21 January 2022

Happy Chinese New Year Quest and Firecrackers Collection Mission

A new 11 day Quest and Collection Mission to celebrate the upcoming Year of the Tiger.

You now can purchase the Collection Mission Reward with cash if you cannot perform the Mission.

Special Tasks:
Fish 8 times with Squid Hook
Tend flowers in Botanical Garden 15 times

Note: My cousin helped me today, as I hqve post-op appointment later.  I question a couple of the numbers.  So if anything constitutes an error, let me know.


Firecrackers Collection Mission

70 from Corn
50 from Oat Flour
30 from Down Jackets (Cozy Machine)
10 from Coconuts

Reward: Pepper Vine (White Pepper Collectable)

Happy Chinese New Year Quest

1.
Harvest 40 Wheat
Produce 40 Wheat Flour
Harvest 8 Lemons

2.
Harvest 40 Cane
Produce 40 Sugar
Harvest 8 Cinnamon

3.
Harvest 40 Rye
Produce 40 Rye Flour
Prepare 8 Batter

4.
Harvest 40 Oat
Collect 40 Eggs
Prepare 8 Cake Flour

Reward: Mission Gift Box

5.
Harvest 50 Rice
Produce 50 Peacock Feathers
Prepare 8 Soft Dough

6.
Harvest 50 Green Beans
Produce 50 Wool
Prepare 8 Tofu

7.
Harvest 50 Lilies
Collect 15 Chinese 5 Spices
Prepare 8 Roasted Yellow Croakers

8.
Harvest 50 Peanuts
Place Pepper Vine on your Farm (Reward from Collection Mission)
Prepare 8 Pepper Tofu Vegetable Soup

Reward: Lion Pet House Hat

9. 
Harvest 60 Eggplants
Produce 60 Wool Yarn (Island)
Prepare 8 Fried Eggplant

10.
Harvest 60 Kiwi Fruits (Island)
Harvest 20 Chestnuts (Island)
Prepare 8 Baking Powder

11.
Harvest 60 Chamomile (Island)
Fish 8 times with Squid Hook
Prepare 8 Steamed Tilapias

12.
Craft 6 Wooden Aroma Bottles (Island)
Harvest 8 Guelder Rose Berries
Prepare 8 Guelder Rose Jelly

Reward: Island Gift Box

13.
Produce 30 Chestnut Flour (Island)
Produce 30 Dried Lemons (Island)
Prepare 8 Fried Eggplant Rolls

14.
Produce 60 Lily Essential Oil
(Island)
Produce 15 Lemon Tea (Island)
Produce 8 Pirog Pies

15.
Craft 6 Lily Aroma Bottles
Produce 30 Cinnamon Bread 
Prepare 8 Guelder Rose Pirog Pies

16.
Cook 4 Spaceship Cakes in the Stovehouse
Tend Flowers in Botanical Garden 15 times
Prepare 8 Pepper Tilapia Soup

Final Reward: Lucky Tiger Decoration for Seaside


10 January 2022

Tips for Beginners in Animal Crossing New Horizons

A neighbour in Seaside sent me a message to thank me for recommending this game.  I feel that, having recommended it, I should give some simple tips for a beginner.

She asked for help with Friend Codes, so I promised I would post instructions about that.

I have a surgical procedure this week, so may not be able to publish much more until that has bern completed.

First of all, my life in New Horizons was enriched immensely by my friend Cherie who gave me the game and then shared rare items with me.  A year and a half later, I am in a position to help others.

Catalogue

Unlike Seaside, once you buy the game, all updates and new items and options are free.  This, for me, is extraordinarily positive.  Seaside appears to release more and more oremium items each month.  The price is becoming untenable for many, including me.  I am the sort of player who strives for 100% collection.  Once, I did have every item in Seaside.  Now, the addition of all the Farm Beauty Contest trophies to the Galkery means one never can achieve 100% in terms of Gallery registration.  This is sad.

Animal Crossing is all about collections.  Items may be inexpensive or costly.  Many are seasonal.  Some must be crafted.  Others appear randomly in Nook's Shop.  You never have to pay with real money, however.  The currency is Bells.

What is helpful is having friends who own the items you want.  If your friend drops them on the ground (where they appear as green leaves), you can pick them up and drop them again to add them to your own Catalogue.  What this means is that you can order them at any time.  This is one benefit of having friends.

