I really wish that Animal Crossing: New Horizons celebrated Valentine’s Day with an in-game event, instead of just items you can buy through the store and gifts that can be mailed by your fellow islanders.
This game recognizes so many different and cool real-life events with an Animal Crossing twist that it makes me wish Tom Nook and Isabelle would decorate the plaza with hearts, and we could give each other little gifts and candy hearts and whatnot as part of the event! Maybe in the next series game for the Switch 2, if Nintendo makes an Animal Crossing game for it…
Hopefully.
Other than that, I accomplished a LOT this week in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. I keep thinking about where I started out in this series on January 1, and where I am now. My little island is really flourishing, and I love it!
If you missed last week’s entry, you can check it out here.
February 12
I started off my week by realizing that I have too much mail pending. An embarrassingly large amount of mail pending.
It turns out that when you buy things in game, and they get shipped to you, at some point you need to get them out if you want to use them.
So, I spent tonight opening mail, storing items, and tossing letters away.
Until I got bored…and I decided to exit my island for the day. I WILL get back to this task.
Eventually.
February 13
Everything just kept breaking today. First the shovel, then the ax, then the slingshot (which I haven’t rebuilt yet), then the fishing rod.
I had started to carry a DIY table around in my pocket so I can just plop it down wherever and craft what I need. It’s ridiculous that I have to do so, unfortunately, and I hated that I had to keep chopping at trees to get the wood that I needed in order to build anything.
February 14
The first thing I did today was go visit Nook’s Cranny, and I bought an Imperial Bed. HOWEVER, I forgot that Redd was in town, and so I was broke with next to NO Bells on hand.
So, I used all my new tools from yesterday and chopped trees, hit rocks, and caught bugs until I had enough to get this Amazing Painting! It looks real. I hope it’s real. It better be real.
February 15
I’ve started to mark Saturdays by K.K. Slider coming to my island.
This week, I was joined by Goose for the music show! K.K. picked up his guitar and played Comrade K.K.! It was definitely a more melancholic song, but I enjoyed it.
I also ran around and returned a lost item to Tutu, dug up some new fossils I turned over to Blathers that I then had to sell off since the Museum already had them, and I continued to clean out my mailbox.
I pulled out the Amazing Painting I found, and I delivered that to Blathers – and he took that with glee! I can’t wait to see it on display at some point.
Otherwise, it was a fairly nice night on my island. (And yes, the painting from yesterday WAS real!).
February 16
I paid off my house loan!!!
It’s crazy to think that my home is slowly growing as I am just chugging along, playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons a bit every day. I had enough Bells on hand to just pay it off, and I couldn’t help myself.
I also dug up some fossils, and I ended up selling them for more cash.
There was also a tarantula running around the plaza, and I was more than a little shocked that Label absolutely just didn’t care about it! I naturally had to scoop it up and save both it and Label from each other.
February 17
On Renassia, there are rivers that absolutely divide the island in half and then split off the north-western corner from everything else.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve had to use a vault pole in order to cross those rivers and to get around the island. It is also honestly why the northern half of my Animal Crossing: New Horizons island is still untamed wilderness: After all, why would I want to go up there when everything is already located in the southern half?
This new iron bridge is going to help ‘bridge’ the gap between the sections of my island.
I spent far longer than I want to admit trying to find a place to put it, though. It turns out you need a fairly narrow section of river to put it, and it can only be with straight sections on BOTH sides of the river. I ended up with only ONE place that would work for this bridge…
And so that is where it will go. Once the money for it is raised, of course. The islanders will actually help out this time, right?
Right?
Right?…
I also had a visitor today. Another bunny who is obsessed with cookies, this time. Hard pass.
February 18
I didn’t want to focus on expanding my house again, but I ran into a big problem: I need more storage room. I’ve filled my home up with so much clothing and other items in storage, that I simply have nowhere to put anything, and I cannot just treat the outdoors as my own personal storage unit.
So, I went back to ol’ Tom Nook, and he offered me a brand-new room to my home (and a roof color!) for 548,000 Bells.
That’s a lot of Bells. And honestly? The loan makes me a bit nervous, even though Tom Nook doesn’t go knocking my door and asking for a payment from me anytime he feels like it.
Since I didn’t have to pay up front (and I need the storage room…) I took his deal.
I also submitted two new fossils and a warrior statue to Blathers for inclusion in the Renassia museum.
And that…is how this week ends for me in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
How was your week?
Did you play any Animal Crossing: New Horizons?
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