Jeff's New Horizons Blog

Today is Keaton’s birthday, so I headed up to Eagle Mountain to attend his birthday party. Tia was also there to help him celebrate. I gave him a retro fan that I bought at Nook’s Cranny, and I think it blew him away.

Back outside, I saw a large dragonfly and I chased it around. Once I got to the beach, I caught it! It was my first banded dragonfly!

Crazy Jolly Redd’s ship was in town, and I bought a perfect painting from him. I also bought a beach ball for my beach.

I was standing near that beach ball when I caught my first whale shark. The arrival of June has brought shark season to New Horizons! Yay!

The funny thing is that I didn’t even know that was a shark before I caught it. The shark fins in this game aren’t as obvious as they were in earlier games…especially if fishing to the south (the fin gets lost in their shadow). This is what my whale shark shadow looked like:

If you’re fishing on the east or west coasts, they’re easier to spot. Although, the new suckerfish also has a fin…so it doesn’t always guarantee a shark.

Rizzo the rat was eating ice cream on the beach, and he complained about me banging my shovel on the rocks yesterday! How rude!

Just for that, I planted a pitfall for him. But to my surprise, he stayed there for a while. Apple even joined him, and she also whipped out an ice cream bar. After about four and a half minutes, Rizzo finally got up and pitfall’d himself. 😛

June is also wedding season, and Harvey has a special event on his island, Photopia. Reese and Cyrus can be found there, and they want to re-create photos of their wedding day.

Cyrus made several wedding-themed items, and we can use them (along with anything else in our catalog) to decorate the room. I just used the items he supplied, and then took the picture.

As a reward for helping them out, Reese gave me a wedding bench and some heart crystals. The heart crystals are basically currency that you can use to buy Cyrus’ other wedding items.

Reese asked me to help out again tomorrow. It seems like you can keep helping them each day in June to earn more heart crystals. I’ll probably keep coming back until I’m able to buy all of the items for my catalog.

It was a pretty busy day in New Horizons for me. In total, I had six new catches for the museum: a banded dragonfly, dorado, drone beetle, firefly, suckerfish, and the whale shark. Good luck with your shark and beetle hunting, everyone! See you next time. 🙂

For the first time, I played New Horizons on a Sunday morning, and I got to meet Daisy Mae the turnip-selling pig.

Snot was oozing out of her nose, and it just hangs there. It never drips off, but it swings around when she turns her head. So gross! Wipe your nose, kid!

She was selling turnips for 95 bells apiece, and I bought one thousand of them, for a total of 95,000 bells.

The Happy Home Academy sent me a silver HHA plaque in the mail for topping 30,000 points. I put it on the wall in my exercise room, next to my bronze plaque.

Lopez was outdoors today, sniffing toilets exploring the island.

So I gave him the push into a pitfall that he earned yesterday. Tell me again how it’s Isabelle, not me, doing all the work around here. Go ahead. I dare you.

Since I was playing earlier than usual, I was able to catch several new bugs. That included the orchid mantis, agrias butterfly, Madagascan sunset moth, and Queen Alexandra’s birdwing.

As you might expect, Blathers was sooooo excited to get four new bugs for the museum. 😉

A message bottle gave me a DIY recipe for golden flooring, and it looks pretty cool. I just don’t want to use my gold nuggets on it right now. I’m trying to save them for when I eventually get gold tool recipes.

I posted my latest New Horizons video episode today. I hope you’ll check it out.

As of yesterday, my house has a basement. It’s a large room, just like the upstairs room. The Happy Home Academy sent me a monstera (plant), so I put it down here. I also installed my manga-library wall and cool vinyl flooring.

When I went into town hall, Tom Nook informed me that he can’t expand my home any further. That’s pretty much what I expected. I still want to pay off my debt, though. It just might take me a few weeks or so.

At Able Sisters, I spoke with Sable (as I normally do), and Mabel seemed to get upset! She said if I wanted to buy something, I have to go through HER. That seemed abnormally rude of her.

I visited Lopez and got to see the inside of his house for the first time. I like the reindeer up on the wall. 😛

Rizzo taught me the bewilderment reaction before I wrapped up my game for the day. I decided to cancel Friday Night Forest, and I posted on the blog and on Twitter to let people know. Hopefully nobody stayed up waiting to join. When in doubt, check my Twitter page. You don’t even need a Twitter account or app, you can just visit my Twitter with your browser to see my recent posts.

I tried to put my gold rose into storage today, but sadly, I couldn’t! So you can put living creatures like bugs and fish into storage (or in your house), but not flowers. Wow, that seems like a big oversight. (And yeah, you could pluck the petals off and keep those indoors, but not the plants themselves).

I started buying some white hyacinth seeds to replace some yellow ones I have on several paths on my main street. That’s because I want “DK Drive” to be the only path in town lined with yellow hyacinths, because they vaguely resemble bananas. 😂🍌

When I spoke with Keaton, he called me his bestie! That was a bit surprising, but I’ll take it. I wonder if he will be the first one to give me a villager photo. Even though my thoughts on Keaton were fairly neutral at first, he has grown on me.

Hornsby was sick with a cold, so I bought some medicine for him. In return, he gave me an attus robe.

One of today’s four fossils was a sabertooth skull. I donated it to the museum, and Blathers informed me that it was the last fossil I still needed! So the fossil exhibit is now complete!

I know the fossil exhibit is always the first section of the museum to be completed, but two months and 10 days seems rather quick. I think all of the previous Animal Crossing games took me longer.

Saturday night is K.K. Slider night, and I found Tia already enjoying the show when I arrived. But as I was talking to K.K., Apple came up and sat down too. I sat down to enjoy the show, and Rizzo came and sat down during the show. And once the show ended, Lopez also joined in!

I went over to speak to my newest villager, and he said the brains behind Forest is clearly Isabelle!

He said it was unimaginable how bad this island would be if not for Isabelle!

Isabelle didn’t even show up until Forest built a town hall. This punk just got here and he thinks he knows what’s going on? He just assumes it’s all Isabelle when the only thing she does is read the visitor comments to me. If this was New Leaf, he might have somewhat of a point. But Isabelle honestly doesn’t do much in New Horizons.

I got my net out and smacked Lopez over the head a few times for that. He just moved in, and he’s already on my bad side. I can’t wait to pitfall him. 😛

Yesterday, I put up a new video compilation of cute moments I’ve encountered in the game over the past 2+ months. If you need a smile right now, I hope you’ll give it a watch.