Friend Invites are the way to add friends in Animal Crossing.  I will give you detailed instructions here so you can find your Friend Code.

First, go to the Home Screen on your Switch.  You will find three sets of icons there.

At the very top are little round icons that represents all the users on the Switch.  Find the icon that represents you, and tap the A button.

This opens a pull down menu.  Find Profile at the top of this menu and press A.

This will open what sometimes is known as your Passport.  It is here that you will find a Friend Code.  Share this with any one with whom you would like to play this game.  I suggest you do not share your friend code with total strangers or people you do not trust.

One note here: You will need an active Nintendo Membership if you wish to play with others via wi-fi.  You can opt to pay for a membership for a single month or for a year.  This is the only other cost in real money for playing, and you need not pay if you only wish to play by yourself or with people in your home.

Tips for Beginners

Basically, you begin the game with two clear goals:

1.  Pay off your debt by earning 5000 Nook Miles
2.  Sell items to increase your income in terms of Bells.

Storage is a huge need in this game.  There is no storage in a tent.  Pay Nook his 5000 Miles as quickly as possible to upgrade to a house, thus acquiring storage space.

Almost anything you do in the game will earn you Nook miles.  Harvesting fruit, collecting shells, catching insects and fish, diving to catch sea creatures, talking to Animal neighbours, digging up fossils, planting flowers... all these give you Miles.  You need to sell as much as possible, but then buy everything in the shop to move forward.  Selling earns you Bells.  Buying moves the game forward.

When Nook upgrades, you are able to buy more items and better tools.  

One advantage of having a friend who is a veteran player is that he or she can give you superior tools that do not break as quickly.

A veteran player may be able to share duplicate DIY recipes with you.

Since a major update in the summer, you can pay 1000 Nook Miles each day for a trip by boat to a random island, but although all charqcters on yoyr island potentially are eligible, the character must gave used the Nook Miles Ticket left at the airport by Tom Nook before the kappa will allow you to take a tour.

The kappa islands can be any season, or special islands with vines and glowing moss.  They can be islands with shooting stars in which case you can find a star recipe on the beach and star fragments on the beach and by hitting rocks.

There will be a bottle with a recipe on every island.

N.B.  Every character needs to develop a relationship with Brewster to obtain special rewards.  With Freyashawk, he said 'Happy Valentine's Day.'  When I loaded another character, no special greeting.

Tips about Harv's Cooperatives

It really is worthwhile to open some of the stalls on Harv's Island.

Redd offers two works of art, inter alia.  If you purchase one, he will display another different one.  It therefore is wirth it to buy evrn a fake to get a chance at another piece.

On days when he is moored on your island, his stall will be shut.  Other than that, you can purchase one art work each day.

Fakes will not be accepted by Nook.  You will need to habe a rubbish bin of some sort (garbage pail or whatever) if you wish to dispose of them.  Some of the fakes make great decorations outdoors however.  The Warrior Statue comes to mind as the fake has a sword.

Katrina can give you special good luck items if you obtain a negative fortune from her.  Pay 1000 Bells for a fortune.  If it is bad, pay 10 000 for her to purify.  You will receive a special item in the post the next day.  These include:
Power Stone
Mini Dharma
Golden Turtle

Once received, these can be ordered from your catalogue.

Saharah

Saharah has a number of new walls, floor and rugs.  Her wares change weekly.  It really is worth it.

Although the cost of opening a new stall is given as 100 000 Bells, donations mysteriously given will reduce the balance owed.  Not certain if reduction in balance owed is based on the number of stalls opened, friendship levels with animals or is random.

Tortimer has a stall where you can access your storage.  I jyst discovered he becomes Corimer in Autumn (I am in Southern Hemisphere) and he gave me 5 Acorns when I spoke to him today.

The most important stall is the llama pair where you can alter the colour and sometimes the dedign of items.  This is a total gamechanger.  You now only need one example of an item in your catalogue.  Take it to the llama pair and pay for every variation!  They will customise items from Nook shop, from Miles Redemption and other Special items. 

09 January 2022

AC New Horizons Happy Home Paradise

A dear friend wanted me to have the expansion for New Horizons.  It reminds me a little of Pocket Camp, a free online Nintendo game.  This expansion, however, is not free.  You can purchase it as paet of a special premium Nintendo membership, or as downloadable content using a code.  

