After Eclipse’s castle had its renovations completed I decided to jump back into landscaping and working on new public work projects around Serenity.
I had a number of things on my ‘To Do’ list that I wanted to get done ASAP, the first being Serenity’s official town flag. So, I finally decided to go out of my comfort zone and design Serenity a town flag. I’m not the biggest designer when it comes to Animal Crossing and making patterns but I did like how the Serenity town flag came out, well during daylight hours that is. 😛
I think it looks a bit weird at nighttime? I attempted to do some highlights in the pattern inside the crescent moon and I feel like it appears a bit weird during the dark hours. I might have to do a bit of playing around to see how it turns out. Either that or the shadows around the crescent moon are too dark?
I might play around with it until I like a version of it that looks good in the night lighting.
A New Melodic Town Tune
I also needed to change my town tune as it was some random one from years ago that I didn’t like anymore. At first I changed it to Connect by Claris which is the opening song from the anime Madoka Magica. Puella Magi Madoka ☆ Magica is one of my favourite anime series so it was nice to hear the opening song for a little bit whilst doing errands around Serenity. You can hear it in this clip with Wisp. 🙂
But then I decided to change it to ‘Dearly Beloved’ from Kingdom Hearts. If you know me then you’ll know that I am obsessed with Kingdom Hearts as it’s my favourite video game series of all time. The video game series means a lot to me and has gotten me through some of my darkest times so I wanted to hear it’s jingle as Serenity’s town tune. 🙂
Landscaping & New Public Work Projects
After scrolling a little on Pinterest I saw this pin and felt super inspired to do something similar in Serenity.
My beginning photos whenever starting projects like this are always so chaotic, I like to measure things by digging holes and map things out using designs on the floor. I can’t be the only AC player that plans out projects like this, right? xP
I decided to time travel back into the blooming season for my hydrangea bushes as I was in the middle of July, it made planning out where I wanted each colour to go a LOT easier!
Here’s the outline of all of the bushes added! I love the symmetry it’s super aesthetically pleasing to look at. 🙂
And here’s an almost finished look of the area! I decided to use violets and pink lilies to decorate mostly around this area as it’s a nice break from using purple, pink and blue roses everywhere. :
I’m not sure how I feel regarding the dirt path I used for this area. I kinda like it but at the same time I don’t. I’m not sure if I’ll keep it yet.
Whilst adding trees around this area I spotted a weird glitch with one of the trees I placed down using the RAM save editor.
Maybe the giant oak silk moth was having a bath inside of the pond hehe. 😛
Eclipse VS Tarantula 2.0
I also came across another darn tarantula again whilst I was working on the town plaza area. I managed to catch it before it got me… However…
My 3ds decided to randomly crash after I caught it so I had lost my progress. Not only did I have to redo the entire plaza area all over again but I had LOST that darn tarantula I had just caught. I guess the Tarantula had technically won a second time. But just when all hope was lost…
Eclipse VS Tarantula 3.0
Whilst redoing my plaza due to my 3ds crashing ANOTHER tarantula had appeared. It scurried down towards retail so I swiftly equipped my net. I was super nervous as I couldn’t see the darn thing and I could hear it hissing at me but regardless I still slowly edged closer towards it and swung my net.
And for the 2nd time today I had caught it! I immediately saved my progress so I wasn’t going to lose my progress and the darn thing another time. 3rd time’s the charm I guess!
Eclipse 1 – Tarantula 2. 😉
I have yet to see a scorpion in Serenity. I’ve caught scorpions before but I’ve never caught a tarantula until now so catching two of them today was quite an accomplishment.
Whenever I’ve played AC during the summer months I tend to play the daylight hours to avoid them because they genuinely freak me out, especially when I was a kid. I was always beyond terrified of seeing scorpions and tarantulas in ACWW growing up but I managed to catch the scorpion in ACWW though, just never a tarantula. Maybe I should go back to ACWW for a day and attempt to catch one to complete my museum considering my save file on that game is 20 years old this December. 😛
Orion’s Gravestone PWP
I also decided to place a stone tablet PWP at the northern east part of Serenity that is isolated and by the northern waterfall cliff side. I like to think of this PWP as a gravestone as we can’t place furniture down outside in this game so it’s the closest we’ve got, I guess. I planted perfect apple trees around to hide the train tracks and for some landscaping.
I think lilies and violets looked the best around his gravestone. The area isn’t finished as I need some more pink lilies. Once I finish decorating this area more I’ll share more photos. 🙂
