Jeff's New Horizons Blog

I said hello to Lopez today, and he was happy to see me. Wait…or was he lying?

On my beaches today, I found four star fragments and one large star fragment.

There was a camper at the campsite today, and it was Snooty the snooty anteater. Snooties are my least favorite personality, so Snooty won’t be getting an invitation to move in anytime soon.

There was another meteor shower tonight, so I again wished on several shooting stars.

I did some more swimming and diving tonight. I caught another scallop, but my pockets were full at the time, so Pascal didn’t pop up to ask for it. But I did see a different NPC as I swam…Wisp! He was watching me from the rocks near Sudden Valley!

I continued my swim around the back of the island, and I was a bit surprised to see Keaton hanging out on the northern beach! He even said he was going to take up diving this summer!

But he clarified that he meant diving into his fluffy duvet after playing a game of lacrosse. How disappointing. It would be hilarious and amazing if we could see animals dive into the ocean!

I scored a several new sea catches, including a sea pineapple, slate pencil urchin, horseshoe crab, and gazami crab. But I also caught one creature that was actually quite difficult. The giant isopod was outswimming me, teasing me, and making a fool out of me. I chased it all around the island, back and forth.

But once I got it near a corner of the swimming area, I was finally able to grab it. Forget what I said the other day about sea creatures being easy to catch. At least this one really put up a fight!

And with that, I have now caught 22 different sea creatures. That’s more than half of the creatures in the game! With that little milestone completed, I took a break from swimming and decided to help out Wisp. It took me a full 15 minutes to find all of his spirits, and he gave me an orange camo wall for my trouble. Sometimes I wonder if Wisp is even worth the effort.

After that, I decided to get busy working on my town’s next attraction! It’s not an interactive thing like the frog race, nor does it involve reshaping the land dramatically. So it may not be super exciting, but it’s probably more interesting than Spectacle Rock. 😛

I did need to use the island designer tool for some minor adjustments, though. I’m also putting in a new ramp for easier access to the area, though I haven’t paid it off just yet. Once this new thing is done, I think I’ll be about ready for a town tour video. I need to stop picking fruit though, so my trees will look nice for the tour. If all goes well, perhaps it’ll be done later this week.

But just to be clear…even when I post a town tour video, it doesn’t mean my town is “done.” I still have some long-term ideas in mind, and some parts of town may be changed from time to time. Even today, I basically decided that I’m eventually going to move Tia’s house (again). That will give me extra room in the western part of the town for future games and races.

I posted Wi-Fi Moments #7 today, so I hope you’ll give it a watch if you haven’t already. 🙂

Update: I did a little more diving and ended up seeing Pascal after all. He gave me a recipe for mermaid flooring in exchange for my scallop.

Alex from Pawnee sent me some items I wanted in the mail today, so thank you, Alex! Logan also sent me a spare frog suit in case someone accidentally takes one with them. Thanks, Logan! Even though a couple people have taken frog suits home, they both came back to return the suits. But it’s good to have a spare anyway.

I had a 4th gold rose budding today. I also used some gold rose petals to make myself a gold rose crown.

Near the frog course, there were a couple of pocket modern campers and pocket vintage campers that Nami left me. They are little vehicles, and I really mean little! Here they are on the roadway part of my frog race.

I’m not sure if I will keep them here or not, but thank you Nami. Interestingly, these items do not show up in my catalog, not even as “not for sale” items.

K.K. Slider was in town tonight, and he offered a little love. K.K. Love Song, that is. It’s one of my favorites, and I believe it was also the first K.K. song I ever heard. Hornsby, however, wasn’t in the mood for love, and he walked away as the song began.

After the show, I checked Nook’s Cranny for wet suits, but again, there were none!

Outside, I heard some shooting stars and I stopped to wish on a few of them.

Later on, I went diving in the ocean. I caught another scallop, and Pascal again popped up. I gave him the scallop, and he informed me that studying astronomy and taking up space in school are not the same thing.

He also gave me a D.I.Y. recipe for a mermaid rug. I later caught another scallop, and I was finally able to donate that one to the museum. 😛 I’ve now caught (and donated) 17 of the 40 sea creatures. Not a bad start for just the first few days of diving.

