Jeff's New Horizons Blog

Today, I helped out my villagers by performing three favors:

• I delivered a kung-fu tee from Sasha to Marina.
• I caught a stinkbug for Louie.
• I bought some medicine for Bones, who was sick.

Those favors brought my Smile Isle progress up to 295/300! Just five more favors to go! I should finish that achievement within the next several days.

Now that Eloise is gone, I realized that I have seven male villagers and only two female villagers. I know some people like to keep a 5-5 balance, but I’m okay with my towns being 6-4 in either direction, or even 7-3. But I have to admit that 8-2 would be a bit extreme. That doesn’t mean I would turn down one of my top-tier favorites, but it does mean I was leaning in the direction of getting a female villager this time.

So with that in mind, I began my search for the next resident of Forest. On the first mystery island, I found Chief the wolf. I like Chief, and I wouldn’t mind having him around. But he’s not in my top tier, so he’s not ahead of the pack. Besides, I wanted to keep looking.

On island #2, I found Becky the chicken. I’ve never liked Becky, and I remember hating her back in City Folk. So I quickly flew the coop. 🐔

The 3rd island tempted me more than either of the first two islands: Boots was there! Boots is my buddy in New Leaf, and I like him a lot. But something about him doesn’t look quite right in New Horizons. Maybe it’s the model, or maybe it’s just that silly jester shirt that makes him look like a clown. Sorry, Boots.

Island #4 had Agnes the piggy. I like her better than Becky, but not enough that I wanted to bring home the bacon.

On the fifth mystery island, I found a unique red ducky named Ketchup! This isn’t your garden-variety villager!

At first I wasn’t 100% sure if Ketchup was animal or vegetable male or female, since they don’t color-code the nameplates any more. But a quick search told me that Ketchup is female (and a peppy). She’s also very cute, and she’s a villager that I’ve never had in any Animal Crossing game before. That was a good combination, so I invited her to town! 🍅

I’m happy to have Ketchup moving in soon, and I’m glad that I had a fruitful search this time. (Unlike my last search in January, when I got Admiral as a random move-in). I’ll be back with another entry tomorrow to welcome Ketchup to town. Hope to see you then! 🙂

Sunday (March 20th) was Hornsby’s birthday, and I made sure to attend his party. I gave him a ceiling fan for his present, and he said he loved it.

Bones was also there, and he looked so cute all dressed up!

Bones was telling me a story about his 6th birthday party, when a clown went into his house and never came back out! 😮 He said his mom still hears honking noises in the walls.

This isn’t Halloween, save the scary stories for October, bud. 😛

Yesterday, Eloise told me she was considering moving out of town. I thought about it, and I decided to let her go. She has been here for 11 months, which I feel is probably long enough.

Wisp was in town, and he gave me some potted starter plants. I also helped out Gullivarrr. Today, Gullivarrr sent me some pirate pants in the mail.

I went over to Eloise’s house this afternoon to say goodbye to the yellow elephant. Best of luck to you, Eloise!

Saharah was in town, and I bought a mysterious wallpaper and flooring from her. They turned out to be a mossy-garden wall and berry-chocolates flooring.

Later, I went out to Lottie’s Island to work a shift at Paradise Planning. Queenie wanted a vacation home that contrasted black and white. I picked out a rocky island, because I thought the grayness of the rocks would fit well with the colorless theme. Using patterns, I put in a black-and-white path lined with black and white roses. A added a black car, a white car, some mama pandas, a black gravestone, and a white gravestone.

The black and white theme, along with Queenie’s houses in previous games, made me think of the chess furniture, like the black knight or white pawn. However, those individual chess pieces aren’t in New Horizons. ♟

Indoors, I did something different. I decided to use a white wallpaper and flooring (the monochromatic-tile wall and white-paint flooring), and mostly black furniture. That included the cool sofa, cool bed, cool side table, an upright piano, a chessboard, and a couple of diner counter chairs. I also used a partition wall to segment off two rooms.

Back at the office, Lottie paid me 12,000 Poki for the job. Lottie then told me that I can now use the internet to visit vacation homes or facilities that other people have created. I’m actually surprised it took this long to unlock this!

I recently posted a new video looking back the 2nd year of New Horizons, in pictures. Check it out if you’d like.

See you next time!

I was surprised to see the Nooklings were selling a dead body in their shop today! Usually they just burn the bodies and dump the ashes in the ocean. 😛

Oh, sure, they may call it a rescue mannequin, but I know better. I bought it anyway, because I needed it for my catalog. And I may get hungry later.

At the plaza, I found K.K. Slider. I asked him for a random song, and he performed K.K. Groove for me and Admiral.

Up at the campsite, the robotic octopus Cephalobot was camping! He is one of the new villagers that appeared with version 2.0.

I always liked the look of him, but he looks even better in person! My town is full…and most of you may know how I don’t like forcing anyone out. However, I really wanted him, so I decided to at least check to see who he would potentially replace. As it turns out, he would have replaced Marina…so I told him no.

Part of the fun would have been to have the two octopi in town together; maybe they could even date. 😛 But I wasn’t willing to let Marina go just yet. However, there are a few villagers I would have let go…it just didn’t work out this time.

A bit later, I went out to Lottie’s Island. I checked out my restaurant, and the chef Lionel gave me a new cooking recipe! Even though it was one I already had (orange marmalade), it is pretty cool that you can get more recipes by speaking with the chef!

Over at Paradise Planning, I saw that I wasn’t forced to design a facility today (unlike yesterday). But I wanted to make the café anyway. Here’s a look at the exterior:

Inside, I used a lot of the diner furniture, customized in green/aquamarine. I also used the green retro flooring and black two-toned tile wall. I put my frog design on the diner neon clock. Thankfully, I didn’t have to design a kitchen this time.

For the name, I decided to call it the Froggy Diner. I really wanted to use froggy chairs, but they weren’t available for some reason (even though they are in my catalog). 🙁 I hired Tybalt and Bianca (two tigers) to join the staff, and we all took a celebratory photo.

Back at the office, Lottie paid me 25,000 Poki for my work. I enjoyed making the café more than I enjoyed making the restaurant yesterday.

That’s all I have for today. See you all next time, and enjoy the rest of your weekend!