Nook Mile Achievements - are some overestimated?

[Flicky]

I'm getting to the end of my island design, have a full museum, and one of nearly every fish and bug model, most obtained without even trying, and crafted nearly every item in the game at least once, usually multiple times. I have enough bells to buy whatever I need in the game at this point, and the same can be said for nook miles as well.

But despite this, I'm still missing a few of the major nook mile achievements, namely - the ones for crafting furniture, catching bugs (getting close to finishing it), and, the one I'm furthest behind on: crafting tools. I know I don't have to complete them all, but it's always a great feeling to 100% a game.

I've really taken my time on ACNH, and used trading only when I can't access items on my own island. Yet I'm still massively behind with these ones. There's absolutely no point to me crafting the tools at all - I've allowed mine to break naturally whenever possible, yet I'm still around 1,500 tools short of the 3,000 crafted tools requirement. I don't really use a fishing rod anymore, outside of the occasional catch. Although I'm still catching bugs, there's no way I'll need all of those nets. The others I don't need either.

It just seems excessively high for the sake of time wasting - constantly shaking trees for branches, crafting one item at a time, etc. all for a tool you don't need and probably won't need by the time you've completed all of the others on the list. The crafting furniture one seems just as bad - repeatedly gathering items and crafting loads of the same items over and over again. I feel as though this should have been the DIY funiture, since there are more customization options than there are actual crafting options.

I'd have no problem doing these chores, if I still felt like I needed to, but at this stage, it feels as though certain elements, especially crafting, have been overestimated.


How does everyone else feel about it? Have some achievements been placed too high, or is it that other achievements are too low?

 

[Drawdler]

The one for chopping wood is definitely easy. I could get about 200 pieces of wood chopped a day. I think the final goal for it is 3000 so if I grinded it out it would have taken me only about two weeks. When I realised how many I could chop each day, I still had about 1200 to go, finished it in a few days.

I think some of them being easier is okay but that one is pretty egregious considering the one for breaking tools and the DIY stuff are right near it.

I remember hearing the K.K. one was kinda ridiculous too?

 

[Firesquids]

I agree, some of the final stamps are actually nonsensically high bars, I doubt anyone has achieved all of the stamps through regular gameplay.
I finished my museum long ago and yet I still need to catch 1664 bugs to complete "You've got the bug", and 829 more sea creatures for "Deep dive". For DIY tools I'd need to craft a whopping 2246, for DIY furniture 749.
If you don't time travel KK Mania would take 2 years of diligently attending his weekly concerts to complete (100 shows).
And finally nook miles for miles. Needing to redeem Nook Miles 3000 times seems too high to me, I don't spend my time doing nook miles+ tasks at this point in the game, as I have no real need for the miles anymore so it's extra tedious to grind them for the stamp.

 

[Croconaw]

I don’t bother with the achievements. It’s a nice feeling but it really doesn’t do anything for you. I won’t bother with achievements if they are stressful. I play the game how it was meant to be played. Most of these achievements are impossible if you aren’t actually grinding.

 

[Pyoopi]

I didn't mind the high numbers like 5,000 or 3,000. I think they're fun and mindless. (I'm also really money-driven in the game) What I actually struggle with, is the lower numbers for the "once a day" type of achievements!
Like the KK Slider is rough. Mostly, I forget about him, lol. Or the Smile Isle.

I still look forward to finishing them despite the difficulty as I want to unlock all the passport titles.

 

[Sir Pistacchio]

As a completist, it bothers me that some stamps are in my humble opinion really stupid, in the sense that require too much long to achieve. For some of these, it's seems that the game wants to persuade you to time travel in order to complete them (I've been playing for more than half a year and I never missed a K.K. concert, nontheless I'm not close to complete its achievement).

The game's pace is slow, that's for sure, but these stamps broke the pace, because when you finish all your things in the island there are certain mileage (the grindy ones) still to be done. I think these should be the ones to be completed over time, and not as endgame. It's fair in this way, think about it: if I you play a lot, then automatically get these stamps.

I shudder to image crafting 3000 tools...

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Ah, and Cast Master is so brutal! it requires skills that are not important to the rest of the game. Too many players had trouble with it (me too).

 

[-Blue-]

New Leaf had some impossible ones to achieve like spotpassing. Not everyone is in a congested area. I managed to get gold on a lot of the NL ones, but still some eluded me like the spotpass (weeding/and possibly a few more)

At least with NH's version, they're more possible despite still being a sluggish goal. Neither are meant to be grinded in a week. It's supposed to be something you achieve in the course of the game's longevity. Withholding a lot of the basic game stuff did mess this up for people however, as some burned out long before the updates dropped the locked content and the NookMile achievements that also came with it.

It's kind of a mixed bag overall, but still not impossible like NL's was to complete. I do miss how charming Phineas was when he showed up to give you your badges. It feels a bit more impersonal, despite being done better.

 

[Bluebellie]

The crafting furniture came easy to me because I’m always decorating. I also moved my villagers out a lot, and the Amiibo invites ask for crafted furniture pieces. The tools I know I will never achieve though. I just like to purchase my tools at nooks. It doesn’t really bother me if I don’t complete this achievement though. For me game completion is mostly centered around the decorating aspect. The rest is just extra.

