Reaching New Horizons

Each day has a full tv schedule with 3-4 weather forecasts! If you turn your tv on at 6:30pm it’ll show you the weather for the next day!

If you thought sea bass were bad it’s about to get worse!! Sea bass only have a medium occurrence rate! Next month (may) horse mackerel have the highest possible occurrence rate! :)

Some fish and bugs won’t start appearing until you’ve caught a certain number of other fish/bugs! To be able to obtain every species you need to have caught 100 fish and 100 bugs!

The price fluctuations for turnips fall into one of four patterns (and you can use the current weeks pattern to predict the nexts):

Normal: the price will rise and fall slightly but won’t change much

Sudden spike: at a random point in the week the price will rise drastically then fall immediately

Gradual decline: price will slowly fall throughout the week

Hi everyone! Today I discovered that in Animal Crossing New Horizons there is a 130 design limit to the number you can have shared/posted to your creator code! And deleting a posted designs from your creator code means that the code is no longer valid. This is really really frustrating and limiting to people like me who LOVE creating and sharing designs with you all!

If you don’t mind, if you could call the @nintendo​ service line, 1(800) 255-3700, and kindly ask their customer support to log feedback about removing the limit/increasing the number you can share.

Keep in mind that these people are there to help you and listen to your feedback and don’t have any control what the developers do/don’t do! Be kind and considerate! 

If you are like me, a script might be helpful!

“Hello, good day! My name is _________ and I would like to make a complaint/suggestion/feedback regarding Animal Crossing New Horizons!”

this is where they will likely redirect you to the right department…

“Hello there! I have been playing ACNH and have really been enjoying _____. However, today I discovered that in Animal Crossing New Horizons there is a 130 design limit to the designs you can have posted to your creator code! And deleting designs from your creator code means that the code is no longer valid. I am calling to suggest that you remove the limit or at least increase the number you can share and let people post more! Thank you so much for your time.” 

If you want to include an anecdote/example, I myself created over 300 unique designs in ACNL (not including multiple color versions & skintone versions). All in all I wouldn’t be surprised if I made close to 1,000 qrs.

Thank you to @rainie-crossing​, @pixelvillagers​, & @isa-crossing​ for your help and feedback that I used to build this post!

@genten-crossing​

I owe it 100% to this thread on Twitter tbh! I’d had one after 12+h of grinding (including 7 in a day) and then tried their method and had 10 by the end of yesterday in less than half the time. Since that thread is long, lemme break down what I did.

The simplest way to put it is I stood on one of the lower squares of my island, close but not too close to the beach and just… waited. What I realized during all of this was the following:

Normal balloons will hit your beach at any timestamp ending in 5 or 0. They will not be there EVERY time, but if they’re gonna show up, that’s when.

Normal balloon spawns are based loosely on where you’re standing at 1 minute before any time ending in 5 or 0. I had a LOT of balloons show up directly across from where I was standing at 1 min til, but they could also be up to one “square” (the squares your HUD minimap is divided into) above or below, with the occasional balloon very rarely being very far away.

Balloon spawns on my island would come from the left until 6pm, at which point they’d come from the right instead.

With that in mind, I’d stand near the bottom corner of the map, about hereish per the wonky red dots:

I was doing this at my desk with my Switch undocked in front of my keyboard. I’d do literally nothing else in game other than run over to the beach and check up and down when the time changed to something ending in 5 or 0. At first I was going based on the official time on time.gov (and noticed my Switch time is ~2 second faster), but tonight I minmaxed even harder and just set a repeating alarm to go off every 5 min at ~15 seconds til it was time to check.

Then I just did other things (including make this blog!) with the time in between checks. It took about 8-12h of this to get everything. I got 10 yesterday and the last 4 today, and noticed way fewer drops today than yesterday (I spent about equal time both days!), so don’t be discouraged if you’re not getting stuff super fast right away.

Final tips:

Check ALL normal balloons. Color does not matter. I got cherry blossom DIYs from every color at least once

Ignore the rainbow balloons, they’ll just distract you & waste your slingshots since they only have eggs & Bunny Day recipes. I feel like I saw fewer egg balloons after crafting all the Bunny Day recipes, but that might just be placebo. You basically don’t need to listen for the whoosh at all anyways, except for when you’re checking the beach.

Slingshots have about 30 uses before they break. Bring a few customization kits and a DIY table to your camping location to refresh it so you don’t have to keep recrafting. (Or do recraft tbh, if you’re balls deep in Way Too Many Material Stacks in your small home storage like me lol).

By standing at the bottomish of the map I minimized the amount of space I’d need to check for balloons before I could go back to my camping spot, since there was only a small space below me they could show up (and usually they showed up above me).

PM was a way better grind time for me since the right side of my beach has no river breaks and a pier I could use to check the sky.

Did YOU know that the Nook Miles rewards are island-exclusive? I made a handy graphic so you can share with your friends to collect them all!