Re:Nookea

What's New

Recent updates to Re:Nookea β€” new features, fixes, and behind-the-scenes improvements.

Look for the πŸ’Œ Thanks for the heads-up! badge β€” those came from visitor feedback. And a dimmed ↻ updated since tag marks something a later update has since changed.

  1. Big Browse redesign + smarter filters, a This Month hub, the new Catalog tracker, hundreds of items, and fixes

    New

    • 🧭 Browse now opens to a category launchpad β€” every category one tap away.
    • 🎡 K.K. Slider's 110 songs (with album art) now browsable in their own Music section.
    • πŸ› οΈ New DIY section in Browse β€” all 924 craftable recipes, searchable by item or material, each showing what it needs.
    • πŸ—“οΈ A new "This Month" home section β€” critters leaving & arriving (North/South) plus in-season clothing.
    • πŸ—‚οΈ Thousands of new catalog items β€” floors, wallpaper, rugs, tools, gyroids, fencing, materials, and every villager's photo.
    • πŸ“¦ New "My Catalog" β€” track the furniture you own by series or set; syncs across devices.
    • πŸŽ›οΈ Smarter filters β€” by Customizable, Function, HHA category, or Lucky; plus filter a villager's gift matches by color, style, theme, or season.
    • πŸ›οΈ Item pages now show how to obtain each item β€” shop, crafting, seasonal, and more.

    Improvements

    • πŸ“± A new bottom navigation bar β€” Home, Browse, Collection, and Villagers, one tap away.
    • 🧹 Fewer menus β€” the four trackers are now one Collection page, and Island + Favorites became My Villagers.
    • πŸ” Browse redesign β€” the wall of filter pills is now a tidy filter sheet, and "Furniture" is now "Items", grouped into buckets.
    • 🀝 Crossovers now live inside Browse β€” branded sets (Zelda, Mario, Sanrio…) are just another category.
    • ✍️ Item, clothing & recipe names are now consistently Title Case everywhere.
    • ⚑ Faster, self-hosted images β€” villager house renders are ~85% lighter.

    Fixes

    • ↩️ Back now returns to the crossover list instead of skipping past it, and Browse no longer auto-scrolls when you pick a category.
    • β˜• Fixed the "Support Re:Nookea" button not opening.
  2. Three new sections, smarter gift pages, and a big usability + bug-fix pass

    New

    • πŸ”¨ New DIY recipes β€” craftable item pages now show what they're "Crafted from" (and ingredients link to their own pages), and every villager page lists the DIY recipes a villager of that personality might teach you.
    • 🏑 Villager pages now show more of each character's bio β€” which Animal Crossing games they've appeared in, their default outfit, and a readable debut (e.g. "Dōbutsu no Mori" instead of a code).
    • ☁️ New Cloud Sync β€” back up your favorites, island, and every tracker to the cloud, then load them on another device with a short code. No account needed: tap Share to text or AirDrop yourself a link that restores everything with one tap. Find it on the My Island page.
    • πŸ–ΌοΈ New Artwork guide β€” spot Redd's forgeries before you buy! Every painting and statue shows its real and fake versions side by side, with exactly what to look for ("the forgery has a coffee stain in the corner…"). Tap to track what you've donated to the museum.
    • 🦴 New Fossils tracker β€” a searchable list of all 73 fossils; tap to mark them donated and watch your museum completion climb.
    • 🐟 Sea creatures now show how their shadow moves (Stationary, Slow, Fast…) next to its size β€” handy for telling a giant clam from a scallop before you dive in.
    • 🎨 Furniture pages now flag customizable items and show their tile footprint and Happy Home Academy points.
    • 🎲 New "Surprise me" button on the homepage jumps you to a random villager β€” a fun way to discover someone new.
    • ⌨️ Press "/" anywhere to jump straight to search, then use the arrow keys and Enter to open a villager without touching the mouse.
    • πŸ“ˆ The turnip predictor now draws your week as a little price graph, so you can see the spike at a glance.
    • πŸ”— Added share buttons to item pages and the Critter Tracker, and you can now export your critter checklist as a spreadsheet (CSV).
    • πŸŽ‚ Birthday gift planner β€” your upcoming villagers now show the perfect gift to wrap, right on the Birthdays page and the homepage card. Tap βœ“ when you've wrapped one and the next-best idea slides in.
    • 🎭 New "Which villager are you?" quiz β€” six quick questions (your personality, style, hobby, color, animal vibe, and season) match you to a villager, plus three runner-ups you'd also vibe with. Jump straight to what they'd love as a gift β€” and it's shareable!
    • πŸ“ˆ New turnip price predictor β€” enter your Sunday buy price and Nook's Cranny prices through the week, and it works out which price pattern you're likely in and when your peak should hit. Find it under "Turnips" in the menu.
    • 🎨 Furniture colorways β€” furniture now shows every color variation, just like clothing. Flip through them on the item page or right on the Browse cards, and see which villagers would love each color. (The wooden chair alone comes in 8!)
    • 🐟 "Available right now" on the Critters page β€” flip one toggle to see only the bugs, fish, and sea creatures you can catch this very moment. Each critter now shows its shadow size, too.
    • 🀝 New Crossover Collections page β€” browse Animal Crossing's branded item sets (Zelda, Splatoon, LEGO, Mario, retro Nintendo systems, and the Sanrio friends) all in one place, and see which of your villagers would love each set as a gift. Sets that gained items in the 3.0 update are flagged "New in 3.0".↻ updated since