 

[azurill]

Some of the achievements are definitely high but I plan to get all of them one day. I recently got the last deep dive and the last rough-hewn. I don’t mind the fishing and bug ones I will get them eventually. I just catch everything I see while walking around my island. The tool and furniture ones will definitely take time.I don’t craft furniture that often. I no longer buy tools so that I can hopefully get that one at some point. . The ones I struggle with are K.K slider since I sometimes forget to see him and it’a something you can only do once a week. The other is smile isle since my villages don’t ask for many favors.

 

[Sheydra]

Oh my god the Turnip one, so annoying. K.K. Next highest on my list.

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

I think some of them are a lil too high, yeah. I am not even halfway through the final stamps for DIY Tools and DIY Furniture! And forget about the Angling For Perfection/You've Got the Bug final stamps.. A title is just not enough of a motivator to go for those achievements.

Also if writing letters actually meant something in this game, I'd have completed all the stamps for Popular Pen Pal a loooonnggg time ago. I'm only 25 letters away from finishing that achievement but it's such an annoyance.

 

[Mr.Fox]

I’ve only got the tools/furniture/bugs ones left. Just finished Angling For Perfection a week ago. To make the tools one a little more bearable I started making flimsy tools out of the twigs I clean up while doing my rounds. The bugs…I just set a rule for myself that any time I play I have to catch at least 5, so that’s slowly progressing too.

The furniture one…I’ll resort to document stack/scattered papers someday.

 

[zarf]

Yeah some of them are overestimated but I don't really mind. They're a nice distraction to work towards when I'm not in the mood for decorating. There are some I'm not even close to finishing like the K.K. one, but I'm still trying to go for it just because it seems achievable :d

To make the tools one a little more bearable I started making flimsy tools out of the twigs I clean up while doing my rounds.

You can craft nice branches or foxtails and it will count towards the tools achievement. They take 3 twigs or weeds each to craft and you can just dump em all into a trash can afterwards. Still a lot of work but you'll need less materials in the long run.

 

[azurill]

You can craft nice branches or foxtails and it will count towards the tools achievement. They take 3 twigs or weeds each to craft and you can just dump em all into a trash can afterwards. Still a lot of work but you'll need less materials in the long run.

Thanks I didn’t know this . I still need to find both of these DIY’s but it’s nice to know when I do finally find them.

 

[JellyBeans]

I definitely think a lot of them are way above the 'average' you would ever achieve through completely natural gameplay (ie not going out of your way to do the specific tasks required), but I suppose that's part of the fun. for example in normal gameplay i would never care about whether i can catch 100 fish in a row without scaring any of them off, but now i find myself getting unnecessarily frustrated when i do mistime a fish because it means i'm back down to 0. that's one of the hardest ones imo, everything else is a lot more easily achievable in terms of technicality, even if they take a loong time to do (namely anything involving bulk crafting)

 

[Mr.Fox]

Yeah some of them are overestimated but I don't really mind. They're a nice distraction to work towards when I'm not in the mood for decorating. There are some I'm not even close to finishing like the K.K. one, but I'm still trying to go for it just because it seems achievable :d


You can craft nice branches or foxtails and it will count towards the tools achievement. They take 3 twigs or weeds each to craft and you can just dump em all into a trash can afterwards. Still a lot of work but you'll need less materials in the long run.

Same as azurill, I had no idea nice branches counted towards tools! Thanks!

 

[tiffanistarr]

That’s why I don’t even bother with those. If I wanted to grind out on getting points and things, i’d play an RPG where the benefit is actually there. I haven’t done any grinding for them and I still have hundreds of thousands of nook miles that just sit there. Kapp’n being added really made a use for them for a while.

 

[Tulaash]

My goal is to eventually 100% complete the game (100% complete catalogue, all villager photos, all posters unlocked and purchased, every DIY item learned and crafted, every HHP home done, and every Nook Miles achievement completed) and honestly? Some of the achievements are extremely daunting. I remember sort of quitting because I was overwhelmed by the sheer amount of deep sea creatures that I had to catch, and it just bothered me that I was going to have to complete it some day, eventually. I've gotten a bit of progress on it since I had maybe-COVID - I think I started with around 1,000 caught, and since then, I've gotten up to 1,695/2,500 (I haven't been catching sea creatures much lately though, even though it's a good source of bells and I am going to need a lot of those!) My fishing achievement is in an even worse state, at only around 1,600 out of 5,000 - not looking forward to THAT one.

 

[Imbri]

I put those goals on the back burner and just play throughout my day normally. I still have some I need to get completed, even after playing every day since launch, but not focusing on them makes for a nice surprise when my Nookphone beeps at me that I have a miles goal. For that matter (even though I still have the 'miles for miles' achievement to max out, I rarely look at the dailies.

Yes, they're going to take a while, but you know what? I'm still waiting for one last piece to complete my museum. I can wait for my fishing achievement.

 

[Tulaash]

I put those goals on the back burner and just play throughout my day normally. I still have some I need to get completed, even after playing every day since launch, but not focusing on them makes for a nice surprise when my Nookphone beeps at me that I have a miles goal. For that matter (even though I still have the 'miles for miles' achievement to max out, I rarely look at the dailies.

Yes, they're going to take a while, but you know what? I'm still waiting for one last piece to complete my museum. I can wait for my fishing achievement.

It feels like I never get Nook Miles achievements anymore, only daily goals! I need to focus and do a bunch of daily goals myself for Miles for Miles - I think I'm only around 600 there

I also have one piece left to complete my museum. It's that darn Wild Painting Right Half! Just the other day, it showed up at Redd's co-op, but of course it was the fake one, which I've already catalogued!