Family Holiday Quest and Christmas Bow Collection Mission

A new 11 day quest has been released in tandem with a Collection Mission.  Sales now offer premium items, including the Collection Mission Reward, for cash.  As the Collection Missions now usually require fairly new premium machines, my old advice to players to complete them even if they cannot complete the Quest now is altered by the fact that you will need to make the choice to invest in new Animals or Machines.   You will need these again and again.  They can be purchased in the Market for RC or for cash in the special sale.  This Mission requires the Omelette Machine.

Note for Freyashawk: I first would like to wish every one a joyful and blessed holiday season.  A Happy Christmas and Happy Yuletide!  I believe in embracing all festivals as my readers know by now..  I really loved Seaside for introducing us to festivals from every culture.  

You need not sign an Act of Faith to appreciate the eloquent tale of the baby born in a Cave surrounded by Animals, whose birth coincided with the appearance of a wondrous Star.  Or to hang stockings for Father Christmas, and decorate an Evergreen tree with lights.  These old traditions can brighten dark days, and give people a sense of hope.  I make no apologies because I am not trying to impose my own beliefs on any one.  I simply find these traditions inspiring and would like to share that feeling without prejudice or pressure.

 Many families have experienced the loss of a loved one this past year.  My heart goes out to you all.  Never apologise for not being able to do chores in the game when real life needs your attention.  The most that should happen is that your neighbours should send you their love and sympathy, not delete you or demand visits.  My Community in Seaside has become a group of supportive friends whose friendship has sustained me through some difficult times.   I hope the sane for all of you, that you find real friends in a virtual farm game. 

I would like to thank Kaye for her help with untimed missions like Darryl's Adventure, for her help I sending screenshots for this one, for her incredible support both in the game and outside of it.  She is stellar!

I would like to thank all of the farmers who continue to send votes in the Farm Beauty Contest.  It seems impossible to reach No.10 any longer, but I am grateful for the effort and every vote.  I hope the site remains useful.  When I have access to a computer again, updating this site should be easier.

Christmas Bow Collection Mission

70 from Cane

50 from Beef

30 from Mushroom Omelette

10 from Oranges

Reward: Holidays' Magic Tree

Crop List

40 Rye

40 Tomatoes

40 Oat

40 Carrots

50 Mushrooms

50 Golden Kiwifruit

50 Festival Crackers

50 Lucky Stars 

60 Cranberries (Island)

60 Sunflowers

60 Cotton Balls

Batch Production 

40 Rye Flour

40 Ketchup

40 Oat Flour

8 Apple Juice

50 Eggs

8 Golden Kiwifruit Wine

60 Dried Cranberries (Island)

20 Chestnut Flour (Island)

60 Cranberry Bread (Island)

60 Cotton Cloth (Island)

60 Sunflower Essential Oil (Island)

60 Chamomile Tea (Island)

Tip: Set your Monkey Boost to reduce OP.  Island Machines in particular are brutal in their OP requirements.

Finally, you may have noticed recent posts that give tips for Nintendo's Switch version of Animal Crossing New Horizons.  It may be the best game I ever played, a gift that keeps on giving.  Once you have purchased the game, sll updates offer incredible free new items and options.  You never pay a penny again.  Each season offers new special seasonal items, recipes and now, a host of new Special Irems including Castles, Pine Trees, and another menu offers Carousels, Trains and other amazing decorations that move and display lights.  Dialogue is incredibly clever sonetimes.  From the 15th of December, evergreens on your island are decorated with lights.   There is a Toy Day activity that offers special gifts.   There are meteor showers where you can wish on stars.  The Moon in the sky follows the progression of the real Moon.   You can play alone or with friends.  If any of my Seaside friends are interested, let me know, and I will give any help I can with game questions.  My guide for the original Game Cube version was over a thousand pages long.  It still is an impressive me that continues to surprise me.

Family Holidays Quest

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1.

Harvest 40 Rye

Produce 40 Rye Flour

Harvest 8 Apples

2.

Harvest 40 Tomatoes

Produce 40 Ketchup

Collect 20 Honey*

  Keep filled Beehives in storage and place on Farm to collect instantly.  You will need 7.

3.

Harvest 40 Oats

Produce 40 Oat Flour

Prepare 8 Cake Flour

4.

Harvest 40 Carrots

Produce 8 Apple Juice

Prepare 8 Grilled Flank Steaks

Reward: Mission Gift Box

5. 

