First I'll list the gold badges I have obtained. I only recently got a few of these as I focused on getting them in the game. These were ones such as catching 1000 sea creatures/food, K.K. Slider performances and sending letters. I didn't attend K.K. Slider shows much as I used to work saturday nights and would miss it. So what I did to get the badge quickly was to attend multiple shows in one night and it still counts. Same thing with the letters, I would send about 16 letters a day. I bet my villagers got tired of receiving letters that always said 'I'm trying to send 200 letters so here's another letter so I get closer to 200'. With the streetpass badge, I know some players have difficulty getting that one. I had no toruble as I live in a location where people always have their ACNL streetpass turned on and I attend streetpass events like meet-ups and conventions. It didn't take that long to get, but it was a pain clearly through streetpasses at conventions where I would get about 300 streetpasses a day.
- Dive Master - Caught 1000 sea creatures/food
- Professor of Entomology - Complete bug collection
- Professor of Ichthyology - Complete fish collection
- Professor of Seafood - Complete diving collection
- Gardening Specialist - Planted 500 trees or flowers in the town
- Master Shopper - Spent over 5,000,000 bells
- Refurbishing Master - Refurbished 200 items
- Catalog Maniac Gold - Catalog at 80%
- Happy Home Gold - Earned 150,000 points from the Happy Home Academy
- K.K. Slider Diehard - Watched 100 K.K. Slider performances
- Town Concierge - Completed 300 tasks for villagers
- Postmaster - Sent 200 letters
- Streetpass Master - Tagged 1000 players through streetpass
- Villager Of Honor - Played over 500 hours
I have 7 silver badges in total and some of these will be staying at silver for a long time as the amount you need to jump from silver to gold is huge! I was surprised when I got the 2000 weeds one, but I'm never going to get the 5000 needed for the gold. The trick to getting the weed badge is to plant heaps of flowers at the beach and do not have the beautiful ordinance on for your town. Pull up the flowers when they are wilting because they count as weeds! I've kinda given up on the medalist one as it took me forever to get 1500 medals as I don't like the tours much and I had to grind at one that gave you 16 medals each time for ages. For the dream addresses visits, I usually do this when I'm watching streams or movies because it's so time consuming to visit dreams. I just select random ones to visit, but it still takes forever to get through all the menu screens.
- Expert Bug Catcher - Caught 2000 bugs
- Expert Angler - Caught 2000 fish
- Balloon Buster - Shoot 100 balloons out of the sky
- Silver Medalist - Earned 1500 island medals
- Weed Buster - Pulled up 2000 weeds in the town
- Wealthy Bell Saver - Saved 10,000,000 bells
- Heavy Sleeper - Visited 200 Dream Addresses
There's only 2 bronze badges in my collection and these are ones I haven't really tired much with. Honestly I never even touched the turnip trade until recently as I just didn't have the time or interest to by investing in it. I used to use turnips all the time in Wild World and it was hectic trying to keep track. I find turnips difficult as sometimes I don't get time to check the price twice a day with my schedule. Luckily one day I got lucky and my friends town was buying turnips for 417 bells! Made quite a bit of profit that day and I'm quite close to the silver badge by my tracker I keep for badges (more on that later). With the hostess one, I never had many people visit my town besides friends occasionally. I do appreciate how you check how many visitors by sitting on the tree as I would have no clue what the number would be without that. Last time I checked it was 57 but I've had a few visits since so I think it's around 70 now maybe.
- Amateur Turnip Trader - Earned 500,000 bells in profit from turnips
- Good Hostess - 50 players have visited my town
The only badge I am currently missing is the badge for visiting other towns. I believe I am getting close to the bronze badge which is 100 visits. I'm teaming up with someone in my local Nintendo club to earn the badge as well as the hostess badge. We are taking turns at visiting each other's towns to up the numbers. I had visited towns over the last few years, but who knows how many that was. I doubt it was higher than 20 or 30 visits as I didn't play online much. Hopefully I should get it by the end of the year as we only meet up once a month.
Now onto how I keep track of my badge progress. I'm super into bullet journals at the moment and I have a tracker as one of my pages in my bullet journal. I find it's super useful and has helped me achieve a lot of badges in the last few months. Usually I just keep a piece of scrap paper and messily jot down tallies when I'm doing activities, i.e. fishing, weeds and dream visits. Then I transfer this number when it gets large into my bullet journal tracker. I definitely recommend trying a tracker out if you are interested in tracking your badge progress, it really helps!
If Nintendo makes a new Animal Crossing game (of course they will!) and badges are included as a feature again, there is one major thing I would like to see with them. Nintendo should include some sort of tracking system in the game like some video games do (i.e. Rockstar games such as Bully) that tells you how many of each thing you've done. For example you've caught 540 fish, planted 8 trees, visited 60 towns and so on. I feel that would be extremely helpful please inform players about where they are spending a chunk of their game time when playing. Plus it would make it a billion times easier to achieve badges! I often think about this feature in other games like Disney Magical World but I guess I'm a person who likes working towards achievements.
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