Hey everyone!! Welcome welcome.
my name's Charlie and today I'm moving to a deserted island. I'm tired
of being around people and I'm entirely removing myself from society to live in the
middle of nowhere with a bunch of animals... So really we're playing Animal
Crossing is what I'm saying. I decided to play for a whole month to see how
much progress I can make with my only goal being to get my dream villagers: Doc, Scoot and
Maple because they're adorable as well as Wolfgang because he was my favorite villager for
my first wild world island and Lucky because he was the profile picture of my best friend on
some online Animal Crossing forum as a kid. Alright, with all that out of the
way, let's jump right into it! To start us off I spent the usual 2 hours creating
my character so it would look as much like me as possible and grueling over the overall unimportant
decision of where I wanted my rivers and docks to go. I was getting super excited once we began
flying over the island and I was hoping that luck would be on my side and I get one of my
favorite characters right from the get-go. Unfortunately I got stuck with these two
losers. Faith, a weird-looking koala, and Boots, a stupid sporty crocodile. Look at
those clothes. Even HE knows he's a clown. After heading to the campsite, we were all given a tent
to pitch anywhere on the island that we wanted. Personally I really liked this ~riverside real
estate~, especially with all the apple trees around it so I put my tent there.
Once I'd finished putting mine up, I felt a little bad. You know, maybe my
judgments on Boots and Faith were too rash. So I offered to help Boots set up his tent and
proceeded to place it as far as humanly possible from my own. Unfortunately, it wasn't possible to
strand him on this little piece of land so I ended up just sticking him in the bottom right corner
near the beach. Similarly I set up Faith as far to the western side as possible in the hopes
that I wouldn't be forced to mingle with her. Then came the moment of truth where
our island journey would really begin. Choosing the name. And we decided in the spirit of democracy
to pitch some ideas for the island. In the interest of sticking with our
grain theme, I settled on ~quinoa~ Distinguished and beautiful,
unlike Isla del Biceps. aRe u KIDDING mE BOoTS?! Literally go back home. Yeah, it had been a single day and I already had
it out for Faith and Boots, but mostly Boots. One of my biggest goals right
out of the gate was to save up 5,000 nook miles to pay off my very
first loan to Tom Nook as is tradition. So I started doing a bunch of things to get
points like taking selfies in front of my tent, shaking trees and posting a
"nice" message on the community board for everyone on the island to enjoy :)
I got myself a fishing rod and started to do a bit of fishing to fill the time. Also look at
this little idiot. He didn't even clap for me. Literally just walked away. Eventually fishing got
boring so I had a little chat with Boots to try and collect some miles and we actually ended up
taking a nice little stroll on the beach together. I was all business though and after a
couple hours I donated enough new fish and bugs to unlock the museum. Instead
of saving my money like a smart person, I also purchased not one but two of
these inflatable sofas for 2,200 bells. I have a problem~ Because I'd have to wait until
tomorrow for Blathers to arrive, I started a pile of fish to donate once the museum
opened and continued working on nook mile quests. One of them was to change up my passport
and I ended up nicknaming myself Unhindered Clown which I thought
was very fitting and hilarious. Here we'll put a nice little
message here for all our visitors. All zero. Eat... eat ur VEGIS. After paying off my 5,000 nook
miles, placing my inflatable sofas, and tossing my extra donations onto the
museum pile, I logged off for my first day satisfied with my work.
