Episode 60: Animal Crossing Review

Topic: Animal Cross Review

We spent a week to let Mom give the Animal Crossing a try.  She actually started atleast a week or so prior to our first episode on the topic, but now that she’s been playing for about two weeks, we come back with more questions and comments about those Darn Raccoons and their plots to steal all of our Bells!

Some Cool Tips

Nook Miles Buy Recommendations:
Pretty Good Tools Recipes – 3000 Miles
This will give you the better versions of tools, upgrades from your flimsy versions you might have been carrying using before.

Pocket Organization Guide – 5000 Miles
There are two of these that eventually come up, but they allow you to expand your inventory from 20 to 30, and then to 40 items.  Which even then, will certainly get filled up fast. The first one comes up after you pay off your house, and once you get the Residential Center, the second one should pop up.

Tool Ring: It’s Essential! – 800 Miles
This allows you to map your most commonly used tools to a ring on the directional pad, allowing you to easily access your tools or put them away without always going into your inventory
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Custom Design Pro Editor - 800 Miles
This will let you develop or make your own custom designs for signs, flooring, and clothing.  Until you have this, you can't recieve or download them either, but once you do, lookout custom clothes.

Nook Miles Ticket - 2000 Miles
These are basically island adventures, where you can catch rare fish or bugs, but also find new fruits and crafting materials.  Occasionally, you might wind up on Scorpion or Turantula Island, which can be very profitable.

Top 8 Pop Hairstyles - 2400 Miles
Top 8 Cool HairStyles - 2400 Miles
Top 8 Stylish Hair Colors - 3000 Miles
These are new customize options for your character, including new hair styles and different colored hair.  If you want pink hair, only way to go.

The Stalk Market
This is an easy, but risky way to make easy bells in the game.
On Sunday mornings, until 12pm/noon, your in game time, there will be a boar named Daisy Mae, who will offer to sell you Turnips in batches of 10.  Later in the week, you can sell your Turnips to Timmy and Tommy Nook, hopefully for more Bells than what you bought them for.

The price for the Turnips fluctuate throughout the week, and change from morning to evening.  You’ll learn the prices by talking to Timmy or Tommy and asking the prices.  Sometimes, it will be for a much higher price than bought for, while others less so.  Ideally, you create a network of friends who are also playing, and trade what the prices for your turnips are.  Price vary, in some cases they go up throughout the week, and others go down.

Alternatively, Reddit, being all Reddit, has a subReddit for people who want others to visit their islands to sell Turnips.  Beware that when the Nook boys are buying turnips for high prices, that it attracts a crowd, so expect long wait times for selling if you don’t get in right away on a post. 
r/acturnips

Get the Nintendo App and Custom Clothes/Designs
Ever wanted to create/import your own unique logo/design in to Animal Crossing?  You can.
Download the Nintendo Switch Online app and register your friend code.  It knows what games you have, and once you install the Animal Crossing addon, which it will do for you, it will give you a ‘mini’ Nook Phone.  From here, you can scan custom QR codes online and import your own images into do the game.

You can get QR codes online or make them yourself in an editor.
Custom Pattern Editor

There’s also a Nook Book of fashion, and once you get the Able Sisters tailor shop, you can download them for free from the internet.
Nook Island - Custom Designs


Talk Show
Someone was a mad man and created an entire Talkshow in Animal Crossing!  Gary Whitta, a screenplay writer for Hit Movies like Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Created an entire Set and has had all sorts of Celebrities visiting his Island.  You have to check it out, because it is a full-on Late Night Comedy Show.