Jeff's New Horizons Blog

Yesterday, K.K. Slider was in town and he performed K.K. Folk for me. Rizzo, Louie, and Hornsby were also at the show.

I made some changes to Rainbow Road: I removed the walls and replaced the half-width designs with full-width ones. (I previously used half-width designs on the sides, so that the patterns didn’t bleed through under the walls).

I have mixed feelings about this. I like how the road is wider now, but I also kinda miss the wall. But this change will be helpful, because it frees up a whopping 14 design slots that I can now use for other things. And when you consider my pattern slots were basically full, that is a big motivator for the change.

Lopez has been on a crafting kick lately. Friday night, he was crafting a tulip crown. Yesterday, he was crafting a golden flooring. And today, he was making an ironwood chair. I already knew how to make all three of those, but it is interesting that he was crafting three days in a row.

Keaton was shopping at Nook’s Cranny today, and he told me he could shop all day…if not for all the non-shopping activities required by life. 😂

I ran into Wisp tonight, but I was a bit surprised at where I found him. He was at the arcade, which is near the center of town. Normally I find Wisp in the northern part of town.

It took me four and a half minutes to find and catch all of his spirits. When I returned them to him, he gave me a corkboard for helping him out.

I spent much of my play time today working on a new part of town. It’s not as elaborate as Donkey Kong Country, so don’t expect anything too fancy. 😛 I’m mostly done with it already, although I still need to decide if/how I’m going to use a couple of items. I’ll probably unveil it in the next day or two (along with a dream update).

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!