*snap* When I woke up the next morning I no
longer had a disgusting yellow tent. I am now a ~homeowner~ Unfortunately though it's at the cost
of 98,000 bells so... I'm disgusted. I decided the best way to deal with my crippling
debt was to ignore it just like in real life so I cleaned up my pile of fish and donated them
all to Blathers now that the museum tent was up. Afterward, I crafted a vaulting pole, bought the
tool ring and then put the vaulting pole onto the tool ring allowing me to now access all the other
parts of the island where I picked up weeds and dug up some more fossils to have inspected. In no
time at all, I donated enough new things to unlock the real museum which would be built the next
day. I really wanted to upgrade my pockets and also save up for nook miles tickets to go villager
hunting so I spent a bunch of time collecting all the shells from the beach and selling them
for miles. While I was doing this I also stumbled across Gulliver for the first time and
helped repair his phone because he is helpless. Once I'd purchased the pocket organization
guide I still had some extra miles in my pocket so I began the hunt for my perfect
villagers. Right out of the gate the first island seemed pretty boring. It just had regular
trees and flowers and stuff, not much going on. But then, I met Fauna. She's cute, adorable, sweet, amazing, perfect. I couldn't leave her behind and so I invited
her to come live on Quinoa with me. Now that I had a villager to live for, I returned to my
island with new gusto and started gathering the materials for Timmy and Tommy to open up Nook's
Cranny. The wood was relatively easy to source but I was having some massive trouble gathering the
iron I needed. With no rocks left on my island, I needed to get some more nook miles tickets to
farm materials there but I was fresh out of miles. This is how I ended up doing my
first group stretching session. My second island wasn't nearly as lucky as the
first in the villager department so I just focused on grabbing the materials I needed and just like
that I'd finished gathering the iron for the shop. This meant that Nook's Cranny would be
up and running tomorrow and I chose this really nice little location for it next to the
waterfall. By the time I logged on the next day, Nook's Cranny had been built and who was inside
but Mabel. She told me that she wanted to start traveling to the island to sell goods and maybe
even set up a shop here in the future! Who knows? WE know. I'll get you to move here eventually and get you
to bring Sable with you. Sable is so precious. There wasn't really much to get in Nook's but I
did buy this candle for the ~vibes~ as well as the recipe for pitfall seeds. Let's just say... I have
some plans for those in the near future. I had a lot more miles to collect if I wanted to hunt for
villagers so I spent that afternoon doing a little bit of everything. I did some rock hitting, some
fishing, watered my flowers, and placed my candle in the exact center of my house. My island was
developing fast and Nook asked me to help prepare three houses for some potential new villagers
and craft a bridge to place on the island. After crafting the bridge, I decided to place
it right here next to my house to link the top and bottom of the island. Then I began to place
down the three villager homes and prepare all the items needed to decorate them. This required LOTS
of apple picking and wood cutting. Eventually, I finished decorating all three of the homes
and although I was excited to get new villagers I was not very pleased to be getting bossed
around by Tom Nook for the fifth game in a row. It's been years. As I was walking around the island the
next day, I stumbled across Harvey. This little mustache dog that,
in my opinion, if you squint and kind of kind of tilt your head a little could
look exactly like Harvey from Stardew Valley. It's the mustache, it's the mustache. The museum had just officially opened so
I collected fish pile part 2 and donated everything to Blathers, grabbing all my extra
fossils to evaluate for good measure and selling the extra ones for money to pay off my loan. I
also splurged on the pretty good tools recipes meaning I could finally water my flowers
more than once without the can breaking! What a great day! While purchasing that, I decided to get the
lattice fence recipe too which inspired me to make a little garden plot with my carrots. Ultimately,
I want to have some sort of cute plant botanical kind of theme where I can integrate the carrots
into the island design a little better. For the time being though, I figured I'd just grow them
and sell the carrots for a little extra dough. I'm gonna say it again, Fauna is one of my new
favorite villagers and we were just chit chatting the next day when she gifted me a bottled
ship. This item gave me a super good idea for decorating one of the beaches on my island.
To do that though I'd also need this bucket. Two of these buckets. Oh my god okay. THREE of these buckets. Also this trash bin. Starting with these items, I wanted to make a
little fishing dock area around the entrance to the island. I'm thinking some planks on the
ground, some railings, maybe a restaurant, who knows? But for now we will make do with
three buckets and this ship in a bottle. Another exciting thing was that one of
the new villagers had moved in and I was super eager to see who it was, but it
just turned out to be this weird bird. After collecting some bells from the money rock,
I finally had enough to pay off my loan, allowing me to upgrade my house once again. While running
around the island afterward, I stumbled across good ol' Red for the first time and swiftly headed
to his little boat parked behind the island. He had the same candle I already own which made
me laugh and also this. What a statement piece. So *bold*
So /brash/ I ended up buying some random painting for the
museum and after drawing some art of my own, I'd finished for the day. On the sixth day, I decided
to hop onto my island at night because there were lots of different bugs and fish and such depending
on the time of day. First of all, it was SNOWING. Apparently it was officially winter which was
cool but I was mostly super, super excited to find Mabel hanging out and selling some clothes. Even
though I only had three thousand bells to my name, you know that I purchased three sweaters,
jeans and a pom pom hat. After collecting a couple money trees and discovering this little
dung beetle rolling a snowball??? SO cute. I stumbled across this random villager I'd never
seen before. Also remember that weird bird I mentioned before?? Yeah, well his name is Jacob
and Jacob pulled me over the next morning and gifted me this GIANT vine which I absolutely fell
in love with. This will work SO well with my plant theme but I still hate you Jacob, sorry. Jacob and
I parted ways and I moved on to some of my chores and really struggled over building a snowman. I
thought that the snowballs were supposed to be the same size. I think that may have been how it was
in an old game or something but all of them were very angry to be misproportioned. That's my bad.
