• Hey everyone, staff have documented a list of banned content and subject matter that we feel are not consistent with site values, and don't make sense to host discussion of on Famiboards. This list (and the relevant reasoning per item) is viewable here.

StarTopic Animal Crossing: New Horizons 2.0 + Happy Home Paradise |ST|

Reader mode
hey, anyone know what the requirement is for getting the "Be a chef" DIY recipe that unlocks cooking to appear? I want to collect recipes with my 2nd resident too but the terminal doesn't have that one for some reason.
 
0
La Leganto said:
Yes.

They are not that different from the islands that we already have.

I was hoping for something like the island from New Leaf, where you can play in a lot of environmental minigames with people around the world.



You jest, but it really seems that New Horizons was launched 1 year too soon.

I think that was the fact that Isao Moro, who was the director, left Nintendo and so Aya Kyogoku (who co-directed New Leaf with him) had to assume.

I do not remember where I read this, but it seems that he would be the sole director this time. He still in the credits though, in the "Special Thanks" part.
Click to expand...
I think their planned updates for Animal Crossing got pushed way back because of COVID, so the 2.0 update launched way later than intended.
 
La Leganto said:
Weird.

I just bought it with NookMiles.

Perhaps only the main resident can buy?
Click to expand...
I don't think that's it. The villager that was cooking whom I got a a recipe from earlier with my main resident told me to "upgrade my cooking game" so he could share the recipe. So it's just some weird hurdle I need to cross. I've not bought all the stuff with resident 2 but I have all the upgraded tool DIYs from the nook miles shop.
 
0
La Leganto said:
You jest, but it really seems that New Horizons was launched 1 year too soon.
Click to expand...
While I agree with you, if you look at Nintendo's release calendar around March '20 they really didn't have much choice. New Horizons dropped in the middle of an ocean of remakes (TMS #FE, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, and Xenoblade re-releases) and published indie titles (Good Job) at the start of the year, making it basically their tentpole release for the first half of 2020. Plus it was a key release for the "touch generations" crowd being sandwiched between the releases of Ring Fit Adventure in Nov '19 and Clubhouse Games in June '20. Origami King is the next closest thing to a tentpole release (and if we're being honest here Paper Mario is not a tentpole franchise) so they didn't really have much in the pipeline for this time.

My guess is that they figured they could safely get a minimum viable product out the door on time, and figured they could treat it as a service game with updates timed around the holiday events that would add new features/content in addition to the holidays themselves. Which if you read the 2.0 patch notes there's a line "Seasonal events can now occur every year." which would indicate they've removed any sort of server-side gating or whatever which was probably being used to turn on the events as the content was patched in and deemed ready.

Honestly they made the best of the situation they could, however....

Hidden04 said:
I think their planned updates for Animal Crossing got pushed way back because of COVID, so the 2.0 update launched way later than intended.
Click to expand...
That plus the DLC development which was probably handled by the same team since I think that was the case with New Leaf and HHD.

If you do some research into COVID-19 in Japan, the virus didn't really become a significant problem until April like other areas of the world, so that wouldn't have had any impact on the launch state of the game. I don't have any doubt that COVID was an impact but they would've already been splitting their time between supporting/finishing the main game and developing the DLC, so COVID just slowed things down even further.
 
I'm so utterly absorbed in this game once again.

I'm trying to do literally everything all at once. Buying all the stuff I can, getting new vendors set up at Harv's, moving stuff around and terra forming, gyroid hunting, getting new vegetables, getting the Roost up and running, getting my villagers to visit me, selling stuff I don't need so I can afford not bumping up the storage limit just yet, redesigning all my rooms, doing this Happy Home Paradise stuff... and it's all an absolute mess, and I should probably pace myself, but instead here I go... 😩

 
Lep106317 said:
Huh went to Redd's on Harv's Island and he had the exact same stock he had yesterday. I hope that is just bad luck and not a thing where he'll only get new stuff if you buy something.

EDIT: apparently the vendors' stock changes WEEKLY, not daily. That kinda sucks.
Click to expand...

If you buy something from him his stock will refresh the next day. So just buy something every day.
 
E.Gadd said:
I'm so utterly absorbed in this game once again.

