Post #1: 24/04/2020
ıllı One month in... ıllı
Hello, and welcome to my very first journal/blog/ramble post on TBT. I've actually always wanted to write a blog like this for my
Animal Crossing journeys, but it never felt like the right time, nor did I feel like I had the right place to do it. With the launch of this new board and all the excitement it has brought with it, I'm hoping this becomes an active part of my AC-playing routine. I can't wait to document some of my days here, and read all about everybody else's too!
(that will no doubt give me lots of envy and send me spiralling into bulldozing my island and starting again...)
So... we're just over a month in now and well into the swing of things. It's fair to say this AC game is not unique in the fact it has taken over my life with its charm-covered hooks, dragging me back in hour after hour. There really is no better feeling than watching your town develop, and I feel like this is especially true of
New Horizons, were we have started from scratch.
I have always been a fan of forest towns, and for the most part they have always been my go-to landscaping style. Notch is no exception, however with its island setting it didn't seem right to simply cover it in cedar trees like I have done in the past with so many
New Leaf towns. This time I've tried to incorporate palm trees, colourful flowers and fruit trees, and a few tropical bushes as much as I can along the way:
It just so happens that the day I start my blog is the day we have our very first thunderstorm! The pluviophile in me is delighted but it doesn't make for great photos, so hopefully I can take better ones at some point. But this is how my town is shaping up so far. I'm excited for the sprouts I bought from Leif yesterday to grow into full-sized bushes. The pics I've seen of them so far make them look great for landscaping, especially the camellias that very much resemble the windflowers that are almost taking over my island at this point. I guess you can have a second native flower after all?
My current goal is to continue landscaping. I absolutely love towns that you get very happily lost in, discovering new things along the way and not sticking to
too much of a preset path, so I'm hoping to have areas of my town that incorporate that. My main town area -- that is, the area in which you were originally bound to for the first few days -- is surrounded by the same shape of river that it has been since day 1, and intentionally so. I have moved my villagers to their own little "neighbourhoods" around the edges of my map which are often secluded with mountains and rivers, and I've kept my main town area as villager-free as I can so I can make this the main bulk of my natural-looking zone. My buddy Dom and the dreaded Hans have their plots in the lower-right of this area, but I hope to move them to a better place soon.
Speaking of villagers and their neighbourhoods, I'm going to make them the topic of my next post -- whenever that may be, and hopefully when the weather is a little better for photos! I feel as though I've been very lucky with my first set of 10 villagers so I really want to show off the little neighbourhoods I've built for them.
I'll sign off here, thanks for reading. Please feel free to comment whatever below, I'd love for this journal to become a little conversation thread. :- )
