Jeff's New Horizons Blog

The Happy Home Academy sent me two letters today, one with a punching bag to commemorate my new room, and the other with a bronze HHA plaque for topping 20,000 points. Agent S also sent me an exercise bike for my new room. I wasn’t planning on making my new addition an exercise room, but it’s already looking that way. 💪

Today is Bunny Day (Easter Sunday), so Zipper T. Bunny was standing at the event plaza. 🐰

Zipper gave me a bunny day arch recipe. The arch is really cool, and it’s easily my favorite item of the Bunny Day items. I made one and returned to Zipper. He told me I had now crafted every piece of the Bunny Day recipes except for one. One that looks like him. Yikes.

The only problem (well, aside from the prospect of seeing Zipper’s freaky face on a wobbling toy) is that I didn’t have enough water eggs. I had plenty of everything else though. (I had at least 25 of every other kind, but only one water egg). So I had to go fishing for more…or is that egging for more? 🥚

Once I had enough, I crafted the toy and returned to Zipper. My reward was yet another recipe. This one was for a Bunny Day wand. The wand requires the wobbling Zipper toy and three star fragments. I only had two star fragments in storage, so I was unable to make the wand today.

Zipper also had something else for me. After giving him one egg of each type, he gave me a Bunny Day basket. He also had a trading service available, where I could trade three of one type of egg for one egg that I needed. For example, I could trade three sky eggs for one water egg.

By the way, all of the outdoor villagers were wearing Bunny Day eggshell outfits. Some of them, including Tia, looked really cute this way.

But Marcel didn’t fare as well. The egg shell made him look like a dunce. 😛

Rizzo spent the day indoors reading. He looks even weirder with glasses on. 😛

I put in a springy ride-on (toy), but unfortunately I can’t even sit on it. I was very disappointed by that. I’m hoping at least villagers can ride it? That would make for some very cute pictures. 🙂

At town hall, Tom Nook informed me that he can now customize my house. I could change my roof color or my mailbox, but I didn’t want to change anything right now.

With no further use of my eggs required, I started crafting some things. I made five arches, which I placed leading a path to my sumo ring. I’m sure I won’t keep it like this forever, but I like it for now. Maybe I could replace it with some other type of arches in the future.

After that, I started crafting like crazy just to use up my remaining eggs. When I sold everything (except for the five arches and the toy I’m keeping for the wand), I racked up a total of about 120,000 bells. That’s actually less than I was hoping for, considering how much work and annoyance these eggs have been over the past 12 days. I can always sell the arches at some point in the future too, and they’re the most valuable of all.

I’m glad it’s all over now, and I now have about 15 free spaces in my inventory. Whew.

My last task of the day was to commission a natural ramp, between Midge’s house and Marcel’s house. It will be my first ramp when it opens up tomorrow.

I hope you all had a good Bunny Day and a Happy Easter! I’ll see you next time! 🙂

I was surprised to find some pink roses in my flower garden today, among my red roses. I didn’t even need a white rose to breed them with! This is apparently my first homemade hybrid in the game so far.

When I went to pick it up and move it though, I just picked off the petals. I’m still not used to the way flowers work in this game yet. 😛

Flick sent me my man-faced stink bug model in the mail. When I set it down, I immediately wondered why I thought this would be a good idea.

At Nook’s Cranny, I bought a Mrs. Flamingo and put it on the beach.

The main event of the day was the spring fishing tournament! Many of my villagers were fishing by the river, all wearing hats!

C.J. is the host of the tournament, and the rules are simple (and quite different from previous games). You just have to catch as many fish as you can in three minutes. The fish you catch will automatically be placed in a cooler, so you don’t have to worry about pocket space. That’s a nice addition!

My first attempt did not go very well. My first two catches were eggs. Then I missed one fish, caught a squid, and caught another squid…seconds after the timer expired. So my score was only 1. That was pathetic. 😂

The good news is that you can sell your cooler fish to C.J. easily, and he pays more than the Nooklings. After your first attempt at the tourney, C.J. charges 500 bells for subsequent attempts, but it’s worth it. I gave it another go, and it went better this time: I caught five fish and scored 7 points (he gives bonus points based on how many fish you catch).

C.J. told me that if I accumulate at least 10 points, I can get some fish swag. So I decided to give it one last try. This time, I caught six fish and scored 8 points. That brought my grand total to 16 points, earning me a prize: a fish-drying rack.

The fishing tournament lasts until 6 p.m., but there is no winners’ ceremony like there is in New Leaf. C.J. just told me the next fishing tourney will be held in July.

At Able Sisters, I bought an orange printed-sleeve sweater. I then went outside and watched Rizzo walk into a pitfall. 😉

I planted some trees, sold some fish and bugs, and grinded out some Nook Miles. When I returned home, I found Tia standing in my garden! She watered some of my roses, which was nice. I was just surprised to find her there! I hope she can figure out how to get out! 😛

Before wrapping up my game for the night, I paid off my house debt. So my house should be expanded by tomorrow!

But more importantly, tomorrow is Bunny Day (Easter)! Zipper T. Bunny will be back in town to turn us all into zombies. Regardless of what he has in store for us, I’ll just be glad to get rid of these eggs (one way or another). See you then!

Not a whole lot was going on in Forest yesterday, so I decided not to post an entry (for the first time since the game was released). But I’ll still provide a quick update on what happened: Saharah was in town, and I paid 3,000 bells for some new wallpaper. She gave me a cafe-curtain wall.

Next to my house, I noticed that my red roses are now blooming. 🌹

For the first time, I found an animal other than Shari singing! It was Keaton, and he was singing near the pond on the mountain.

Tia was sitting near my other pond, eating a donut! It was a cute sight to behold. 🍩

When I visited Louie today, I saw that Marcel was visiting. Louie told me about his wooden simple bed and how it soaks up a lot of sweat. 🤢

Flick was in my town for the first time, so I made sure to say hello. I hope I didn’t bug him. 🦗

He pays high prices for any type of bug, so he’s a good character to have around…especially when Nook’s Cranny is already closed. He also offers some “art” if you give three of any specific bug. I later found three man-faced stink bugs for him, and he said he’ll send me my art in the mail.

I saw Keaton sitting by the river, and I went up to say hello. But he didn’t want to be bothered; he said he was on his break.

Today is Shari’s birthday, so I attended her party; Midge was also in attendance. Shari asked if I had a present for her, and I gave her some weeds!

However, she didn’t accept it. I still had the opportunity to give her something else, so I gave her some stone eggs. My pockets are filling up with all these stupid eggs anyway. She liked the eggs much better than the weeds. 😛

Celeste was in town, and she gave me a recipe for an Aries rocking chair. I don’t have the star fragments to make it yet, though.

Jesse sent me a tankless toilet, so I put it next to Rizzo’s house. I then did my business there. 😛

Yesterday, I redeemed some Nook Miles for a park clock, and it arrived today. I put it near my sumo ring, for now at least.

Here is my latest video episode, covering my first meteor shower and other events from Days 9-11:

See you tomorrow!