The one year challenge

[Punchyleaf]

Ugh the snowballs are so far apart. Is there a guide or so where I can make her perfect??

 

[Paperboy012305]

Ugh the snowballs are so far apart. Is there a guide or so where I can make her perfect??

Thonky is your best friend.

 

[Punchyleaf]

WOOOOAH nice! Thanks for that! It seems I made the body higher than my chin. I roll it around in dirt a bit to make it smaller, right?

 

[Paperboy012305]

WOOOOAH nice! Thanks for that! It seems I made the body higher than my chin. I roll it around in dirt a bit to make it smaller, right?

Or stone.

 

[Libra]

Excited to hear you're restarting soon, good luck with it and look forward to hearing all about your new town ^_^

Well, a lovely user will be holding some of my items this Sunday, so I'll reset after that. I won't be doing this challenge (well, I'll plant my tree on January 1st and I'll try not to time travel too much, but I'll have to, anyway, to catch up the current date), but I definitely will keep reading the posts on this thread. ^_^

 

[Paperboy012305]

Coming over to villager's houses counts to approval rating does it?

 

[Beary]

Coming over to villager's houses counts to approval rating does it?

Any favor you do, I'm pretty sure.

 

[Paperboy012305]

Any favor you do, I'm pretty sure.

Ok thanks.

 

[Punchyleaf]

And I made a snowman TT____TT will have to try again tomorrow

 

[Paperboy012305]

And I made a snowman TT____TT will have to try again tomorrow

I feel your pain, I made one yesterday too. Had to reset and I made a snowmam.

 

[BlooBelle]

I'm debating whether or not I should plot reset... I know it's not in line with the challenge but I vastly prefer my new town's layout and once it becomes well developed it could easily become my main town. Help? D:

 

[Hyasynth]

I never realized that Snowmam could be used as an early-game bell machine. Well, I got her now.
Time to make $$MADMONEY$$

And I made a snowman TT____TT will have to try again tomorrow

Try this guide. I'm terrible with proportions and sizing, and I was able to make a Snowmam on the first try.

 

[Paperboy012305]

OMG! My approval rating is freaking 99 percent! All I gotta do now is catch garbage from the ocean (Save the sea life!) and sell it to Re-Tail. I'll get 100 percent in no time.

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And the first thing I caught was an empty can.

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YES! I did it! Kudos to ME!!!

 

[Trickilicky]

Hey all. Hope you're all having fun grinding away to get that 100% approval rating I'm at 95% and had to take a break!

Spoiler: Taciturn update

Earlier I made a flag which I'll post a pic of tomorrow when I can take a snap in the daylight. I got really annoyed trying to make a town tune earlier, I think I must be tone deaf
Redd is in town, so I snapped up a Worthy painting. As I was wondering around town trying to get villagers to give me jobs to do, I had a great idea what I want to do with some of my map: I'm going to turn the majority of it into a Summer Camp!! I'm thinking totem poles, the campsite, bonfire, torches, water pump/well, log benches, stuff like that. I'm also going to use two alts as part of the feature, I'll keep one in their starter tent and put camping furniture in it, and another alts house will be like a log cabin style and I'll make it like a summer camp chalet with bunk beds etc. I'm also going to turn a fourth alts house into a spa and put it at the top part of town somewhere, and put a fountain and zen garden and stuff nearby. I'm excited to try these ideas out, but I think it'll be a lot of work so I'm relieved I can't TT to rush through it all. Looking forward to meeting Phoebe tomorrow, and seeing who my 7th move-in will be! I'm waiting on a cranky and a smug. Okayyy that's enough for today *pant*

Another long catch up post, sorry!

Mayor Lilou welcomes you to Lunami

Thank you for posting the lovely pics, your new town looks great, I like the map, stair-shape rivers are my fave. You've got some cute starters too, congrats ^_^ Here's to a great year in Lunami!

Ahaha, I know. xDD
Yeah it's annoying but they can move out so whatever~ I'm going to put PWPs down wherever I don't want villagers to move in.

Good plan, I'm going to do that too (if I ever get to 100% approval, lol).

