Jeff's New Horizons Blog

After wishing on a bunch of stars in Pawnee last night (and a couple in Forest as well), I found quite a few star fragments on the beach today.

There were 12 regular star fragments, three Leo fragments, and one large star fragment…just on my first run. I later found an additional Leo fragment and two more regular star fragments. That’s a grand total of 19!

While fishing in the ocean, I caught my first ray. It covered my whole face!

Tia wanted to apologize to Agent S, so she had me deliver a steampunk costume to Forest’s nuttiest squirrel. Agent S loved it!

She rewarded me with a kappa costume.

C.J. was in town, and he had a fishing challenge for me: I had to catch three “big-time” fish in a row. So I snagged two black bass and an olive flounder to complete the mission. But C.J.’s presence in town allowed me to do something even better: Clean out my large shark/fish collection I had in storage. I’ve been saving these just for C.J.

He gave me a whopping 327,000 bells for them all.

As I mentioned on Sunday, I recently downloaded the Nintendo Switch Online app. Not only does it allow me to see my dream visitor count (currently 3,116), but I can finally use QR codes as well! This makes it much easier for me to use designs in my town since I don’t have to make them all by hand. I already replaced my banana design (on the banana stand) with a better-looking version, and I also added Lakitu near Rainbow Road.

The bad thing is that most of my pattern slots are currently being used by Rainbow Road and the frog race course. But I have a few open pattern slots, and I’m sure I’ll be using them in the fairly near future.

I saw on the bulletin board that two birthdays are coming up next week: Tybalt on the 19th, and Lopez on the 20th.

The daily glowing spot was in an unusual spot today: my flower garden! It was in a spot where it was surrounded on all side by fences or flowers! I wonder if the recent update changed where the glowing spot can appear, because it used to only appear in wide open areas.

I found a scallop today, and Pascal gave me a D.I.Y. recipe for a mermaid lamp. Finally, something new!

At my house, I used my wardrobe to set up a couple more wand outfits, a pirate and a bear. (I’m still missing pieces for the pirate outfit, so I substituted the shirt that says “GOLD” for now). 😛 I also ordered a couple items from my catalog for another outfit.

But speaking of pirates, Rizzo acted like a pirate when he asked me to go on a treasure hunt. And his catchphrase fit the situation perfectly! 😂

He gave me six minutes to find the buried item, but it only took me two and a half minutes. My reward was a collarless shirt.

With that, I wrapped up my game for the night. But I’ll be back with another entry tomorrow. And for those on my Switch friend roster, I do plan on opening for Friday Night Forest this week.

Update: I have now added a Forest Island page. It shows my current map, list of villagers, dream address, town history, and more. Check it out and let me know what you think!

I found Gullivarrr washed up on the beach yesterday, and he asked me to find his communicator for him. I went diving, and again, I found the communicator on my very first dive!

Keaton asked me to deliver a gift to Tia, and of course, I agreed to help. To my surprise, the gift was a skull tee. I told her it looked nice on her, but it’s certainly a different look for her.

Last night, I worked on the area in front of the plaza, and I decided to add a 2nd fountain. I also made a path between them, and then I added some benches today. This will be a great place to sit and watch fireworks!

I received my reward from Gullivarrr in the mail today; it was a pirate beard. That’s quite a bushy beard!

I went diving and filled up my pockets twice, but there were no scallops to be found.

Anyway, I updated my dream today so that visitors can see the new fountain layout and the “He Stole” skeleton in Sudden Valley.

Later on tonight, I ran into Celeste. She gave me a D.I.Y. recipe for a mums wand. I wish she’d give me more space items! I don’t care about all these wands. 🙁 I wish I could make these wand recipes disappear…but I might need a magic wand to do that. 😉

Alex from Pawnee invited me over to his town for a meteor shower, so I headed on over. I was surprised to see that Logan and Nami were also there. Alex gave us a tour, and his town is amazing! I’ll have to feature it in a future dream video…although some parts are a bit disturbing. 😛

After a while, Logan left, and Saeran joined in. I wished on many shooting stars while I was there, and I earned 2,000 Nook Miles for wishing on my 200th star.

After Alex completed the tour of his town and house, he ended the session. Thanks for the invitation, Alex! It was fun, and your town is great! 🙂

See you all tomorrow!

This afternoon, I headed over to Tom41’s town to see a bit of the fireworks festival there. We had fun burning ourselves and each other.

I spoke to Isabelle, and she gave me a heart bopper.

I heard that the colorful wheels, which previously showed different numbers to each player, have now been fixed. And we confirmed it. We all saw the same results after spinning them.

If you move too far away from it though, it will reset to 1. But as long as everyone stands nearby, it works the way it should.

After some drama with a missing tree and a fruit thief, we got disconnected.

Later on in my town, I bought an eggshell at Able Sisters to put on my head. It cracked me up. 😉

However, I soon replaced it after speaking with Isabelle at the fireworks festival. She gave me a flower bopper to wear on my head.

Hornsby was getting fired up for the fireworks. He said this was the most exciting thing to happen to him since he ate breakfast this morning. 😛 Don’t laugh, food is a big deal for Hornsby! 😉

I went diving for scallops, and I found one on my 4th dive. Pascal showed up to give me some words of wisdom about holes.

He also gave me another pearl. 🤦

I bought some of Redd’s raffle tickets to get some more fireworks, but I always end up getting so many balloons and pinwheels that I don’t want. And apparently, the game doesn’t even have Roman candles. 🙁 But on the bright side, I did use a fountain firework to set Rizzo on fire. 🙂

Another thing I noticed about the fireworks festival is that it was still using the custom fireworks I submitted last week. I didn’t have to submit them again today. I hope you all enjoyed the 2nd fireworks festival of the year!

Today, I posted my new video, Dream Island Hopping #1! I hope you’ll check it out.

I also put up a new Dream Visits page. You can share your dream addresses in the comments, and check out the dreams of other commenters. Have fun and pleasant dreams! 🙂

By the way, I just got the Nintendo Switch Online app and I’m now able to see how people have visited my dream. The total is 2,990 visitors; thank you all for dreaming of Forest! Unfortunately, it doesn’t list the names of visitors or I’d mention the recent dreamers in the blog like I do in my New Leaf blog.