That's on me, yeah. When I headed into town hall, good ol' Tom Nook gave me the lowdown on the KK
Slider situation. Apparently, our goal was to have KK Slider, international dog pop star, perform on
Quinoa. And in order to do this, it was all on me to build a campsite, find some new villagers
to move in, and make the island beautiful. And so, begrudgingly, I crafted a campsite and put
it up toward the top of the island, buying myself a rice cooker as a reward. When I played animal
crossing as a kid, I think I remember hearing that having a lot of flowers makes your island more
perfect and you know I would have killed a man to have a Jacob's Ladder on my island so I had this
kind of subliminal obsession with overloading my islands with flowers. Like on my first New
Horizons island, I had so many flowers I stole from island tours that it was actually pretty bad.
This time around I'd like to restrain myself and prevent the same thing from happening I'm hoping
that by saying this I can will it into existence, but from the looks of things I'm already treading
in dangerous territory. By the next day our first villager was visiting the campsite and I was so so
excited to see who it was and when I walked in... I saw this adorable, adorable face. Marshal.
And again, Marshal was not one of the villagers I originally wanted but when I walked into that
tent, I just fell in love with his spunk and his adorable squirrel face and I couldn't help
myself so I invited him to move to Quinoa. Once I change into some Christmas apparel, I
continued building up some plots for villagers to move into and purchased a duster which I used
to harass Faith. I just genuinely don't understand what the purpose of the duster is but I found
it very funny and I was happy to have bought it. After doing a bunch of tasks for miles and
placing a new plot for a villager home, I went on a couple island tours to try and find
some good villagers. Although the first one didn't have a great villager, it did have peaches
which was very exciting because another thing I've always been obsessed with in Animal Crossing
is collecting all the fruits. I don't actually think I've ever done it though so hopefully I
can on Quinoa. The orange is just so elusive. The second island was super super cool and I
got a bunch of bamboo shoots and also found the pink octopus villager. I know a lot of people
really like the octopus villagers but I'm kind of not into them. They just don't really fit
with the vibe of my island I feel. After four unsuccessful islands, I gave up for a bit because
I was just sick of the disappointment. I grinded miles for a couple hours and did a little more
villager searching because I still had hope. Not much but... but some.
I found a money rock island which was cool. I've never found one of those
before, but after stumbling across this specimen, I literally just gave
up. I can't do this anymore. The next afternoon, I realized
that this elephant had moved in? Eloise? I don't like the way her hair looks. I
don't really want her on my island. Look at it! It's just *hanging* there.
It makes me so uncomfortable A lot of my focus for the time being was on the
foundational island developments like building a couple more villager homes and starting the
construction of a bridge to the left side of the island. All my hunting for villagers kind
of distracted me but I realized that the Able Sisters had been open for like a whole week so I
decided to pay them a visit. They were actually selling like the EXACT outfit I wear pretty much
every day. I was super hyped because my character looked just like me but then I got stung by bees
immediately after and I was a little less hyped. Now that I've upgraded my house for the third
time I not only have a massive front room but also another room to the back of my house. I decided to
place a bed directly in the middle of this room. It looks extremely ominous but I kind of
like that vibe. We were about a third of the way through the month and we still hadn't
gotten a single one of my dream villagers so I had mentally revised my goal to just getting one
of them. Day 13 on the island was toy day which meant Quinoa was visited by the lovely Jingle.
