Leif and Redd

One day after Earth Day, New Horizons starts celebrating the Animal Crossing equivalent, Nature Day. Special Nook Miles+ activities will be available (such as planting shrubs for Nook Miles). Leif has a stand set up at the plaza, and he sells shrubs and flower seeds. He also offers to buy weeds at a better price than the Nooklings.

Leif: Heya, heya! And welcome. What should I call you, friend?
So Marcel moves out and another clown shows up.

The Nature Day celebration continues through May 4th. That’s interesting that even minor holidays seem to be stretched out to nearly two weeks in New Horizons. But at least this one doesn’t seem obtrusive like that awful Bunny Day event with eggs everywhere you look.

I went to check out my private, northern beach, and Crazy Redd’s ship was there!

Redd's ship in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to enter the ship. But I spotted Redd elsewhere in town, on the western beach. And he had a serene painting with him!

Redd: And speakin' of instinct, I just had this feeling...so I bought a serene painting with me!

He initially offered to sell it for 498,000 bells, but that was a ploy to make his real price of 4,980 bells sound like he’s giving me a deep discount. For being his “cousin,” you know. I bought the painting at the dangerous cousin discount price, and quickly took it over to Blathers at the museum. It is apparently real, and Blathers informed me that it will allow him to add an art exhibit to the museum. 🙂

Blathers: Your generosity would enable us to add an art exhibit to our beloved museum.

He said he needed to prepare for construction, but I’m not sure how long that will take. I tried exiting and re-entering the museum just in case it was an immediate thing, but no such luck. 😂 He didn’t mention the museum being closed tomorrow or anything, so hopefully it’ll be done tomorrow.

That’s not the only news in town, though. Nook’s Cranny is going to be expanding!

Timmy: We're expanding the shop again!

Nook’s Cranny will be closed tomorrow, so I won’t be able to sell anything. Even the drop-off box will be unavailable. But the Nooklings will be back on Saturday, bigger and better than ever.

At town hall, Tom Nook gave me a DIY recipe for hedges. While I was there, I decided to move my campsite. I moved it north of Tia’s house, so that I’ll have more room to expand my obstacle course at some point.

With all that stuff going on today, I didn’t even realize (until now) that Marcel did not send me a goodbye letter! Villagers always sent goodbye letters in previous games. So Nintendo apparently made a curious change to villager etiquette.

I bought a baseball uniform at Able Sisters, and I (later) noticed that it is represented with a dress icon! It is certainly not a dress, though. As great as New Horizons is, there sure seems to be a number of odd, head-scratching decisions Nintendo made with this game.

A baseball uniform appears as a dress in my pockets.

Since Marcel’s plot is now vacant, I decided to take a trip to mystery island to possibly find a new villager. But my plans quickly changed when I saw Violet the purple gorilla there. I had no interest in asking her to move in.

Violet: Well, we may only be here a short time, but I do hope we get to know each better.
After this, we never spoke again.

The island was filled with bamboo, so I chopped it all down. I’ve had a number of bamboo-related DIY recipes, and now I’ll be able to make some of them.

When I returned to Forest, I spotted Wisp up on the cliff. I began searching for his spirits, and I actually found one of them by my private beach. When I caught it, the camera shifted to angle you can’t normally see…and it showed me that I still had a few weeds on my backside. Uhh, the backside of my mountain, that is.

I caught a Wisp spirit piece! Whew... One more to go!

Midge taught me the “pleased emotion,” and I eventually found all of Wisp’s spirits. When I returned to Wisp, he gave me a mobile.

Friday Night Forest will be held tomorrow at the usual time (10 pm Eastern/7 pm Pacific). We can do an obstacle course tournament, but that’s really all I have planned this time. So I probably won’t keep my gate open as long as usual.

Have a good day, and I’ll be back late tomorrow night with another entry!

First Major Update Arrives

The very next day after deciding to move out, Marcel was all packed up and ready to go today. In previous Animal Crossing games, villagers still stuck around for about a week (or up to ten days in New Leaf) after deciding to move, so I’m not sure why Nintendo made such a dramatic change in New Horizons. Regardless, I made sure to say goodbye to the moving mime Marcel.

Marcel: I hope the new island as a buncha yummy foods too! I'm gonna put everything I find in my mouth!

Nook’s Cranny had a paper tiger for sale, so I bought it and placed it in front of Claudia’s house. I think I may do something similar for many of my villagers, at least once my catalog of items has grown enough to the point where I have more animal-themed furniture items.

