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FAQ: Animal Crossing: New Horizons Pitfall Seeds - How To Find And Craft Pitfall Seeds In New Horizons - Nintendo Life

Posted: 09 Apr 2020 12:30 AM PDT

Perils And Pitfalls Animal Crossing New Horizons

Veterans of the the Animal Crossing series may be wondering where to find Pitfall Seeds in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, or even if they're in the game at all.

Well, we're pleased to confirm that the nuisance item is present and correct in Animal Crossing: New Horizons for Switch. Below we will give a quick overview of what Pitfall Seeds are, how we stumbled on them and how you use them to get Nook Miles.

Don't forget to check out our exhaustive Animal Crossing: New Horizons guide for more tips and tricks!

What are Pitfall Seeds?

Pitfall Seeds are items you can bury in holes which cause you or your villagers to fall into a concealed hole and get temporarily stuck in it. Don't worry - tapping 'A' repeatedly enables you to wriggle out of your predicament, but it can still be quite a surprise.

The presence of a Pitfall Seed is indicated by a familiar telltale crack on the ground - the same one which signals there's a fossil or other buried treasure waiting to be dug up with your shovel.

These nuisance seeds make for great pranks when it comes to trapping your villagers or other players living on your island, although in previous games digging one up while you were desperately seeking fossils to complete your Museum collection was a bit of a drag after the novelty wore off.

Fortunately, it seems that Pitfall Seeds are a little less common in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, but they are still available if you really want them, any you'll get Nook Miles for using them.

How do you get Pitfall Seeds in Animal Crossing: New Horizons?

It seems that the DIY recipe for Pitfall Seeds can be obtained in a variety of ways (balloons, bottles on the beach, etc), although we were given the DIY recipe for Pitfall Seeds by one of our villagers:

Kid Cat Pitfall Seed Animal Crossing New Horizons

Once you're in possession of the Pitfall Seed DIY recipe, you'll need the following materials to craft them:

x4 clump of weeds
x6 tree branches

Pitfall DIY Recipe Animal Crossing New Horizons

Armed with this recipe you'll be able to irritate everyone who lives in your village by digging holes, burying the seed and waiting. Devious! Just watch out that you remember where you buried them.

There are Nook Miles associated with Pitfall Seeds, so even if you're hoist by your own petard, there are still benefits.

Self Own Pitfall Seed Animal Crossing New Horizons

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Surface Neo won’t be out until 2021, and neither will any Windows 10X dual-screen device, rumor claims - TechRadar India

Posted: 09 Apr 2020 03:49 AM PDT

Rumor has it that Microsoft has delayed its Surface Neo until 2021, when previously – before coronavirus hit – the expected launch date was late 2020.

Apparently Surface Duo will still launch as intended before the end of the year, though.

This is what Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet says she has heard from her sources, who claim that Microsoft's chief product officer, Panos Panay, told his team that Neo won't be launching this year, and indeed that no other third-party dual-screen Windows hardware will be allowed to ship with Windows 10X either.

So Windows 10X won't launch in 2020, at all, then? Well, that might not be the case, it would seem, as Foley says that Microsoft has a new goal for this year – to get Windows 10X out on single-screen notebooks first.

This is a reversal of what we have previously been told would happen, of course; namely that Windows 10X would be out as a dedicated offering for dual-screen hardware, and could then follow for traditional (single-screen) clamshell or convertible laptops.

Guessing game

It seems a fair guess that the cause for delay may be wrapped up in coronavirus-related issues – perhaps supply chain problems, or even general disruption to development teams in terms of getting Windows 10X fully nailed down. Maybe the OS was already falling behind schedule anyway – some big changes are planned, after all – but who knows: this is all speculation.

And indeed, remember that the report of this delay is just a rumor, so may not pan out (although Foley is one of the most reliable sources for Microsoft insider info, as you may know).

Another possibility is that we may still get to see bits of Windows 10X in 2020. Foley notes that other sources have indicated that some 10X features could be brought to vanilla Windows 10 users "sooner rather than later", an interesting prospect. That might include the ability to run Windows apps virtually in containers.

As mentioned at the outset, while Surface Neo may have allegedly been pushed back to 2021, the plan for Surface Duo, Microsoft's dual-screen phone (that runs Android, not Windows 10X) is that it's still on target for a late 2020 launch.