Unfortunately, Jingle is terrible at his job so I was tasked with crafting some wrapping paper
and then handing out gifts to all the villagers. uuuuuh hello???? Oh my god, who are YOU!? How long have you been here? I thought that maybe because it was Christmas
I'd be granted with a good villager from an island tour but I was incredibly wrong so
to process this tragedy and to get miles I decided to partake in a group stretching
session. Everybody was there, even Jingle, which kind of made me laugh. Like, don't you have
a job to do? Why are you just stretching with us? I also decided to change my town
tune to the Gerudo Valley theme for no particular reason and also changed my flag. There!! Look at THAT
It's a plate of Quinoa. It is truly my ~magnum opus~
To further get into the Christmas spirit I hung these stockings in the middle
of this empty wall and then created a little post to remember the day by. At this point, I'd
mentally given up on having good villagers and I felt betrayed by the Christmas spirit but when
I entered the campsite the day after Christmas, something AMAZING happened. *pure shock and joy*
OH MY GOD. oh my god.
OH MY GOD NO WAY
For some reason though I wasn't able to invite him to move on my island
which got me really scared. I checked around the area so I knew there was one plot open but
for some reason it just wasn't happening. After talking with him over and over for like
two minutes straight though it finally happened. I had a dream last night I moved to this island
and you and I were hanging out just like THIS!? It was so real what do you think it means? I think it means you're moving here. wait WHAT!?
After playing card games for over 10 minutes and winning a bathrobe
as well as a stereo, I was starting to lose hope You know how sometimes you just feel at home in
a place well I'm feeling like that right now!! Okay, okay, let's run with that feeling. OHH YOU'RE KIDDING ME Oh. My. Frick.
I want to ~screm~ I drew my card, what color do
you think it is? Red or black It's gotta be black. It just has
to be black. I swear to frickin' god if I get this wrong and I have
to stand here for another twenty-- WOOOHOOOHOOOO
*jammin'* I take back EVERYTHING I said. I believe in
Jingle and I believe in Christmas miracles and I've never been more happy in my life. Look
at how cute! That little hat the squishy jacket. I love you, Wolfgang <3 After putting together a perfect snowman I
started to do some island hopping and found this little monkey Deli who I thought
was very cute but not cute enough. Defeated, I spent the afternoon collecting a
bunch of shells I could pawn off to get bells for the bridge donation. The next day was New
Year's Eve and I'd never seen the New Year's Eve celebration in Animal Crossing before so I
was super excited. There was a MASSIVE countdown clock in the middle of town square and I
had my celebratory hat on so I was ready. Before the countdown, I pretty much just
bumbled around the island and stocked up on the Christmas ornaments just in case I
needed them for any crafting in the future. Goodbye 2021, hello 2022! 7 6 5 4 ~ungh~ 3 ~ungh~ 2 ~ungh~ 1 YAAAAY happy new year!!! This is so cute! May this year hold exciting adventures for us all! This video is definitely not coming out anytime
near the new year but happy new year anyway! On the first day of 2022, THE KK Slider said that
he wanted to visit Quinoa. My island however was a hot mess and I couldn't let KK Slider see it in
this state so I spent the entire day preparing. To begin with, I fenced in all the terrible
villagers starting with dumb Faith. I also spent like hours making some
really bad planks and water puddles. Definitely gonna need to find some better
custom ones online but for now they'll do. ALSO big news, I happened to run into Paddy
while I was decorating the island and she said she wanted to move out which was such good
news! I need better villagers ASAP. I knew there was another villager that had moved in as
well so I decided to stop by and see who it was. NO NO NO NONONONO no. You don't understand. This stupid freaking
gorilla Al was on my first new horizons island and I literally could not stand him. I want to
cry right now. Here is one of the posts from my notice board on the island I referenced.
Yeah, I was not thrilled. But that's okay, it's 2022. New year, new me. I decided to
partake in some calming activities to take my mind off it. I built a snowman,
donated more bells for the bridge, fished a little, decorated...
and then began to plan MY REVENGE. First, I crafted a heck ton of pitfall seeds. Then, I put up fences around Al's house so he
couldn't escape and planted some pitfall seeds right in front of the door. I also decided
to block in ugly squirrel and Boots just for KK's benefit. For some reason though,
even if you fence off their front door, sometimes the villagers can get out and this
was one of those cases. Boots was literally chasing me around it was terrifying so I decided
to bury a pitfall seed and lead him right into it. hehe. loser. After adding some cute decorations around
the campsite, I felt that the island was finally ready. The next day, KK came to the
island and we had a lovely little concert, but my work here was not done yet. No no no no no. Honestly it hasn't even started.
