Jeff's New Horizons Blog

Redd sent me my perfect painting in the mail, so I rushed it over to the museum. Blathers informed me that it was real! 🙂 From its spot in the art gallery, you can actually see all three of my paintings so far.

Just a heads-up about seashells: New (blue) summer shells can now be found on the beach. And of course, there are new recipes that require them. So pick them up and save them if you see them!

Agent S talked about the idea of frosting a cupcake with toothpaste and watching someone take a bite. A cruel prank perhaps, but she just used it as an example to teach me the mischief reaction. She better watch out for toothpaste-frosted acorns now! 😉

Saharah was in town, and I bought an exquisite wall and flowing-river flooring from her. I already had the flowing-river flooring, but I think I’ll hang onto it and use it as a prize for Friday Night Forest. I think I’ll have another obstacle course tournament, if people are interested. That’s because I think I’ll be removing my obstacle course soon. I have a new idea for something else I want to make in Forest, and I’ll need that space to make it.

At town hall, I used the Nook Stop to check out the new seasonal items. They include a handmade cape and handmade crown (both for International Children’s Day), and a thank-you Dad mug (for Father’s Day).

Celeste was in town tonight. I talked to her repeatedly, but she didn’t have any new recipes for me. So why even visit? 🤷

Apple gave me a free viking helmet, so I put it on for the time being.

Out on Harv’s island, Reese wanted to take some photos of a wedding reception.

Some new items were available, including a wedding table, wedding chair, and wedding-party wall. I don’t particularly enjoy designing rooms, especially when it’s just a temporary thing and not part of my house. I wasn’t a big fan of Happy Home Designer either. But I quickly threw a room together using just the supplied items. 😛

Reese gave me a wedding table for my help, along with some more heart crystals as well.

As I was leaving the island, Wilbur informed me that Dodo Airlines now dabbles in item delivery and liquidation. So apparently you can ship some of your pocket items home through the mail, or sell them to Wilbur at 80% value (just like you’d get from the drop box at Nook’s Cranny).

Back at home, my black rose count is up to eleven, and my flower garden was filling up. So I decided to line the path in front of my house with them.

Even though I really like red hyacinths, I kinda went overboard with them at the beginning. So I’m (slowly) trying to replace some of them with other flowers, so there’s a bit more variety around town.

I caught a few new fish for the museum today, including the gar, ribbon eel, tilapia, and hammerhead shark.

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.