Jeff's New Horizons Blog

As expected, the cute red ducky Ketchup has moved into town today. She obviously hasn’t unpacked yet, but I already like her wallpaper. Welcome to Forest, Ketchup!

I prepared some bottles of tomato puree to display outside of Ketchup’s house. 🍅

I’ve been crafting a hyacinth lamp every few days, when my purple hyacinths bloom. I then turn them blue, either by customizing them myself or by paying Cyrus to do it. But which is the better option? I decided to check it out. If I customize it myself, it requires four customization kits. At 600 bells each, that comes to a total of 2,400 bells. But if I take it to Cyrus, he charges 3,100 bells. So it’s cheaper to do it myself.

Marina asked me for a new greeting, so I told her to say “Drop me in the ocean.”

Later, I went out to Paradise Planning. Sherb was there, and he wanted a fairy-tale theme park! That sounded like fun, so I jumped at the chance to make it. I picked out a location that seemed to have a lot of land, and I filled it in with a plaza ferris wheel, plaza merry-go-round, teacup ride, train, and just about every amusement park ride I saw listed. 😛 His yard may be a bit crowded, but it looks like so much fun! 😁

Indoors, I gave Sherb a throwback race-car bed, some stuffed animals, some balloons, and a variety of sweets and treats. I used a concession-stand wall and party flooring in here. It should be a nice place to relax after riding all the rides outside. 🙂

I think Sherb is going to love his new vacation home! When I got back to the office, Lottie paid me 12,000 Poki for my work.

Have a good weekend, everyone! I’ll see you all next time.

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!