Jeff's New Horizons Blog

October has arrived, and so has Halloween season. Jack sent me a letter in the mail, telling me to buy candy to prepare for the big night. He also attached his portrait to the letter. I hung it up in my house, and I noticed that it glows (and dims, repeatedly).

The Nook Stop machine in town hall now has new body paint and eye color options available. These will be helpful for certain costumes and characters,.

And of course, you can now plant pumpkins! Leif was in town, and he was selling pumpkin starts for 140 bells apiece. I bought ten of them for now.

Leif said that if you water your pumpkins, there will be more to harvest. Also, there are four colors of pumpkins…and you won’t know which is which until they grow.

Leif also had some orange windflower seeds, so I bought a bunch of those as well. Since some of the other orange flowers (especially roses) don’t look quite orange-y enough, I plan on putting lots of orange windflowers at various spots around town for the month.

At Nook’s Cranny, I bought a spooky scarecrow. I also bought a piece of candy. We are limited to one piece of candy per day, which seems extreme, because earlier games didn’t limit us that much. Maybe we won’t need as many in New Horizons?

I wondered where to put my pumpkin patch, and I considered a few places around town. I even thought about replacing the sumo ring! But ultimately, I just chose to plant the pumpkins in my flower garden…for now, at least.

Lopez was crafting today, and he gave me my first Halloween D.I.Y. recipe, for a spooky table. Unfortunately, the recipe requires a whopping 14 orange pumpkins to make (in addition to 10 pieces of soft wood). Why so many pumpkins? It makes me question if buying 10 pumpkin plants is going to be enough (especially if only 1/4 of the pumpkins are going to be orange)!

Up on the cliff, I was thrilled when I saw Celeste was in town!

She gave me a recipe for a pansy wand. Why does this game need so many types of wands anyway?

How do you all like the October changes in the game? It’ll be more fun in a few days once the pumpkins come in, but so far, so good! 🎃

I’ll be back late tomorrow night with a blog entry about Friday Night Forest. I know I haven’t been opening much lately, but I’m planning on it tomorrow. Hope to see you then!

Gullivarrr sent me my reward today, and it was part of the pirate outfit. Unfortunately, it was a pirate dress. I wish the pirate costume was just regular clothing you could buy at the store. I hope no one was counting on wearing a pirate costume for Halloween, because I doubt many people will get the whole outfit in time.

At the shop, it looks we’ll still have to wait until tomorrow (October 1st) for all of the new Halloween/update stuff to arrive. But there was at least a ghost umbrella for sale, so I bought it. 😛

Up at Able Sisters, Sable had some dialogue thanking me for helping out Label.

Keaten thought up a new nickname for me, DJ JEF.

Flick was in town, so I grabbed some bugs out of storage. I sold him 11 bugs, for a grand total of 98,250 bells.

At town hall, I decided to change up the exterior of my house for the Halloween season. My house will be mostly black for a while.

That’s all for now, but I’ll be back with more tomorrow. See you then!

Yesterday, Label was in town, and she wanted to see me in a work outfit.

She gave me a staff uniform to use as an example, but I also grabbed a chef’s hat from out of storage. Even though they don’t necessarily match, they’re both considered work items, so it…worked. Labelle liked the outfit, and she gave me a Labelle cap.

Today, it was Gullivarrr that was in town…although I didn’t exactly have the most flattering angle to see this pirate’s booty.

I went diving in the ocean to find his communicator, and it showed up on my first dive. He’ll be sending me a reward in the mail tomorrow.

Keaton told me he was thinking of moving out of town, but I put a stop to his plans.

The latest update arrived tonight, and the latest version number is 1.5.0. Nintendo sent a letter thanking me for downloading the update, and they attached a Ring-Con to the letter. If you’re not familiar with the Ring-Con, it’s the accessory used in Nintendo’s “fitness adventure” game, Ring Fit Adventure.

I don’t think it’s particularly useful in New Horizons, but I’m sure someone out there will come up with a good use for it. 😛

Since it was already 10:00 by the time I played post-update, Nook’s Cranny was already closed. So I couldn’t check the shop for pumpkin seeds tonight…although they may not be available until October 1st anyway.

I didn’t receive any of the new DIY recipes either, even though I hung out for a while to watch for balloon presents. 😛 So this update doesn’t exactly have an immediate impact on the game, unless you were really dying to get that Ring-Con item for some reason. 😂 But I’ll be back with more soon.