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Here's Everything You Get With a Microsoft 365 Subscription - Gizmodo

Posted: 09 Apr 2020 06:08 AM PDT

Illustration for article titled Heres Everything You Get With a Microsoft 365 Subscription — Image: Microsoft

Microsoft 365 is, as its name suggests, the new subscription bundle from Microsoft that replaces Office 365. It takes the emphasis away from Microsoft's office suite just a little bit, but it's tough to tell at first glance if this is a service designed for everyone or if it's just for small business operators and serious Microsoft enthusiasts.

Microsoft is branding some of the pricing plans "Home" and "Family" (alongside "Business" and "Enterprise"), which lets you know that the company is targeting just about everyone with this service.

The benefits of subscribing to Microsoft 365 aren't immediately clear compared to what you get for free, because a lot of the apps and services are the same. For instance, any Microsoft account holder gets 5GB of cloud storage space free of charge in OneDrive, and you can upgrade separately if you want.

Sign up for Microsoft 365 and you get 1TB of OneDrive space included. You can also then access extra features, including the ability to add password protection to your shared links and then set those links to expire after a certain amount of time. The upgrade also gives you access to ransomware detection and recovery, so Microsoft will warn you if it looks like your files are getting locked and can help you roll them back.

By subscribing to Microsoft 365, you can put an unlimited number of files in the password-protected Personal Vault inside OneDrive, too. If you're not a paying customer, you can only stick three of your most precious files in here.

Microsoft Excel, now with an added Money plug-in.

When it comes to some services, there aren't many perks that come with paying for Microsoft 365. The biggest difference with Skype is getting 60 minutes of calling time per month, which you can use to ring any landline or cell phone anywhere in the world with no extra charge.

Microsoft is planning a whole host of new consumer-friendly features for its Teams apps, which are currently positioned as alternatives to Slack for businesses. In the near future you'll be able to use it to chat with family members, plan events and trips, share files, and so on. Basically, Teams will take everything you do with your work colleagues in Slack and apply it to the people you live with.

Which of these features will be exclusive to Microsoft 365 subscribers isn't completely clear yet. Microsoft already offers a free Teams tier for business users. Paying for a premium version offers more storage, the option to schedule and record meetings, and some extra security features. We'll have to wait and see whether there's a similar set of features when it comes to the free and premium tiers of the personal and family Teams plans.

An app that will be exclusive to Microsoft 365 subscribers, when it arrives, is the brand new Microsoft Family Safety app. It'll cover everything you might expect from its name, including screen time monitoring, content filtering, and the ability to track the location of your loved ones (so you can see whether the kids really are coming home from school).

Then there's Office itself, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and the Outlook desktop client for Windows and macOS, plus Publisher and Access for Windows, should you need them. You get some heavyweight software for a decent price.

With a Microsoft account, you get free access to Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on the web, which are basic but official online versions of the desktop apps, plus Word, Excel and PowerPoint on mobile devices with displays up to 10.1 inches (files can be read but not edited on anything bigger). Outlook for mobile is free to everyone on any device.

That free package may be enough for most people, especially with Apple and Google's office suites also available free of charge. But Office has actually developed into a decent software package these days, one that's not just something you have to tolerate or outright try to ignore on your office PC.

Teams for consumers (left) and Family Safety (right).

Word, Excel, and PowerPoint have always been packed with features—way more than what you get with the equivalent apps from Google or Apple—but in recent years, they've also become a lot more polished, intuitive, and enjoyable to use.

New features include a Money add-on for Excel, which automatically imports bank feeds and puts them in a template to give you an at-a-glance overview of your finances. The upgraded Microsoft Editor utility, meanwhile, checks writing style and inclusiveness as well as spelling and grammar.

Subscribing to Microsoft 365 gets you more templates, more fonts, more stock imagery, and clip art compared with just using the free Office apps for the web and on mobile. You also get add-ons like the new Presenter Coach, which will tell you if you're stumbling over your words or not varying the tone of your speech enough while you're working your way through a series of slides.

So how much are you going to have to pay for all this? Microsoft 365's pricing remains unchanged from Office 365: $7 a month or $70 a year for the Personal plan, which is designed for one person, or $10 a month or $100 a year for the Home plan, which gives the same features and benefits to up to six people.

If you think you're going to spend a lot of time using Word, Excel, and PowerPoint—and need a lot more than Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides can offer—then Microsoft 365 is an excellent value, especially for whole families.

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