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Today I Learned: New Horizons Edition

You can stunt the growth of trees, and doing so causes the trees to not count towards the limit Isabelle imposes.
 
TIL you can get a reaction from a brand new villager. Fang just arrived. It’s his 2nd day out of boxes. I can’t even a gift yet. But he ran up to me this morning to teach me a reaction.

If you pick up some mushrooms that you dropped on the ground, it counts for the mushroom harvesting nook miles task.

The handlebar mustache makes me look like I’m wearing the dog nose. 😂
 
What’s the best way to do this?

To stunt the growth of trees? The best way is to let a tree grow in a spot where it can reach full size and dig it up and move it when it's the size you want to where you want it to be. If near another tree, the other tree will stunt the growth but if it's not, you can put a small furniture it down in the space directly behind the trunk. Vaulting poles are pretty skinny but it'll stick out behind a really young tree. Could try something like a scale or a mug.
 
To stunt the growth of trees? The best way is to let a tree grow in a spot where it can reach full size and dig it up and move it when it's the size you want to where you want it to be. If near another tree, the other tree will stunt the growth but if it's not, you can put a small furniture it down in the space directly behind the trunk. Vaulting poles are pretty skinny but it'll stick out behind a really young tree. Could try something like a scale or a mug.
Thanks! I didn’t realize that something as small as a cup would prevent it from growing. I’ll have to try this trick because I like the different sizes.
 
TIL that you can press Y to kick in dirt and fill in a hole rather than needing to use a shovel, so much easier that wasting my shovel uses haha

You can also just save and load the game again and the holes are all filled. I do this a lot when I'm mass moving flowers and don't want to spend time refilling all the holes.
 
TIL that Pascal will not appear when you have friends over while diving.

I found 3 scallops while she was here and and I can't find any now that she's left. :LOL:
 
TIL that islanders have dialogue for when you interrupt them while they're trying to catch a bug.

I stopped Dom 3 times. Each time he had different dialogue. <-- A link to screenshots. I never knew this because it never crossed my mind to talk to them while they're trying to catch something. Now I think I need to interrupt the other residents to see if there's different dialogue for different animals. 🤔
 
TIL that you can press Y to kick in dirt and fill in a hole rather than needing to use a shovel, so much easier that wasting my shovel uses haha

Im pretty sure that filling in holes doesn’t count towards the use of your shovel. The only thing that takes up uses is digging things out of the ground (fossils, mushrooms, trees, stumps, flowers etc) or hitting rocks. Just digging a random hole, filling holes in or hitting villagers, pavement or building won’t damage the shovel.
 
I learned that it's probably not a good idea to change out more than a couple villagers right before your birthday. It seems you need time to build up friendship points so that they will give birthday items instead of regular items.
 
Today I learned that you can now view your in-game catalogue in the Nintendo Online mobile app. I know this feature was announced in the Turkey Day and Toy Day trailer, but I couldn't remember if/what the official release date of this feature was. No more killing my Pro controller Joy-con to scroll through everything!
 
I've had it for a while, sitting in my storage. I think a friend sent it to me because of my interest in music. But today I learned (or maybe realized is a better word) that the Music variation of the Chalkboard has the New Horizons theme written on it. I feel dumb for not noticing that sooner.
 
today, i learned that if you're fishing on a second-tier level, and there's a waterfall that connects a body of water to a lower-tier level, your fishing bobber will fall down the waterfall and continue on in the lower pool of water.
 
I just learned that your villager will try to guilt trip you so much that they put up a second option to change your mind to give them an item. Sorry, Fauna, you’re cute but I ain’t giving you the campsite sign I’m using for my camping area
 
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