Thanks. I love my map, Cole looks like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck fused together, Bianca is so cute!. The face I chose is my 2nd favorite. Before it was confirmed that boys can have that face I daydreamed that how it would look like if boys had it, then when a new trailer was released it came a reality! I am happy with my town and having a great year in Termina, me too! I only made 2 alts at the moment, Ben and Lexi. And Did ya know? Ben was the first choice I wanted to name my mayor before I went with Xavier? They're mostly mules but I also want to make them be more than a mule -snip-

Termina is looking great, thanks for sharing the photos You've been working really hard! Hope you get that 100% soon (I'm at 95%..I can almost taste it! haha). I love that bulletin board notice, what a great idea!! I'll do one on my board too, and try to remember to keep it up there for a whole year I hope you get along with Deirdre when she moves in tomorrow, her house seems to be in a decent place. I also have Redd in my town today, we're lucky that we won't have to wait too long to donate all four different items of art to the museum and get a step closer to unlocking the 2nd floor and cafe. Oh and those red glasses totally worked on your Mayor

My 6th villager will be Charlise! I've never had her either ^^

I don't think I've ever actually met Charlise in-game before, not even in a dream! I honestly think it's worth meeting every villager, even if they aren't as popular as others. It's not like they have to stay forever, so why not meet a new face? That's one of the things I think I'll really enjoy about this challenge. I hope she settles in nicely tomorrow I'm already wondering who my next move-in will be, lol.

Haha, thanks! I'm not entirely sure how to theme my town yet, right now I'm leaning towards something spring-y and flowery. Even if it's winter now, I figure I'll have my stuff together by the time spring arrives and I'll be able to start redecorating.

What I know for sure is that my mayor's house will have a yellow/white house exterior and a lot of black/yellow furniture with honeybees and beehives as decor. The Honeybee Chest is a must.

Update:
Today's move-in was Fuchsia, whose name requires the use of Google's spellchecker to get right. She's one of the Uchis I've never had before and I think she's super cool, so I'm looking forward to having her.

Love the idea of the bee/insect theme for your Mayor's house! That's a definite must It's hard to properly imagine how our towns will look while they're all covered in snow, but like you say, by the time Spring arrives we'll be almost two months into our towns and more prepared. Have fun with Fuchsia tomorrow, she looks awesome!

Today was interesting, I played for a few hours and near the end of my play session I had only just found the 6th villager plot. To my surprise, it was Pietro. I don't know if I like him or hate him, but he's not in a bad spot so I'll keep him. I spent most of my time just fishing for the museum and selling extras for the 39k loan. Unfortunately, I sold all the seashells for money, and hadn't even started Isabelle's advice, so I can't finish that today. I forgot about my development permit, I'm not even sure what its percentage is. I guess I got really focused on paying off that loan. I'm practically broke now that I paid Nook back, but since I paid him back the island will open up soon, so I'll just have to deal with being broke for a day or two.

Lol I did the same thing, I gave Nook all my money so I could unlock the island quicker! Luckily I remembered to shake trees and look for the bell rock (things which I haven't done in my main town for over a year), and that helped my finances a lot! Hope you get your 100% rating soon, we're all grinding away trying to get it too. Good luck with Pietro tomorrow, I think he's really cute in a creepy way haha, I sort of hope he'll be my smug move-in too

I missed the cut off line to make a town January 1st. Good luck everyone!

Noooo! Don't feel like you can't join in if you weren't able to start your town yesterday (it was hardly your fault either..)! If you started a new one today or whenever, you're still doing a one year challenge, even if it's not the official date in the thread. We're all in the same boat following the same rules, and it's fun to be sharing the experience with others. If you do decide to make a new town, please share with us, we'd love to hear about it

Are any of you folks going to make blogs to record this challenge and your progress during the year? Or are you just going to write in this thread? I'm curious!

Personally, I'm a bit interested in making a blog for my new town. I want to record my progress and updates, and I think a blog would be a nice way to do that. (In addition to writing here of course.) Then all the updates would be in the same place which would be handy. It would be nice to be able to easily look back at what has happened over time.

Only now I'm confused because I have no idea to where I should make the blog. I made a tumblr but I have no idea how that website works. It seems really complicated, haha. I'll have to think about this some more.

So, what do you guys think? If you made or are going to make a blog, I'd like to check it out.

I like the idea of a blog, but Tumblr looks so complicated and I think I'd be really rubbish at it, lol. I did register a username so I might have a play around with it the next weekend I'm home alone and have time to properly have a go. There is a blog feature here on TBT, you could always use that and let us know when you've posted new updates

I started this too. Forgot how slow the first few days are LOL

Lol, that 100% approval grind, ugh! I feel like such a newbie, I'd forgotten so much about starting out

I know I'm a day late, but I didn't want to count myself out of this challenge. I think it'll be good to do this alongside other players!
My mayor's name is Hero (a Shakespeare reference!) of Lumina ("light" in Latin).
My first fortune cookie was the Hero's Clothes, the note said "the land is in great peril, and soon you will be the hero of Lumina".