Able Sisters had a jester’s cap for sale, so I decided to use my tailor’s ticket for it. Now I can be Jeff the jester…or Jeffster, for short.

Saharah was in town, and I bought some wallpaper from her for 3,000 bells. She gave me the “kisses wall,” which is just a bunch of lips. I promptly gave the wallpaper a kiss goodbye and sold it to the Nooklings.

The kisses wall in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Apparently Jambette has a new job, making wallpaper.

Midge taught me the “fearful” reaction, and it seemed fitting considering that a scary creature was walking by, right behind her!

Midge: My point is, don't be Fearful to shake things up if you're scared!

Cat from Outset came over to adopt Marcel…or at least that was the plan. But it turned out Cat had a full town of villagers, so Marcel wouldn’t move to Outset. As of this entry being posted, Cat is still trying to move someone out, so I’ll update this entry later.

Later on, the new update for the game arrived (a day early). After installing the update, I received a letter from the Bank of Nook stating that the interest rate on savings accounts has been reduced. And I didn’t even have a chance to take advantage of the previous rate since I’m still in debt. 😛 Greedy Tom Nook! But as a consolation, he sent a bell-bag rug. Exciting.

There was also a new letter from Nintendo, thanking me for downloading the update. A world map was attached to this letter. Here is a look at both items.

The bell-bag rug and world map in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

More importantly, Blathers announced that he will now accept works of art for display in the museum. Yay for art! 😛

Blathers: Thus, I am considering adding fine works of art to this fine institution's repertoire.

I also noticed that the infamous “kindess” typo has been fixed.

The previous 'kindess' typo has been corrected to 'kindness.'

Louie asked if I was interested in a treasure hunt, and I said yes. He gave me six minutes to find the buried item, but I found it in just 35 seconds. The gift was some cyber shades, which I put on…for now, at least.

By the way, I have posted my obstacle course video that I recorded yesterday. Enjoy!

Have a great day, and I’ll see you all next time! 🙂

Update: It took all evening, all night, and into the wee hours of the morning 😂, but Cat finally made room for Marcel. So Marcel is on his way to the island of Outset. Good luck in your new town, Marcel!

Tiger Trap

There was no entry yesterday, so here’s a quick recap of what happened.

  • My western bridge was completed.
  • I entered in a code for a Nick Chubb Browns jersey and put it on.
  • I shared my pitfall seed design to the QR Codes & New Horizons Designs page.
  • Gulliver was on the beach, so I collected his communicator parts for him.
  • I shot down a balloon present that contained a whopping 30,000 bells! 😮

Claudia was outside, so I set myself a tiger trap. 😉 Now she’s officially a Forest resident. 😉

Claudia falls into a pitfall in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

After that, I continued work on my obstacle course. Shari, while seemingly lost amongst the pillars, even commented on the work I did.

Shari: Why didn't you tell me you were gonna do road work yesterday?

Today, Gulliver sent me a pagoda in the mail. I was really surprised to see how big it is!

The pagoda item in ACNH.
I ended up putting it on my northeast peninsula.

Marcel told me he wanted to move out of town, and I did not stop him. The only bad thing is that he didn’t mention a moving date, so I have no idea when it will happen.

Marcel: Maybe if I went to a new place, I could meet new bugs, eat new snacks, and learn to be real cool. / Good luck out there...

Tom Nook finished the expansion on my house, so I have a room on the right now. At town hall, Tom informed me that I owe him 758,000 bells now. Ouch. On the bright side, he told me I can now order replacement doors for my house.

C.J. was in town today, and I caught three large fish in a row to complete his challenge.

I finished up my obstacle course, and I had a few 2-person groups come over to compete and try it out. Thanks for joining in, Chris, Mega, Logan, Max, Alex, and Benji! I hope you all enjoyed the obstacle course! I plan on posting a video that shows the entire course tomorrow.

Jeff: Ready... set...

For anyone that hasn’t already heard, New Horizons is getting a new update on Thursday. Leif is returning for Nature Day, and bushes/shrubs are returning. But more importantly (well, to me at least), Redd is returning…along with an art gallery at the museum! He’s called Jolly Redd instead of Crazy Redd now, and his boat docks at the private beach on the north coast of our islands.

New Horizons is certainly missing a lot of things from previous games, but it’s good to see Nintendo has begun adding them back in.

See you tomorrow! 🙂