. It has me thinking that maybe I don’t even need those benches at the top of the cliffs I made recently. People could just sit on the edge of the cliff and watch sumo.

Do you have a favorite part of the new update? Let me know in the comments!

Just FYI, I’m planning on having Friday Night Forest this week…but instead of opening for friends, I think I’ll use a Dodo Code to open for anyone. I still want to give friends the first chance to come in, though. So if you’re a regular to FNF (or someone I know), please message me (on Twitter or elsewhere) ahead of time* so I can let you know the Dodo Code before I post it publicly. When I do post it, it will probably be on Twitter…although I might also post it to the end of Thursday’s blog entry.

*(Note: Please message me on Friday, shortly before 10pm Eastern time. I can’t make promises to anyone now, because I’ll need to see who’s available at that time. And please keep in mind, regular visitors to Forest will get the first chance to join.)

See you all next time!

If you haven’t heard the news, Nintendo posted a new trailer for the winter update coming up on “Thursday” (which will likely be available Wednesday night). Check it out!

It looks pretty good overall, IMO. It’s interesting that they’ve changed the name of the Thanksgiving event from the Harvest Festival to Turkey Day. Perhaps because it’s spring in the southern hemisphere, and not time to harvest for them?

The Turkey Day event itself appears similar to the New Leaf event, where Franklin is the chef…and not the main course. However, one element of the early games has returned: the festive atmosphere with villagers around the tables! Nice touch.

Toy Day also seems much like the New Leaf version, where we help Jingle deliver presents. The update will also include some new hairstyles (including an afro and a bald head) and new reactions (including sitting)! We can also expand our storage from 1600 items to 2400. That’s amazing, but I haven’t even filled up my initial storage. 😀 I think I’d rather have some more design storage at this point, though.

The next update will come in late January, and it will add Pave (and presumably, Festivale). For a moment, I wondered why they didn’t mention a New Year’s event. But apparently, the New Year’s event was already in the game so it didn’t need to be added via update.

Unfortunately, there was no mention of multiplayer online games, the Roost, gyroids, or any of the many other features that are still missing in action. Although some sites are reporting that the ability to visit random dream towns is returning. That will be a nice addition, but it’s still a pretty minor thing.

Meanwhile, in Forest…

Flick was in town today, and his presence feels like a waste this time of year. I ended up selling him a few wasps I caught, but that’s it.

I shot down a couple of balloon presents, but I didn’t get any new recipes from them. One contained a pennant, and one gave me 5,000 bells.

Honestly, not much was going on in town tonight. But tomorrow is Tia’s birthday, so I’ll be back with another entry then. Never Stop Crossing!