Animal Crossing New Horizons - Thread 6!

Hello. We are new casual players since the summer. I have started watching YouTube videos. We are missing Blathers. Tom Nook doesn't have an donate option when the lead islander talks to him in the tent. We have built the bridge and got Nooks Cranny. Anything else that we need to do to get the owl? We might have done the collect 5 fish thing at the start but my middle aged memory is shot. Thanks

My island is open cos I have so much stuff to get rid of - DODO 2T1MQ is the code and it's all the DIYs and furniture on the floor around the shop/museum.

New one for happy home...if you give one of your islanders a box of souvenir chocolates you can invite them over with you to make them a vacation home 😊

Does anyone have Celeste visiting and I could pop over? Thanks!

@Pinkbonbon the home design (not my favourite thing either, same reasons) is quite fun once you get going, doesn't take too long (everyone has a theme) it also opens up different things you can do- polishing, partitions, sparkle hearts, accent walls...you get promoted quite quickly so earn more 'poki' to buy all the new furniture...plus Wardall is now letting me order tons of different items I haven't seen before.

Also, there's facilities on the island you get hired to design (more poki for those!) Currently a school, cafe & restaurant...there's loads of empty buildings and plots so I can see moves island swaps (I'm hoping!, really want some of the villagers on mine!)

It's a massive bit of the upgrade, I'm really tempted to empty my island (not a restart!) and just see what furniture comes about.

Oh, just happened to read that those DIY recipes only start showing up after you've done 5 holiday homes. So that explains why you weren't seeing them early on!

Also, I wonder how having a villager on a holiday island might affect their liklihood of showing up or not when you go villager hunting for your actual town.

Did you know you can grab DIYs at Happy Home on the beach? Didn't spot for a while but got some great new ones!

I haven't had the star one yet!! I really want it but now I'm very low on miles

I had the star 🌟 one today! Loads of shooting stars and you get a little jingle before they fall too! Sadly I had to pick my child up so had to leave it or I'd have stayed on and got loads of stars - hoping they show up on my beach tomorrow.
I like taking the vines, I use them on my island.

I have Celeste so opening if anyone wants to visit DN04D

I've got tomatoes, sugarcane, potatoes & wheat now, all the shops are up on Harvs (Cyrus & colour changing all the furniture to get full collections have been a thing!)

I have two villagers still to place and so far I've condensed 8 and the shops to the main bit of the island and a little on the right but now I'm wishing I'd done the beach thing you did or spaced them out more so that i could plan better.

I restarted my island around 5/6 weeks ago, I've done nothing to it. Houses and shops are still all on the beaches, there are random trees everywhere and patches of flowers all over.
Attempting to do something with RS this morning but not liking it so far... I don't know where my inspiration has gone 😩

Turnip exchange is really good for visiting islands to make bells by selling turnips. You could also put your own island on there.

Also, I really need to stop going to mabels and buying far too many clothes. I could leave my house upgrades double the length of time if it wasn't for my pretty outfit addiction.

Starting over isn't as daunting as I thought it would be but it's a thought to do all the teraforming ect again... I might just leave my island fairly natural this time xD

I'm thinking of trying out that nookazon site or discord to sell Raymond when he asks to leave. Anyone tried selling on there?

That's how I feel too! I've cleared away some stuff so I could start planting crops but I haven't actually done anything with the area, the crops are just sitting there 😅

I've also spent all my bells now so will have to get back into the stalk market, if I can face the stress..I only seem to get very low prices for turnips on my island!

So all in all my island has kind of just stalled for now.

I'm so overwhelmed buly the new update! Really want to re do my island but don't know if I can face restarting an lose all that progress!
How are you all getting on?

Seen a few YouTube get that starry island lately! I've reset my island recently so it'll be a while before I can hit those tours.

I like some snooty villagers like Portia but not so keen on the jocks as a whole. Though saying that, Iggly is a dreamy of mine. Fingers crossed i find him someday :)

I have 3 preppy on my island atm though and it's starting to feel a little bit...Hannah Montana xD I need to find some crankys (oh Vladimir where art thou?)

I went on one of kapp'ns island tours today and it was a nighttime island. When I hit the rocks, stars came out!! Plus the DIY recipe on the beach was a starry one!

That's probably old news to everyone else but was a big surprise for me 🤣

Yes! I love the cute villagers but I find the snobby personality really off putting so that would ruin them for me.

Anyone else find that they get a villager they should love (eg, they're really pretty) but then they just don't grow on them? But then you get a villager you don't really like and then find you miss them when they leave xD

Like Diana is really pretty with a nice house and lots of people love beau but I found them both really 'meh'. But Tipper...I couldn't stand her at first. But when she left my new leaf town I missed her and would love to find her in New horizons.

And...'everybody loves Raymond' (couldn't resist) but he was my 6th villager (campsite) and... ...I don't get it. But maybe he'll grow on me lol. I highly doubt that will happen with Al though xD