Catch bugs and fish, and collect fossils to donate to your museum and fill your encylcopedia.
Write to your villagers, and complete requests to build up your catalogue with gifts, and your friendship levels with the villagers.
Upgrade your rooms and buy and sell from the shops so that they upgrade and unlock other shops.
Unlock Public Works Projects when you have 100 Mayor points.
Landscape your town.
Go to the island and gather plants and fruit to use in your town. Aim for a perfect town. (The island also has exclusive fish, sea creatures, and bugs to catch.)
Do the island tours to gain medals to buy exclusive island items.
If you have the slingshot, start shooting down balloons.
Do the daily tasks for MEOW coupons to spend in Harvey's Camping Ground.
That should keep you busy. ^_^
Maybe have an idea in mind for a theme of your town, if you are into that?
That is usually what I try to think of first!
Do whatever you want. That's what the game is about.
Once the island is unlocked, just catch beetles any time after 7PM. The ones that land on the palm trees are all highly valuable, but easy to scare off. You get good at it quickly. If you fill all the screens with just random beetles, you'll gain 200,000 bells in one visit. If you are more selective and fill it with only higher valued beetles, you can gain 500,000 bells per visit.
You will unlock the island in only a few days of play, but you have to move into a house before Tortimer will visit. You can visit the island the following day after Tortimer visits you. Tortimer will be outside your house the day he visits and tell you about the island. The following day go to the docs and talk to Kapp'n. A trip to the island costs 1,000 bells.
Yeah, I'm in Australia and hate the AC winter because it doesn't snow where I am, it's horrid, and it's summer here.![]()