Today I Learned: New Horizons Edition

[Felix Felicis]

Today I learned that the Nooks Shopping thing is selling these absolutely adorable little lanterns. Blossom Lanterns they’re called and I want so many this darn 5 item a day limit drives me nuts lol. But the lanterns are so cute!! I’m going to order 10

Also the Mario items are available today! They’re so cute too I can’t wait to have a little Princess Peach outfit!

I think I bought more than 30 of these lanterns haha even if I had to time travel bc we just had a few days to get them (and another nice item was available as well so if you only want the lanterns it is annoying)

Accidentally discovered this tonight. There's a chance your character can exit a pipe and land on a cliff. Not sure if that's intended by Nintendo or not.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1367684535501033474

Also, I had an idea to try jumping into a pipe from a cliff, and it actually worked.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1367686984936792070

This is so niiiice ! Thanks for sharing this!

I’m not a time traveller person but I wanted to travel to finished my bridge, it wasn’t today but last week.
I had bought turnips on that week. And move back to current day , I was surprised all my turnips was rotten . I didn’t know that that before.

With turpips, you only can TT in the future, but never in the past, even if it was after you bought them, even five minutes... they will be rotten if you do...

 

[Burumun]

Accidentally discovered this tonight. There's a chance your character can exit a pipe and land on a cliff. Not sure if that's intended by Nintendo or not.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1367684535501033474

Also, I had an idea to try jumping into a pipe from a cliff, and it actually worked.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1367686984936792070

I'm pretty sure it's intentional. Mayor Mori uploaded a video shortly after they were released, since people weren't sure if you could maybe use them to get to the fourth layer without glitching (you can't), and once he realized that was a thing, he tried it to get up there, as well, by putting a warp pipe on the cliff right below it so his character would jump out of the pipe onto the fourth level, but if you try that, you end up turning, so it doesn't work. Someone in the comments also tried it with a better setup than his, with no free space on the third layer next to the pipe, but that doesn't work, either, the pipe just counts as a blocked pipe and you can't exit through it.

There are also people hiding them in the ground by surrounding them completely with cliffs, which looks pretty nice.

 

[Cloudandshade]

Today I learned you can meet player characters inside their houses while dreaming! Not a huge deal, I know, but this is the first time I've seen this. I've only ever seen them wandering around outside before, never indoors! It was cute, felt more realistic

 

[JJB]

I'm not positive if this is a thing or not, but I played this morning at about 7:30, so half my neighbors were still asleep. I had mail, a bunch of stuff I ordered yesterday and a present from Billy.

Got home from work after 5, logged on, and had mail. I was confused cuz I already got my mail. It was from Grizzly, who was asleep when I played this morning. Does that mean that villagers send mail after they wake up for the day? Or did something weird just happen

I had that happen yesterday, I thought I was loosing my mind!

 

[azurill]

I'm not positive if this is a thing or not, but I played this morning at about 7:30, so half my neighbors were still asleep. I had mail, a bunch of stuff I ordered yesterday and a present from Billy.

Got home from work after 5, logged on, and had mail. I was confused cuz I already got my mail. It was from Grizzly, who was asleep when I played this morning. Does that mean that villagers send mail after they wake up for the day? Or did something weird just happen

The items I order from the shopping app are always in my mailbox when I get on around 7:30. The letters I get from villagers always show up after 9.

 

[bam94-]

Today I had Mira make a reference to coffee, asking me whether I have cream or sugar just like Brewster used to. It’s a far stretch, and someone else has probably posted this dialogue before, but still.

 

[WaileaNoRei]

Today I learned that even if villagers run up to you shouting your name, a villager can still ask to leave. Yesterday, I booted up the game to pick up something from someone else’s island - on my way, Audie pinged me to show me a new reaction (God, how many are there!? I’ve been playing since release!) and then I left. When I came back, Static had the thought bubble for moving. I seem to remember watching a YouTube video that said villagers couldn’t move out that day if somebody had pinged you.

(there are 44 reactions you learn from villagers but each personality has certain ones they teach you, including one you only learn when you reach best friend status with them)

only one villager will ask/ ping to move per day and if you reset/ ignore them it will move to a new villager the next day. But they can all ping you many times per day about everything else. One day I think I played three treasure hunts in like an hour. And of course they will request deliveries, items trades, to buy or sell things (I know some people don’t like this, but I love it)

random not completely related aside, villagers can also give your their photo as a reward for the pinged task or treasure hunt. I got Genji’s first and third and Bangle’s third pictures this way! (I gift my villagers a lot and they are my original jock and peppy)

it is such a pleasant surprise when that happens!

 

[Pendragon1980]

Catching garbage does not count for the angling for perfection achievement

 

[The Loyal Rat]

I learned it yesterday, but I found out that Villagers never move out on their own and can only when told to. Even if somebody traveled years, they never move!

Despite playing every now and then since the game came out, I never knew that! I feel waaaaay less stressed about missing a week of playing now, I really hated that feature of villagers moving on their own a lot. I’m really happy too, cause my older sister loves all her villagers but hasn’t logged on in a few months and wants to play again. Glad she doesn’t have to be sad about any of them leaving!

 

[bestfriendsally]

i learnt that you can put uchiwa fan on the wall

 

[MartyFromCherryfall]

I learned that if you sit in the Baby Chair it makes a variety of silly squeeking noises!

 

[imiya]

It costs 10k bells to *destroy* a bridge?

 

[Jam86]

i learned that sometimes villagers will have the same catchphrase, i never knew this

like zucker and bertha both have the catchphrase "bloop"
then candi and violet share the catchphrase "sweetie"

 

[Nooblord]

Something comes out of the bamboo noodle slide when you interact with it. Almost a year with the game and I just found out today.

 

[kiwikenobi]

@Nooblord They're nagashi-somen, noodles traditionally eaten out of running water in summer in Japan.

 

[bestfriendsally]

It costs 10k bells to *destroy* a bridge?

really?

 

[Bekaa]

I can’t believe that, after a year of playing this game, I just now caught onto this. I just learned that you can change the direction signs to indicate museum, shopping, home, etc.!

 

[Cristaaaaal]

Today I learned the villager posters have the same image as the framed photos.

 

[CrankyCupcake]

Today I learned that Octavian has a lot more than the usual thing to say if you give him an umbrella octopus.

 

[GnarlyGarden]

Last night I discovered that campers can ask to move out your most recently arrived villager. I now the most recent will never volunteer to leave, so this surprised me.