My main objective now was to collect as many nook miles and bells as I could so that I could add
some more bridges and stairs to the island and start actually decorating it. I also realized
that I could finally do one of the boat tours with Kapp'n so that's exactly what I decided
to do. I had never ever gone on one of these before because I stopped playing regularly
before they were added so I was excited to see what different types of islands there
were. The first one was nothing too special but I was obsessed with these little hedges and
ended up filling my entire inventory with them. Again, I have a problem. I also found some
gyroid fragments which I'd literally never seen before but I was still excited to
have them. When I showed the fragment of Blathers he asked me to find Brewster
and I almost lost my friggin' marbles. I loved Brewster SO MUCH. Unfortunately I couldn't
find Brewster that day because I'd already gone on an island tour so I decided to plant a bunch
of the bushes I collected and stumbled across this villager. Look at her! Her name is Velma.
She's so cute but again I feel like she doesn't fit the vibe of Quinoa. However, something
beautiful happened on my second tour for the day. Okay who do we have here?
HELLO!? She's so cute! Welcome to Quinoa Poppy!! I was feeling pretty good about
finding Poppy so I ended the day there and returned the next morning to
set out on a Kapp'n tour to find Brewster. I convinced Brewster to move to Quinoa
and after a quick Google search I realized that if I buried the gyroid fragments and then
watered them they'd turn into regular gyroids. uhhhh is it working?? Oh they're steaming
Okay is that... that's a good thing right?? Because Brewster was moving
to Quinoa to open up his café, the museum was shut down for renovations.
That was okay though because I dug up my gyroids the next morning and decided to put
them in the corners of my creepy bedroom. I feel like it really lends to the vibes. To
finish off the day, I went on an island tour and it ended up being an island filled with bell
trees??? I got a good couple thousand dollars that I could put toward the zen bridge and I also got a
bunch more carrots to plant on my island as well. Did I go overboard? Yes. Do I regret it? No. Not yet at least. Most of the night was spent collecting fossils
and harvesting carrots and fruits to sell. The most exciting thing however was
that the café was finally finished. ooh it looks just like it used to!! I need a coffee. Oh my god, the drawn out coffee
pouring. I can't, this is so exciting. [in the best Brewster voice]
Drink it while it's hot. What does Brewster sound like? dRINK IT wHile IT's-- [nope] Things on the island were progressing pretty
quickly with Nook's Cranny upgrading as well which was exciting news. After selling
some of my extra stuff I headed to the Able Sister to change up my look a little and
lo and behold I found the best outfit to ever exist. For some reason they were selling
this caterpillar costume and it paired perfectly with these green bandages so OF COURSE
I bought it and cosplayed as a hollow knight grub. Sable was not amused but you know
I was and that's all that matters. Funny enough, this day happened to be my
annual remember that Harvey's island exists day so I took a little visit to Harv's island and
there was like a whole campsite thing up here. I have never seen this before but
apparently you can pay a ludicrous amount of money to open up different
shops and stuff so that's pretty cool. Doubt that'll happen anytime this year. Do you want to move yet? Nope, goodbye. Do YOU want to move yet? Nope. When I visited Marshal to return a lost
journal from the ground, he had Jacob over. That. Little. Traitor. We don't fraternize with the enemy, Marshal.
