Animal Crossing: New Horizons~

[Kikki]

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Sorry about that kikki

I don't think it was your fault; you were just doing normal stuff, I'm sure, like crafting or checking your Nook Miles or planting trees. I just had to keep trying to leave until I caught a second between actions. Did you get stuck for a minute while I was leaving? Like...did it stop letting you do things for thirty seconds or something? I haven't had anyone visit me so I don't know how it works on the other end.

[Shan O 123]

Actions does stop on the other end. Coming and going.

[Panda Parfait]

Yeah, I saw several people get stuck for a while trying to leave. The game essentially forces you to stop playing so everyone can watch the long cutscene of whoever is strutting onto or off the island. Probably much easier to deal with when you're playing together irl or can talk to each other on Discord or something, but with strangers it can get very tedious.

I don't dislike the online features, being able to visit peoples' islands and check out their shops and layouts and stuff is cool! I just wish it was implemented better.

[Shan O 123]

Sooo What normally happens when you give Timmy the items he’d need? Is there such a thing of giving items early before Blathers builds his actual building. Cuz timmy gave me something to put in the ground following by a flooring. Is that normal? When I talked to him the second time the same option appeared for the store.

I’m really scared of messing up my Switch by time traveling.

[Kikki]

I got to build the Nook shop before the museum was complete. There's no problems with that, that's normal progression, afaik...Blathers always takes an extra day to build because his museum spends a full day under construction, which the Nookling store doesn't. It was completed a day before the museum in my town, too, anyway. And time-travelling won't mess up your Switch. All it is is changing the time, it's not hacking or in any way messing with the OS or anything like that. (Not that I've tried it on the Switch, but changing the clock should have no affect at all on the function of your Switch.)

[Mikodesu]

I'm kinda taking it that the shop and the museum are like separate questlines? So I wouldn't worry too much.


I had a pretty good nighttime session! SO many balloons, way more than I think have ever spawned. I had my third encounter with Wisp, and I got to watch a frog drowner peter out to a rain shower (that was especially neat).

Best part is one of my balloons had the recipe for a pan flute! :D <3 I love it.

[Kikki]

I feel like I'm in an awkward place with New Horizons, right now. There is temporarily nothing to do, other than the basic stuff, like find your fossils each morning and talk to each villager. Peanut has just moved in and Sherb should be available to socialize with today. Fauna will be moving in tomorrow, so the day after tomorrow, everyone will be fully settled into Windfall and the next phase will begin.

But meanwhile, don't have terraforming, which means I can't even lay paths (I wish you could put down at least dirt paths as soon as Resident Services upgraded, but I think all that unlocks together with terraforming.) Until I can terraform, I can't move my houses to their final places since I know I'm going to be changing a lot, which means that I'll have to redo anything I do now, and I don't wanna. I feel like I'm in a holding pattern right now. About all I could do is make and install more fencing, I think, and a few more outdoor items to try to get that star rating up as soon as I can. Though I don't have any big DIY recipes, yet. Something great like a lighthouse. I think those utility poles I was given are good (though ugly) but I don't have the recipe to make more.

It's still fun to play for an hour or so, but there's not enough to do, right now, to play for a lot more than that, unless I just want to make money. And money is SO much easier to make in summer, when all those insanely expensive bugs are out and about. I'm trying to gather up as many DIY recipes as possible right now, and hoarding crafting materials for lots of fences. And I've gotta get more flowers down; I can't put them in their final places right now, but they're easy to move later, so I guess I should get started on some serious gardening!

I wonder if the rarer Mystery Islands don't unlock until later...the 'rarest' one I've gotten has been the bamboo island, and that only once. :/ (I've been to 9 or 10 islands so far.) I want to get the rare fish or bugs islands, or one of the rare flower islands.

EDIT: There is now a decent amount of information on high level tools.

[Panda Parfait]

Yeah, the only 'rare' mystery islands I got were the tarantula island and bamboo island. It's not a very exciting option when they no longer have villagers and there's a very good chance that you're just going to end up on a plain island that has the same exact stuff as your own. I'm still doing it once or twice a day just in case I end up on an interesting one, but I've just come to expect it as a place to gather extra resources.

I hope the gold tools last a loong time even if they do eventually break, if they break too often you'll just run out of gold really quickly.

Marina moved on to my island today, and Saharah is visiting, so I bought a bunch of stuff. None of it was something I'd actually use in my house but the animated wallpapers are cool. There's some fish and bugs I have left to catch, but I suppose buildings upgrading and stuff is at a bit of a standstill until everyone is moved in.

Edit: I'm having a hell of a time trying to catch a Stringfish. I've crafted so much bait...

