Jeff's New Horizons Blog

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!

I headed up to Lottie’s Island to work a shift at Paradise Planning this morning. Lottie informed me that it was time to build two new facilities: a restaurant and a cafe. I decided on a restaurant first, so we headed out to the site and I customized the outside of the building.

Once I got inside, Lottie informed me that I can now used colored lighting–so I went with some purple lighting. I added two large imperial dining tables, several smaller tables, several stained-glass (ceiling) lights, a checkout counter, and a salad bar. For the wall and floor, I used a brown hallway wall and a rush tatami flooring.

I also had to design the kitchen, and I added a variety of kitchen appliances, sinks, a kitchen island, a deep fryer, and a fire extinguisher. I used a white-brick wall and restaurant-kitchen flooring in here.

If you’d like to see how it compares to the restaurant I designed in Happy Home Designer, you can see that here.

Once I was done, it was time to assign roles to the chef, apprentice, cashier, and employee positions. Here’s a look at the restaurant staff:

Lottie asked me to name the restaurant, and I decided to call it Animal Cuisine.

We went outside to take a celebratory photo for the grand opening. Bon appetit!

Back at the office, Lottie paid me 25,000 Poki for my work. She also said that she’ll treat us to dinner there sometime soon.

And back in town, Static sent me a skeleton in the mail. I’m assuming it was a threat of some sort. 😛

I found Gulliver washed up on the beach, so I dug up the five pieces of his communicator and returned them to him. He will send me a gift in the mail tomorrow. I’ll be back with another entry tomorrow, so I hope to see you then!