I've always wondered about the two vacant spots in Main Street in my town... the second floor of the Able Sisters building and just left to the Dream Suite.

Seems like I'm missing something yet.

I think this is it - My adventures in New Leaf are coming to a close! It's been a couple of months and I'm finally starting to get a bit bored of the daily routine. Some of my favourite achievements:

Catching a tarantula on the first night
Made 10 million off the Stalk Market in a single week
Getting the satisfaction of buying the Royal Crown one day and then the Crown the next
Getting rid of Bertha
Finishing the fossil collection (almost twice to get almost all the minatures!)
Understood a few things that the Japanese girl I met on the island said
Maintained a perfect town from the first week until now
Getting the largest house possible as quickly as possible (One upgrade paid off a day!)
Watching Dr Shrunk eat 100 turnips at once
Getting full Mermaid, Exotic and Astro

I've posted a few photos to my Miiverse: Ningam3r

Cat and I just saw the Easter egg that happens when you watch TV specifically at 3:33 AM.

I thought it was creepy.

I got Bob!

Long story short, Ed kept wanting to move out, so I finally let him leave 2 days ago. Checked the camp site everyday since, only now did someone finally stop by, and it was Bob. Kept talking to him for a bit, then he bet me in a random game of rock paper scissors. The bet was if I won, he'd move in. If he won, he would get the lucky clovers I forgot to put away. ..

... If he moves in an area where I think he will... my town across a river is dominated by cats.

If only someone out there could use their spare funds to... like... donate to our fundraisers.

I recently stepped back into the flower breeding game so I could create some super interesting hybrids to surround my flower clock with. With the help of my crazy Animal Crossing obsessed nerd friends I'm gonna be getting ALL the weird colors. I just started by getting my first purple rose this morning~ (And nearly destroying it minutes later because I forgot it was there XD)

Well, I'm still having no luck with the special red rose patch that I started. I'm getting pink, orange, and even black roses, but no blue ones yet. :<

I'm also really glad I changed my ordnance to Beautiful Town- I would've never had time earlier today or yesterday to water all of my flowers. I still miss being able to go to the shops this late though...

I actually have an idea for your flower woes. As you don't need to water flowers if you have Beautiful Town, you should water only the ones you want to breed. I'm not sure if villagers' watering will affect them, though.

Since I prefer having Night Owl, I usually go with this:

If I have lots of time, I water everything.
If I don't have lots of time, I water only wilting flowers.

Switch it back for a day.

I just remembered that New Leaf came out at the start of summer break for us. So now that I'm back in school everyone with the game is showing off their 3 months of work. I don't even have the golden can yet... but at least a friend gave me blue pansies, a trash can, AND persimmons! (Can't wait another month for all the upgrades.) Now I have every fruit!

But I still have to pay off loans for upstairs, the left room, and the back room in my house. Soon I'll make Nook drown in disbelief...

I just got Blue Roses! (I'll go and post a picture later)

Turns out the method I tried worked well for me. It seems that Blue Roses have a lower spawn rate compared to the other flowers that bloom around the patch.

I loved having a birthday on a Saturday. I was expecting some type of birthday greeting like most games, but New Leaf took it to a whole new level for me.

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I FINALLY obtained my golden axe yesterday, so I have nine free axes (some may be used) if anybody wants some.

I'm also already starting to have fun with the houses at school. The block list on the HHA is so broken. You can use it to prevent the same crummy house from repeatedly appearing, but you can't remove someone if you know they have a good house again.

So, I haven't been able to play in two days... No major changes... But I had an interesting guest camp.


Twiggy, You have some explainin' to do...

Also I made a huge apple mess. For the past two weeks, this one tree I have next to the Cafe has apples. I constantly just shake it and leave the apples there. I'm at 18 now~!

Oh, time to post this. Get 'em before Monday!

Source

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Apparently, adding a yellow bench (30,000 Bells) is enough to take my town all the way from "average" to "best town ever". "Vital", indeed.

We should be able to do that tonight.

For some reason, Animal Crossing: New Leaf decided that today would be a good time to take a long time to save and exit.

Took over five minutes to save, and I even thought that the game was having trouble accessing the save data... but, lo and behold, it saved.

