[ hard mode island ]
I've been wanting to get back into animal crossing for such a long time but I just couldn't find the motivation to pick the game back up. The new island journal event was making me start to consider playing the game again but it still wasn't enough.. but then.. the other day I stumbled upon a new "challenge" that a youtuber came up with to play animal crossing in hard mode. I find that I always get bored of animal crossing so quick because I already have everything at my fingertips through cataloging, trading, etc.. but with this new challenge I think it will make the game a lot more fun and rewarding for me. The first step in the challenge is to obviously start a new island. You have the choice to re-roll for new maps once if you don't like what is first given to you but I went with one of my first options.
The next step in your new island journey is to come up with your island name except you don't have full control over your name because your island name needs to come from a random name generator.. (how many times do you think I can say the word "name" in a sentence?) I went with the name I liked most from the first generated list which ended up being Penrith!
After landing at the island and getting acquainted with my new surroundings, it was time to find a spot for my tent! There was a cute area in the south-east corner of the map with a little pond that I thought was the perfect place.. I, then, checked on my new neighbors Bill and Flo to see if they were having any trouble finding their places to call home. Another part of the challenge is that you can't let one of your starters move out until you receive their photo so I think I'm going to choose Bill for that task.. Once we were all happy with our choices it was time to start the grind to get our museum open!
Within a couple of hours we had gathered enough fish and bugs for Blather's to decide that he wanted to set up a museum on our new island! Bill was even out fishing to help too. We were starting to get a nice stock-pile of creatures to donate to the museum once it becomes open. Leftover bugs can only be sold to Flick and leftover fish can only be sold to CJ so my island will probably be stuck looking like a messy aquarium outside for a while..
All throughout the time that I was out fishing, catching bugs, and gathering materials I had been racking up some nook miles. I was able to earn enough to pay off my first loan to Tom Nook! I'll be out of my tent and in a nice, new house by tomorrow! After running around all day it was time for some much needed rest! I climbed into my tent to enjoy my last (and only) night of sleeping in a tent before I'd have a brand new place to call home!
After landing at the island and getting acquainted with my new surroundings, it was time to find a spot for my tent! There was a cute area in the south-east corner of the map with a little pond that I thought was the perfect place.. I, then, checked on my new neighbors Bill and Flo to see if they were having any trouble finding their places to call home. Another part of the challenge is that you can't let one of your starters move out until you receive their photo so I think I'm going to choose Bill for that task.. Once we were all happy with our choices it was time to start the grind to get our museum open!
Within a couple of hours we had gathered enough fish and bugs for Blather's to decide that he wanted to set up a museum on our new island! Bill was even out fishing to help too. We were starting to get a nice stock-pile of creatures to donate to the museum once it becomes open. Leftover bugs can only be sold to Flick and leftover fish can only be sold to CJ so my island will probably be stuck looking like a messy aquarium outside for a while..
All throughout the time that I was out fishing, catching bugs, and gathering materials I had been racking up some nook miles. I was able to earn enough to pay off my first loan to Tom Nook! I'll be out of my tent and in a nice, new house by tomorrow! After running around all day it was time for some much needed rest! I climbed into my tent to enjoy my last (and only) night of sleeping in a tent before I'd have a brand new place to call home!
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