Harvest 50 Mushrooms

Collect 50 Eggs

Prepare 8 Cottage Cheese

6.

Harvest 50 Golden Kiwifruit

Produce 8 Golden Kiwifruit Wine

Prepare 8 Honey Syrup

7.

Harvest 50 Festival Crackers

Collect 15 Gift Ribbons* 

  * This is a Collectable and you can use OP to speed whether on Farm or in Collectable House.  Harvest amounts always random.

Prepare 8 Yule Log Rolls

8.

Harvest 50 Lucky Stars

Place Holidays' Magic Tree on your Farm (Reward from Collection Mission, offered also in special sale)

Prepare 8 Alsatian Cookies

Reward: Christmas Carpet (Darryl's House)

9.

Harvest 60 Cranberries (Island)

Fish with the Bone Fishhook 8 times

Prepare 8 Sugar Cubes

10.

Harvest 60 Sunflowers 

Process 4 Starfish in Seafood House

Prepare 8 Rock Candies

11.

Harvest 60 Cotton Balls

Harvest 20 Chestnuts (Island)

Prepare 8 Candy Cane Marshmallows

12.

Produce 60 Dried Cranberries (Island)

Harvest 8 Christmas Spirit

Prepare 8 Zpecial Xmas Eggnog

Reward: Island Mission Gift Box

13.

Produce 20 Chestnut Flour (Island)

Produce 60 Cranberry Bread (Island)

Prepare 8 Magical Christmas Desserts

14.

Harvest 6 Red Sandalwood (Island) 

  Use Electric Saw for double harvests

Produce 60 Cotton Cloths (Island)

Prepare 8 Christmas Wishes

15.

Produce 60 Sunflower Essential Oil (Island)

Collect 60 Chamomile Tea (Island)

Prepare 8 Giving Cakes

16.

Cook 4 Christmas Ham in the Stove House

Tend Flowers in your Botanical Garden 15 times

Prepare 8 Christmas Treats

Final Reward: Santa Teddy Bear Decoration for Seaside

Winter in Animal Crossing

The Magic of Winter in New Horizons

Again, apologies to Seaside players, as this is the second post about New Horizons I have made on this site.  Since my accounts was hacked, however, I have been unable to access my other sites, which is frustrating and unconscionable.  I would like to be able to help players of New Horizons, however, with a few tips.   I do feel any Seaside player would enjoy New Horizons immensely.  For those Seaside players who complain about the ever-increasing number of premium items in the game, the wonderful thing about Animal Crossing is that, once you purchase the game itself, Nintendo adds an extraordinary number of updates with new items and the player never had to pay again.  To me, this is wonderful.

This post is about Winter in New Horizons.  It is Winter now, but only if your Island is located in the Northern Hemisphere.  If in the South, the Summer season has begun.

The game runs on real time, but a really enjoyable and helpful aspect of the game is the ability to alter your system clock to travel back in time, whether it is a matter of hours,  days or months.

The fact is that many players have day jobs.  If they do not change the time, they may find themselves able to go to the game  in the dead of night when all the shops are shut.  Time travel cam make the difference between utter frustration and true enjoyment.

Winter involves a number of special options.  The biggest event of the Season is Toy Day.  From 1 December, Nook will offer a special Toy for future gift giving on Toy Day which is like Christmas really.

On the 11th of December, your landscape will change to snow, and you will begin to see falling snowflakes that you can catch with a net.  These are used to create items.

On 12th December, Isabelle will make reference to the snow and tell you that you may find snowballs on the ground.  You should find two each day.  These can be rolled into Snowboys who, if made properly, will give you special recipes and large snowflakes in gratitude for bringing them to life.  You can make a new Snowboy every day.

Note that if you make a Perfect Snowboy and have more than one character, you can load each to go to the Snowboy for a quick chat.  Each player will receive a random Frozen recipe DIY and a large snowflake from the same Snowboy.

On the 15th, Christmas multi-coloured lights will appear on the Trees and if you shake trees, you randomly can find Ornaments of different colours.  Like the Pine cones and Acorns of Autumn, these can be used to create special seasonal items.

More to follow!  Tips on creating a perfect Snowboy as well as the appearance and uses of the Dung Beetle.

Festival DIYs

You may obtain the festival DIYs that use ornaments in a couple of ways.  Ordinarily, you find them by shooting down balloons of any colour apart from dark blue.  Dark blue always contain materials.

Another way to obtain these is from an Animal in his or her house at the crafting bench.  It is very useful to visit your Anulimals in this season.   If you have the DIY, the Animal will offer you ornaments rather than than a duplicate.

