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The Official badge thread

I finally caught one of every bug, I have two fish and one sea creature left to catch :D I also got the gold medalist badge and the balloon popping badge recently!
 
Thanks to a workplace which insists on three compulsory weeks off over Christmas and having to take a week and a half off while my mother had surgery so I could take care of my brother, I've had an awful lot of free time lately and have been putting it to good use. My efforts bore fruit this week. I now have the gold diving badge, gold diving encyclopedia badge and the gold HHA badge which was such a pain in the neck. I was hoping once I quit the Antique challenge I'd be over, but no. It took several days to nudge me over 150000.

The next three in my sights are the gold island medals badge, gold saving badge and gold turnip badge. I'm dreading the turnip one as I don't have access to wireless internet, so I can't visit other people's towns. It'll all have to be in my town, groan. The gold island may take a while as I only do the Elite Scavanger tour. It has easily the most amount of medals in the least amount of time. But I'm visiting every day to check for silver axes, so I'll always be aware when they are running.
 
I'm working towards getting my HHA badge in my first town. Oddly enough I got the gold HHA badge in my 2nd town without even trying. I had just put the entire Pave set in one room and one or two mermaid furniture pieces in another - so if anyone's struggling to get this badge like I was, try putting the Pave set in your house! I'm assuming that's what gave me the badge.
 
I like the badges, they excite my inner completionist.

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Still making progress on the critter catching, streetpass and visits/hosts.

May make a concerted effort at the island coins and dreaming at some point.

Flipped tables over the weeds, spent about a year plucking wilted flowers for it everyday, no idea if they've counted. :L
Does anyone have first hand experience in pulling wilted flowers for the weed badge?
As in they only pulled wilted flowers before getting the badge, to be sure?
 
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Currently have:

Bronze Bug Catching
Bronze Bug Encyclopedia
Bronze Fish Encyclopedia
Bronze Diving Encyclopedia
Bronze Balloon Hunter
Bronze Island Medals
Silver Gardening
Bronze Bell Saver
Bronze Catalog
Silver HHA
Silver Helping Villagers
Bronze Letter Writer
Bronze Village Representative

I've only had this game for a couple of months so that's why I don't have many, but I do hope to get all the badges. Unfortunately, I seriously doubt I will ever get any of the StreetPass badges, because in the two months I've had a 3DS, even though I take it with me whenever we go to the shopping center, I have not StreetPassed a single person.
 
I just started working on badges again--the last time I farmed was at least a year ago.

I have 8 badges left to gold:
Fishing Master (Bronze)
Bug Catching Master (Silver)
Master Diver (Silver)
Gold Badgeist (Silver)
Weeds Sniper (Silver)
Space Traveler (Bronze)
Goodwill Ambassador (Silver)
Esteemed Villager (Silver) <- I have no idea how I don't have this gold yet...
 
Verotten said:
I like the badges, they excite my inner completionist.

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Still making progress on the critter catching, streetpass and visits/hosts.

May make a concerted effort at the island coins and dreaming at some point.

Flipped tables over the weeds, spent about a year plucking wilted flowers for it everyday, no idea if they've counted. :L
Does anyone have first hand experience in pulling wilted flowers for the weed badge?
As in they only pulled wilted flowers before getting the badge, to be sure?
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Someone posted that they pulled 29 weeds and one wilted flower to get the prize from Leif while visiting their other town.
I've seen other post that wilted flowers count so I started pulling them while visiting my extra towns that grow weeds/fruit.
Sally got her silver badge awhile ago doing this.

In my Guest Town Sally the 4th player got her bronze helper badge.
The mayor there is working on her dreaming badge while watching TV.
 
In my main town Player 3 received her gold playtime badge. All 3 players in town have completed that badge.
If I could I would have hugged him. Now I can go back to rotating the 2 side players for the travel/ host badges.
 
These are the badges I'm missing:
Streetpass
Weeding

I'm one creature away from completing my diving encyclopedia. I have a few silver and a few gold badges but I mostly have bronze.
 
I got my silver gardening badge today, which didn't surprise me much. I've been doing a lot of landscaping the past two weeks. I don't think all the bushes and saplings I've been saving up will get me to gold, but it doesn't worry me too much. The gardening badge is not one I plan to actively work on. I'm just going to let it come naturally from landscaping and replanting perfect apple trees when they die.
 
Those badges sure are tough, but the Streetpass one is a whole 'nother level.

I think 100 Streetpasses for gold would have been more reasonable but where you live and travel has a serious impact on the number of Streetpasses you get. Perhaps Nintendo had in mind that you would Streetpass all your New Leaf chums each day and get the badge in a year or so but that just doesn't really work.
 
My theory about the unreasonable Streetpass badge is that Nintendo thought every single country in the world was like Japan: a huge population in a tiny amount of land, with so many people taking the train they actually employ people to push them inside. The only way I'm getting the streetpass badges is if I buy a second DS.
 
Wildroses said:
My theory about the unreasonable Streetpass badge is that Nintendo thought every single country in the world was like Japan: a huge population in a tiny amount of land, with so many people taking the train they actually employ people to push them inside. The only way I'm getting the streetpass badges is if I buy a second DS.
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Yes getting the extra 3DS from my children helped me get the silver badge. I stopped taking my 3DS out after I just tagged myself or got a tag from another game. It wasn't worth it. I wished I knew how the streetpass tag counted earlier in the game. I didn't know it was the players house in the showcase that counted or the first ACNL town opened got the tag. I lost a lot to my spare town in the first year. Opened that one first.
 
Someone help me get back into ACNL I have a new town I have like never played and my old town is gone and I can't get into it
 
I caught everything and got the 3 badges for filling out my encyclopedias :'D
 
Right now I'm working mostly on getting the gold dream badge and on getting the silver badges of catching a certain amount of bugs and fish. I've been keeping track of the dreams (only 30 more to go).
 
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