[Kikki]

I was having a terrible time with the stringfish, too. I FINALLY caught it this evening at about 7:30. No bait at all. (My sister did the same thing. Walked up to the top cliff pond and a big fish shadow was waiting, she caught it, and it was a stringfish. That was around 7:10, which spurred me to try again myself, lol.) I now have every fish that can be caught at this time of year, excepting only I think, two, both of which are available year-round and don't need to be caught now. I've caught all the possible bugs, too, that are available now.

Summer is definitely the best money season, though. And I don't get any rare islands like the finned-fish island or the tarantula island or even the island with all the hybrid roses and the koi and emperor butterflies. (My native flower is the rose, so I was hoping I could get that one, at least.) I basically get the plain old island that looks like my own island, every time. I'm going to save any more Ticket trips until after I've unlocked the resident services upgrade, to see if that helps. Not sure why it would, but it's just another day or two, so I might as well wait and see if a bit of progression helps trigger a better rate of rare island visits.

PS: I'm happy that my native fruit is the apple while my native flower is a rose. It's like my island has good botanical sense, lol.

[Mikodesu]

Best part of my day was a Celeste visit. Pretty sure that precludes a Wisp visit, but that's okay. It was just nice to see Celeste wandering around for a while. ;o;

Got some interesting recipes today, and finally got to buy some clothing. Probably gonna break down and pay off my loan tomorrow for the storage space.

I dunno if it's just me but bugs seem to spawn in droves every night on my island...must have caught 30 man-faced stink bugs and 10 or so emperor butterflies tonight, on top of everything else. Gonna have to get used to walking around without a tool out though...I keep missing shooting stars. :/ Which is getting obnoxious.

Also...Marina is officially my favorite. I dunno if it's a villager personality type thing but I found her cleaning the square in front of Resident Services. She's just too cute. <3

[Kross lover/fan]

I’ll have to post the video somehow later but one of my villagers was in the town square singing. The other villager was behind her and swaying along (but not singing). It was so cute.

After spending HOURS fishing (at my own island), I finally found a char at my friends island. Went home and spent another hour or three trying to find a string fish and a golden trout. Just as I was about to give up, I somehow snagged both!! My list isn’t complete yet for March but at least I have those three off my list.



Sorry for slacking off on the front page. I’ll taje time off the game soon to update it and clean it up again

[Kikki]

My villagers sweep continually, often in town square, but if not there, somewhere, every day, for hours, lol. My island has crazy amounts of man-faced stinkbugs and emperor butterflies every night, too.

The villagers are amazingly cute to watch this time around. I love how expressive their little faces are. And they do weird stuff. (Like the video I posted.) Watching them play airplane is hilarious, especially if more than one is doing it at the same time. I'm not sure how else to describe what they're doing, but Hamlet, who is basically a pudgy ball of cute and just has nubs for arms and legs, looks especially cute doing it. They also play the thumb piano I made sometimes. It seems like they want to try it whenever they see me doing it.

It looks like I have Saharah visiting today, Fauna is in the un-boxing phase of moving in, and my resident services will be closed tomorrow (yay!) I've had a huge shower of stars (I wished on 40 and got 20 star pieces) but I've yet to see Celeste in town. My pears, oranges and peaches all fruited for the first time today, too, and I hate to let anyone shake down any of my fruit because it looks so nice having it all ON the trees, lol. I still need to wait on my cherry trees, though...I only got them planted yesterday. Still, town is starting to looking more civilized. My red and orange windflowers bloomed today, too, woot! And I finally got a few lilies and hyacinths yesterday. I hope to find mums and cosmos soon...

[Arcy]

No Wisp, Flick, or C.J. yet but I finally saw Celeste. My sky was clear for almost 20 minutes so I got to make... six more wishes. Way less than the other night when I got 31 but still, progress is progress. For base flowers I'm missing Red Lily and all three colors of Mums I think, but I finally got the last fruit planted yesterday. I need the Stringfish still, I'm just hoarding bait at the moment to prepare for a good time at the old clifftop fishin' hole later tonight.

Honestly (outside of some minor QoL quibbles, like not being able to craft stacks or craft out of your storage from an in-house workbench), this game could not be better for me. I'm sinking in a ludicrous amount of time.

Here's my current look as of this morning, finally got the eyebrows okay but I'm sure I'll need to edit them the second I get a hat that tucks my bangs up.

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[Kikki]

I mentioned those items in one of my posts, too, but for me they're not really minor quibbles, in some cases...they're sources of significant fun-dampening. For me, the good and the bad get pretty mixed together. The good thankfully wins out pretty clearly, but I definitely find myself getting frustrated a few times in every play session that lasts more than half an hour. Hopefully once I'm in later game and have more infrastructure in place...more bridges and ramps and highest quality tools and so on...the frustrating bits will have shrunken to something that feels insignificant.

My big list of loved and not-loved ACNH features. 19 great things and 5 not-great things, so good is winning more nearly 4 to 1. Pretty good! I could probably think of more but I like to think of the game as being about 20% 'sigh...' and 80% 'yay!'.

