ACNL released an update called "Welcome Amiibo" and it has seriously improved the game! Let me run you through a few things it added: 1) MEOW Coupons / Campground / Wisp / Amiibo / Items A new currency has been introduced - you can exchange it for bells, but you can't exchange bells for MEOW Coupons.
These coupons are earned by: - completing daily and weekly tasks called "Town Initiatives" - Summoning Wisp with an amiibo (more on him later) - playing minigames from a couple new items (like Puzzle League!)
The coupons can be traded for items at thenew section of your town called the campground. Every day, a different NPC will be camped out in an RV there, with furniture you can order with MEOW coupons. Harvey also runs a shop that has 2 items each day, also for sale using MEOW coupons. Wisp is a ghost that you can summon once a day. You can have him either summon a camper to the campground, or give you a random item (your choice) by scanning an amiibo or amiibo card. What's cool is that they actually released 56 new amiibo cards just for this (50 in the Welcome Amiibo set and 6 in the Sanrio set). Wisp also gives you 5 MEOW Coupons each time you summon him and scan an amiibo. Between the items Harvey sells and the items from amiibo-summoned RV campers, there's lots of cool new stuff to collect! 2) Secret Storage Compartment In the interim before the update, I actually ended up starting a second player file on my main game card just to have more storage for things like gold roses, pictures, etc. BUT with this update, you can now add a secret storage area to your house! Your locker/dressers can hold 180 items (3*6*10) - but this new storage room in your house is a full 360 slots (4*9*10)!!! For me, this allowed me to pull a lot of my clothing and furniture out of the museum exhibits (which were mainly storage for me). I'm still working on what I want my house to look like inside, but this helps sooo much. 3) Villager Management
This is really part of Wisp's functionality, but it's SUCH a game changer for people who want certain villagers in their town that I wanted to talk about it sepearately. It's super annoying having a villager you don't like move in and not have any way to make them leave. I was stuck with Frank (IDEK why I hate him but he irritated me so much) for freaking ever. When you use an amiibo card of a normal villager (not a Welcome Amiibo or Sanrio set card, or an NPC) you have the option of asking them to move to your town!!! And if you don't have a spot for them (10 max), you get to pick who to kick out! That means that if you have dreamies, all you need to do is have their amiibo cards and you'll always be able to have them in your town (even if they move out from TTing or not playing for too long)! THIS IS AMAZING! I used this to get mostly squirrels in my town, and kick out the few villagers that were bothering me.
Overall, it's just a fantastic update that really feels like a reward for those who have been playing for so long and not accomplished their goals yet. Thanks Nintendo! :)
Badge update time! I've gotten a lot of badges since I was last posting! I currently have 49 out of 72 medals (about 68%). Skilled Bug Catcher - Catch 500+ insects Expert Bug Catcher - Catch 2,000+ insects Master Bug Catcher - Catch 5000+ insects (Bug catching is easy but time consuming. Catching butterflies during the time of year they're active is a pretty easy way to do it.) Skilled Angler - Catch 500+ fish Expert Angler - Catch 2,000+ fish Master Angler - Catch 5,000+ fish (I'm focusing more on bug catching right now than fishing.) Skilled Diver - Catch 100+ dive items Pro Diver - Catch 200+ dive items Dive Master - Catch 1,000 dive items (I hate diving. And I have all the dive items in my museum so it's really only for the badge now.) Insect Maniac - Catch 50% of all types of insects Insect Encyclopedia - Catch 80% of all types of insects Prof. of Entomology - Catch all types of insects (I'm only missing one now! Just the scorpion... *shudder*) Fish Maniac - Catch 50% of all types of fish Fish Encyclopedia - Catch 80% of all types of fish Prof. of Ichthyology - Catch all types of fish Seafood Maniac - Catch 50% of all types of dive items Seafood Encyclopedia - Catch 80% of all types of dive items Prof. of Seafood - Catch all types of dive items Balloon Hunter - Pop 30+ Balloons Balloon Buster - Pop 100+ Balloons Balloon Master - Pop 200+ Balloons (I didn't used to carry my slingshot around with me, but now I do. Still, this is not one I work on often enough, so I think it will take a while.) Bronze Medalist - Earn 300 medals from Island Tours Silver Medalist - Earn 1,500 medals from Island Tours Gold Medalist - Earn 5,000 medals from Island Tours (Ugh, these take forever! I don't usually go to the island and you get like 8-12 per tour... So slow.) Backyard Gardener - Plant 100 items Village Gardener - Plant 250 items Gardening Specialist - Plant 500 items Weed Hunter - Pull 500 Weeds Weed Buster - Pull 2,000 Weeds Weed Menace - Pull 5,000 Weeds (I've been really doing everything I can with this. Letting flowers wilt and pulling them, going to other towns that are having weeding days, etc. Still feels like a slog.) Avid Bell Saver - Put 1,000,000 Bells in Savings Wealthy Bell Saver - Put 10,000,000 Bells in Savings Tycoon Bell Saver - Put 100,000,000 Bells in Savings Amateur Turnip Trader - Make 500,000 Bells on the Stalk Market Pro Turnip Trader - Make 3,000,000 Bells on the Stalk Market Master Turnip Trader - Make 10,000,000 Bells on the Stalk Market (I got this by TTing in my second town and visiting there to sell the turnips I bought in my town. Rinse and repeat.) Good ShopperSpend - 500,000 Bells in shops Expert Shopper - Spend 2,000,000 Bells in shops Master Shopper - Spend 5,000,000 Bells in shops Refurbishing Beginner - Have Cyrus remake 30 things Refurbishing Expert - Have Cyrus remake 100 things Refurbishing Master - Have Cyrus remake 200 things (This one took forever!!! But I just stuck with it and finally got it.) Catalog Maniac Bronze - Complete 20% of the catalog Catalog Maniac Silver - Complete 50% of the catalog Catalog Maniac Gold - Complete 80% of the catalog Happy Homer Bronze - Earn 50,000 points with HHA Happy Homer Silver - Earn 100,000 points with HHA Happy Homer Gold - Earn 150,000 points with HHA (Basically I just bought a few sets of furniture and completely refurnished my house and then I got it.) K.K. Slider Fan - See K.K. Slider live 20 times K.K. Slider Fangirl - See K.K. Slider live 50 times K.K. Slider Diehard - See K.K. Slider live 100 times (I hadn't really looked into this until recently. Apparently you can get them all in one night if you fill your pockets before seeing him and just keep making requests. I haven't tried yet, though.) Good Samaritan - Fulfill 50 Villager Requests Great Samaritan - Fulfill 100 Villager Requests Town Concierge - Fulfill 200 Villager Requests Letter Writer - Send 50 letters (*of 10+ characters) Letter Author - Send 100 letters Postmaster - Send 200 letters (You have to have at least 10 characters in each letter and I think you can only send one to each villager each day, but this one is easy to get!) StreetPass Beginner - StreetPass 100 times StreetPass Expert - StreetPass 300 times StreetPass Master - StreetPass 1000 times Neighborhood Traveler - Visit other towns 100 times World Traveler - Visit other towns 250 times Space Traveler - Visit other towns 500 times Good Hostess - Be visited by others 50 times Great Hostess - Be visited by others 200 times Goodwill Ambassador - Be visited by others 500 times Dreamer - Visit 50 Dream Towns Heavy Sleeper - Visit 200 Dream Towns Mrs. Sandman - Visit 500 Dream Towns Village Representative - Play for 50 hours Village Leader - Play for 200 hours Villager of Honor - Play for 500 hours
I feel like I've really made a lot of progress! ~ Mayor Blair
