Jeff's New Horizons Blog

I received my jolly painting from Jolly Redd in the mail today, and I jollily rushed it over to the museum. Blathers informed me that it was the real deal. 🙂

The three large items at Nook’s Cranny were all bathroom-related. Well, sort of. There was a squat toilet, a simple panel (okay, this one is a stretch, but it could work as a screen to provide some privacy), and a cypress bathtub. I bought all three for my upstairs room, which has basically become a large bathroom. 😛

Saharah was in town, so I bought mysterious wallpaper and flooring from her. They turned out to be a white-chocolate wall and berry-chocolates flooring. As sweet as they may be, I didn’t keep either one of them. I’m afraid the steam from the bathtub may melt the walls and floor. 😉

I found 10 regular star fragments on the beach today, along with one large star fragment, and two Cancer fragments. That’s one of my largest star fragment hauls yet.

I visited Rizzo today, and I gave him a special gift.

Holey socks. He said he appreciated the gift, but it seemed like he could tell it wasn’t exactly the greatest gift. 😛 But that’s okay, because he’s not the greatest mouse.

Just seconds after the clock struck 7 o’clock (the exact time that scorpions start spawning), a completely hidden scorpion came out from behind one tree, as I was shaking a different tree (while holding a net). I didn’t even see it coming, so I was quite surprised when I collapsed!

I’m just about ready to make my town tour video, and I’m planning on recording it tomorrow (if it’s sunny in Forest). As I was planning out the path I’m going to take, I decided to add in another ramp on the east end of Eagle Mountain. Getting around on my cliffs is going to be so much easier now, thanks not just to this ramp, but also the other ramp and bridge I’ve added recently.

There were some more shooting stars tonight. But when I stopped to wish on one of them, I accidentally shook a cherry tree! I was trying to keep all the fruit on my trees for my town tour video, but I won’t let one fruitless tree stop me. 🍒

Update: I’m probably not going to have Friday Night Forest this week. But I might do something on Sunday afternoon instead. Stay tuned.

I found just three star fragments on the beach today. But there was another meteor shower tonight, so I wished on a bunch more shooting stars.

Apple informed me that she played single-player hide-and-seek, and she won! Well, I would sure hope so. 😛 But this is the 2nd day in a row that a villager has mentioned hide-and-seek. Could this be a hint that hide-and-seek is coming in a future update?

After I caught a spider from a tree, Keaton saw it and really wanted it!

He offered me a mesh cap for it. Getting anything at all for a spider is a good deal, so I agreed to the trade.

Redd was in town, and I checked out his works of art. One of them was clearly fake, and another looked just like a fake one that I bought before. I wasn’t sure about the other two, but I took a chance and bought a jolly painting from Jolly Redd. I’ll find out tomorrow if it’s real or not.

Near my jumping pillars, I noticed something odd. I have one space of land in the water that allows me to hop across the river (at ground level). But when moving from east to west, I could previously jump to two possible places: north of the pillar, or south of it.

But today, I could not jump to the southernmost spot! I’m not sure if this is a temporary glitch, or if last week’s update changed the jumping mechanics. Anyone encounter something similar?

Agent S taught me to make a log stool, which seems like such a basic recipe that it feels like I should have learned it months ago. 😛 But I made a couple of them for my campground area; they fit in with the log stools better than the stone stools I was using.

I have a new path that goes by Spectacle Rock, and I was surprised to see Tia up there today. I don’t normally see any villagers in that area, but maybe they can sense the new path somehow? 😛 Of course the new bridge probably helped too, but my villagers typically avoid the cliffs (except for Keaton, who lives on one).

Midge told me that she accidentally bought an extra swimming cap. So she wanted to trade it for my great white shark!

I agreed to it, just to be nice. But why is it always Midge that wants to do these super lopsided trades? (Last month, she gave me some glasses for my scorpion).

Have a good day!

Late last night, I went on and paid off my new ramp, so it was completed today.

Nook’s Cranny finally had another wet suit today, a black horizontal-striped one. Even though I’m not a fan of the stripes, black is much better than yellow. But when I checked the option for redeeming Nook Miles, I found an even better one. This Nook Inc. wet suit is black and green, with no stripes or leaf patterns on it. It’s the best one I’ve seen yet, although I’d still prefer a blue one.

I attended the completion ceremony for my new ramp, but I’m not posting a screenshot of it right now because it completely gives away my new area. 😛 But if anyone wants to see it later on, just ask me after my tour video is already up and I’ll go back and add it to this entry retroactively.

My third lily-of-the-valley (aka Jacob’s ladder) showed up today…right above Godzilla! But I’ll probably stop mentioning every new one that pops up now. 😛

I got stung by a wasp today, and I was surprised when Lopez actually gave me some medicine for it! Well, it’s nice to know he’s capable of being nice once in a while.

After I bought some bubblegum at Able Sisters, I stopped to speak with Midge. For a moment, I thought she was about to ask me to play a game of hide-and-seek! But she was actually just suggesting a book about hide-and-seek to me. As far as I know, actual hide-and-seek isn’t in New Horizons.

I didn’t do any diving today, but I did snare some new fish and bugs: I caught the sweetfish, horned elephant beetle, and horned atlas. They all now reside in the Forest Museum.

After shooting down a balloon present, my golden slingshot broke. 🙁 This is something that should never happen.

Agent S had a thought bubble above her head, and then she asked me to catch a sea horse for her.

Using a thought bubble and then asking for a specific catch is the same thing that Tia did the day she gave me her photo. So I had a feeling Agent S was doing the same thing. So I stopped what I was doing to search for a sea horse!

Unfortunately, it look me much longer than I anticipated. In fact, it took me 35 minutes to catch one! However, it would all be worth it if she gave me her photo. But instead, she gave me…

…a striped shirt! All that work for a shirt! Ugh. Just…ugh. 😒

After that, I got back to work on my new area. In fact, I basically finished it up! But once the designing bug bites me, I want to keep going! So I made some new layout changes that make it easier to get around on the cliffs. In fact, I’m putting in a new bridge! It’ll be my 8th bridge, but the first one on the cliffs. I paid it off right away, and then added some new paths connecting the area to an existing path.

I like my new additions, but the other end of the path is basically a dead end. I think I need to add something else there, even if it’s just some benches. But I’ll think about that more tomorrow.

A few other quick notes about today:

• Flick was in town, and I sold him many bugs throughout the day.
• I collected nine star fragments on the beach.
• There was yet another meteor shower tonight, and I wished on several more shooting stars.
• Apple wanted to move out, but I convinced her to stay.
• I caught six sharks today: four great whites, one whale shark, and one hammerhead.

See you all next time! 🙂 Never Stop Crossing!