make the bottom one a big as possible. You will know you hit max size when the ball is harder to push. It’s noticeable when you start using, you’ll start off pushing much slower. That’s max size.
make the second one just a tiny bit smaller. If it gets too big, roll it over a sidewalk to reduce its size. I’ve seen people say it should come up to the bottom of your ears
The snowboy will immediately tell you it is perfect. If it doesn’t, hard reset and try again. Fortunately, once you start doing the above two steps you’ll likely never have to reset.
The key for me was that I was that I didn’t max the size of the bottom one the first time I made one. Once I started doing that, I was able to make a perfect one each time.
Yeah I used to make perfect snowmen all the time on New Leaf. It is definitely possible to make them perfect at different sizes as I’ve seen it done, but what you describe is my usual technique. I don’t know if it needs to be more precise than new leaf or if I am just worse at it! I didn’t think of hard resetting because I still have memories of Mr Resetti telling me off for that
Nope, but that’s okay! I figured I’d ask in this thread but it’s a virtual item so I won’t lose sleep over it.
Even after reading a bunch of tips online, I had one snowboy turn out wrong just because I got the proportions slightly off, one ruined by a dung beetle pushing it onto the beach, another ruined when one of my townsfolk bumped into it and sent the head onto the body early, and then there was one day where I could not for the life of me find the second snowball.
At that point, I decided I’d just cheat a little. So now my daily routine is:
Visit my town, check the shops, do anything that I can’t or don’t want to do after building snowfolk.
Save, so the next time I re-start I won’t need to listen to Isabelle’s message again.
Attempt to build a snowboy.
If anything goes wrong, close the app and restart it and try again.
I don’t time travel and I’m not a fan of this sort of thing generally… I like to experience the game as it was designed to be played… But I honestly feel like the devs made this a little too finicky, especially considering how much you lose by failing (recipes and materials) and how long you have to wait to try again. The last two days I haven’t actually needed the trick, but I think that’s only because I’ve been able to practice more efficiently.
Not a problem! It’s a good shout to save before hard resetting so Isabel doesn’t keep repeating herself. It’s really frustrating me that it should come to this though. I’ve largely supported the various decisions Nintendo has made even when they’ve not been popular, but when there are only 24 days total and a tiny error can lose one completely it’s just not on.
Same with the balloons really. I only play for about 30-40 minutes a day. At most that’s 3 balloons, most of which float by while I’m elsewhere on the island so I miss them. The ones I have spotted didn’t contain any recipes. Only a week to go until Christmas and I still have 0 recipes which means I’ve pretty much given up on them.
If it makes you feel better, I’ve only seen one balloon with a recipe in it… and it was the same one that Isabelle gave me at the start of the event!
I agree that something is off about the event pacing. In past entries, certain furniture sets were difficult to obtain, but it felt like that was by design to keep you playing the same game for years. But in this case where these things are often unlocked via DLC, the tone feels off.
I also think that the timing of things needs some tweaking. The Easter event lasted ages, my inventory is overflowing with unused Summer shells, but the cherry blossoms were gone in the blink of an eye, the ice and Toy Day events didn’t start till mid-December and only a couple of days apart… it’s just kind of odd.
I know what you mean. I had hundreds of easter eggs. I crafted them all into things and sold them for a cool quarter million. It was around for ages and while some of the recipes were hard to find, they were possible to get.
The Christmas one by comparison is far too short, is timed when work is busy and family life is full so I don’t have the time I did around Easter, and the method of acquisition is to … what? sit by the shore and wait for balloons?
To compare with the ACNL Christmas event, that lasted ages and I got all the various furniture and items just by playing the game for an hour or less every day during December. I certainly didn’t get to the 17th asking “why haven’t I got anything yet?”!
If one of your snowballs gets destroyed, either by falling down a flight of stairs or due to contact with the beach, you can enter a house or shop and come back and it should respawn.
I think logging out and back in will force the snowball to spawn or move to a new location.
I empathize, this whole process could be clearer. I also wish there were other ways to get large snowflakes. I want to make more than a measly single recipe every two days. And it is two days for my partner and I because we alternate making snowboys. So she gets a snowflake one day, and I get one the next. The bonus is that we get two recipes from the snowboys every day, one each. I don’t know why Nintendo settled on that ratio, but it is what it is.
one thing I have noticed is that the snowballs always appear pretty close together. In New Leaf they could be at opposite sides of the map and need multiple cycles of destroying them then respawning them by entering a building to make the close together
If anyone comes across any of the illuminated DIYs (reindeer, snowflakes, tree and present), please let me know. I’m more than happy to provide the crafting mats.
So, given we all only get one colour of each toy from Nook’s Cranny, I’d like to set up a trade if anyone is interested. I have the items below and am looking for any other colour people are willing to trade:
Update: I’m 1/14 for recipes from balloons today. But I’m still 0/14 for festive recipes. Instead of a festive recipe I received a snowflake recipe, a recipe I can get from a snowboy or a bottle. Nintendo really failed to balance this well. You can only receive festive recipes from balloons, but you rarely get recipes from the balloons, and when you do they could be for the other holiday event despite the fact that there two other ways to get those specific recipes, while there is no other way to get festive recipes.
While I don’t need every recipe, and I’m content to wait until next year to fill out my collection, the drop rate for these festive recipes make it so that even devoting your full day to popping balloons may not net you more than one or two recipes over the course of the entire holiday. Nintendo needs to boost these spawn and drop rates.
I don’t live in a swanky penthouse overlooking an urban skyline with gorgeous hardwood flooring, but I do have a black desktop PC and art supplies and lots of books and records. It is more of an emotional approximation than a factual one!