I finally found one of those stumps with a rare pattern! Chopping down all those trees was worth it!

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Regarding the crew's monitor, that would be a spotlight item. Rarer stuff appears on spotlight from time to time. Rococo items are typical for spotlight, too.

A little advice: do not miss the salmon or king salmon. They're both only available for this month!

It's Labor Day and of COURSE I'm the only one allowed (forced) to take the day off.

I didn't get to knock down ALL the trees I wanted, but now most of them are gone. Now I can take my monthlong break from New Leaf so I can do other things. It's so high maintenance, like a needy lover you can't live without.
Now (thanks to Cat) most of my music room is complete. It only took a few days to get all the instruments together. But... how am I ever gonna make ALL THOSE INSTRUMENTS fit AND look nice? Oh, the struggles...

I think the organization I have in my room is about optimal for fitting all of the instruments and allowing the ability to play them.

That's exactly what I want. I was inspired by your room when I was buying up all your stuff. But the thing is I don't want to copy you, all my unoriginality is devoted to The Beatles. That's gonna be the real tricky part but I'm determined to make it work MY way.

Try having Cyrus redo them. I know a few of the instruments have alternative colors.

I already had Cyrus make the ebony piano an ivory piano (or "John Lennon Imagine Piano" as I call it), but what I meant is that I don't want the same SETUP. I want it to work like yours but not with the instruments all in the same places. It's already different enough that I have a basement music studio and yours is an attic (I presumed the basement would serve better as an echo chamber.)

Ah, I see.


Hm, I decided again to pick up the original Animal Crossing. I needed to really clean out that house full of junk. I now have three characters. It's kind of funny when you look at it, though. Two houses in the original AC still is smaller than just one in New Leaf. In the original, you get a main 8x8 room, a 6x6 attic, and an 8x8 basement (but you cannot apply wallpaper/carpet in the basement). Wild World expanded that to two 8x8 rooms and four 6x6 rooms, but you could only have one house. City Folk quadrupled that back to four houses with the same specs as Wild World. New Leaf expanded all six rooms in all four houses to 8x8.

I just made a discovery about the GameCube one. You could actually give critters (bugs/fish) to other players by giving them to the gyroid outside your house. That would have been really nice in New Leaf.

I've also caught the customization bug in New Leaf. I've been trying to customize whatever I can get my hands on that's staying in my house.

I wonder about salmon... Now, where does one catch them...

They're at the base of the waterfall, the one leading out to the ocean. In a few days they'll be in the river, much more annoying to discern from the other fish.

Thanks. What about the two missing shops, one beside Dream Suite and one above Ables?

Shampoodle (above the Ables' shop) offers you haircuts, hair dying, and later contacts.

Katrina's shop (next to Dream Suite) doesn't open until you get 20 readings from her. Her shop is identical to her hut.

(Also, if you've already obtained the lovely phone, just place that in your house. It doesn't count towards her readings, but you can get a free reading every day, regardless of if she's there. Very useful if you start tripping or want high luck.)

Hmm... what can I do to get Shampoodle?

It opens about three weeks after you started playing

Have you been playing every day?

A good habit to get into if you play daily is to buy out all the shops along Main Street (the right side). That'll not only meet all the upgrade requirements but will also fill your catalog up with lots of goodies you can order at any time after the Nooklings' shop's first upgrade. (Anything you have in your possession, even if for a second, is added to your catalog. This is simply called "cataloging.")

No update? Yes update.

I finally caught both salmon and king salmon at the base of the waterfall that leads to the ocean. Somehow, it's pretty hard to notice anything because the waterfall and its effects clip the fish.

Also, Kicks' open.

Oh, dang, today was the start of the new "month" for critters...and some of them are no longer available. I think the arowana is one of the ones that is now gone.

September is special. It's actually two separate months as far as the critters are concerned. September I starts on September 1, and September II starts on September 16.

Gone in September II:
Arowana
Crawfish
Eel
Flatworm
Piranha
Sea grapes
Sea urchin
Sweetfish

New in September II:
Mitten crab
Octopus
Spiny lobster
Sweet shrimp

Sheesh, it's been about 2 weeks since I last played. I came back to my town and saw that everything changed color and a lot of my grass grew back.

