You can bash the drums and play other instruments note by note. Try doing it in someones house to the music and they clap you. This brings up a great opportunity... 4 player drumming sessions.

gamingeek said:

You can bash the drums and play other instruments note by note. Try doing it in someones house to the music and they clap you. This brings up a great opportunity... 4 player drumming sessions.

That could be awesome.  And it could be augmented by a nice selection of gyroids!!

Guide said:

Dream Suite: A week after unlocking the Public Works Projects option, ensure you've built at least one Project and have connected online at least once (either to visit someone or check for a DLC present at the Post Office). When you go into the mayor's office you may find Isabelle sleeping. Talk to her and she'll add the Dream Suite to the Public Works Projects list. The Dream Suite lets you visit towns from all over the world while 'sleeping', meaning you can do whatever you want in them (i.e. wreck them) and it won't affect their town in real life (visit our town, Bumtown, with the Dream Address 7700-2062-2633).

House of Fortune: Once a week, Katrina the psychic will pitch a tent in the town square and offer to read your fortune. If you get your fortune read 20 times she'll ask you if she can get a House of Fortune added to the high street. It'll then be added to the Public Works Projects list.

Museum Second Floor: Donate 20 items to the museum (at least one of which has to be a fish, bug, deep-sea creature, fossil and artwork from Redd), and talk to Blathers at least once on 14 different days. He'll then ask you if you can add a second floor to the museum, at which point it'll be added to the Projects list.

Café: After building the second floor of the museum, seven days later (assuming you've donated at least 40 items) Blathers will recommend you build a café. The café initially seems useless (you can only buy coffee from it) but after buying coffee for 14 days you'll be asked if you want to work there, taking orders from customers. Get their orders right regularly and you'll earn Bells and special café furniture for your house.

Police Station: There's no set way to trigger this, it gets suggested at random when you're talking to fellow villagers. When it opens (you can choose from either a modern or classic one - choose carefully, since you can only have one and can't demolish it), the police dog inside will tell you if any special visitors are currently in your town, and will also let you take any free goodies from the Lost and Found.

Manhole: This is Mr Resetti's new home. When you turn the game off without saving, Resetti will appear when you next play and moan about it. He'll then say times are hard and he won't hassle you again... unless you build him a new surveillance manhole. It'll then be added to the Projects list.

Unlock the furniture design feature

If you're still in the early stages of your Animal Crossing adventure you may have noticed that Cyrus, the blue alpaca in the Re-Tail shop, has been sleeping for a long time and shows no signs of waking up. Don't worry, he does eventually wake after seven days.

When he does, you'll need to meet three requirements before you can use his service. You'll need to have owned at least 50 pieces of furniture, you'll need to have owned at least 10 tops, and you'll need to have had total transactions of over 100,000 Bells with Reese at Re-Tail (be it from buying or selling).

After doing all that, Cyrus will let you bring furniture to him to customise. There are a few hundred types of furniture that can be changed (usually standard furniture like couches, beds and the like), and some can be combined with gems you collect to make special gem-coloured furniture.

Even better, give him three Gold Ores (save them up when you get them from smashed rocks) along with 10,000 Bells and he'll give you a random piece of rare gold furniture.

Some furniture can even be customised with your own designs, or designs other people have created (after you scan their QR codes). What's that, you ask? QR codes? Ah, right...

17) Unlock the QR code feature

You may have already seen the numerous QR codes doing the rounds from Japanese gamers who've been playing New Leaf since it came out there last November. You may also be wondering how you can read and scan your own QR codes. The answer is you can't... well, not just yet.

To unlock it you have to talk to Sable, the moody Able Sister who sits at the sewing machine at the left-hand side of the shop. At first she won't say much to you, but keep talking to her every day and she'll get more and more chatty.

After ten days she'll finally let you use her sewing machine, which lets you read QR codes and create your own with your custom designs

Special tools:

Silver shovel: After building the second floor of the museum and donating 15 fossils, you can buy it from the museum shop. When you strike a money rock with the silver shovel, it sometimes produces ores instead of Bells.

Gold shovel: Buy 50 fertilisers from the Garden Shop (they can only be bought once you upgrade the Nooklings' shop to TIY) then talk to Leif to be given the gold shovel. It can be used to plant money trees.

Silver axe: You can buy this from the island shop for eight medals, but it only appears on rare occasions. It's more durable than a normal axe and always creates a rare stump pattern when you cut down a tree.

Gold axe: Buy 50 tree saplings from the Garden Shop then talk to Leif to be given the gold axe. It never breaks and can cut down trees faster.

Silver net: Buy it from the second floor of the museum after donating 30 bugs. It's got a wider capture range than a normal net.

Gold net:Talk to the bug catching tournament host after catching every bug type in the game. It's got an even wider capture range.

Silver fishing rod: Buy it from the second floor of the museum after donating 30 fish. Fish are more likely to bite with it and will bite for longer.

Gold fishing rod: Talk to the fishing tournament host after catching every bug type in the game. Fish are even more likely to bite and bite for even longer.

Silver watering can: Buy 50 flower seeds from the Garden Shop then talk to Leif to be given the silver watering can. It's got a wider watering range than the normal one.

Gold watering can: Talk to Isabelle after keeping 'perfect town' status for 15 days. It's got an even wider watering range.

Silver slingshot: On rare occasions you'll see a balloon floating by with two silver balloons attached. Shoot it down with the slingshot to get the silver one, which fires two shots at once.

Gold slingshot: After getting the silver one, on rare occasions you'll see a balloon floating by with three gold balloons attached. Shoot it down to get the gold slingshot, which fires three shots at once.

Also you can set up exhibitions in the Museum

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I finally got it and hacked down those annoying trees. When you expand your home do you lose your exterior customisations? My door seems to have gone back to plain? Is there any way to store or save house modifications? Some of the stuff is expensive, can you re-order past items from the catalogue?

You online now? Can you open your gates?

Nintyfan17 said:

I'm not online now but I can go online.

I'm on the way!

Give us your friend code Gem.

Anyone want to post any screenshots? I've been taking a few in game pics.

How does it work? You buy a fortune cookie then?

I don't carry my 3ds about so I've been pumping my 3ds up and down like curling weights to earn play coins . I have 2 buildings being built at the same time on main street and a fountain in town.