Jeff's New Horizons Blog

I had quite a bit of mail waiting me in the mailbox today. Yesterday’s Snowboy sent me some ice flooring, and I received the five New Year’s Day items I ordered from Nook Shopping. That included the 2021 celebratory arch, which I put up at the entrance to Candy Cane Lane.

I also received a letter from Mom (with Mom’s art attached), and most importantly, my mysterious painting from Jolly Redd. I took it over to Blathers at the museum, and he confirmed that it was real.

Keaton was also hanging out in the art gallery. He was admiring the informative statue that I previously donated.

At Able Sisters, I bought a space parka and put it on.

Shortly before 6:00, I updated my dream for the first time in several weeks. So you can see Candy Cane Lane (and the rest of Forest) for yourself by going to dream address 6717-1633-3682.

K.K. Slider was in town, and he performed K.K. Jongara for me, Hornsby, and Keaton.

I found a lost item on the ground, and it was a comic book that featured a girl with big sparkling eyes. I asked Agent S about it, but she told me it looked like Apple’s book. I later found Apple on the beach, and gave her the book. She rewarded me with a soft-serve hat.

I wrapped up the soft-serve hat and gave it to Louie as his daily gift. To my surprise, he put it on! He looked funny with it on…so of course, I had to take a picture.

I shot down a balloon present that contained a DIY recipe for a festive tree. This is just the small, basic Christmas tree that you could normally buy at the shop in previous games. I made one and put it in my house, even though Christmas is over.

Happy New Year, everyone! Now through January 15th, there are seven new seasonal items available through Nook Shopping; that’s more than you can order in a day! The highlight is the 2021 celebratory arch.

The zodiac ox figurine may also be noteworthy to New Leaf players, because it was a free gift given out in New Leaf just today!

In the mail, I received several glasses of sparkling cider that I ordered last night. I also got a letter from my latest Snowboy, who sent me a three-tiered snowperson.

I then made my final preparations for tonight’s holiday party, including building a bartender! That earned me 1,000 Nook Miles for making my 20th quality snowperson.

I wrapped up seven gifts to give to my visitors tonight: a monster statue, a streetlamp, a lighthouse, a teacup ride, 30 gold nuggets, a public bench, and a bag of 99k bells. They were all wrapped the same, and each visitor could take one when they arrive.

I was happy to see that Crazy Redd showed up today. I was pretty sure that three of his works of art were fakes, and the other one was something I hadn’t seen before: a mysterious painting, which I bought. Even though I’ve heard Redd can have four fakes occasionally, I like my odds when I know the other three are forgeries.

At 10:00, I opened my gate for my holiday party (and the first Friday Night Forest of 2021). Logan, Timo, Alex from Pawnee, and Alex from A-Nation showed up. While Timo disappeared, I showed the others my new winter area.

I suggested we should look for Timo, but I found her almost immediately. She was drawing something on the bulletin board. I laughed when I saw what it said.

We then beat up Rizzo, fell into holes, and burned some sparklers by my 2021 sign.

After Logan pooped on my pillar and got his tongue stuck on a frozen pole, William came over. We fell into holes again.

After that, we played an ice sumo tournament. Alex from A-Nation won the tournament, and we finished off the sumo ring with a 6-player battle of sumo. Alex from Pawnee won that one. I actually got 2nd place in the 6-player round, which shocked me. I’m normally one of the first out, haha. But congrats to both Alexes. Since I had two unclaimed gifts left over (since town didn’t fill up), both Alexes got a 2nd present as sumo prizes.

Logan disconnected, and the rest of us went back to the private beach. We had some fun with ocean sunfish, we did a little diving, and I started releasing fish and sea creatures over Redd’s ship! It was pretty cool.

William left about 11:30. Some of us did some fishing, and Timo surprised us by telling us that she just completed her fish collection! It was doubly shocking: For one thing, Timo spoke! She generally doesn’t say anything, so that alone was a surprise. But for someone who does as much fishing as Timo, I just assumed she would have already completed her collection. Well, congrats Timo!

I released some more fish over Redd’s ship, and then I ended the session about 11:45. Thanks to everyone who came, it was fun! And Happy New Year, everyone! I’ll be back with another entry tomorrow.

Yesterday, Reneigh was at the campsite!

I thought I’d let her move in, but only if Rizzo was the villager she’d be replacing. When she went to town hall though, Tia was again the suggested villager to replace, and I was not going to kick Tia out like that.

Also, I noticed that winter campers still use a tent…not an igloo like in New Leaf. I was looking forward to seeing igloos in winter, so that’s disappointing.

Here are a few other quick notes about yesterday:

• Tuesday’s snowboy sent me a frozen arch in the mail.
• I made another perfect snowboy.
• I bought a garbage pail and used it to throw away dozens of black roses and orange windflowers.
• Flick was in town, so I sold him 97,500 bells worth of bugs.

Today, I received a frozen sculpture in the mail from my latest snowboy.

I headed over to the plaza, where Tom Nook and Isabelle were both outside for the event! Town hall was completely closed today, so I couldn’t even go in to use the Nook Stop. Tom Nook gave me some party poppers, and he was also selling New Year’s hats and (more) party poppers. I bought a hat of each of the four colors available. Isabelle also gave me a light stick.

After doing some shopping on my NookPhone, I earned 3,000 Nook Miles for ordering my 200th item.

In the final hour before midnight, villagers started coming to the plaza. And at 12:00, we welcomed in 2021! Happy new year, everyone!

UPDATE: Here is the video of my New Year’s Eve in Forest:

At 12:30, I went over to Logan’s town Moonscar. Since he’s an hour behind me, I got to see the New Year’s event a second time. Timo, Nicky, Jesse, and Jj were also there.

I bought a green New Year’s hat from Moonscar’s Tom Nook, because he had different colors than mine.

We also went up to his Polar Peak to watch some fireworks.

After Logan ended the session, I returned to Forest and shot down a balloon present. I finally got the recipe for the illuminated tree! After nearly five minute of tree-shaking, I had enough ornaments to make one.

I posted the latest New Horizons Moments video today:

I hope you all have a Happy New Year! I’ll be hosting my Friday Night Forest/holiday party tonight, so I’ll be back with another entry late Friday night/early Saturday morning. See you later!