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LOVED (or at least liked a lot)

• Graphics are really nice.
• Balloons and bottles are great fun to find and open.
• The museum is gorgeous.
• Clothing and items are really great.
• Customization is really good.
• Flowers are lovely, especially the new ones.
• Patterns having transparency options is great
• Patterns being applicable to your FACE so that you can make even your character unique is awesome.
• Terraforming and paths are unbelievably wonderful options. (Of course, I don't have them yet, but there are so many things I already want to do once I unlock that!) Not having grass degradation makes me want to play in short bursts all day, whereas in previous versions I did just one play session per day to avoid extra, ugly grass erosion. Very happy that's either gone, or easily reparable via the grass option of the path tool.
• Being able to dig up entire trees and replant them elsewhere in exactly the state you dug them up in.
• Clothing/closets work in a really good way. The wand is also a nice addition.
• Great ways of getting villagers, via tours or cards or just letting them come randomly.
• Villagers are fun with having more to do and being more expressive. They never seem to be just walking around...they're always DOING something.
• Houses are much cuter inside than they've ever been before.
• Designing your interior is a lot more fun through being much less limited by sets/etc
• The sense of community is higher than it was in New Leaf, imo. Feels like you're all in it together.
• Nook Miles are fairly motivating, able to be collected slower than bells, but faster than I would have thought. I have 25,000 on hand atm.
• Crafting is an important thing to fill time with...makes it so that you always have a little more option in what to fill your time with.
• Mystery Islands are fun for resource gathering

NOT-LOVED

• Mystery Islands also frustrating due to the very high chance of just getting an island that's the same as your own for ten tickets in a row. Even the more common 'rare' island of bamboo is pretty infrequent. You can end up feeling like you wasted tens of thousands of Nook Miles with nothing to show for it but some extra wood and iron.
• Breakable tools with no unbreakable version to unlock even in late or end game is spirit-crushing. It'd be okay if there was a 'silver' tier and they were very good but still breakable, but gold tools should be unbreakable. I'd like material gathering more if I didn't have to stop to craft new tools so often. And you can't craft a bunch at once, because they take up too much inventory space!
• Being unable to craft from storage at least while inside your house is crazy.
• Crafting takes tediously long even if you mash A a lot, so being unable to select to craft multiple of a single item at once is not fun.
• Tools take up WAY TOO MUCH INVENTORY SPACE. The tool ring should work like the wand...the tools should store INSIDE that ring, not in your inventory. Anything beyond the 8 spaces or whatever could spill over into your inventory, but at least those ones should not be taking up space.

I wonder if being UNABLE to check the Nook Stop terminal in Resident Services tomorrow (because it is SHUT tomorrow) will break my chain of checking it days-in-a-row for increasing Nook Miles rewards...

[quigley]

Overall really enjoying the game. I have the same complaints as everyone else (especially when crafting multiples of the same thing...I'm looking at you, fish bait! ...that sounds like an insult, doesn't it?).

I spent a looooong time today planning out my ultimate island layout. I measured the sizes of the buildings and put down patterns to mark where I wanted them to end up. I'm going to be moving my house and the shops closer to the airport, so that I and any friends who visit can get to the shops quickly.

I'm not too attached to any of my residents except Bea, who has been one of my favorite animals since AC:GC. I'm gonna move her house closer to mine! I also have Rudy, Plucky, Flora, Curlos, and Octavian.


I just need the nibble fish to complete my March fish list. I have about 50 baits right now, so hopefully I'll catch it today...?

I feel like I'm in an awkward place with New Horizons, right now. There is temporarily nothing to do, other than the basic stuff, like find your fossils each morning and talk to each villager. Peanut has just moved in and Sherb should be available to socialize with today. Fauna will be moving in tomorrow, so the day after tomorrow, everyone will be fully settled into Windfall and the next phase will begin.

But meanwhile, don't have terraforming, which means I can't even lay paths (I wish you could put down at least dirt paths as soon as Resident Services upgraded, but I think all that unlocks together with terraforming.) Until I can terraform, I can't move my houses to their final places since I know I'm going to be changing a lot, which means that I'll have to redo anything I do now, and I don't wanna. I feel like I'm in a holding pattern right now. About all I could do is make and install more fencing, I think, and a few more outdoor items to try to get that star rating up as soon as I can. Though I don't have any big DIY recipes, yet. Something great like a lighthouse. I think those utility poles I was given are good (though ugly) but I don't have the recipe to make more.

I know exactly what you mean. It's hard to plan things out when you can't terraform or make paths!!

And waiting can be really hard, once you've done everything you can in one day. I'm so addicted right now that I want to keep playing, but there's nothing more to do but fish, catch bugs, etc. I mainly try to earn as many Nook miles as I can, since I buy a lot of tickets. And it's good to have a bunch saved up for when you can buy terraforming and path options.