One Animal will have a DIY in the morning, and another at night.

Perfect Snowboy

This is something you have to learn, but two snowballs will appear daily.  The first one you touch becomes the body.  Rolling both to a point where they are not tok far from our another before they reach the desired size is prudent.  Every roll increases the size.  The body should be maximum size.   The size requirement for the head is very precise.  What I did was take a photo of the first Perfect Snowboy I made with my character beside it.  It is a good reference.  The head should be 2/3 the size of the body.  Too small or too large and you receive nothing but complaints.   Actually, your first attempt may result in rewards by a Snowboy feeling generous despite your lack of expertise but after that, the requirements are rigid.

Every character on your island can speak to a Perfect Snowboy to receive a random DIY.  They all may be different, so if you hate the activity, simply talk to the Snowboy with each character.  Only the individual who makes the Snowboy will receive a large Snowflake as well, until the characters who speak to him have received all the recipes.

The Dung Beetle will be driven to snowballs and if not stopped, will roll them into the nearest body of water.  Try to catch it with a net.  They make wonderful models.

Remember that the first snowball touched is the body, even if that touch is by a Dung beetle.

If a snowball falls into the water or is smashed, quit and reload.   You will find two snowballs again.

The Snowboy gives Frozen DIYs but sends them directly to the Nook phone.  I only received one new recipe thzt uses Snowflakes this year.

Toy Day

Toy Day is 24 December.  It is not the last day when you can shake ornaments from the decorated Cedar trees but it is the last day toys will be sold at Nook's and it is the day when Jingles appears at the plaza.

Speak to Jingles:

1.  He gives you a DIY to make special festive wrapping paper  and asks that you craft three.  Remember it is a DIY card.  You need to learn it before you can craft it.

Bring him the paper and he will give you a Magic Bag with gifts for all the animals.  Equip it and speak to each of your animals to complete Jingle's quest.  It has to be equipped when you speak to any animal or you will be unable to give the gift.

When all of the animals have received a gift, report to Jingles.  He will give three rewards:

Set of Toy Stockings

Diy for a Gift Pile

Toy Sleigh

He will take back the Magic Bag as well.

This is where many new players make the error if thinking Toy Day is done.  If you have been buying Toys throughout the season, wrap 10 and give one to each of your Animals to receive a gift in return.  The gift will be a Toy.  You may have received three gifts from Animals when you were handing out Jingle's presents, but this is the way to obtain Toys that were not sold at your Nook's or different colours.  You actually can regift a Toy given to you, but you must wrap it first.

On Toy Day, no Animal will be found crafting at a bench, but between 25 December and the end of the year, you still may obtain a Festive DIY randomly from an Animal at home.   

Remember there is one DIY available before noon and another after noon.  I never have obtained two Festive diys from Animals on the same day,, but you will receive two different recipes if you visit every one both in the morning and evening.

They still may be obtained randomly by shooting down a balloon but the odds are poor.

Remember that if you have created more than one character,  each can obtain the (same) DIY from.an Animal and each can talk to a Perfect Snowman for a different random DIY.  Each can experience Jingle's event as well.

Set of Stockings

Hang it on the wall and use the A button the next day to receive a secret gift of Jingle's photo.

New Festive DIYs

New to this year I believe:

Festive Top Set*

Ornament Crown

Giant Ornament

Ornament Tree

Ornament Table Lamp

*I believe this is for Hanukkah

Special Goods

In the seasonal menu, the special food items appear only through the 31st.  The New Year items, including Lunar New Year items will continue to be sold for some time.

New Year Silk Hats

You can purchase four different colours from Tortimer on New Year's Eve.  Each Island has different sets of colours.  You cannot order these from your catalogue afterwards.

Toy Drive Quest and Building Blocks Collection Mission

A new 11 day Quest released in tandem with a Collection Mission.  The reward for the Collection Mission is another Collectable in the form of a Lemon Pepper Grater.

70 from Oreo Plants

50 from Rye Flour

30 from Oreo Donuts

10 from Peach Tree

Reward: Lemon Pepper Grater

Special Tasks:

Fish 8 times with Squid Hook

Cook 4 Crystal Rock Cakes in Stovehouse

Tend Flowers in Botanical Garden 15 times

Note about Farm Beauty Contest: You do not need maximum votes in Theme to reach either 4000 or 6000 Votes.  The increase in theme items only benefits players by giving a larger number of items that will count.  Many of the old premium decorations that are included are worth 6 to 9 theme votes daily.  When you place the new base, make certain to take a new screenshot for a boost of 9 votes daily.  

