Jeff's New Horizons Blog

Agent S sent me a letter in the mail saying she was acting as my fashion consultant. She sent me a rabbit tee, so I decided to put it on.

I also received three Pocket Camp items that I ordered through Nook Shopping. I put the fortune-cookie cart and Brake Tapper game in my amusement park, and I put the campsite sign at the campsite (naturally). Once I remove the frog race course, I may move the campsite sign over to the left side. But for now, this is the best spot I could find.

As you can see in that photo, there was a camper at the campsite today. It was Pashmina the goat. Even though she’s one of my favorite sisterly/uchi villagers (3rd, behind Cherry and Mira), I did not invite her into town.

When I visited Tia, she complimented my new rabbit tee. She also gave me some jogging shorts that she thought would look nice with it. Even though I didn’t change into those shorts, it was a very nice gesture.

I made some minor changes with the island designer tool today. I made Lopez’s and Rizzo’s backyards one space smaller, which allowed me to expand the cliff behind their houses. So the one-space-wide path going past the Animal Crossing cemetery is now two spaces wide.

K.K. Slider was in town today. He has previously appeared on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and now Monday too! As I mentioned on Twitter, K.K. needs a permanent venue so that he doesn’t keep getting bounced around like this!

Remember how much of a big deal it was to get K.K. earlier in the game? So why is he now so unimportant that he gets bumped around to four different days of the week because of other events? Well anyway, I asked him for a random song, and he played K.K. Dixie for me.

Nook’s Cranny had a chessboard for sale, but it cost a whopping 95,000 bells! Since when does a board game cost more than 90% of furniture? 😮 However, I like chess (though I haven’t played it in years), so I decided to buy it so that it would be in my catalog.

However, I didn’t keep the chessboard for myself. I wrapped it up and gave it to Hornsby as a gift. I was hoping an expensive gift like this would help me get his photo. Instead, he gave me a jinbei. That’s an outfit. Clothing. For a gift-wrapped, 95k piece of furniture.

I went diving in the ocean, and I found a scallop on my 10th dive. Pascal popped up and informed me that he never wears a shirt! 😮 I guess I never realized that. He does wear suspenders, however.

For the first time since wedding season, I made a trip out to Harv’s island. I often get asked how I would rank my current New Horizons villagers, so I decided to do that. Look for that in a video I may be posting tomorrow. But while I was there, I also posed Rizzo sitting on a life ring in the middle of the ocean at night, with no one around to save him. 😛

That’s all I have for tonight. There may or may not be a blog entry tomorrow, but there should be a new video up regardless. Have a great day, and see you next time! 🙂

Even though I don’t really play Pocket Camp, I decided to at least link my accounts so that I could unlock the Pocket Camp items in New Horizons. So I can now order from this list. 🙂

I found a letter from Flick in the mail; he sent me a bronze bug trophy. I put it in my exercise/trophy room, which is getting a bit crowded and unorganized. 😛 As I get more furniture, I’m really starting to hate these 6×6 rooms. It’s fine for a bathroom, but it’s too small for just about anything else.

I also got a letter from the Happy Home Academy, and my HHA score is now 88,712. That’s an improvement, but it’s not enough to trigger the next reward. Rizzo mailed me a skull doorplate, like the one I gave him that’s still on his door. I gave it to his next door neighbor, Lopez.

When I went diving, I found a scallop on my 2nd dive. Pascal gave me another pearl for it.

Logan invited me over to his town, so I joined him in Moonscar for fireworks. Alex, Nami, Jed, and Jj were also there. Logan had a bunch of cool firework designs including Blathers, Tom Nook, Mario, Tortimer, Squidward, and more.

Logan has an obstacle course in his town, and I competed against Alex on it. I was able to jump over the first two buried items (which I assumed were pitfalls), while Alex fell into the first one on his side. I thought that lag had helped me out, but looking back, I realize maybe they weren’t all pitfalls. Logan may have buried something else just to mess with us. 😛

Anyway, my lead disappeared when my 3rd landing spot actually did have a pitfall (and Alex’s did not). Alex took the lead going up the cliff, but lag evened us up. But I was first to vault my way to the finish line.

After the race, Logan had a surprise for me: He recreated Spectacle Rock!

We hung out in Logan’s house for a while, and Alex disconnected without warning. It kicked us all back to the airport. I thought I saw something unusual flash by, but I wasn’t sure what it was. Fortunately, I was recording, and when I went back later to look at the footage, I saw a balloon with a very long string, flying horizontally, from the ocean into the airport!

It only appeared on three frames, two of which were all string. That may be the weirdest graphical glitch I’ve seen in New Horizons so far. Alex wasn’t in the ocean to begin with, and he couldn’t have been holding a balloon there anyway, so I don’t think it was simple lag.

Anyway, those of us that remained were about to play some sumo. But that’s when Alex tried to return, and we all disconnected.

Logan didn’t reopen, so I just went over to my plaza and got a bunch of items from Crazy Redd. Several minutes later, I wrapped up my game for the night.

See you all next time! Have a great day, and Never Stop Crossing!

TZ sent me a letter today, along with a pretty tulip wreath. She said I should give it to one of my villagers. Thanks, TZ.

The August Bug-Off was held today, and I participated by competing in five rounds of bug-catching action. I scored 13, 5, 15, 8, and 6 points. After the last game, my net broke. Between that and back-to-back single-digit scores, I figured that was a good time to stop. 😛 But at least that 15-point game was my personal best of all three Bug-Offs so far.

Flick told me that my total points from all Bug-Offs surpassed 100 points, so he will be sending me a prize in the mail. Of my 48 (current) points, I redeemed them for an artisanal bug cage, a bug wand, a butterfly backpack, and a spider web.

During the Bug-Off, I caught my first robust cicada and my first walker cicada. I donated them both to the museum.

After the competition was over, I gave the pretty tulip wreath to Apple. She seemed to like it, and in return, she gave me her photo!!

I just got Lopez’s photo yesterday, so I was surprised to get another one today! I put it on the wall in my bedroom (with my other villager photos). The quote on the back of Apple’s photo says “One rotten apple spoils the barrel.”

Back outside, Hornsby said that since the Bug-Off was over, it’s time to let the bugs go home. Nice idea, I suppose…but Hornsby didn’t catch any bugs. And I already sold mine to Flick. 😛

On my 6th dive, I found a scallop, and Pascal found me. He gave me a pearl in exchange for the scallop, and he wondered aloud if otters should be called Bob.

I’ll be back with another entry tomorrow night. Hope to see you then!