New Horizons is fabulous in the fact that new items are inteoduced regularly and you never have to pay.  Once you pay for the fame itself, you are set.  This expansion is like an entire second game, although it will unlock new options ultimately on your island.

For me, the excitement will increase with the seventh home that will unlock the ability to call amiibos to the vacqtion islands.  This gives you the ability to interact with the animals you like best.

Imcidentally, there are vines and glowing moss to harvest and the diy I was given was for a vine lamp.

In the initial stages, you are sent to another group of islands to build dream homes for rzndom animals.  You are not paid in Bells, but in Pokis, a currency you can spend only in Lottie's shop.  Items sold tend to be new ones introduced in the last big update.

The number of dream homes you decorate determines the new options you unlock.  With four homes, you unlock the ability to polish furniture.  With the fifth, you are given a DIY and told a crafting bench soon will arrive.

A crafting bench was ordered, and it will arrive, and you will be able to find bottles on the beach the next day.

Lottie now will hire you to design a school in an abandoned building and this unlocks the option to resize rooms.  On completion, you will be paid 25,000 Poki.

I designed one more house after choosing a client from the beach, and an amiibo scanner was introduced.  Immediately given the option of calling an amiibo if I had one.

Ten houses and they throw a party.  I was given a partition DIY.  An animal gave me a wall I never had on my island.

I noticed items from my own catalogue were available.  Once you use a new item for a Vacation home, it becomes available for other vacation homes.

Prior to this, when I decorated the school, I was given the option to resize rooms.

I was given a job to renovate a café or a restaurant.  Animals randomly go there to eat.

I was given 2 DIYs to create pillars 

After using them to create a vacation home, ome of the resident Animals came to the office, saying he would like a housemate.

I then redesigned his home with partitions.  He shares the house now with another Animal.

Niko wants to perform more DIY.  You need to give him materials:
30 branches
10 Wood

Nico gave me more DIY recipes, pillar and partition.

I was given the soundscape option after sitting with Wardell at the beach.
I think it was the 17th home that gave me the option to design two floors.

On the sqme day, after buying items, Wardell said henceforth I could make special orders for any vacation item used in a home design.  I believe this was unlocked by the number of items I had purchased there.

My 20th home generated another party.  At the party, Lottie suggests a music festival.  She says we need a total of 30 homes and completion of the other facilities first.

Now events occurred thick and fast.  I had a surgical procedure this week, and still dealing with effects.  I actually was readuly to fly back to my Island, but had no chance to opt for that. 

Partly my fault, all of this.   I needed almost 120 000 Pokis to make a special order for a double-edged sword feom Wardell.  I was less than 100 Poki short if the mark.  I therefore was trying to complete one more job.

There was a party, as I had mentioned, with juice and food.

What happened next was that Lottie took a sudden turn and had to be flown out of Paradise to hospital.  

Qe had to hold the fort.  Almost immediately, a little bear named Stitches walked through the office door and ordered a holiday home.

Did this, and found Lottie back in the office.  She paid me 15,000 Poki for completing the Stitches job, and gave me some special food (after telling me her illness had probably been caused by the special food).

Once I had the money, I ordered my double-edged sword and went home.

Items in Shop and in Home Orders

The items in the office shop change daily, as do the Animals that are available to become clients.  If you are really interested in a specific item or Animal, get it sorted before the next day.

Using a Paradise item makes it available for use again as well as placing it in the Special Orders catalogue when you unlock that option.  If you see a rare item in the Orders menu that you like, place it in the house or grounds to add it to the special catalogue.

I am not certain that only items I actually used in designs became available for Special Orders.

The next upgrade event is that Lottie will insist you work on the hospital as soon as you change for work.

At the same time, she announced a new ABD machine where you can exchange Poki for Bells and vice versa.  Please be aware there is a limit on how many Bells you can exchange daily, and they are worth a third of what the Pokis are worth approximately.  So exchange 100000 Bells for about 30,000 Poki more or less.

The day after this, Lottie said Wardell had scaffolding to work on a venue.  After I designed a second house for the day, Tom Nook was with Lottie and said any Nook catalogue items now could be used.

I am not certain what triggers new items in Paradise Special items.  I used some classical pillars to design a home for Julian, but contrary to my hopes, they were not added.  A throne, however, for over 720,000 Pokis was added.

I now was receiving 15,000 Poki to design any home.  Two homes later, Lottie demanded I help her build the Café.  I received 25,000 Poki when I did this.

