I mentioned last month that I didn’t know what to do after having donated every fossil to the museum, upgrading my house for the last time, and donating enough bells to my town to build a lighthouse. Shortly after writing that I didn’t know what to do, I decided what to do: unlock and receive every “gift” from Tom Nook’s Point Tracking System. For every 100 bells you spend at Tom Nook’s store he gives you one point. Once you get 10,000 points you will have unlocked every gift. Gifts can be exchanged for points, so if you ask for a gift worth 5,000 points you must 1) have 5,000 points and 2) be willing to give up 5,000 points and work back up to it. So in all, you’ll be required to earn 61,300 points, which means spending about 6,130,000 bells at Tom Nook’s store. To accomplish this I repeatedly bought the most expensive item available – a Nintendo DSi Bench worth over 18,000 bells. You can resell it for about 5,000 bells. It wasn’t long before I unlocked every item, and I’m currently working on racking up enough points to receive every gift; I hope to have every gift by… I dunno, let’s say October. (Cool in-game glitch that you get to see after unlocking the last item: The game programmers forget to/chose not to capitalize “kart.”)
After a long day of fruit-picking and fish-catching, I like to go to The Roost, the coffee shop inside the museum. If you talk to the barista, Brewster, every day for a while, he’ll begin to open up to you, and he’ll tell you about his interest in gyroids – the weird little robotic Animal Crossing collectibles that make percussion-like noises when activated. He’ll offer to store your gyroids for you. It’s basically like a little addition to the museum where you can try to collect all the gyroids.
My birthday was in August, so I received a cake from one of my least favorite animal residents.
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I wasn’t sure exactly what to do in July… or the rest of my time in Coolton for that matter. After all, I’d made the last upgrade to my house in May; I’d donated enough money to the town fund for a third bridge, a town fountain, and a lighthouse; I’d donated every fossil to the museum. This left me with a big gap. The next “tasks” to accomplish in the game require a seemingly unattainable amount of money: donate 100,000,000 Bells to the town fund and get a “green feather” (700,000,000 gets you a rainbow feather); spend 61,300 points worth of Bells (upwards of 6,130,000 Bells) at Tom Nook’s store to acquire all the gifts from his point system; spend 4,000 Bells at “Red’s” in the City every week, hoping that the painting for the museum that you bought isn’t a fake (which it most likely is). Other tasks don’t require so much money, but instead are impossible: you can only catch certain kinds of bugs/fish during certain months of the year. All this left me at a complete loss for what to do, so I decided to save my money until I figured out what to do.
Eventually, I decided to save my money to buy a complete living room set from Gracie Grace, that high-class store in the city. The interesting thing about Gracie Grace’s living room set is that the most inexpensive item in the set costs 68,000 Bells; the most expensive item is 220,000 Bells. Altogether, the set costs 1,542,000 Bells, but eventually I got enough money and I bought the set.
While I was saving for the living room set, I passed the 1,000,000 Bell mark in my bank account and received a gold shopping card and V. I. P. status at the bank – although my town doesn’t have a bank, just a little machine in the town hall… so, I guess I’m a V. I. P. of the square foot of space in town hall.
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I’ve made a couple of notable accomplishments in the past month. First of all, I completed my entire fossil collection at the museum. The last fossil to be added was the anklyosaur skull. Blathers, the owl curator of the museum, seemed very excited that the collection was completed, but he fell asleep the second I left the room…
Although the world economy is unstable, the economy in Coolton is great – at least for me. I have started to replant trees after having chopped all of them down, but I have planted very few non-fruit-giving trees and only one apple tree, which means that the majority of the trees in my town produce fruits worth five-hundred bells. Also, since I have collected all the fossils, I don’t need to donate any to the museum, which means that I can collect all the cash from all the fossils I dig up. For these reasons, I’m able to make between fifty-thousand and ninety-thousand bells on the average day.
All those bells were very helpful when I was donating money to the town fund; I have donated a million bells to the town fund. I was given the choice of having either a windmill or a lighthouse in my town. I eeny-meeny-miney-moed, and picked the lighthouse, so my town now has a lighthouse:
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Animal Crossing
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