I've also seen Gracie by the town tree. She keeps calling me a fashion disaster. D: I need to find a guide that shows which themes clothes have.

Besides a guide, check carefully when you interact with a clothing item on sale in Able's and Kicks'. It'll tell you what style they are, right before you get the prompt to buy, try, or cancel.

I'm starting to think they made it so you could tell when a villager is close to giving you their photo. Yesterday I had a scheduled meeting with Mira and decided to wait near her house until that time. While I was waiting, Fauna kept watching me and a couple times got close before turning away. It was as if she was wanting to give the pic, but was too shy to.

Regarding getting villager pictures, the best way to get them is by doing "high value" missions, such as getting six signatures from another town, providing a fruit (give a foreign perfect fruit), or catching a critter (provide something worth 5 digits, i.e. over 10,000 bells).

I haven't played in ages and I'm worried the villagers I spent ages to find will be gone. So I'm scared to go back, making it even higher a possibility that they are gone. -.-

If you do set the time back, change your ordinance to Beautiful Town so you don't have to play every day since then. I personally don't condone time traveling.

Looks like I'm going to see Shampoodle very soon, seeing as renovation works are now on.

I was wondering if anyone has one of those recommendation codes that you get for registering Animal crossing on the nintendo club website, which gives the person with the code a free download of the game?

if anyone does can you send it my way i would be more than happy to trade an xbox card that has a free download of gears of war plus 2 free days of xbox live gold.

hope to hear from you
if you do drop me a Pm

if it sweetens the deal abit i also have a code for Rachet and Clank Gladiators for the Ps3 if you prefer drop me a line with any questions.

Shampoodle opened.

Shame I don't really have the time to go there... maybe tomorrow.

Well, it took a few months, but I finally finished the K.K. Slider song collection!

I'm sufficiently bored, and decided to listen to pretty much every K.K. Slider song that I have.

Funny enough, I love Bubblegum K.K.

What do you guys think of these songs? What do they remind you of, in general?

Looks like all the spooky stuff has been appearing in the Nooklings' shop and at Able Sisters. I believe you need to collect candy to give to villagers on Halloween to get the creepy set (which cannot be reordered).


Another question, though: Who here is still playing New Leaf (like daily), and who stopped playing a while ago? Is there anyone who intends to continue playing it daily (or at least a few times a month to get certain seasonal stuff) past the release of Pokémon X/Y? What about for a whole year?

Personally, I try to hop on every day to do my chores and see what new stuff is available at the shops. Watering my flowers daily gets annoying, and I'm still not sure if I want to set Beautiful Town, as my preferred time to play is usually around 11:30 PM.

I have been playing daily to check out the shops and make sure that none of my favorite villagers are trying to leave, but I have stopped doing some things. I rarely dig up fossils or look for the money rock, and I haven't been to Kicks in weeks.

I have started larger projects, though. I love 8/10 of my villagers as well as their house locations, so I have started installing roads and strategically placed public works projects. Flowers are no arranged with thought, so there aren't just wild flower patches everywhere. In addition to this, I have been trying to get a perfect Harmonious house, which has been great since I have ignored my house for a while now.

X/Y will take up much of my time upon release, but I don't think I'll be putting away New Leaf permanently for a while.

Though I should've picked up gameplay again a few days ago, I'm still waiting to get back into it. As I noted before, the game is very high maintenance. I'll play when friends ask me to visit, but I don't do much in my own town. I'm waiting until around November-December to really pick it up again, I plan to make a full year cycle with it.

And how could I EVER stop creating outfits? I'm like a mini fashion designer~ Fabulous~!

My gameplay with it has been slowed down over the last month or so. I still play a few times during the week for a little bit, but not daily (and it's not just GTA V's fault).

It's hard for me to dedicate some time in doing things in general. I'm slacking off in watering plants and are not bothering with money rocks.

Oh jeez, the fishing tournament is next Saturday (the day Pokémon X/Y comes out). I already remember how annoying and time consuming some aspects of the bug tournament were. Worse, it takes longer to stockpile sharks and other rare fish. You also need a buddy to help with collecting the items.

Wow it sure has been a long time since I have played this game. I guess all my flowers have gone now...

Jeez, I was correct: Pokémon did kill my time playing this game. I haven't touched it since Friday.

