Month: October 2016

I met up with Bill the duck today, and he was talking about mixing various foods. He wanted to take some miso soup and pour it over peach cobbler. I told him it sounded awful, and he got mad. He said I don’t know a thing about gourmet living (I never said I did), and he told me to enjoy my hot dogs on white bread. Maybe I will!

There was another new house in town, and this one belonged to Static the squirrel! Static is one of my favorite villagers in the series. In fact, I already have him in my GameCube town and my City Folk town! So I currently have him in three of the four main Animal Crossing games! Static must be clinging to me.

I found today’s money rock and got seven money bags out of it. I’m not sure if that’s the maximum (at least for non-lucky days), but it scored me a cool 8,500 bells. That’s the equivalent of selling 85 oranges! It sounds like the money rock may be my main source of income for a while. Especially since all the fossils I’ve identified so far have been donated to the museum, and I haven’t acquired any foreign fruit yet.

Chevre asked to come visit my house tonight, and I was going to let her. Until I realized it was one of those meetings where I had to schedule a time. I couldn’t back out of it, so I just picked a random time and never followed through with it. I don’t have time for this. Either come right away or don’t come at all.

Alfonso suggested a new nickname for me, but it was quite a stretch: He said I’m now known as Dr. J!

I did a little fishing, but none of the fish I caught were new ones. So I sold everything that I caught. Tom Nook didn’t have any new tools I needed in stock today, but I did buy myself a flying saucer for my house. It seems to spin faster than it does in the other games.

At town hall, Phyllis told me about the town of Boondox. She told me I can donate money to help the residents of that underdeveloped town, whose residents eat nothing but grilled dirt. I’ll contribute to the cause in the future, but I have much to do here in Forest first.

I then moved over to the other counter and made my first mortgage payment. I paid 10,000 bells, so I still owe 8,400 bells.

Surprisingly, I didn’t run into Yuka today. It must be my lucky day! See you next time!

Update: Here is a video showing some of the events from this weekend:

After starting up the game tonight, I took some more oranges to sell at Nook’s Cranny. I used the Y button to quickly select multiple items to sell. Thanks again for the tip, Sir Clud (and the others who posted on last night’s video).

I was really digging one of Tom Nook’s items today: a shovel! It’s easily worth the 500 bells, so I bought it right away.

I used it to dig up a few fossils, and I also found today’s money rock. Even though I didn’t get the maximum amount from it, even a few thousand bells is very helpful this early in the game!

I found another new house today, down on the beach. It belongs to Bill: another duck! He referred to himself as the Chugging Ninja. He said that next time, we’re going to compete by chugging java head-to-head.

Speaking of coffee, I went down the stairs in the museum to visit the Roost for the first time. I bought myself some coffee for 200 bells.

And since it’s Saturday night, K.K. Slider was also there to perform some music. K.K. asked if I had any requests, and I meant to say no, but I clicked the first option too soon and couldn’t back out of it. So I requested K.K. Ballad, and he played it for me as the credits rolled.

After the show, I went fishing in the ocean. I caught myself a horse mackerel, a red snapper, and a sea bass. Even though it was my first sea bass (in Wild World), it still said “not again!” But it’s true, even once is too much. 😉

Pate was standing right behind me, asking me how much money I had. I told her I was dirt poor, and she gave me a library wall for me to sell. That was nice of her. Well, aside from telling me I looked poor.

I went up the museum to donate my fish and fossils. Blathers told me a (relatively) brief story about how he recently got his license to identify fossils. This is a reference to the GameCube game, in which Blathers could not identify them himself. Instead, players had to mail fossils away to the Farway Museum, one at a time.

I also made a trip upstairs to check out the observatory and meet Celeste. It looks virtually identical to the City Folk observatory (just in a much lower resolution, of course).

Of course, a day just wouldn’t be complete without looking into the face of evil, so I chatted with Yuka. She asked me for some “chic” furniture, but of course, I have no intentions of helping her out.

I was unable to push her into a hole, so I checked the lost and found for some pitfall seeds. This was also my first time into the gate area…though it’s called the checkpoint area in Wild World. The lost and found had three items: a zipper shirt, a mini-dharma, and a fan palm. I took them all, though I was disappointed Booker had no pitfall seeds for me.

After putting on the zipper shirt, I returned to Nook’s Cranny to sell my other stuff. I also bought a cabana wardrobe (even though I don’t plan on keeping it). Tom Nook then told me about the PTM (Point Tracking Machine). I’ll earn points every time I shop. Those points will eventually earn me some rewards and shopping discounts. I currently have 66 points, and I’ll need 234 more to reach member status.

That about wrapped up my night, but I made sure to put my K.K. Ballad song into the music player in my house. See you next time!

I started out my day by collecting a bunch of oranges (my town fruit) and selling them at Nook’s Cranny. I quickly discovered that I’m not a fan of how you sell items in this game. Instead of just clicking on an item, you drag each item to a separate area on-screen. It may not be a huge deal, but it is more time-consuming than it should be. Update: Sir Clud has informed me that I can press Y to select multiple items. I’ll give it a try tomorrow.

Anyway, I used my newfound money to buy a fishing rod and a curious thing called a note in a bottle.

It allows me to write a letter, put it into the bottle, and send it out into the ocean. Tom Nook says the letter might wash up on the shores of someone else’s town! I imagine this feature is no longer active since this Virtual Console version has no wireless/online connectivity, but the note in a bottle sounds like an interesting feature regardless!

I spotted Crazy Redd’s tent in town, but he wouldn’t let me enter because I didn’t know the password. Fortunately, it didn’t take me long to find it, since Chevre was so eager to help me out! She said the password was “shop here again.” She’s becoming a very goat friend of mine.

Armed with the password, Crazy Redd let me in. But he wouldn’t let me buy anything! I later found out it’s because I didn’t have enough money to purchase a membership. But more on that later.

I used my fishing rod to do some fishing in the river. I caught a carp and a barbel steed, which I donated to the museum. An old tire also ended up in my hands, and I gave it to Tom Nook when I was selling stuff. I should have mailed it to Yuka, but I didn’t think of it at the time!

When I did meet up with Yuka, she gave me a quiz. She asked how I would greet a lovely rose. The options were “Hi there,” “you smell good?,” and “lost weight?” I picked “hi there,” and that was apparently wrong somehow. Despite the fact that she previously said there were no right and wrong answers. Wow, what a rude blue koala.

I spotted a new house in town, and it belonged to Pate the duck! She is Forest’s 4th animal villager. Welcome to town, Pate!

It was time for me to try out my note in a bottle. I wrote a letter and released it into the sea. I hope they send help soon.

After Yuka had an argument with Alfonso, I spoke with the koala to try to cheer her up (ha, yeah right). She took out her frustrations out on me. As always. I can’t wait to get a shovel and some pitfall seeds for this horrible creature.

While in Able Sisters, I was surprised by something Mabel said. She gave me the option to sell clothes! That option isn’t in the other games. I’m not sure how useful it is, especially since Able Sisters is right next to Nook’s shop, but it is interesting.

I continued selling oranges, eventually earning enough money to buy a Crazy Redd membership for 3,000 bells. After that, I scrounged up enough money to buy Redd’s dainty painting for 3,920 additional bells.

I took it up to the museum to donate it, but Blathers quickly shattered my dreams. The painting was a counterfeit! All that fruit-picking for nothing! I should burn Redd’s tent to the ground. Maybe after throwing Yuka inside.

After that, I was done playing for the day. I’ll be back with more soon! In the meantime, here is a video showing many of today’s events:

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