ellienoise
CST
I know several people have done guides abt how to get the sakura recipes. I just wanted to tell you what I noticed in my quest for them and how I did it (no TTing). It took almost 3 days of nonstop farming, but I did eventually find more efficient ways to do it. They worked for me, I don't know if they will work for you but its worth a try if you haven't found any yet, I guess.
First: How do you farm balloons?
1. Find which side of the beach the balloons are coming from. Hang around town and see which way the balloons are going and walk to the opposite beach. Please notice that at 6pm the direction will change and they’ll start spawning on the other side.
2. Wait until the clock goes to either xx:x0 or xx:x5 and walk along the shore, turn on the volume to listen for balloons.
3. Repeat from 2. Some people say they appear in 10 min intervals or 5 min intervals, but the truth is it's both and it's not constant. It can switch and you can find a 15 min interval in which no solid colored balloon will appear as the pattern adjusts to 5 or 0 ending. Personally I checked every 5 minutes while I watched tv.
4. If you are kind of certain a balloon spawned at, say 2:05, but you were too far away from the beach you can probably catch up on cuadrant 3-4 (if your balloons are spawning from the left beach) on your map 3 minutes after it spawned, meaning at 2:08. That's where I caught on.
Tips from my own observations
Sometimes your game will enter a rut in which it will only spawn blue and yellow balloons. I know A LOT of ppl complain about this. It’s annoying and not ideal for the purpose of finding recipes. I recommend to wait (or tting) for a few hours or to the following morning and see if the pattern changes. It’s not impossible to get recipes in yellow balloons but it’s not common. In this pattern I would get about one recipe an hour. I don’t tt, so I just started quitting after I noticed it and loaded up later.
In my case, red and green balloons were super scarce but carried recipes kind of more often than yellow ones. Yellow ones drove me nuts tbh i hate getting bells.
I’m not sure why, but I seemed to get a wider variety of balloon colors in the mornings, and I got more recipes than after 12pm where I would mostly get y/b balloons. With a multicolored pattern I would get around 2 recipes an hour. But still, it's more exciting to get furniture here and there than just getting 1,000 bells over and over.
But I started to make progress getting the recipes when I noticed something: if I stopped playing and turned it on sometime later, the first or second balloon would carry recipes. Most of the times it worked. I would load the game, wait by the beach until the clock hit xx:x0 or xx:x5, and the first or second solid balloon (usually the second) would yield a recipe! Idk if it will be the same for you but if you are not getting anything it's worth a try! Wait for the first 2 or 3 balloons when you load your game and see if you get someting.
You can thank the quarantine for this information- I was so bored out of my mind that I even charted half of april 3rd and a part of april 4th and wrote down every balloon I got, the time and the content. The grey highlight means I closed the software, did something else and put the game on again. I didn't chart the bunny balloons which seemed to spawn every other minute. I just charted them when I felt they replaced the solid colored balloon, bc they would spawn at the time the solid one was supposed to but didnt.
Here's a pic of my chart
I think its kind of mean of nintendo to make them SO DIFFICULT to get. Right now a lot of us are stuck home, but how will we get these event recipes later with work and school?
If you have any observations, feel free to comment and ask stuff.
Also, my bf swears he saw a purple balloon floating in the opposite direction. he couldn't pop it bc he says it was already in the ocean and abt to dissapear from the screen. Have you seen it? did ya pop it, what was inside?
DISCLAIMER: I am no expert, these observations are just something I observed, and do not mean that this is the way the game works, this is just how I got the 14 recipes after 3 days. Be patient guys!
I started taking breaks from the game more often, as I noticed recipes appeared in the first or second balloon after I loaded up my game, and when I got into a rut of only yellow and a few blues, I quit and waited for some time to see if the pattern changed to multi colored, as red and green carried recipes more frequently.
In the Y/B rut they spawn about once an hour. With multicolor config you can get around 2 an hour. so its still a matter of grinding A LOT.
In the Y/B rut they spawn about once an hour. With multicolor config you can get around 2 an hour. so its still a matter of grinding A LOT.
First: How do you farm balloons?
1. Find which side of the beach the balloons are coming from. Hang around town and see which way the balloons are going and walk to the opposite beach. Please notice that at 6pm the direction will change and they’ll start spawning on the other side.
2. Wait until the clock goes to either xx:x0 or xx:x5 and walk along the shore, turn on the volume to listen for balloons.
3. Repeat from 2. Some people say they appear in 10 min intervals or 5 min intervals, but the truth is it's both and it's not constant. It can switch and you can find a 15 min interval in which no solid colored balloon will appear as the pattern adjusts to 5 or 0 ending. Personally I checked every 5 minutes while I watched tv.
4. If you are kind of certain a balloon spawned at, say 2:05, but you were too far away from the beach you can probably catch up on cuadrant 3-4 (if your balloons are spawning from the left beach) on your map 3 minutes after it spawned, meaning at 2:08. That's where I caught on.
Tips from my own observations
Sometimes your game will enter a rut in which it will only spawn blue and yellow balloons. I know A LOT of ppl complain about this. It’s annoying and not ideal for the purpose of finding recipes. I recommend to wait (or tting) for a few hours or to the following morning and see if the pattern changes. It’s not impossible to get recipes in yellow balloons but it’s not common. In this pattern I would get about one recipe an hour. I don’t tt, so I just started quitting after I noticed it and loaded up later.
In my case, red and green balloons were super scarce but carried recipes kind of more often than yellow ones. Yellow ones drove me nuts tbh i hate getting bells.
I’m not sure why, but I seemed to get a wider variety of balloon colors in the mornings, and I got more recipes than after 12pm where I would mostly get y/b balloons. With a multicolored pattern I would get around 2 recipes an hour. But still, it's more exciting to get furniture here and there than just getting 1,000 bells over and over.
But I started to make progress getting the recipes when I noticed something: if I stopped playing and turned it on sometime later, the first or second balloon would carry recipes. Most of the times it worked. I would load the game, wait by the beach until the clock hit xx:x0 or xx:x5, and the first or second solid balloon (usually the second) would yield a recipe! Idk if it will be the same for you but if you are not getting anything it's worth a try! Wait for the first 2 or 3 balloons when you load your game and see if you get someting.
You can thank the quarantine for this information- I was so bored out of my mind that I even charted half of april 3rd and a part of april 4th and wrote down every balloon I got, the time and the content. The grey highlight means I closed the software, did something else and put the game on again. I didn't chart the bunny balloons which seemed to spawn every other minute. I just charted them when I felt they replaced the solid colored balloon, bc they would spawn at the time the solid one was supposed to but didnt.
Here's a pic of my chart
I think its kind of mean of nintendo to make them SO DIFFICULT to get. Right now a lot of us are stuck home, but how will we get these event recipes later with work and school?
If you have any observations, feel free to comment and ask stuff.
Also, my bf swears he saw a purple balloon floating in the opposite direction. he couldn't pop it bc he says it was already in the ocean and abt to dissapear from the screen. Have you seen it? did ya pop it, what was inside?
DISCLAIMER: I am no expert, these observations are just something I observed, and do not mean that this is the way the game works, this is just how I got the 14 recipes after 3 days. Be patient guys!
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But I’ll keep going until the 10th!!!
