October has arrived, and so has Halloween season. Jack sent me a letter in the mail, telling me to buy candy to prepare for the big night. He also attached his portrait to the letter. I hung it up in my house, and I noticed that it glows (and dims, repeatedly).
The Nook Stop machine in town hall now has new body paint and eye color options available. These will be helpful for certain costumes and characters,.
And of course, you can now plant pumpkins! Leif was in town, and he was selling pumpkin starts for 140 bells apiece. I bought ten of them for now.
Leif said that if you water your pumpkins, there will be more to harvest. Also, there are four colors of pumpkins…and you won’t know which is which until they grow.
Leif also had some orange windflower seeds, so I bought a bunch of those as well. Since some of the other orange flowers (especially roses) don’t look quite orange-y enough, I plan on putting lots of orange windflowers at various spots around town for the month.
At Nook’s Cranny, I bought a spooky scarecrow. I also bought a piece of candy. We are limited to one piece of candy per day, which seems extreme, because earlier games didn’t limit us that much. Maybe we won’t need as many in New Horizons?
I wondered where to put my pumpkin patch, and I considered a few places around town. I even thought about replacing the sumo ring! But ultimately, I just chose to plant the pumpkins in my flower garden…for now, at least.
Lopez was crafting today, and he gave me my first Halloween D.I.Y. recipe, for a spooky table. Unfortunately, the recipe requires a whopping 14 orange pumpkins to make (in addition to 10 pieces of soft wood). Why so many pumpkins? It makes me question if buying 10 pumpkin plants is going to be enough (especially if only 1/4 of the pumpkins are going to be orange)!
Up on the cliff, I was thrilled when I saw Celeste was in town!
She gave me a recipe for a pansy wand. Why does this game need so many types of wands anyway?
How do you all like the October changes in the game? It’ll be more fun in a few days once the pumpkins come in, but so far, so good! 🎃
I’ll be back late tomorrow night with a blog entry about Friday Night Forest. I know I haven’t been opening much lately, but I’m planning on it tomorrow. Hope to see you then!