Jeff's New Horizons Blog

Gulliver sent me a letter in the mail today, along with my reward for helping him yesterday. That reward was…a milkmaid hat. Like…. seriously? I hate what they’ve done to Gulliver in New Horizons.

One of my Nook Miles+ goals for today was to catch three sea creatures. That was the only reason I went diving, and I actually found a scallop (and Pascal) on my very first dive. He actually compared a pizza delivery guy to a knight in shining armor. 🍕😂

He gave me a mermaid fishy dress, which was another duplicate. I just sold it at Nook’s Cranny for 1,000 bells.

At 10:00, I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest. Ros, George, Ryan, Logan, Timo, Alex (from A-Nation), and Alex (from Pawnee) joined in. After not opening the past three Fridays, I didn’t think I’d get a full house. But I was pleasantly surprised by the turnout. 🙂

After everyone checked out the free DIY recipes scattered on the ground, we headed over to Donkey Kong Country. They got to see the new area, and they all seemed to like it.

Although when I sat on the bench, they apparently thought I meant for them to go across to the other side, so they ended up taking a shortcut instead of going around the loop the long way. 😛

We climbed up to the rock-head statue to take a group photo.

Further west, there was a pinecone on the ground that nobody could pick up! It apparently got glitched (or permanently lagged) somehow. 😛

When we went over to the frog race course, we encountered some weirdness there as well. Ros was stuck on one “lily pad,” and couldn’t jump off. There was also a spot that none of us could jump to. Everyone was just bopping in place, trying unsuccessfully to jump. I joked that maybe the pinecone’s ghost was on that spot.

Ryan had to leave, and once he did, Ros was set free and the ghost was gone. 😛

We went over to Lopez’s house, and he was crafting a tulip crown. But something gave me a splitting headache… 😛

When I went outside, Mario was sitting on a toilet, applauding, as a frog was hitting him with a net and a humongous fish was blocking the moonlight.

After that, we kinda just wandered around a bit. Alex from Pawnee left, and I put my King Tut mask on and ran around.

After I buried my first pitfall seed of the night (and fell into it myself), Ros returned, and Calvin tried to enter. But then we all got disconnected. I reopened, and Ros, Calvin, George, and Timo came over. I trapped Rizzo, and we went to visit Tybalt.

George left, but as he was leaving, we all got disconnected again. At that point, I called it a night and I did not reopen. But I had a good time tonight, so thanks to everyone who came!

I’ll be doing some dreaming this weekend, so maybe there will be another Dream Island Hopping episode coming up in a couple days. See you next time!

I found Gulliver washed up on the shore today…just one day after finding the same sight on GameCube.

I helped him out by digging up his five communicator pieces that were buried in the sand. He will be sending me a gift in the mail tomorrow.

Since it rained last night (for the first time in a long time), I had a bunch of new flower buds today. That included a new gold rose!

Louie wanted to apologize to Tybalt for something, by giving him a gift. So he asked me to deliver it. I agreed to help out, and the gift was a dotted raincoat. I told Tybalt it looked good on him (even though it didn’t). 😂

He rewarded me with a flashy jacket.

Wisp was in town tonight, and I found him in a surprising spot: on the eastern cliff above Donkey Kong Country, next to the stone idol! 😛

I wished on a few shooting stars, but I missed out on many more. When you’re holding a tool and using the higher viewpoint angle (like I typically do), that means you have to do three things before you can wish on a star: Put the tool away, and change the angle twice. Once you do all that, the star is already out of sight and it’s too late to make a wish. D’oh.

Louie gave me a new nickname tonight, “racer.” I guess it’s better than “slick,” which is what they’ve been calling me. 😛

I’m in the process of making small changes to my fountain area in front of the plaza. I removed the 2nd row of seats, since I mainly had them there for the fireworks festival. That also gives me room to add blue pansies all around the fountains (instead of just on three sides).

But with that said, I’m still not totally happy with it. It still needs something else in my opinion, but I’ll have to figure that out another day.

There will be an entry late tomorrow night for Friday Night Forest. I have a lot of recipes available near the airport, and they’re free for any of my visitors that need them. See you all tomorrow!

Celeste showed up in town yesterday, for the time time in nearly a month! She gave me a DIY recipe for a Virgo harp. That’s fine and all, but I really want more of the space items/recipes!

I found a lost item on the ground outside, and it mentioned “xtreme xercises.” That sounded like Louie, so I asked him about it in Nook’s Cranny. Sure enough, it was his training notebook. He thanked me by giving me a cycling shirt.

While I was there, I checked out the cabinet and saw a cute frog umbrella for sale! I just had to buy it, even though it wasn’t raining.

Today, Louie sent me a letter (with a fossil attached) in the mail, talking about dinosaurs. He was wondering how much they could deadlift.

But the fossil he sent me was coprolite. In other words, dino poop! Why is he sending me this 💩?!

Nook’s Cranny had a bubble blower available from the cabinet. It was 150 bells, so I bought it.

I took it outside and blew it once…and it was gone. It’s just a one-time use item! Even the ones from Crazy Redd could be used five times! What’s worse, is that you can’t even buy them in bulk! You have to buy them one blow at a time. What a joke.

Label was over at the plaza today, and she wanted to see me wearing a goth outfit: something dark and moody. She gave me a vampire costume to use as an example. I put it on, and then I went home to check my storage.

There, I found a skeleton hood. It should match the “dark and moody” theme, even if it’s not exactly a vampire thing. So I put it on and returned to Label. She liked the outfit, and she gave me a Labelle hat. She’ll also be sending me a tailors ticket (or two) in the mail.

I posted a new video today, and it shows 65 things you can do in New Leaf, but not in New Horizons. Don’t take it the wrong way, I love New Horizons…and not all features are equal. Many of the features shown are minor things. But still, I think it’s fun to look at the differences between games. I hope you enjoy it!

As for this blog, I am making a small change to the frequency of new posts. I’ve been posting 6 times a week, but I’m now changing that to 5-6 entries per week. So some weeks will only have five entries, other weeks will have six. This just gives me a little break on days when not much happens.

By the way, I am planning on hosting Friday Night Forest this week at the usual time (10pm Eastern time) for people already on my roster. I may not have any new activities planned, but at least everyone can see the Donkey Kong Country area “in person.” 😛