January Update

Yesterday, Agent S was sick with a cold. I bought some medicine for her, and she rewarded me with a soft-serve hat.

Saharah was in town, so I bought a backyard-fence wall and train-station flooring from her. I didn’t bother buying any rugs this time.

When I visited Rizzo, he informed me that I had an ant on me! 😮

Rizzo: Oho... I do believe you have an ant on you!

He offered to buy it for 120 bells, and I accepted the deal.

Today, C.J. was in town with a seasports challenge for me: He wanted me to catch three big-time fish in a row. So I caught a yellow perch and two dace(s) to complete the challenge.

C.J.: Way to wreck that seasports challenge! What a haul!

I grabbed some fish from storage to sell him. He gave me 246,750 bells for 12 sturgeons, five football fish, two red snappers, two koi, and two oarfish.

As usual, a few tools broke today, and I crafted their replacements. In the process, I hit a new Nook Miles milestone: I earned 1,000 Nook Miles for crafting my 1,000th tool.

Update Time

Later on, I downloaded the new game update. Nintendo sent me a letter with some maracas attached. That will be a fun thing to play with during Festivale…or any time, really.

Animated GIF of Jeff shaking his maracas.

There are some new seasonal items available, including a bean-tossing kit (like the beans from New Leaf), a Resetti model for Groundhog Day, and two Super Bowl-related items. I ordered the beans right away, but I’m waiting a few days on the others (because I’m still ordering items for my race).

New seasonal items in Animal Crossing: New Horizons for late January and early February.

Even though Nintendo’s update teaser video from the other day made it appear that rugs could be placed outdoors, that is not the case. I tried it tonight. 😛 Apparently the item shown is just a flat furniture item (like a manhole cover) that you get for Festivale, and not a rug.

I have not noticed any other changes in my short time with the update. However, Jen at Crystal Dreams pointed out that you can now get a mermaid fence recipe from Pascal (in exchange for a scallop, of course). Have you all noticed anything else different in the update? Leave a comment below!

My obstacle course/race is nearing completion. The current plan is to hold my first race during Friday Night Forest. If you’re on my friend roster and plan on visiting either this week or in the coming weeks, please consider downloading my Buddy the Elf outfit.

The plan is for the first four visitors who have the outfit to race first. (Those four might be featured in my video of the race, but no promises.) If fewer than four people with the outfit visit on Friday, we’ll still race, I just won’t use that footage in my video.

See you all next time!

I’m Not Your Grandma!

Yesterday, I wanted to customize my robot hero to make it blue. But I was shocked when I saw that it requires 50 customization kits! That’s 30,000 bells worth just to give it a paint job! 😮 So I had to buy some more at the store, but I did it. Here’s a look at my freshly-painted blue robot hero.

My blue robot hero in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

When I visited Bones, he surprised me with a greeting I did not expect. He said “Hi, Grandma!” I’m not your grandma! But it turns out that he was just dreaming. Crazy dog. 😛

Bones: Hi, Grandma! I thought you were... Hraaarh!

Today, I found a lost item up near the campsite. It smelled like the minty sports creams (football cream?) that athletes use, so I knew it belonged to a jock.

A dusty, well-used bag. It vaguely smells like those minty sports creams that athletes use.

I asked Tybalt about it, but he said it looked like something Louie would use. So I took it to the local gorilla, and he thanked me by giving me a visual-punk outfit.

Flick was in town, so I grabbed some bugs out of storage to sell him. I sold him 15 wasps and six emperor butterflies for a total of 92k.

Flick: Ahem. Can I offer you, say, 92,250 bells for the bunch of them?

I consider wasps and emperor butterflies to be medium-priced bugs, and they’re the type I wouldn’t normally bother saving for Flick in summer. But in winter, there isn’t much variety when it comes to semi-valuable bugs, so I save them just so I have something to sell to Flick when he comes. 😛

See you all next time!

Mystic Statue

Yesterday, I received the mystic statue in the mail from Jolly Redd. I took it over to the museum, and Blathers confirmed its authenticity.

Mystic Statue - January 22nd, 2021 - Donated by Jeff

Keaton said he wanted to move out of town, but I changed his mind for him. As most of you know, I’m really trying to get Rizzo out…but it seems to be taking forever. So if Keaton asks me again in the next few weeks, I might give him a different answer. Forest really needs some fresh blood at this point.

I decided on a place to put my robot hero: right near the entrance to town. So instead of the pink and green frozen sculptures, you’ll soon see a giant robot welcoming visitors to Forest.

While diving, I pulled up a scallop. Pascal popped up, and I gave him the scallop. He said that if every star was a candle, we’d have wax all over the place. That’s… uh… enlightening.

Pascal: If every star were a candle...we'd have wax, like, ALL OVER the place.

Tonight, there was a heavy meteor shower going on…but no sign of Celeste.

Hornsby broke the 4th wall by telling me to move the right stick to look up at shooting stars…even though he didn’t know what that meant. 😛

Hornsby: If you move R to look up when you see a shooting star, your wish comes true!
Hornsby: I dunno what it means to move R, but it sounds neat and I hope it works for ya!

As you can see in those screenshots, K.K. Slider was in town. I let him pick a song for me, and he performed “Only Me.” Hornsby, Tia, Apple, and Keaton were all there to enjoy the song with me.

I visited some more dream islands lately, and I just posted a video today. Here is Dream Island Hopping #4: