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[WaileaNoRei]

I've had amazing luck just gifting 2x wrapped foreign fruit.

I wouldn't worry about finding other stacked items or resorting to the time consuming and resource-heavy iron-wall lamps, which I believe potentially ruin villagers' houses.

i agree! I also find it really easy to just use wrapped foreign fruit or coconuts (need 3 wrapped coconuts, because of lower sell value). I just find it easier to manage and more fun.

generally with this method it takes me around a month to get the first photo, which is pretty close to what seems to be the minimum number of days required. Luck is unpredictable and maybe I would branch into other methods if I got frustrated and had a some stubborn bad luck, but generally I have not felt the bump of 1-2% was worth going out of my way for. Not that there is anything wrong if it is to you, or if you find it easier to use the stack method than wrapped gifts. Still think the stack method is a great trick, and so glad it exists.

I also just like the feeling of receiving the photo in person in the moment.

 

[azurill]

I've had amazing luck just gifting 2x wrapped foreign fruit.

I wouldn't worry about finding other stacked items or resorting to the time consuming and resource-heavy iron-wall lamps, which I believe potentially ruin villagers' houses.

I’m going to start trying this and maybe I can finally get Canberra to gift me her photo. I was wondering why the stack fruit wasn’t getting me any more photos in the mail.

 

[Flicky]

Have the photo drop rates been nerfed since the update, or am I just unlucky? Been trying to get Mathilda and Avery to give me their photos, and neither have since the update dropped. They've been here a long time...

 

[Moritz]

Have the photo drop rates been nerfed since the update, or am I just unlucky? Been trying to get Mathilda and Avery to give me their photos, and neither have since the update dropped. They've been here a long time...

I dont think so
Pretty sure you're just not getting good luck this time

 

[HollySeeker]

Have the photo drop rates been nerfed since the update, or am I just unlucky? Been trying to get Mathilda and Avery to give me their photos, and neither have since the update dropped. They've been here a long time...

I find the time it takes villagers to give me their photos varies.
I've used the wrapped fruit trick. It seemed to take me forever to get Tia's photo, but I seemed to get Pietro's photo in half the time.

I feel like there's no rhyme or reason with this.

 

[corlee1289]

I managed to get both Becky and Tia’s photos with a continuous barrage of 2 wrapped “exotic” fruit. Yes, they gave me weird stuff in return, but I managed to get both of their photos within a day of each other. (they moved in around roughly the same week)

Maybe this update is slightly easier? It was never this quick for me previously. Either that, or I got extreme my lucet.

 

[LeenaM]

This is amazing, I didn't know this trick existed! Just one question: it says you should give an item worth more than 750 bells to get an item guaranteed, but I looked up giant clams and it says they're only woth 450? Did the sell value change or am I missing something?

 

[Sharksheep]

This is amazing, I didn't know this trick existed! Just one question: it says you should give an item worth more than 750 bells to get an item guaranteed, but I looked up giant clams and it says they're only woth 450? Did the sell value change or am I missing something?

Giant clams have always sold for 900 each

 

[WaileaNoRei]

This is amazing, I didn't know this trick existed! Just one question: it says you should give an item worth more than 750 bells to get an item guaranteed, but I looked up giant clams and it says they're only woth 450? Did the sell value change or am I missing something?

I was curious because that seemed like a very specific difference, so I looked it up and it seems giant shells sold for 450 in New Leaf. But in New Horizons they sell for 900, as @Sharksheep said above.

 

[LeenaM]

Giant clams have always sold for 900 each

I was curious because that seemed like a very specific difference, so I looked it up and it seems giant shells sold for 450 in New Leaf. But in New Horizons they sell for 900, as @Sharksheep said above.

Great, thank you both!

 

[piske]

I finally have several villagers at the highest tier of friendship, achieved through chatting (because I started with wrapped foreign fruits pre-1.9 but then I got really lazy), so I started using a stack of giant clams today. Here’s to hoping that I get some photos in the mail soon! (Also, they are so shook when you don’t have room in your pockets for their return gifts )

 

[windwake-me-up-inside]

I keep stockpiling coconuts I get from my various nook miles hunts, wrapping them in bundles of three, then during my rounds I hand them one by one to all my villagers. I've gotten most of my villager photos doing that and being patient.

I refer to it as dropping off the daily ration of food for all of them because I don't know where they get food otherwise.

 

[piske]

What happened to the OP D:

 

[Moritz]

What happened to the OP D:

Pure speculation, but if I were to guess they did not want to keep the post up to date, but also did not want to give out dated information.

 

[piske]

Pure speculation, but if I were to guess they did not want to keep the post up to date, but also did not want to give out dated information.

Ah, i definitely understand not wanting to keep updating. This was the only reliable thread, so much outdated and anecdotal/inaccurate information floating around.

 

[VanitasFan26]

Um.....for some reason the OP was changed. I am not sure what happened.

 

[Miss Misty]

Um.....for some reason the OP was changed. I am not sure what happened.

OP likely edited it. Like people speculated above, the information in the original post was now outdated since the fruit stack trick no longer works.

 

[VanitasFan26]

OP likely edited it. Like people speculated above, the information in the original post was now outdated since the fruit stack trick no longer works.

Oh I see.