Late last night, I tested out the dreaming function for myself. I visited Daniel’s town of Outset at dream address 6987-5499-2084. It’s a beautiful town with lots of flowers, great scenery, and a really good lineup of villagers (including some of my favorites like Savannah, Butch, and Drago).
Daniel also has some great rooms, and I particularly loved this space arcade. The stars on the wallpaper move, as if the arcade was inside a really fast-moving spaceship.
As for my own dream island, I actually got a violation from Nintendo! I had previously set my blog address as the comment on my passport…and in dreams, that comment shows up as something your character says. So Nintendo deleted my dream and gave me a warning!
So be careful about using your blog, site, or social media on your passport or bulletin board! I don’t know if someone actually reported my town, or if Nintendo detected the address automatically, but beware!
I changed my comment and re-uploaded my dream once the new day began. Fortunately, I still have the same dream address.
Later on this evening, I checked my mail. I had a letter from Luna, and she sent me a “Dream Bell exchange ticket.” At first, I was wondering if this opened up something new…but apparently not. It can be sold for 5,000 bells, and it’s basically your “reward” for uploading your dream (or perhaps for having a dream visitor?). This is is basically the same as Luna giving you 5,000 bells for updating your dream in New Leaf. You just have to wait until the next day to get it.
C.J. was in town today, and I easily completed his challenge of catching any five fish in a row. I then grabbed most of my sharks from storage, and sold a bunch of fish to C.J.; he gave me nearly 135k for everything.
Celeste showed up tonight, and she gave me a D.I.Y. recipe for a Leo sculpture. I made one, and it’s a wall-mounted item.
Additional Thoughts on Dreaming
As someone who loved the Dream Suite feature in New Leaf, it’s only natural for me to compare the dreaming in New Horizons to the dreaming in New Leaf. And here are some differences I’ve noticed:
- You can view bulletin board posts left by town residents in New Horizons (but you couldn’t in New Leaf). On one hand, you’ll want to be careful about what you post. But used correctly, this can be a very helpful tool to explain things to dreamers, or let them know what to look for.
- Dreamers do not change into pajamas in dreams. They wear whatever clothes they already had on.
- You can not search for dream towns by town or name.
- You can not visit random towns. You need the dream address.
- Lloid is not present to allow dreamers to borrow tools. So if your town requires ladders or vaulting poles, you’ll need to leave them out in town somewhere.
- You can’t see your dreamer count or latest dreamer in-game. But apparently, you can see them by using the Nintendo Switch Online app. I don’t see why a smartphone should be required to access this information, when New Leaf showed it in-game…but that’s how Nintendo works these days.
Dreaming is a great feature and an excellent addition to the game. But when you compare it to the Dream Suite in New Leaf, the ACNH dreaming system seems rushed and unfinished. Perhaps it will be improved in future updates, but it could be argued that they should have waited another month or two (until the autumn update) to do it right. What do you think?
I’ll be back tomorrow with another entry. But FYI, there will be no Friday Night Forest this week. It should return next week, though.