You should know better. I was getting closer to completing the first bridge and I only
needed about 40,000 more bells. Unfortunately, I didn't really have a good source of income
and I couldn't find the tiny turnip lady to participate in the stalk market so I was out
of luck. However, my luck returned the next day when I headed out on a Kapp'n tour
and was greeted by this beautiful sight Isn't it so pretty? I'd never seen any of this stuff before. There
were like bushes and glow moss and vines??? It was literally insane. I also found the
recipe for the great vine on the beach so it seemed as if the animal crossing overlord
approved of my plan for a plant-themed island. I realized at this point that Nook's Cranny had
finished upgrading. Totally forgot about that but it was HUGE now. I went back to what I was
doing after like an hour and finally purchase the cliff construction permit. This is basically
what I've been working up to this entire time. Now I can modify all the land on my island in
any way I want and I had a vision for this little stretch of the island behind Nook's Cranny in
particular. I thought it looked really nice and I could change the bushes for any season too so
it's versatile as well. I continued working on this cliff design the next day and pretty much
finished it up on the right side of the island. To celebrate, I harvested some
carrots and visited Marshal. YES. Good choice. That is
what I'm talking about buddy. Jeez, why is Marshal so popular with the heck? I hung out with Marshal and Poppy for a bit and
then donated the last of the bells needed to build the zen bridge meaning that by the next day we had
our first beautiful bridge in Quinoa. Leif visited again the next day and I impulse bought a whole
bunch of flowers to plant outside the town hall. I really wanted to start growing flower hybrids
because I had a good amount growing on the other side but it still didn't feel like enough.
I want golden roses. I'm not messing around. That afternoon, Marshal taught me to smirk as Leif
looked on and after trying to win over Sable some more, I got a cup of coffee at the Roost and
then added some more gyroids to my creepy room. After building a couple snowmen and talking
to the villagers, I finally got enough nook miles points to purchase the waterscaping
permit. This meant I could now modify all the waterways on the island as well. I ended up
leveling off the river up toward the top of my island and putting down another zen bridge
there because I thought it would look nice. I also cleared out a spot here for a staircase in
the future and then headed to visit Poppy and oh my goodness I'd never visited her house before and
let me just say it is SO adorable and I love it. WOLFGANG NO.
He's sick. You need medicine?? I've got you. I need medicine this is
a crisis. Also your flooring is ugly. Ew this guy is still here!? What the nut? Here you are Wolfgang. I took Kapp'n island
tour and found a SUGAR CANE. I've never seen this before in animal crossing. I also got a bunch
of gyroid fragments so I buried and watered those when I got back home and then planted all my
sugar cane up by the campsite with my carrots. As is tradition, I put my new gyroids in the
creepy room the next morning and then resolve to do better as a person and as a neighbor. I
found an item on the ground that someone had lost so I chatted with Wolfgang to see if he
knew whose it was so that I could return it. "That's not mine. If i had to
guess, I'd say it belongs to Boots" no. absolutely not. How do I drop this?
uhhh I can't drop it. I really wanted to start decorating my island
so I bought a couple path designs with my nook miles and began laying them down. I was
a little too scared to commit though so I just ended up putting them at the entrance and in
front of my house until I figured out my plan. First and foremost though I needed to raise
the money to pay off my loan and finish my other bridge. I collected the apples from all
the trees on my island and sold them along with some other stuff for a good chunk
of bells. When I woke up the next day, Wolfgang had sent me a gift saying he couldn't
help but notice I'd been working hard lately. Like what!?? Thank you!!
I feel seen, I feel heard, I feel valued.
This is why we love Wolfgang. As if that wasn't glorious enough, when I walked
into town square, this angry squirrel that I totally forgot about was considering moving out
and I was like "Heck yeah, bye. See you never" That's a slot now open for a villager much better
than you. To celebrate angry squirrel moving away, I paid off my loan, expanded my house
once more, and then removed the fences from around this property. They served their
purpose. And as if all that wasn't enough, Sable finally caved and started talking
to me, meaning we're best friends now. It's whatever. For my final day, I mostly spent the night
in silence, reflecting on the month that had passed and all the progress I'd made on Quinoa.
I still hadn't gotten rid of Faith or Boots but I'd gotten some great villagers, made a ton
of progress, and expanded my house a bunch. I am now 550,000 bells in debt but I suppose
that's just the animal crossing experience. Overall, I'm really happy with the progress
of Quinoa. Even though I hadn't done any crazy decorating, I was mostly laying
the foundation for the island and getting up to speed with all the features and
that's ultimately what I wanted to do. i call this first month a win solely on the fact
that we got Wolfgang. I'm so happy about that, but there's still a bunch more villagers I want
to get and more things to do so I'm pumped. Thank you guys so much for watching.
I really hope you enjoyed. If you did, feel free to leave a like or subscribe to
the channel, I'd love to have you here! Alright, I'll see you guys next time.
Byeeeee :)