I love my starter villagers. ^_^ I was surprised that I got such great ones on the first load!
I've already sent them letters, built Snowmam, and set up my hybrid garden. I even got to pay off my down payment with the money rock.

My problem was that I was working too hard to make everything absolutely perfect, so now I'm giving myself time to relax and enjoy the game at a slower pace! Let the game do what it will. No tampering! And no rushing here!

Welcome to the challenge! It sounds like Lumina was meant to be, that fortune cookie was spookily coincidental, lol. It sounds like you're having a great first day, good luck reaching 100% approval! I hadn't thought about the money rock and tree-shaking for such a long time..and now I can't get enough of smacking rocks and shaking trees, praying money will come out! Every bell counts haha. Hope you enjoy your year in Lumina

Even though I'll be a day late, I'm going to try this challenge on my second town!

Good luck, let us know if you find a town you like!

Trying to decide what villagers I want in my town... agh, this is hard! There are so many cute peppies and normals to choose from, all I know right now is that Tia will move to my second town when she pings.
I'm at 87 percent with my approval right now, taking a break because grinding is dull. :{

95% here! I'm walking around like "COME ON, SOMEONE GIVE ME SOMETHING TO DO!" my villagers must be sick of the sight of me by now, lol. Hope you get 100% soon!

Well, a lovely user will be holding some of my items this Sunday, so I'll reset after that. I won't be doing this challenge (well, I'll plant my tree on January 1st and I'll try not to time travel too much, but I'll have to, anyway, to catch up the current date), but I definitely will keep reading the posts on this thread. ^_^

That's great, hope you find a new town you really like, no matter how you decide to play it (no-plot resetting is definitely going to be my down fall, haha). I'll look forward to hearing about it, and if you need any help with anything, just give me a shout ^_^

 

[Punchyleaf]

I'm debating whether or not I should plot reset... I know it's not in line with the challenge but I vastly prefer my new town's layout and once it becomes well developed it could easily become my main town. Help? D:

I would plot reset if you like it enough to be your main. My friend let me adopt my #1 villager and he moved in today right nearby me. Not too close but not too far.

 

[Nemui-Kuroe"]

Ahh sorry to hear that, is it definitely not work-able? I haven't planned too much of my town yet, I sort of hope I don't find someone is right in the way of a future project! If that happens, I'm going to do my best to work around it, or just let them go and hope I meet them again in the future.

Nope, shes right in the middle of my (planned from the beginning and set in stone) forest like area and behind my house near the plaza, its never going to work, awwwh, Molly ):

 

[Trickilicky]

I'm debating whether or not I should plot reset... I know it's not in line with the challenge but I vastly prefer my new town's layout and once it becomes well developed it could easily become my main town. Help? D:

I agree with Loviechu. It's your town at the end of the day, and if plot-resetting is more likely to mean you keep your town, it can only be a good thing. I'm so tempted too, but will try to resist as long as poss, lol.

I never realized that Snowmam could be used as an early-game bell machine. Well, I got her now.
Time to make $$MADMONEY$$

I'm gonna catch me a dung beetle for the museum tonight, and then rinse the Snowmam til February! Great idea you guys $$$

YES! I did it! Kudos to ME!!!

Congrats! What are you going to build first tomorrow? I gotta get my butt back in game and get that last 5% actually, I get distracted by TBT

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Nope, shes right in the middle of my (planned from the beginning and set in stone) forest like area and behind my house near the plaza, its never going to work, awwwh, Molly ):

Aww I'm sorry to hear that, it's so annoying when wanted villagers plot badly, and ones you aren't bothered about plot well! You'll get her back eventually, and in the meantime you'll meet 16 new villagers so, hopefully it won't be so bad

 

[Dewy]

I'm trying this out too o;
I hope it'll be a fun way to keep me interested in the game! Yesterday's starter villagers were Whitney, Nan, Limberg, Joey, and Peck. And Katt is moving in today. So far so good ~ c:

Only at like 50% approval though .-.

 

[Nemui-Kuroe"]

Yeah, think Im going to leave getting my dreamies until Ive put down some PWPs to increase the chanses of them getting a good plot

 

[Paperboy012305]

I'm gonna catch me a dung beetle for the museum tonight, and then rinse the Snowmam til February! Great idea you guys $$$

Congrats! What are you going to build first tomorrow? I gotta get my butt back in game and get that last 5% actually, I get distracted by TBT

Mostly it was my idea to get bells this way in this thread first. I don't know what i'll build. Maybe the campsite, so I can get another villager from it but that's too early for me. Hmm...