Jeff's New Horizons Blog

Keaton sent me an interesting letter postcard in the mail today. Basically, he was wondering what this island will look like ten years from now. That’s an interesting question to ponder.

Last night, I wished on some shooting stars during Friday Night Forest, as did my visitors. Today, I found eight star fragments and one Gemini fragment on the beach.

And speaking of last night’s visitors, several of them left money bags from betting on the ping pong match (which is still scoreless). 😛 I asked last night if anyone wanted them, but they didn’t take them. They were just small amounts (1k bags), so I went ahead and picked them up…and used the money to stock up on party poppers. 🎉

Over by the stone arches, I found a lost item (a book) on the ground.

When I investigated it, it said “mi diario secreto,” which means “my secret diary.” I asked Lopez about it, and he said it was Keaton’s style. So I took it up to Eagle Mountain, and Keaton thanked me for returning it.

He gave me a cordless phone as my reward.

K.K. Slider was in town, and he played The K. Funk for me and Hornsby.

After catching some fish, I earned some new Nook Miles…for earning Nook Miles! Apparently I’ve finished 1,000 Nook Miles+ goals!

I really like how this game keeps track of your progress for goals. In New Leaf, you didn’t have a way to check on your badge progress (with a few exceptions), so you had no clue how close you were. I’m glad this is different…although I do miss having a single badge screen to show all of your progress on one screen. I’d love if they added something like that in the future.

That’s all for today, but I’ll be back with another entry soon. I’m thinking of making some more layout changes to the island… probably not tomorrow, but perhaps in the coming week. Have a great day, and Never Stop Crossing!

I was surprised to see red rose seeds for sale at Nook’s Cranny today. That was the first time I’ve seen them in my shop! I bought a pack, because I’ve been lining Apple Lane with red roses. It’s been a slow process breeding them all (after buying some initially in another town months ago), but I now have all that I need.

Hornsby was sitting under a tree when I went up to talk to him. He asked if I could guess what he was doing. He then informed me that he was sitting. That’s New Horizons dialogue for you. 🤦

Saharah was in town, so I bought some mysterious wallpaper and flooring from her. They turned out to be the ringside seating and white-chocolates flooring. I ended up keeping the ringside seating, and I put it in my basement. I also brought in my judge’s bell, which I previously had by my sumo ring. The ringside seating is already animated, but hitting the judge’s bell makes the photographers in the audience start taking pictures (with visible flashes).

I set up some jail bars and pushed Rizzo in. Finally, I’ve imprisoned the rat!

Near town hall, Shari taught me the “confident” reaction.

About 10:00, I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest. Logan, Timo, Alex, and Ryan came over to visit. Even though Rizzo had been in jail when I opened my gate, he somehow escaped as everyone arrived!

We posed with our sharks, tried to catch the duck in my plastic pool, and then my visitors placed bets on who would win a game of ping pong, with the hula doll playing against the garden gnome.

Even though I didn’t bury any pitfall seeds prior to opening my gate, I did bury a few just outside of doors as people were inside visiting villagers. 😀 Even though you can’t bury them as close to doors as you could in City Folk, I sometimes got an assist from an accomplice, who stood in a spot to block the view of the pitfall. Or in one case, some sharks did the trick. 🦈

We jumped around on pillars, hung out in my house for a while, played on the obstacle course, checked out the amusement park, beat up Rizzo, ran through arches, played a few rounds of museum tag, and then had a quick sumo tourney. Ryan was plotting to push me into a pitfall after the sumo matches, but it didn’t work. 😛

When I revealed that there was an arched tile path under my sumo ring, everyone seemed shocked. 😛 But putting that under the patterns makes sure that the sumo ring shows up on the map.

Shortly before 12:30 a.m., I ended the session for the night. Even though town didn’t fill up, I had a good time. Thanks for coming, everyone!

Gulliver sent me a hula doll in the mail, and I put it in the sumo ring for now. She’s preparing to battle against a garden gnome. It’s too bad items can’t be placed diagonally (at least small, single-spaced items like these).

I had a man-faced stink bug placed on the ground outside of Nook’s Cranny (leftover from last night, when I had full pockets). And Tia was examining it today, while consulting a bug book! It was cute!

Because of all the summer recipes that require seashells, I’ve started saving all my seashells in storage for now. I still need quite a few more shells, but I have made a couple of things so far. That includes this shell wreath I made today.

I again encountered the door glitch I mentioned yesterday. But today, it only affected one villager’s house: Agent S. So I was unable to enter her house.

But unlike yesterday, I was able to enter other villagers’ houses. That included Shari’s house, where Shari told me about a weird dream she had.

A few other quick notes about today:

• Leif was in town, but he didn’t have anything I needed.
• I again helped Reese & Cyrus on Harv’s island.
• Midge asked to leave town, but I told her to stay.

There may or may not be an entry tomorrow, but there will be one on Friday. Hope to see you then, if not before. Never Stop Crossing!