Jeff's New Horizons Blog

Jolly Redd sent me the sinking painting in the mail today, and I was happy to find that it was the real deal!

Flick was in town, so I grabbed some bugs out of storage. I sold him 13 wasps, 10 emperor butterflies, four dung beetles, and two tarantulas for 150,750 bells.

Around 10:00 tonight, I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest. Logan and Bran were the first to arrive, and Bran fell into a pitfall trap.

Timo and Alex from Pawnee also arrived. After spamming some emotions, we headed over to the obstacle course. I gave Bran and Alex a quick tour of the course, since Logan and Timo had already raced on it before. The four of them competed, and Timo breezed through the course and won by a large margin. Congrats, Timo!

We hung out at the plaza for a while, and then Marcus came over to visit. Even though he’s been on my roster for a while, this was his first time visiting. I did a little diving, and Alex tried to catch me. But I broke free of his fishing line. A bit later, we watered the ocean so it didn’t dry up.

We also hung out in my house for a while. As Timo held a frog out over a bathtub, Alex pointed out that the frog model rotates with the camera. We soon discovered that the same was true for other fish; horizontal fish would always face left regardless of how you moved the camera. So I could make it appear that Logan was holding this oarfish like a bazooka.

That must be a recent change, because I later checked some old videos and confirmed that the game used to display each fish angle separately. So you could see multiple fish from multiple angles, depending on the angle of the person showing off each fish. I’m not sure why they made this change. This new way is certainly less realistic.

At midnight, we gathered by the fountains for a group photo.

After that, I ended the session for the night. Thanks to everyone who came, it was fun!

Earlier today, I posted a video showing 18 Animal Crossing town tunes I’ve used over the years. Check it out if you’d like.

Have a good weekend, everyone!

Last night, I changed my town tune to the song “Not Your Fault” by Awolnation. Some of you may remember the video being featured on the Nintendo Video app on 3DS. Here are the notes if you’d like to use it as your town tune.

Today’s Festivale item at the shop was the Festivale garland, and I placed it outside of Nook’s Cranny. I may put all of the items on that stretch of path running from the airport to my house.

When I visited Apple, she told me that she accidentally bought a dupe… a dupe of her school hat, that is.

She said it would look so good on me that people would ask if I was Apple. Yeah, I don’t quite think that’s true. But it’s a free hat, so I’ll take it.

While I was at town hall, I told Tom Nook I’d like to attend the completion ceremony for my replacement camp ramp. For the ceremony, the fencing in the way was temporarily removed. Hornsby is standing where there’s actually a fence.

Jolly Redd was in town, so of course I checked out his art. He had a quaint painting that was fake, a mystic statue that was real, a scenic painting that looked fake, and a sinking painting I had no idea about. (It was the first time I’ve seen the sinking painting!) Since the only sure real work of art was one I already had in the museum, I took a chance on the sinking painting.

That’s all for today, but I’ll be back with another entry tomorrow. But it’ll be late, due to Friday Night Forest, of course. See you then!

Gulliver surprised me yesterday, by not sending me an ugly hat. In fact, he didn’t send a hat at all; he sent me a pyramid! This is probably one of his top-five best rewards. So for one week at least, I was glad I helped him out.

Wisp was in town, and when he saw me, he sneezed out his spirits. Or something like that.

I hunted them down and returned them to Wisp. In return, he gave me some cubic parquet flooring.

I found a lost item on the ground, and it was a bag that smelled like minty sports creams. I took it over to the first jock I saw (Tybalt), and he thanked me for returning it. He rewarded me with a jumper work suit.

Today, I found Rizzo sleeping while sitting on the ground outside. He was sleep-talking, telling clouds to be quiet because spoons are sleeping. He’s an odd one.

When I visited Apple, she was being uncharacteristically rude. She said I wear this outfit so much that she’d expect it to be grody!

I’ve bought a couple more Festivale items at Nook’s Cranny, the balloon and drum. I put them near the entrance of my town. And as you can see in this screenshot, there was a meteor shower tonight.

Celeste was in town tonight, and she taught me how to make an Aquarius urn.

I decided to replace the incline that I removed when I was working on my obstacle course. It’s a couple spaces over from where it used to be, but that’s not a big deal. It was inconvenient not having a ramp there at all, so it’ll be nice to have it back by tomorrow.

As of now, I am planning on hosting Friday Night Forest this week.