Jeff's ACWW Blog

Big Top is the latest villager to come down with a cold. He proved to be surprisingly athletic when I gave him some medicine.

Crazy Redd was in town, as he is each Tuesday in Forest, and I went in to see what he had for sale. I bought a warm painting from him for 3,920 bells. It turned out to be an authentic piece of art, so I donated it to the museum.

Blathers had some new things to say about his fieldwork. He’s not sure he’s up to it any more, despite still being in his 20s. Wait, what? I certainly wasn’t expecting to hear that!

But he continued, telling me that his shovel recently hit something very hard in the ground. He got excited, thinking it was a fossil, but it was actually a time capsule!

Inside, he found two letters. The first one said “I want to own a shop so big that I can stock anything I want!” He implied that it was written by a child…a young Tom Nook perhaps?

The other letter said “Even if it’s small, I want to own a pretty shop.” It also seemed to be written by a child. Mable or Sable maybe? Anyway, Blathers then put the letters back in the time capsule and re-buried it.

A new “Message of the Week” was posted to the bulletin board, and it warned people to flee from strangers and their candy. That kind of defeats the purpose of Halloween, doesn’t it?

Rhonda was all packed up and ready to move out of town, but I decided to ask her to stay. I might not do the same next time, but for now, I didn’t want her moving away just yet.

On Tuesday, Blathers had some new dialogue for me. He told me that he tried doing some fieldwork to find fossils, but he soon discovered how heavy shovels can be.

So he concluded that manual labor is not for him.

Puddles was finally over her cold. She thanked me for all the medicine by giving me a regal carpet.

On Thursday, Big Top asked me if my best friend was a banana bread.

I thought that was an unusual question. Besides, how did he know?! 😛 I answered “absolutely” and he said the banana bread would never let me down like a person would.

Hopper again asked me if I was from the countryside. To see what he’d say, I picked the “Wooo-haaa!” option (meaning yes). He responded that I’m probably getting money from a farm. Yeah, in Stardew Valley. So because of that, he said I probably didn’t need a Nile shirt. So he didn’t give it to me.

Rhonda showed me a letter she received from someone calling themselves “All Paws.” It was about taking over the world. 😮

Hopper told me to go wild during the Acorn Festival. He even said to unleash my mad acorn lust. 😮

Yesterday, Blathers complained about another aspect of doing fieldwork: Finding worms in the ground!

The only option to continue his story was for me to call him a wimp. And when I did, he got fired up! I can’t recall seeing Blathers mad like this before!

Today, Rhonda thought she was a comedian.

And I found an odd “Talking to Myself” message posted to the bulletin board. What exactly is going on in the kids’ section of the library??

Throughout the week, I’ve been collecting acorns every day and taking them to Cornimer. In addition to the rewards he gave me on the first day, he has since given me a mush dresser, mush closet, mush stand, mush table, mush TV, mush bed, forest wall, and forest floor. Here’s a look at the full set.

I wrapped up my day by making a 68,000 bell mortgage payment at town hall.

As of yesterday, I’ve been playing Wild World for a full year now. (Want to see my first entry?) It’s safe to say that the Acorn Festival is my favorite festival in the game…although I wish it didn’t take me six days to complete the mush set. Still, it’s the only festival in the game that really feels like a traditional Animal Crossing festival to me.

Don’t get me wrong, I like Bright Nights too. But it’s really just something cool to look at, and there’s not much you can actually do. So I’m glad I was finally able to participate in the Acorn Festival after all these years.

If you haven’t collected all 230 acorns you need for the full set, you still have tomorrow (Sunday) to pick another batch. Good luck to those who are still collecting acorns! 🙂

Here is a video showing the Acorn Festival.

Today is the first day of the Acorn Festival, and I rushed over to town hall to speak with Tortimer. Er, I mean, Cornimer. He sang a nutty song about acorns for me.

He then introduced himself as the mysterious Cornimer. 😛

Cornimer explained that he uses his special powers to scatter acorns around town. He compared himself to the tooth fairy, but in reverse. There’s got to be a better way to say that.

He told me to bring him all the acorns I can find, but not any rotten acorns. If I take him enough acorns, he will give me prizes. So I began my search. Acorns appear under regular (non-fruit, non-cedar) trees, from what I can tell. So I began picking them up.

I returned to him with some acorns, but before he accepted them, he gave me my fortune. Apparently I’m a medium acorn.

He then gave me a mush stool in exchange for my first seven acorns. I continued my search as I made my rounds. Many of my villagers were also talking about the festival.

The acorns come in various shapes, which you can see when you open your pockets.

As far as I can tell, the shapes don’t matter. Other than the rotten ones of course, which you don’t want to give to Tortimer. I just put mine in the recycle bin at town hall.

Puddles was still sick today, but I didn’t buy her any medicine. I was actually going to, but I just forgot. Oops. But if the five doses I’ve already given her haven’t helped, I don’t know that a sixth would’ve made a difference anyway.

During one of my stops at town hall, I made a 15,000 bell mortgage payment.

In all, I gave Cornimer 42 acorns. In addition to the mush stool, he also gave me a mush end table, a mush lamp, and a mush chair.

There are more items to earn, so I’ll be playing more this week.