I'm trying to do literally everything all at once. Buying all the stuff I can, getting new vendors set up at Harv's, moving stuff around and terra forming, gyroid hunting, getting new vegetables, getting the Roost up and running, getting my villagers to visit me, selling stuff I don't need so I can afford not bumping up the storage limit just yet, redesigning all my rooms, doing this Happy Home Paradise stuff... and it's all an absolute mess, and I should probably pace myself, but instead here I go... 😩

Click to expand...

I'm going to pace myself. Brewster is on the way, but I've yet to visit Harv's Island. Still struggling with what to do with my living room after clearing out the Halloween stuff.

I fear we'll be back where we were in a month's time with people, after a 100 hour conflagration, complaining there's nothing to do.
 
I'm pacing myself as well. I know since I want to collect the new KK songs it's at least going to take 3 months to do so assuming I don't miss a concert so I'm already in it for the long haul. Why rush?
 
shoptroll said:
I'm pacing myself as well. I know since I want to collect the new KK songs it's at least going to take 3 months to do so assuming I don't miss a concert so I'm already in it for the long haul. Why rush?
Click to expand...
Glom said:
I'm going to pace myself. Brewster is on the way, but I've yet to visit Harv's Island. Still struggling with what to do with my living room after clearing out the Halloween stuff.

I fear we'll be back where we were in a month's time with people, after a 100 hour conflagration, complaining there's nothing to do.
Click to expand...
Give it a week, I'm sure I'll have a better rhythm worked out and the excitement of everything will have worn off lol

I've only put a little over 560 hours into this town so far and I'm still making big plans... I did this to myself lol.
 
0
The first week of this game might be the best organic tutorial ever made. It's even more striking coming back a second time to do it all over again.
 
shoptroll said:
I'm pacing myself as well. I know since I want to collect the new KK songs it's at least going to take 3 months to do so assuming I don't miss a concert so I'm already in it for the long haul. Why rush?
Click to expand...
You can actually get some or all of the new songs via Nook Shopping, so there’s even less reason to rush. I got KK Hop the day the update went live.
 
so um are we going to have a thread for the stalk market cause the price of some of these new things are OUTRAGEOUS. I thought my 5.2M was gonna last but I've chalked up 1.5M already in such a short time lmao
 
0
Really enjoying the dlc. I liked Happy Home Designer, but having it tie back into my island in some way really motivated me to actually engage with it.

I've made 10 homes and I am swimming in Poki, hopefully I get more things to spend it on.
 
0
HHP is gonna take me a while to get through since every time I turn it on I’ll want to do regular play session chores… smart way to get me hooked again!

Just finished my second home and went back to the first for a pic. A bit disappointed that the time I spent modeling the outside of my second home wasn’t captured in a pic or anything, hope that changes!
 
0
As expected the cafe is a big nothing. You spend like 2 minutes there and that’s it unless you’re lucky enough to have a character in there, and then you can stay an extra half minute to talk to them.

And the Kapp’n islands are really terrible too.

Love the rest of the update but let’s be real, what took them such a long time is modeling all the very detailed new items, not these barebones new features.
 
0
What the hell. My order hasn’t even shipped. It was not due to arrive until Tuesday night and today I checked my account and…

 
0
Lep106317 said:
Huh went to Redd's on Harv's Island and he had the exact same stock he had yesterday. I hope that is just bad luck and not a thing where he'll only get new stuff if you buy something.

EDIT: apparently the vendors' stock changes WEEKLY, not daily. That kinda sucks.
Click to expand...

I definitely didn't have the exact same stock on Redd today as I did yesterday, though I guess it could be Saturdays thatt it changes on...
 
0
In theory are we supposed to be able to catch bugs/fish from different seasons that we missed on these new island visits?
 
0
Kind of disappointing that you can’t drop/trade Partition Walls. I wanted to use them in my second house, but I guess they need access to dlc to craft them themselves.
 
0
Melba's fairy tale home! She's my absolute favorite, so of course she was going to be my first client (after Eloise).

WrFRpbk.jpg


rEhSFbt.jpg
 
So is the turnip tracker just always a day or so behind? That's still useful, but not as much as I thought it'd be.
 