I obviously haven't COMPLETELY left. I WILL complete the encyclopedia (and thus will play to get the bugs/fish every month).

Switch ordinance to beautiful and been busy with Pokemon and other new thig sin my life

I have no idea if anyone is still playing this, but the Halloween event was a really nice addition to the game. Looking for Jack while being chased by villagers was cool, and the colorful pumpkin heads look really neat. I missed out on the creepy skeleton but got every spooky and creepy furniture piece, as well as the jack-in-the-box and all of the Halloween clothes.

Oh, and Jock villagers are a lot of fun to scare.

I decided to pull the game out just to see what all my villagers were up to.

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I'm getting back into playing this game. The Harvest Festival seems different this year. Franklin isn't running away from everyone, but he's actually hosting the feast and we need to bring him ingredients.

Important: DO NOT SELL YOUR MUSHROOMS
Mushrooms are needed as ingredients.

Also, does anyone know where to get milk as an ingredient? I have no idea where to find it, and there aren't any cow neighbors in my town. :/

Good luck finding that. Cat did it earlier but didn't learn any secret ingredients until the dessert: vinegar for fish dishes and beehives for pies and salads.

Well, Thanksgiving was certainly interesting. Thanksgiving in New Leaf is way different than what it used to be in City Folk. It's more work...and can be more annoying. You pretty much need to gather ingredients for 4 dishes and you get a furniture item every time you finish a dish.


You pretty much get ingredients from your neighbors when they're in their houses. The only annoying thing is that the ingredients they give you are completely random- like I got 3 flours in a row when I needed butter. >_>


Wait, didn't I give you a Sea Bass earlier?


...REALLY!?


Also, how the heck is this an ingredient!? It was the secret ingredient for a cherry pie.

Just a little FYI:

New Leaf can be safely played in multiple 3DS systems. The StreetPass data for the HHA is connected to the system, so you'll need to reactivate it once connecting to the original system. All houses will remain when doing this.

So I recently restarted my village (it was something of a happy accident, as I actually really enjoy my new town) and am in need of foreign fruits. If anyone is willing to bring me some pears, peaches, oranges, and persimmons, I would be most grateful! I happen to have the Bell Boom ordinance in town and perfect oranges are on premium today, if anyone is interested.

The Harvest Festival was a lot of fun today! I managed to obtain the secret ingredient needed for all four meals, so I was rewarded with a cornucopia, which can only be obtained like this. Life is good in Keerton.

After waiting long enough, I have finally finished both the insect collection and two sets of the fossils (with the second set being mostly in models). I have two fish and five diving critters left.

Edit: Two diving critters.

I've got two bits of news for everyone.

First, I finally managed to obtain a villager's picture, specifically Kyle's!

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Actually played for more than 10 minutes for the first time in a while, so pic dump:


True friends order each other sandwiches.


Kids are evil.


SHOULDN'T HAVE EATEN THAT BURRITO


Fried ice cream...


The two best (and only) Santas in town



Sounds like Jingle was taking some shrooms before he got here.

Do your job on the one day you work? I'd love too! Wait these presents don't have nametags on them...

Aaaaaaaaaand if I played at all this month I would have known what everyone wanted and wouldn't have ruined Christmas Toy Day for everyone.

Jingle should have given away money that way it would have been... Jingle Bells

My brother started to play so I'm picking it up again. This is gonna be fun.

"Say, it's been forever since you were last here!"

I turned on New Lead for the first time in months. All my trees are still gone, so I have to get on with replacing those. Thankfully I never turned off my beauty ordinance so ALL my wonderful flowers are still there~

Better hop in my DeLorean, it's time to right what I have wronged!

First off, I finally completed the fossil exhibit at the museum.
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Next, Cat and I continued our tradition of playing Animal Crossing together for New Years


Everyone has hats!


Though I have best hat.


Cat and I waiting on the final countdown...



Happy new year!


Isabelle is so excited she needs a fire hydrant.

I finally got a 3ds, and the first game I got got was animal crossing new leaf. I played it loads every day, about 3 hours. I then ordered pokèmon x and y and i never have touched it since then. :0

I just got this game, I'm about to start playing it tomorrow! I'm really excited, played AC when it first came out all the way till this, excited!!!