share your discoveries about the new update!

[John Wick]

I've made six items so far.

They don't look too bad.

Love the color customizations, but I'm going to save a few more green pumpkins for that.

I've got over 200 pumpkins. LOL

 

[Dracule]

I've made six items so far.

They don't look too bad.

Love the color customizations, but I'm going to save a few more green pumpkins for that.

I've got over 200 pumpkins. LOL

The grind never stops.

 

[xTurnip]

Currently, September 30th, there's nothing to discover. No DIYs, no pumpkin seeds for sale, no new reactions given yet, no skin and eye colors yet. Those who time traveled to October 1st had the seeds up for sale though.

A summary of the spooky update so far, based from what I've gathered on this thread:

• Growing Pumpkins
  • Pumpkin starts can be bought from Nooks (280) and Leif. Leif sells it for a lower price (140).
  • The pumpkin colors that grow are entirely random. Orange is the most common, green and white are uncommon, yellow is the most rare.
  • Not sure but the pumpkins grow after 3 days(?).
  • Must be watered to produce more than one fruit. Does not need to be replanted.
  • The same color regrows from the same plant.
• Spooky Furniture
  • (Some) Spooky items can be bought from Nooks.
  • Spooky DIYs can be obtained from crafting villagers and balloons. There are 14 DIYS:
    • arch, candy set, carriage, chair, fence, garland, lantern, lantern set, scarecrow, standing lamp, table, table setting, tower, wand
  • I believe the wand is obtained from Jack AFTER you get all 13 DIYs.
  • Crafting and customizing these items require pumpkins. The color variations (and pumpkin face expressions) are limited to the 4 pumpkin colors.
• Halloween
  • You can only purchase 1 candy a day. But you can purchase for more from other islands. So buy candy EVERY DAY to stock up.
  • On Halloween, you can get 3 more Spooky items (flooring, wallpaper, rug) from your villagers. There are other stuff too, but I won't spoil it.
  • Villagers will prank you if you don't give candy.
• The new skin and eye colors are obtainable from the Nook Stop. It is permanent.
• Jack's poster will be mailed to you October 1st.
• Ables and Kicks will sell new spooky apparel, so check those daily.
• At the Nook Shopping app, you can toggle with Y to hide items on sale or not.
• Posters of villagers YOU HAVE NOT SCANNED/INVITED YOURSELF are removed from your catalog.
• I still don't have any idea how to get the two new reactions...

New reactions are from Halloween day!

 

[Fraggle]

So I’m confused about pumpkins. Do I need to plant a batch, spend days watering them to see what colour they are then dig some up and replace them if I haven’t got the colours I need? Then once I do have those colours I can just keep watering the same plants?

 

[michealsmells]

I was about to ask about the DIYs versus purchasable, but looks like that was answered, thank you!

I dont time travel, so its still only the 30th of September for me. Gives me one more day to prep- im so excited!! I might visit some towns already in October early, ngl.

 

[Ginkgo]

Last thing I'm going to mention here but after this I'm pretty much done exploring the update

Spoiler

Once you've collected all 14 DIYs, every villager crafting a pumpkin recipe in a house will just give you the materials you'd need for the recipe instead. You cannot get dupes from them like for every other recipe. This makes farming for them so much more tedious, as you'd have to create a whole new player character to collect another one.

Also, would anyone even be interested in a shop that sells all of the DIYs, the pumpkins and the Halloween-specific items? I was thinking of making a pop-up store for them in Nook's Cranny and run it for a month until the November update, but everything is so easy to obtain I'm wondering if farming for them is even worth it. I'm pretty much done with getting all the stuff for myself now

So I’m confused about pumpkins. Do I need to plant a batch, spend days watering them to see what colour they are then dig some up and replace them if I haven’t got the colours I need? Then once I do have those colours I can just keep watering the same plants?

If you want to obtain rarer colors faster then that's what you can do, yes. You don't necessarily have to water them, after they've grown fully once they will grow back every two days with one pumpkin, but watering them will increase the amount of pumpkins collected from one plant by up to three.

 

[Louise_]

I have done the update but I don’t see anything new

 

[LittleMissPanda]

I'm in LOVE with pumpkins! I can't stop farming them I need MORE! Forget Halloween the update should have been the Farmer's Update with nothing but crops and crop-based DIYs such as Eggplant lamp, Green Pepper chair, mixed vegetables arch/wreath, cornucopias.... So many possibilities!

 

[floatingzoo]

I have done the update but I don’t see anything new

You have to time travel to October for the pumpkins and Halloween items to be found in the shops! ☺

 

[John Wick]

I've gotten 6 spooky DIY's, then nothing.

Back to coconut juice.

Edit. Ah, I just had to go forward a couple of hours.
Back to spooky stuff now.

Has anyone gotten the spooky fencing yet?

 

[Roxxy]

Hate being on wrong time zone. Update happened overnight and now stuck at work

 

[xXJessXx]

Has anybody found out if you can decorate on the fourth level or not? I noticed there was speculation on the trailer whether there was a pumpkin on a lower level or whether it was just some water.

 

[Skandranon]

i gotta know, how do i get the werewolf stuff?

 

[TaylaJade]

I'm in LOVE with pumpkins! ❤❤❤ I can't stop farming them I need MORE! Forget Halloween the update should have been the Farmer's Update with nothing but crops and crop-based DIYs such as Eggplant lamp, Green Pepper chair, mixed vegetables arch/wreath, cornucopias.... So many possibilities!

Yessss! When I was harvesting my pumpkins I thought it felt just like Stardew Valley. (I’ve been playing it soooo much lately). Hoping more crops will be introduced in the future.

 

[moonlights]

had no idea the stuff wouldn't be released today aha so i gotta wait for tomorrow to begin the pumpkin farming etc but i'm very excited!

 

[Skandranon]

So even though you do the update september 30, do u not see any of the new stuff till october 1st?

 

[Sander]

Sorry if this has been answered already, but do we know if the pumpkins are in bloom seasonally like bushes or if we’re able to grow them throughout the year?

 

[John Wick]

So even though you do the update september 30, do u not see any of the new stuff till october 1st?

Yep. October 1st the villagers will start crafting spooky DIY's, Nooks Cranny and Leif will sell pumpkin starts.
Nooks Cranny will also sell one candy a day.

You can get the face paint and eye color options with Crook Miles at RS.

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Sorry if this has been answered already, but do we know if the pumpkins are in bloom seasonally like bushes or if we’re able to grow them throughout the year?

You can grow them all year.

 

[Eureka]

Has anybody found out if you can decorate on the fourth level or not? I noticed there was speculation on the trailer whether there was a pumpkin on a lower level or whether it was just some water.

You still cannot decorate on the 4th level, so I guess it was just some water!

i gotta know, how do i get the werewolf stuff?

Able Sisters starts selling the costumes for the month of October, just gotta check their shop daily!

 

[Sheydra]

sign just logged in and found nothing, no skin tine, eye colors. It did update too.