Jeff's New Horizons Blog

Yesterday, I saw a bug I hadn’t seen yet, a blue dragonfly. I got my net out and caught it; it’s called a damselfly. Of course, I promptly donated it to the museum. It’s one of the new catches for November.

Saharah was in town, and I got some new stuff from her: a simple medium avocado mat, a circuit-board wall, a blue stripes rug, and a dig-site flooring.

I shot down a balloon present that contained a DIY recipe for a mush low stool. It just required two round mushrooms, so I made it out of a couple mushrooms I found today.

I removed a few spooky furniture items from outdoors, and added some of them to my main room. I plan on keeping my spooky room in my house at least until I earn all of the HHA awards. Note: I also have no immediate plans of removing my Halloween race course. So it will be up for at least a couple more weeks, and possibly longer.

But there is one Halloweeny part of town that I did remove: the graveyard. In its place (roughly), I put in something I’ve had in mind for months. I knew that once I removed the frog race course, I wanted to put in a froggy pond for people to jump across. It’s not a race or anything, it’s just a little side attraction. My original idea wasn’t for the pond to be frog-shaped, but that’s what I tried out.

It has a face, and it’s made of eight spaces in the water…just enough for eight players to pose there for pictures. I’m not sure if I’ll keep it like this or change it to a larger, rectangular pond with more spaces to hop across…but let me know what you think!

Today, I was disappointed to see that Bones has learned Rizzo’s catchphrase! That’s right, Bones is now calling himself a rat! 😮

Tybalt complimented me on my shirt, which was the referee shirt I designed. The funny part is that he was wearing the same shirt! So yeah, I guess he would like it. 😛

Leif was in town, but I didn’t want anything that he had. He no longer sells pumpkin starts.

I found some extra dig spots, and I wondered how I could possibly have extra fossils. But they weren’t fossils, they were rare mushrooms!

I actually dug up two of them today, and the Nooklings pay 16,000 bells apiece for them! However, I’m hanging onto these just in case they’ll be needed for some DIY recipes.

On the daily newscast today, Isabelle mentioned that it is now mushroom season. Mushrooms will pop up around town, and she sent me a DIY recipe for a mushroom wreath. I found a total of five mushrooms around town today: two flat mushrooms, two round mushrooms, and one elegant mushroom.

And yes, it was raining again today. I think that makes three of the last four days that it’s rained.

The Happy Home Academy informed me that my house scored 129,341 points. Maybe I should keep that spooky carriage in my house, after all.

K.K. Slider was at the plaza today, after being bumped yesterday because of Halloween. And he had quite a crowd around: Midge, Tybalt, Keaton, and Apple. And yet he wasn’t even performing yet! It’s funny that he draws bigger crowds warming up than he does when he actually performs!

As for Halloween decorations, I haven’t done much work on cleaning them up yet. But I did remove the ghost gallery, and ordered a change to my house exterior.

I returned later once K.K. was performing, and he played K.K. Chorale for me. I earned 1,000 Nook Miles for attending my 30th K.K. show.

After Friday Night Forest on Friday and Halloween yesterday, I had a shorter play session today and didn’t do a whole lot. But I’ll be back with another entry soon. Have a good day!

Happy Halloween, everyone! Once the festivities started this evening, Louie was the first one to approach me. He was wearing devil horns, and he came running towards me like in the old games. However, villagers do not automatically start a conversation in this game! So there’s not really a sense of danger, since you can just choose to not speak to anyone if you wish.

But since I had 29 pieces of candy saved up, I did talk to him. I gave him candy, and in return, he gave me a spooky garland. But he also did something else…he taught me the scare reaction!

Tybalt was the next villager I ran into. In return for candy, he gave me a lollipop.

Near the plaza, I found Jack, the czar of Halloween himself! I gave him a piece of candy, and he gave me Jack’s robe. He then asked me to bring him lollipops. But first, he taught me the haunt reaction.

That also earned me 3,000 Nook Miles for learning 42 reactions. When I gave Jack the lollipop, he rewarded me with a spooky carriage! This thing is huge (3×3 spaces)! I had a hard time finding a place it would fit…even outdoors!

I continued giving candy to villagers, and lollipops to Jack. My rewards were as follows. Items marked with an asterisk (*) are from Jack.

• spooky table setting
• spooky rug
• spooky flooring
• spooky carriage DIY recipe*
• spooky wall
• spooky garland DIY recipe
• spooky table setting DIY recipe
• spooky wand recipe*
• Jack’s face*

After that, I started getting duplicates.

FYI, the spooky carriage recipe requires a LOT of materials: 30 orange pumpkins, 20 pieces of hardwood, 20 pieces of regular wood, 20 pieces of softwood, and 10 iron nuggets.

Note: Indoor villagers will give you candy.

And Midge had the cutest Halloween costume, wearing an animal suit.

Okay, so naturally, I wondered what the tricks were that everyone kept threatening me with. So I dropped my candy and any items worth keeping on the ground, and I spoke with Hornsby. He said “Wha? You don’t have any candy!” and he did not play any pranks on me!

So there is nothing to fear if you don’t have any candy. They won’t do anything to you unless you have candy, and purposely refuse to give them any. So that begs the question, what if you do purposely refuse them candy? I went back to grab my candy, when I saw ants all over my candy!

I got my net out, caught one, and donated it to the museum. I then went back and refused to give Rizzo some candy. He messed me up and turned me into a blue mummy!

I tried it again with Hornsby, and he turned me green! But I used a mirror to change myself back and continued to give away candy. I kept getting more duplicates, although I quickly found out that you can also get pumpkins from villagers.

If you wear Jack’s robe and Jack’s face, villagers will think you’re Jack and give you a piece of candy (even outdoor villagers). They then realize that you’re just wearing a Jack costume, but they still let you keep the piece of candy.

Overall, Halloween in New Horizons is considerably easier than in previous games. I got everything in under half an hour, and there’s no real risk of messing things up. But it’s still fun, and it’s significantly better than the Bunny Day event.

Later on, I went over to Logan’s island for his Halloween party. Nami, Alex from Pawnee, Jj, and Jesse were also there… Or should I say Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, and Jack?

Logan gave us a tour of his town, including a number of new areas for Halloween. I particularly enjoyed his skeleton band.

Later on, Megan joined in and we took a group photo at town hall.

We had a fun time at Logan’s Halloween party. Thanks, Logan! I’ll be sure to include some clips from the party in a future Wi-Fi Moments video.

I hope you all had a Happy Halloween! 🎃

Update: Here is the video. Enjoy!