I do appreciate every vote sent to HM. Freyashawk.  I really find it difficult now to believe in the integrity of this contest especially where top ten fans are concerned.  I keep hoping the developers will address the wild discrepancy that exists between farms  between 45,000 votes and 15,000 votes especially when those votes increase amazingly in the last voting period.  Be that as it may, I think every farmer who still has faith in me.  I hope to be able to update my site better when I have a computer again.  Doing this on a mobile is very difficult!

Toy Drive

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1.

Harvest 40 Wheat

Produce 40 Wheat Flour

Collect 20 Honey

2.

Harvest 40 Rice

Harvest 40 Oat

Produce 40 Oat Flour

3.

Harvest 40 Rye

Collect 40 Turkeys

Prepare 8 Cake Flour

4.

Harvest 40 Sunflowers

Harvest 8 Maple Syrup

Prepare 8 Soft Dough

Reward: Mission Gift Box

5.

Harvest 50 Love Fruits

Produce 10 Maple Sugar

Prepare 8 Sour Cream

6.

Harvest 50 Spinach

Harvest 50 Red Roses

Prepare 8 Creamy Spinach

7.

Harvest 50 Grapes

Harvest 8 Red Bananas

Prepare 8 Fried Honey Red Bananas

8.

Harvest 50 Lilies

Place the Lemon Pepper Grater on your Farm 

   (Reward from Collection Mission)

Prepare 8 Grilled Lemon Pepper Chicken

Reward: Lion Pet House Base

9.

Harvest 60 Sugar Beets

Produce 60 Caramel

Prepare 8 Caramel Sauce

10.

Harvest 60 Violets (Island)

Produce 60 Sunflower Bouquets 

Prepare 8 Mini Red Velvet Cakes

11.

Harvest 60 Garlic (Island)

Harvest 8 Cedar Wood (Island)

  Use Electric Saw for double the harvest

Prepare 8 Red Banana Velvet Bread

12.

Fish 8 times with the Squid Hook

Collect 15 Grits 

   This is a Collectable and OP can be used whether on Farm or in Collectable House

Prepare 8 Hominy Grits.

Special Reward: Island Mission Gift Box

13.

Process 8 Crayfish

Produce 60 Raisins (Island)

Prepare 8 Garlic Butter Shrimps

14.

Harvest 15 Chestnuts (Island)

Produce 60 Violet Essential Oil (Island)  

 3 Star Mastery Required

Prepare 8 Peche au Caramel

15.

Produce 15 Chestnut Flour (Island)

Produce 60 Raisin Bread (Island)

Prepare 8 Peach Cobbler

16.

Cook 4 Crystal Rock Cakes in the Stove House

Tend Flowers in Botanical Gardens 15 Times

Prepare 8 Creamy Spinach and Chicken Casseroles 

Final Reward: Plush Toy Cow Decoration

Penny's Cauldron December Riddle Solutions

Solve all riddles to claim a new base that no doubt will  ever worth 9 votes in the next Farm Beauty Contest.  You can solve three riddles per day without charge.  Any additional riddles cost 1 RC each.

1. Pumpkin, Cinnamon

2. Flattish, Mud Crab

3. Pumpkin, Wine

4. Tequila, Egg

5. Golden Kiwifruit Wine, Angora Hair, Gisela Cherry

6. Tequila, Cabbage,  Pumpkin Sauce

7. Golden Peach, Cherry, Wine

8. Mud Crab, Peach, Duck Egg

9. Tomato, Lemon, Tequila

10.  Lotus, Honey, Menhaden

11. Gulfweed, Lemon, Flatfish

12. Ostrich Feathers, Cinnamon, Lotus

13. Egg, Angora Hair, Tomato

14. Lotus, Leek Sauce, Cabbage, Flatfish

15. Goose Feather, Toffee Apple, Scallop,  Leek Sauce

16. Ostrich Feathers, Golden Peach, Scallop, Goose Feather

17. Ostrich Feathers, Gisela Cherry, Evil Fruit, Golden Kiwifruit Wine

18.  Honey, Golden Peach, Coral, Wine

19. Gulfweed, Duck Egg, Okra Sauce, Cherry

20. Pumpkin Sauce, Cherry, Evil Fruit, Flatfish

21. Menhaden, Peach, Pumpkin, Okra Sauce