I ran into Keaton, and he informed me that he has always made the right choices throughout his life. Lucky him. 😛

Check back tomorrow for Wi-Fi Moments #7!

Just after 4 a.m. last night/this morning, I caught my first evening cicada. Seemed like a weird time to find an evening cicada, but a new catch is a new catch, so I’m not complaining. 😛

A few minutes later, I ran into Wisp! Since an Animal Crossing day doesn’t start until 5 a.m., that meant I had Leif, Celeste, and Wisp yesterday! After collecting Wisp’s spirits, he gave me a sailor’s hat.

I also caught my first blue weevil beetle. Donating it to the museum resulted in one of Blathers’ finest lines of dialogue I’ve seen yet. 😛

This afternoon, I checked Nook’s Cranny for another wet suit…but there wasn’t one on sale today! I was assuming they’d have a different version every day, but that’s not the case. However, Breezy sent me a leaf-print wet suit in the mail, so I’ll be using that for now. Thanks, Breezy!

Nook’s Cranny had a (wet) floor sign for sale, so I bought one for the main room of my house. 😉

Hornsby taught me the “pride” reaction. That is my 40th reaction, with only four blank spots remaining on my list.

At Agent S’s house, I was quite surprised (and happy) to see that Agent S was displaying the heart doorplate that I gave her for her birthday! I didn’t even think there was a chance she would use it, since villagers don’t display wallpaper or wall-mounted items that you give them.

I caught a couple of new fish, a puffer fish and this mahi-mahi.

While diving, I caught my first scallop. And that caused Pascal to pop up and demand ask for it! I gave it to him, and in return, he gave me a recipe for a mermaid wall. He also gave me some words of wisdom about lost socks. 🧦

He swam away, and I followed him. I now know what Pascal does with scallops: He eats them!

At 10:00, I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest. Timo, Sacky, Logan, Bran, Alex (from Pawnee), and Ryan (from Petal Burg) came over for a visit. We headed over to the bog for a frog race. To my surprise, I actually won the first race! After I won, I announced the prize was one billion bells. 😉 And now I’m in debt to myself.

By the way, I figured out a way around me having a party popper in my hand after firing the starter pistol (popper). All I have to do is grab a single party popper, instead of holding the whole stack. So after firing it, my hands are free. And that probably helped me out.

We got set for a second race, but Sacky wasn’t interested this time. That’s when T. Zelda showed up. I invited her to join us, but at first she was just visiting villagers. She then changed her mind and joined in the next race. This time, I had a lead again, but I was a bit slow taking out my ladder at the end. Ryan passed me up for a last-second win.

I then suggested that we go for a swim…while still wearing the frog caps. I suggested going to my pier, so I led the way. And that’s what it happened. I fell into my own pitfall! I knew it was there too, but I wasn’t far enough out of the way.

We made our way to the pier and kept diving off repeatedly. For something that’s so simple, it sure was a lot of fun. 😀

After several minutes of that, I swam to my “private” north beach, and a few frogs followed me. We then had a bit of a revolving door sequence: TZ left, Alex (from A-Nation) arrived, Bran left, and Nami arrived. We headed over to the museum to look at the fish exhibit and see some of the new creatures. Sacky then left, Bran returned, Alex left, and Sacky returned. We hung out in the aquarium for a while, and then Sacky left again.

Valentine arrived wearing a fancy-looking dress. I commented that our outfits were all so random…a frog, a baby, an astronaut, etc. It was like a costume party (although Valentine changed outfits prior to this photo).

We then headed over to my house, and Ryan suggested that we recreate the thing from my old ACCF Wi-Fi Moments series where we’d clap when the lights were turned out, and then act shocked when the lights were turned on.

Around midnight, Logan left. The rest of us did one final frog race for the night, and I won fairly easily. Maybe the lag was preventing the others from doing as well tonight, but it felt weird for me to win this race, especially twice in one night. 😛 After the race, we took some group photos.

We visited the campsite, Spectacle Rock, and the north beach. I had a lot of fun, and I got some good video clips…enough that I may be posting Wi-Fi Moments #7 on Sunday. Around 12:50, I ended the session for the night. See you all next time!