[Guide] **Finally** got my post-2.0 weather seed, and (maybe) you can too
Over the last several months, I looked into Meteonook with increasing frustration. The Reddit consensus seemed to be that for islands with new seeds (created post-2.0 and ofc 3.0) it just no longer works.
I was inclined to believe this myself, after multiple failed attempts to find my weather seed across multiple months and various methods (double rainbows, rain/no-rain, meteor showers timed to the minutes or seconds, etc).
Well, thanks to a pointer from the ACNH discord and some internet heroes, I discovered to my delight that meteor showers do still work to find your seed on MeteoNook (!!!).
But!!! You have to do it in a very particular way.
I had (yesterday- 4/16) what was clearly a light meteor shower with infrequent stars. Following the advice on the GitHub issue linked above, and as per the stellar* suggestion from ThexXTURBOXx, I did the following:
- Grabbed my phone's stopwatch app.
- Settle my character in a quiet clearing, looked up, and ran my controller with the A-button on turbo. I started timing at 20:30, and used lap-timing on the stopwatch for each star's appearance (and was utterly bored in between, lol).
- Opened a completely fresh MeteoNook instance with none of my past data.
- Only inputted the shooting star minutes and the gaps between them into MeteoNook *(*but saved and used the seconds timing later).
- Because it was a light meteor shower, I had plenty of time between star-minutes to actually feed the data into MeteoNook in real time. (if it were a heavy meteor shower night, I might have waited until after I got a solid set of measurements)
- After every new star-minute, I reran MeteoNook's search. By the 5th star-minute I was narrowing down to ~30 seeds, 6th one got it down further, and after I had input 7 individual star-filled minutes and the gaps between them, it gave me one, singular, precious seed.
- Once I had got down to that single seed, I:
- Scrutinized that seed's second measurements to confirm its correctness with the data thus far.
- Used it to confirm the correct prediction of shooting stars for the rest of the evening.
As my luck would have it, that single seed predicted that I would experience another light meteor shower today. With bated breath, I set my alarm to the timing of the first meteor and -- et voila! The meteors showed up like clockwork at the minutes and seconds predicted.
Based on the guidance linked above from ThexXTURBOXx, you may be better off completely ignoring the seconds to search for the seed, using them only to confirm that you've gotten the correct seed. (I will add a little more info about this in a comment to avoid cluttering this post.)
As for me, I am over the moon to finally have my weather seed!
Please try it, and let me know in the comments whether it works for you!
*see what I did there?