Nico and Materials

Nico has a list of materials for his DIY projects.  I forgot about this for a time.  I completed his second list today.  It consisted of Clay, Softwood and one other material.

So far, he has given me DIYs for various pillars, but not the one I like, which I suspect is a vine DIY.  

When I completed the 30th home, there was an event with K.K.  that lasted a long time.  Any animal afterwards will ask if you want to dance.  If you say you do, the event will occur again.

Tom Nook the next morning will announce that you now can remodel animal homes on your own island.

The next day at Paradise Nat appeared looking for the school.

He gives a bug lecture and tells every one there to choose a bug from their pockets and set free in vacation home garden.  

Evidently what this means in fact is that insects you catch at home can be donated to Paradise clients to roam in their gardens.

Once I had designed an Art Gallery above the Café, I was given a better title and the next house designed, I received 22,000 Poki because 'the client asked for you by name.'

07 January 2022

Snowstorm Quest and Mug Collection Mission

A new 11 day traditional Quest haa been released in tandem with a Collection Mission.

A new Farm Beauty Contest has started.  Remember that you need less than 200 votes per day to receive the Decoration at 4000 and less than 300 to receive the Avatar at 6000.  It is not really a daily requirement, but if you are receiving that many from your characters, you have no need for neighbour votes.  The increase in theme items benefits you.  It does not change the totals for the rewards.  It simply means that more old itens count for theme.  You always can find theme items in the Lucky Wheel.  If you complete the new base qnd place it on your farm, you get a boost of 9 votes per day for theme.  It is worth doing if you are not receiving maximum votes for theme.  Make certain you have four pets fully kitted out and on the farm for maximum votes from Grandma.

Note from Freyashawk: I have a surgical procedure in the week to come.  It will cause problems temporarily at least with respect to my writing hand.  Prayers as always appreciated.  If all goes well, there may be improvements ultimately in my health, but it is uncertain what they will find until they make the cut.

Thanks to wonderful Kaye for sending screenshots early in the morning.  The typing error was mine.  

Mug Collection Mission
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70 from Oat
50 from Sugar
30 from Ginger Ale
10 from Cherry

Reward: Clove Plant (Collectable)

Snowstorm Quest
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1.
Harvest 40 Tomatoes
Produce 40 Ketchup
Harvest 8 Cinnamon 

2.
Harvest 40 Rye
Produce 40 Rye Flour
Harvest 8 Maple Syrup

3.
Harvest 40 Cane
Produce 40 Oat Flour
Harvest 8 Peaches

4.
Harvest 40 Onions
Collect 40 Eggs
Prepare 8 Peach Confiture

Reward: Mission Gift Box

5.
Harvest 50 Ginger
Produce 50 Buffalo Milk
Prepare 8 Cake Flour

6.
Harvest  50 Spinach
Produce 50 Buffalo Milk Cheese
Prepare 8 Maple Milk Tea

7.
Harvest 50 Rice
Collect 15 Tumeric Powder
Prepare 8 South African Yellow Rice

8.
Harvest 50 Lotus Flowers
Place Clove Plant on the farm (Reward for Collection)
Prepare 8 Chai Toddies

Reward: Lion Pet House Ears

9.
Harvest 60 Peanuts
Collect 60 Peacock Feathers
Prepare 8 Pasta

10.
Harvest 60 Cranberries (Island)
Collect 60 Goose Feathers
Prepare 8 Spinach Salad

11.
Harvest 60 Pineberries (Island)
Produce 60 Camel Hair (Island)
Prepare 8 Crepes

12.
Produce 60 Dried Pineberries
(Island)
Harvest 8 Nitrogen Drops
Prepare 8 Science Cherries

Reward: Island Mission Gift Box

13.
Harvest 20 Chestnuts (Island)
Produce 20 Chestnut Flour
Prepare 8 Bobotie

14.
Craft 3 Goose Feather Earrings
Produce 60 Dried Cranberries (Island)
Prepare 8 Marshmallow Snowmen

15.
Produce 60 Cranberry Tea
(Island)
Produce 60 Pineberry Bread (Island)
Prepare 8 South African Meals

16.
Cook 4 Spinach Lasagna in the Stove House
Tend flowers in Botanical Garden 15 times
Prepare 8 Winter Chai

Final Reward: Cozy Doggie Decoration