Month: November 2020

If you haven’t heard the news, Nintendo posted a new trailer for the winter update coming up on “Thursday” (which will likely be available Wednesday night). Check it out!

It looks pretty good overall, IMO. It’s interesting that they’ve changed the name of the Thanksgiving event from the Harvest Festival to Turkey Day. Perhaps because it’s spring in the southern hemisphere, and not time to harvest for them?

The Turkey Day event itself appears similar to the New Leaf event, where Franklin is the chef…and not the main course. However, one element of the early games has returned: the festive atmosphere with villagers around the tables! Nice touch.

Toy Day also seems much like the New Leaf version, where we help Jingle deliver presents. The update will also include some new hairstyles (including an afro and a bald head) and new reactions (including sitting)! We can also expand our storage from 1600 items to 2400. That’s amazing, but I haven’t even filled up my initial storage. 😀 I think I’d rather have some more design storage at this point, though.

The next update will come in late January, and it will add Pave (and presumably, Festivale). For a moment, I wondered why they didn’t mention a New Year’s event. But apparently, the New Year’s event was already in the game so it didn’t need to be added via update.

Unfortunately, there was no mention of multiplayer online games, the Roost, gyroids, or any of the many other features that are still missing in action. Although some sites are reporting that the ability to visit random dream towns is returning. That will be a nice addition, but it’s still a pretty minor thing.

Meanwhile, in Forest…

Flick was in town today, and his presence feels like a waste this time of year. I ended up selling him a few wasps I caught, but that’s it.

I shot down a couple of balloon presents, but I didn’t get any new recipes from them. One contained a pennant, and one gave me 5,000 bells.

Honestly, not much was going on in town tonight. But tomorrow is Tia’s birthday, so I’ll be back with another entry then. Never Stop Crossing!

Yesterday morning, I bought some turnips from Daisy Mae. She was charging just 90 bells per turnip, and I bought 1,100 of them (for a total of 99,000 bells).

When I checked the mail, I got my latest house evaluation from the Happy Home Academy. They gave me 136,962 points, which is just a slight improvement over last week. I have more work to do!

When I visited Hornsby, he told me that he wanted to be a superhero. But not just any superhero, a flying superhero! That would have to be some special cape to get a rhino off the ground!

Today (November 16th) marks the start of maple leaf season. Maple leaves will now fall from the sky, and some of them can be caught and used for crafting. Also, Isabelle gave me a DIY recipe for a red-leaf pile.

I was surprised to get a letter from Daisy Mae in the mail. She sent me three bamboo shoots, although I had no use for them.

Celeste was in town tonight, and she gave me a recipe for a lunar surface!

My collection of space recipes is growing, slowly but surely. I made a lunar surface, and put it in my space room upstairs.

Agent S mentioned moving out of town, but I quickly ended that possibility.

After I woke Apple up from dreaming twice, she started talking about how she has trouble catching dragonflies. She even called them “little dorks!”

She asked me to catch one for her, so I gave her a damselfly I already had in my pockets. She thanked me and gave me a floor light in return.

Near the sumo ring, I made more changes to the cliffs I added on Saturday night. I decided that I didn’t like them cutting through the archway, so I separated them a bit…even though that means people can’t jump from one to the other.

And because of limited space, the right one is just one level now. But both sides will have a bench where people can sit to watch sumo battles. And to make them look nicer, I added in some waterfalls. I still might make changes, but I do like this area better now than I did on Saturday.

See you all next time! Never Stop Crossing! 🙂

It’s Saturday night, and that means it’s K.K. night! I asked him for a random song, and he performed “Wandering” for me, Keaton, Bones, and Rizzo. I enjoyed how Rizzo seemed to be on the other side of K.K. from the rest of us. 😛

After the show, I shook a tree and something called “Yucca” fell out! That sounded a bit too close to Yuka for my tastes. But I checked it out, and it’s just a potted plant. 😛

I later wrapped it up and gave it to Midge. In return, she gave me a suit with stand-up collar.

Even though we’re nearly halfway through November, I still have only acquired two of the mushroom DIY recipes! And one of them was from Isabelle. It’s not looking good for me unlocking them all before November is over. Unless the pace picks up, that is…but I have no idea if/why it would.

I put on my island designer hat and I experimented with making some cliffs just south of the sumo ring. It could provide some seating to watch sumo battles from up in the air. It still looks pretty rough, and I may not keep it…but it’s worth playing around with to see if the idea pans out.

I put one of the spooky arches from that area in my house. The Happy Home Academy will be grading houses overnight, so I thought I better at least make a minor change.

When I went back outside, I caught my first blowfish. And of course, I made sure to donate it to the museum.

I was unable to give Bones a present today, because he was seated near K.K. for the entire time I played tonight. Until 11:00 p.m., that is, when he was sleeping in his house. 😛

I posted my latest video today, New Horizons Moments #4. I hope you’ll give it a watch.

See you all next time!