0
Some good home designs here. Had a lot of fun making one for sproket. He's making a robot army 💪

 
Personally I disagree about New Horizons launching too early. It was already an excellent game in its launch year and myself and many others poured hundreds of hours into it and it was my GOTY. It's a brilliant social experience and I've made some great friends while playing it. But to each their own.

I live in a city with many parks and gardens and I've tried to achieve a similar look with my island. Doing so has occupied a lot of my time, especially the gardening aspect (a lot of my island is covered in flowers).
 
Future entries probably won’t suffer as much as New Horizons did now that they have a boatload of HD assets.
 
The update is absolutely outstanding and, yo, this is superb.

K.K. Bashment, ya'll!
 
0
La Leganto said:
Weird.

I just bought it with NookMiles.

Perhaps only the main resident can buy?
Click to expand...
mystery solved

in order to be able to buy the cooking recipie chef diy thing from the nook terminal, you need to have completed all of nook's workshops (tutorials). I hadn't done the customization thing with resident 2, so not everything was unlocked for res2 which blocked the cooking diy in the terminal from being available for res2.
 
Curious what y’all’s luck has been with Kapp’n islands so far. I always get the same time of day and seemingly the same month. I did get glowing moss and vines once. I’ve left my island mostly as nature on purpose, so having a ton of vines is awesome at least so guests don’t need to bring ladders.
 
xghost777 said:
Curious what y’all’s luck has been with Kapp’n islands so far. I always get the same time of day and seemingly the same month. I did get glowing moss and vines once. I’ve left my island mostly as nature on purpose, so having a ton of vines is awesome at least so guests don’t need to bring ladders.
Click to expand...
My luck has been decent, considering some of the other impressions I've seen.
1st island was nothing special, autumn like home. I accidentally forgot to dig up the gyroid too :(
2nd was late autumn, had falling leaves and a seasonal maple DIY you'd normally need to get out of balloons. I already had it, but appreciated anyway.
3rd (today) was another autumn island but filled with mushrooms, along with acorns/pinecones scattered everywhere. Also had a mushroom DIY.

So far so good.
 
I’ve had good luck with Kappn so far. I got a summer island where I can catch beetles and sharks, also an island where Star fragments were in the rocks. I think every island might have something subtly special about it, be sure to look around and hit rocks/trees. I’ve also found a gyroid fragment on each island.
 
Was playing HHP and decided to access my inventory from the 2nd floor. I was like, what the heck! when some random recipe I had was able to be stored. Now, I can get those up from around my island, behind villagers houses, etc.

Had another egad moment when I noticed a wooden shed I bought was a recipe. Plus, it can be customized.
 
0
Forkball said:
I’ve had good luck with Kappn so far. I got a summer island where I can catch beetles and sharks, also an island where Star fragments were in the rocks. I think every island might have something subtly special about it, be sure to look around and hit rocks/trees. I’ve also found a gyroid fragment on each island.
Click to expand...
Ooh that’s awesome seeing sharks! I’m hoping to catch an Ocean Sunfish through a Kapp’n island. I had caught one on a friends island and then had a communication error trying to leave with it.

No star fragments for me yet, but I’ve been hitting every rock once I heard that was possible.
 
0
Met Marlo the hamster on the HHP. I usually change everyone's catchphrase periodically, but for him being Godfather themed, his "Gabeesh" is PERFECT and if I ever got him, that would for sure stay.

I think my first Kap'n island I got to dig up the new plumeria bushes, but other than that and the gyroids, it's been uneventful so far.
 
0
I love the cycle of designing homes in HHD/P. It can start off feeling a bit overwhelming, but I'll look at the newly opened inventory/the client's wishlist and start to craft a narrative. Seeing those ideas come to life over the course of arranging these getaways is really satisfying. It's like a puzzle I've designed and then solved.

Here are some of my client's homes.

A pottery hut for Billy:
IMG-6403.jpg

IMG-6404.jpg



I imagined that Roscoe is an engineer/producer who gets away from the bustle to focus in his craft on a rain-drenched island studio.

IMG-6327.jpg



Sprinkle's inventory offered two obvious paths: a kind of stately frozen palace for an ice queen, or... ice cream.
IMG-6342.jpg

IMG-6343.jpg
 
Reader mode
You must log in or register to reply here.


Back
Top Bottom