Animal Crossing New Horizons

I've been playing on and off since March. Looking for friends who play in the evening so we can message each other on here and visit islands to help each other out.

I miss the New Leaf island so much. Catching beetles and sharks late at night to make bells. I'm finding it much harder to make bells this time round.

I have Pears, coconuts and oranges on my island!

I've attempted terraforming but feel very overwhelmed by the planning required 😂

Paid off my first mortgage!

And the museum is being built. I made the mistake of selling creatures instead of donating them first.

Visited another island with my Nook Miles and now have apple trees too.

Need to work out if we have an online subscription.

Annoyingly, I have to share the Switch with DDs

Argh. I have an animal moving out. And today is the one day Isabelle and Nook decide to shut up shop. No Nook Miles tickets so I can't go hunting for a replacement. It's in the lap of the animal gods.

Loving my new peach dress and shell arch!!!! Thank you @bearlyactive!!!

Oh I have tons and tons and tons of iron, sticks, and stones. If anyone wants some, PM me. And tons and tons of DIY recipes, as loulou will confirm from last night!

Omg this thread is just what I want! I think I'm 3 days in and loving it so much more than I thought I would (bought for the kid ...)

I spend ages in the evening fishing..

Today I learnt to swim and paid off the wood foe the shop. I dont have enough iron yet though.

Its so absorbing and calming...

Oh this is a nice find. My mum bought me this for Christmas and I've been enjoying playing it. Still can't figure things out and would love some friends.

Sorry, just looked and evidently I don’t have the membership that allows online visitors! Annoying!

My husband gifted me this, plus a switch, earlier this year, and while my island isn’t very advanced, I do have all the fruit trees, so if anyone wants to visit my island and steal my fruit to plant on theirs let me know!

I got this a few days ago... it's very absorbing would love some friends. Will work out how to find and share my code

Amazing thank you!

I'll share a code with you! Give me ten minutes and I'll PM you @louloulemons

I just got this for Christmas. I’m not sure where the last few days have gone!!! Would anybody like to share their dodo code with me? I’ve just discovered I can visit people but I don’t have any friends!!!

Turnip exchange is a place where you can get codes to visit other peoples islands

A few top tips:

Donate the first of each type of bug/fish/sea creature you get to Blathers in the museum, that helps you keep on top of them. Ditto fossils (as your museum fills up you start to get duplicates, which help you make money).

Save up your valuable bugs and fish (e.g. dorado, pike, any big fish apart from the sea bass, barred knifejaws, red snappers, birdwing butterflies, emperor butterflies etc etc, although most of those are summer-only) for Flick and CJ - that's how I paid off my house

Achieving 5 stars isn't that important, but achieving 3 is because that's when you get the guitar-playing dog guy (K.K. something) to give weekly concerts, which help you get music to play around your island on stereos.

Make a habit of hitting your rocks daily. Dig two holes in the ground around the rock like this.... (H = hole, R = rock, dots are only there to stop the letters jumping to the end of the row)

..........H
.......H...RRRRRR
.............RRRRRR
.............RRRRRR

...and hit it with your shovel as fast as you can. No idea if that format will work on mobile!! Your shovel won't ever break in the middle of hitting a rock, but it might afterwards, so it's a good idea to always have a spare one with you. One rock per day will be a money rock, and you can get 100, 200, 300/400/500 (two of those options, can't remember which), 1,000, 2,000, 4,000 and 8,000 bells. NB: MAKE SURE YOU HAVEN'T EATEN ANY FRUIT BEFORE HITTING THE ROCK, BECAUSE IT WILL BREAK AND REAPPEAR SOMEWHERE ELSE THE NEXT DAY.

I've exhausted my top-tips, if I think of any more I'll come back

[quote buffythevampireslayer91]@cliffdiver so do I plant the fruit I get from other islands? I planted a cedar sapling about 3 days ago and it's not growing at all? Any idea why? [/quote]
It might be too close to a cliff/river/edge/beach like PP said, or if you've planted it directly next to another tree or tree sapling it won't grow at all.

[quote buffythevampireslayer91]@bearlyactive I can never seem to get to visit other islands, I have friends but how do I ask them to open their gates for me? [/quote]
So for visiting other islands you have two options:

Get a Nook Mile Ticket from the NookStop (if that's what it's called) from Resident Services, then go talk to the bird in the airport and he'll ask you whether you want to visit a mystery island using the Nook Miles Ticket. You will be taken to one of these mystery islands.

OR, if you want to visit a friend's island, you must have a Nintendo Switch Online account (you have to pay, can't remember how much) and so must your friends. Then ask them to open up their gates using the bird at the airport and selecting the "invite via DODO code" option. They'll get a five-letter code of letters and numbers (e.g. Q3WE5) which they send to you. Then you go and talk to the bird at the airport and tell him you want to visit a friend, and after connecting to the Internet he'll let you enter the DODO code, which will take you over to their island.

We’ve been playing since it was released - at the start of the March lockdown so as you can imagine we’ve put a lot of hours in :D
It’s lovely, and calming.
If you need bells quickly I’d recommend getting a wetsuit from Nook’s Cranny (or the Nook Stop if it’s not a proper shop yet) and going diving for sea creatures to sell to Timmy and Tommy. They make lots of money!
You’ll get a special visitor on each weekday who you can buy stuff from or help out in some way for a reward.
You may get Flick (a chameleon) who loves bugs, or CJ (a beaver) who loves to fish. If you save fish and bugs for these days they will pay 1.5x the amount Timmy and Tommy will!

The turnip girl will be wandering around on Sunday mornings selling turnips which you can sell at profit later in the week, you can ask Timmy and Tommy for turnip prices and sell when the price is high. (The stalk market!)
When you’re far enough in you’ll get a concert every Saturday.
At night after 7pm you may get a ghost floating around who you’ll scare just by speaking to him then you have to get his spirit pieces back for him!
Or a lovely owl obsessed with space who’ll give you a space or star sign related DIY recipe and watch shooting stars with you. You can wish on shooting stars by looking up and pressing A - star fragments you can use in recipes will wash up on the beach the next day.

[quote buffythevampireslayer91]@cliffdiver so do I plant the fruit I get from other islands? I planted a cedar sapling about 3 days ago and it's not growing at all? Any idea why? [/quote]
Too close to an edge?

@bearlyactive I can never seem to get to visit other islands, I have friends but how do I ask them to open their gates for me?

@dannydyerismydad amazing!! Well done

@cliffdiver so do I plant the fruit I get from other islands? I planted a cedar sapling about 3 days ago and it's not growing at all? Any idea why?

I CAUGHT THE STRINGFISH yesterday.

Can you tell I'm a wee bit excited?