Jeff's New Horizons Blog

Last Thursday, I crafted a new shovel to replace one that broke. After I was done, I was alerted that I just received 3,000 Nook Miles. That’s right, I have now completed the DIY Tools achievement for crafting 3,000 tools!

I still have two more sections I need to complete, the letter-writing one and the turnip one. Those are going to take me a good while, yet.

Rocket the superhero gorilla was camping at the campsite on Saturday. She’s the only superhero I’m not interested in.

But there was something a bit interesting about her visit: She also camped here in November 2020, which I believe makes her my first repeat camper. At least of the campers I’ve mentioned in the blog.

Yesterday morning, I made space in my pockets to get some money out of the bank and buy some turnips from Daisy Mae. But there was a problem: I couldn’t get into Resident Services to access my account! It was closed for New Year’s Eve!

But I still wanted to buy turnips, so I started crafting a bunch of stuff to sell. I also grabbed a few pearls out of storage to sell as well. Once I reached a bit over 200k, I went over to Daisy Mae and bought as many turnips as I could afford: 2,070, at a price of 99 bells apiece.

Later on, Isabelle gave me a light stick and Tom Nook gave me some party poppers. I also bought an aqua New Year’s hat from Nook. I then hung around and waited for the new year to arrive (as I also had New Leaf and GameCube on). At midnight, 2024 arrived, and the fireworks started. Happy New Year! 🎆

Today is the first day of 2024, of course, and my villagers wished me a Happy New Year. Some, however, did it louder than others.

But January 1st isn’t just New Year’s Day, it’s also Bob’s birthday! I crafted him a rocking horse, and customized it to be colorful (since he has always liked colorful/kiddie furniture). I headed over to his party, and Agent S was also there. I gave Bob the gift, and I think he liked it! 🙂

Here are a few other quick notes about the past several days:

• I helped out Gulliver last Friday, and he sent me another kaffiyeh.
• My savings balance reached 75 million bells.
• K.K. Slider performed K.K. Rally for me and Ankha on Saturday.
• I’ve ordered way more zodiac dragon figurines than I’ll probably ever use. 😛 But they could come in handy at some point, so I wanted them anyway.

If you haven’t yet seen my video taking a look back at my 2023 in Animal Crossing (covering the full series), I hope you’ll give it a quick watch:

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope to see you all again soon! 🙂

Never Stop Crossing!

Sunday was Christmas Eve (aka Toy Day), and I helped out Jingle by crafting some festive wrapping paper. In return, he gave me some Toy Day stockings. I then started delivering Santa’s gifts to all of my villagers.

Bones had an amusing comment about Jingle; he said that Jingle was like a mug of hot cocoa that talks!

Once I was done with all of the deliveries, Jingle rewarded me with a Toy Day sleigh.

At that point, I hung up my stockings in my house and wrapped up my game for the night. I did not give my own gifts to my villagers this year, but they seemed happy just to get the presents from Santa.

On Monday (Christmas Day), I checked my stockings and found Jingle’s photo inside. Thanks, Santa (and Jingle)!

Wisp was in town yesterday, and he gave me some Casablanca lillies in exchange for his soul. 😛

I tried out my bathtub with yuzu (which was a seasonal item I recently ordered from the catalog). I wanted to see if I could glitch into it, and indeed, I could.

But speaking of seasonal items, I ordered a zodiac dragon figure (or two) today. It looks cute!

And to get ready for the new year, I finally finished cleaning up my Halloween jack-o’-lantern area. I spelled out “2024” using paths, so this will also show up on the map. Just a few more days to go!

In the next few days, I’ll be posting my video taking a look back at my 2023 in Animal Crossing. Stay tuned for that, and have a great New Year’s Eve! 🙂

Last Friday, Bones pinged me and gave me a free festive wreath. I decided to put it on my front door.

I saw a reindeer outfit for sale at Able Sisters earlier this week, and I couldn’t resist buying it and putting it on. 🦌

Tuesday, I saw a tarantula run from Ankha’s feet to Ketchup! I got my net out and tried to catch it, but I accidentally hit Ketchup in the head! Oops!

But to my surprise, the tarantula did not charge at me! I retreated a bit, and it actually let me! I was shocked! But I regained my composure and then caught the critter. 😛

Last night, Wisp was out floating around the island. I recovered his spirits for him, and he gave me a light-bulb sign for helping out. What a great idea. 💡

This morning, Gullivarrr was in town. So I helped him out by diving to retrieve his communicator. But when I gave it back to him, he was standing on the sand, and I was standing on the grass. So he looked much shorter than me. 😆 I guess my antlers made me look extra tall, too. 😛

Bones wanted to play a treasure hunt game, and I was up for the challenge. He only gave me three minutes to find it, and he said it might be hard to find it in time. Except that the buried treasure was right next to the Resident Services plaza, and I found it instantly. 😆

He gave me a gown coat for winning the game. I tried it on, but I decided to stay in my reindeer outfit. Oh, deer.

Just a little holiday update. I may be posting a new video this weekend, but I’m not sure if I’ll be playing the Toy Day event on Sunday night. (I will be playing in City Folk and New Leaf though, probably.) But there likely won’t be another ACNH blog entry until sometime next week. So I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays in the meantime! 🎄