    Improvements

    • πŸ”§ Tidied up the Browse filters β€” the furniture "Set" filter now lists just the branded collab sets (Zelda, Mario, Sanrio, LEGO…) instead of ~80 mixed-in furniture types with case-duplicates.
    • 🧭 The side menu is now grouped for easier scanning, and "What's New" shows a dot whenever there's an update you haven't read yet.
    • 🎨 Item pages now show the colorway you picked β€” the big image changes with the arrows (it used to stay stuck on the first color).
    • πŸ—‚οΈ Villager gift lists and item matches are now sorted into Perfect / Style / Color tabs instead of one giant scroll β€” tap a tab to see that group, with a "Show more" for the rest.
    • Clothing now shows every way to buy an item β€” Bells, Poki, Nook Miles, Heart Crystals and more β€” instead of just Bells.
    • Pages now fade in smoothly as you move around, and printing any page hides the menus for a clean printout.
    • Faster, lighter pages β€” villager gift lists and item pages load with a lot less behind-the-scenes weight, so browsing feels snappier.

    Fixes

    • πŸŒ™ Dark mode now stays on after you refresh the page β€” it was resetting to light mode on every reload.
    • πŸŒ™ The heart and home buttons on villagers no longer look blank in dark mode, villager pages now show the correct house interior image, and each character's icon gets a subtle accent in their name color.
    • πŸ’Ύ The backup file now saves everything β€” your critter, artwork, fossil, and turnip progress are included too (it previously only saved favorites, island, and gifts).
    • πŸ“± Browse and villager pages now center properly on phones, and the heart/house buttons on villager cards are tappable on touch (they used to need a mouse hover).
    • πŸ–ΌοΈ Character images that sometimes failed to appear on the first visit now retry on their own β€” no more reloading the page to make them show up.
    • πŸ”Ž "View full page" is now an obvious button when you tap an item in Browse, and the detail popup scrolls into view so you can tell it opened.
    • πŸ“± The "Install" banner no longer covers the last few items at the bottom of long pages.
    • Furniture now has its own gift pages β€” open a furniture item from a villager's gift recommendations or from Browse to see every villager who'd love it. (These links used to lead to a dead end.)
  3. Variant browsing, fresher data, faster fixes

    New

    • Search cards now have prev/next arrows so you can flip through every colorway right on the card
    • Item detail pages got a colorway carousel with a thumbnail strip β€” no more scrolling past long villager match lists to find the next color
    • Search results are now grouped by item family (one card per item instead of one per color), with a count showing how many colorways each item has
    • Birthdays page has a new "Upcoming" view showing the next 14 days of villager birthdays at a glance

    Improvements

    • Clothing items now show every way to buy them (Bells, Nook Miles, Poki) and a much richer style/availability picture for better gift matching
    • Every villager now has a house interior image and canonical Animal Crossing style/color preferences

    Fixes

    • Fixed homepage crash that briefly took the site offline earlier in the day
    • Birthdays widget and Daily Highlight on the homepage now refresh each day instead of being stuck on whenever the site was last builtπŸ’Œ Thanks for the heads-up!
    • Search no longer hides extra colorways of items β€” "Bunny Dress" and similar items show all their variantsπŸ’Œ Thanks for the heads-up!
  4. Accessibility and form fixes

    Improvements

    • Improved color contrast for accessibility, especially in dark mode

    Fixes

    • Suggestion form on the sidebar now actually works (was being blocked by site security policy)
    • Item images now load correctly from the start instead of flickering in
  5. Site polish and performance

    New

    • Added Cloudflare Web Analytics for visitor stats

    Improvements

    • Light mode redesign with refined navigation
    • Dark mode toggle is smoother (no more flash on page load)
    • Pages load measurably faster β€” images preconnect earlier, layout shift reduced
    • Filled in 26 missing images (6 furniture, 20 villager house interiors)
  6. Richer data and discovery

    New

    • Added theme, season, and hobby filters to search
    • Collaboration set badges on clothing items (LEGO, Sanrio, Mario)
    • Villager pages now show their house furniture and link to their Nookipedia wiki page
    • Added missing Mario collab clothing (Luigi hat, Toad parasol, Princess Peach crown)
    • New clothing collab-set filter

    Improvements

    • Enriched every item and villager with data from the Nookipedia API β€” wiki links, seasonality, house music, themes

    Fixes

    • Fixed all item pages returning 404 on production
  7. Furniture, comparison, and birthday tools

    New

    • Furniture gift recommendations β€” 2,075 items added with color-based matching
    • Villager comparison page (pick two villagers, see how their preferences differ)
    • "Who would like this?" reverse view β€” start with an item, see who'd love it
    • Birthday calendar with month grid and list views
    • Shareable island links (export your villagers, send a link)
    • Infinite scroll on Villagers, Browse, and Critters pages
    • A-Z jump bar on the Villagers page
    • Furniture and critters added to the unified Browse search
    • Critter tracker with seasonal highlights showing what's leaving soon
    • Inline item detail panels that expand right in the search grid
  8. Re:Nookea launches

    New

    • Re:Nookea is live β€” a revival of the original Nookea gift recommendation tool for Animal Crossing: New Horizons
    • Gift recommendations for all 417 villagers based on style and color matching
    • Item search across clothing, villagers, and the original 1,800-item database
    • Favorites, My Island (build your dream village), and gift tracker
    • Birthdays page so you never miss a villager's special day
    • Suggestion form to send feedback directly from the sidebar
    • Dark mode
    • Installable as a Progressive Web App β€” works offline, lives on your home screen
    • Data import/export so you don't lose your favorites
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