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[KayDee]

I suppose if you already do time travel, it wouldn't make a difference. I do wonder why they've chosen to make these weird choices for certain things. Reducing the spawn rates of fish and bugs, changing the banking system with Nook, and now this.

It would be interesting to know their thought process cause some updates are understandable while others just seem pointless and only serve to make it difficult for players.

 

[loveclove]

I’d be fine with way way extended villager picture timelines if they let us have more villagers

I agree with this right here

 

[Etown20]

Thanks for sharing this! It's a bummer they changed it, but at least we know about it. I'm not personally too concerned about keeping my villagers original but understand some people are. Even when I am gifting them objects and clothes, at a certain point I just run out of good things to give them.

Regarding the villager inventory being 32, do we know what items go in their inventory and what items don't?

We know fruit doesn't go in their inventory - what about shells, clothes, flowers, and tools?

 

[Bcat]

Ooh wow! I might actually get a photo now. Thanks!

 

[Sharksheep]

Thanks for sharing this! It's a bummer they changed it, but at least we know about it. I'm not personally too concerned about keeping my villagers original but understand some people are. Even when I am gifting them objects and clothes, at a certain point I just run out of good things to give them.

Regarding the villager inventory being 32, do we know what items go in their inventory and what items don't?

We know fruit doesn't go in their inventory, what about shells, clothes, tools?

Shells dont count but some shells are worthless than others when you sell them. So check for that.

Clothing has a separate inventory (size 24) although they can display their clothing so watch out for that. For me, when they have been gifted 3 pieces of clothing, the 4th goes on display. Or if they have been gifted a clothing that's not their style, it goes on display. You gift them furniture to try to get rid of clothing but it might replace something else you didn't intend to replace.

I'm 90% certain that tools are furniture. My friends have accidently given their villagers a fishing rod or shovel and it goes on display in the house.

 

[SugarMage]

How do I make sure my inventory will still be full after I give them the fruit stack? Won't that leave an empty spot?

 

[Snowifer]

How do I make sure my inventory will still be full after I give them the fruit stack? Won't that leave an empty spot?

When you give from a fruit stack, it'll only give 1 fruit. You can't give them the last fruit since then, there will be an empty space in your inventory.

 

[SugarMage]

When you give from a fruit stack, it'll only give 1 fruit. You can't give them the last fruit since then, there will be an empty space in your inventory.

Oh that makes sense, thank you! I thought they would take the whole stack since I've never tried gifting a stacked item~

 

[Tiger513]

I haven't gotten any photos from any of my villagers and I'm at the right friendship level with most of them! Going to try the fruit stack trick. Thank you!

 

[Etown20]

Shells dont count but some shells are worthless than others when you sell them. So check for that.

Clothing has a separate inventory (size 24) although they can display their clothing so watch out for that. For me, when they have been gifted 3 pieces of clothing, the 4th goes on display. Or if they have been gifted a clothing that's not their style, it goes on display. You gift them furniture to try to get rid of clothing but it might replace something else you didn't intend to replace.

I'm 90% certain that tools are furniture. My friends have accidently given their villagers a fishing rod or shovel and it goes on display in the house.

That makes sense. I've seen them display the tools, but they will also use them (in place of their default tools), so I was just curious.

One small follow-up question - can you no longer get a photo from any sub $2500 item, or was it just fruit that changed?

 

[Sharksheep]

That makes sense. I've seen them display the tools, but they will also use them (in place of their default tools), so I was just curious.

One small follow-up question - can you no longer get a photo from any sub $2500 item, or was it just fruit that changed?

You can't get photos from any items with a sell value less than 2500. Non native fruit is what most people give because the fruit grows back and it keeps the furniture and clothing untouch.

 

[Hoshi]

Thanks for this, explains a lot. I really hate that they keep removing features/tricks in the game that are not only non-issues but actually make the game more fun to play.

 

[Lavulin98]

thank you for letting me know! I was wondering why I didn't receive any new photos lately. I always gift my villagers clothes everyday bc I like seeing them looking fresh. .lol but it seems it's worthless to give them clothes other than fashion. I will do the inventory trick. thank you!

 

[Elin]

Thanks, that's good to know! I was wondering why I couldn't seem to get any photos lately. Time to try a new strategy then.

 

[Barney]

Thanks for posting this.

I've been gifting wrapped fruit and got 9 villagers' photos, but my tenth villager was taking forever.

Now I know why!

 

[yoohamsta]

I previously got a bunch of photos from gifting Iron Wall Lamps but it ate up most of my iron supply and it replaces hanging furniture (if you re-gift the exact same item it gets displayed back in the right place but I haven't bothered with the disappearance of Judy's TWELVE star garlands that need 120 star fragments ughh) so I changed to gifting fruit and haven't got a photo in awhile... no wonder. I guess back to gifting Iron Wall Lamps

 

[marea]

Strange, why was it changed though? Thanks for bringing this to our attention so we could change technics.

 

[Ras]

Hmm don't know if I believe the 32 furniture items guideline ... I've gifted more than 32 wall lamps to a character who won't get rid of a fish tank on the floor.

Don’t believe it at your own risk. As far as I know, it only removes wall furniture and tabletop items, but it absolutely happens. As for the fish, it is probably in one of your villager’s room markers (places that start out empty but are reserved for new furniture) and it’s only got a chance to be replaced by a new floor item of its size.

 

[Sharksheep]

I previously got a bunch of photos from gifting Iron Wall Lamps but it ate up most of my iron supply and it replaces hanging furniture (if you re-gift the exact same item it gets displayed back in the right place but I haven't bothered with the disappearance of Judy's TWELVE star garlands that need 120 star fragments ughh) so I changed to gifting fruit and haven't got a photo in awhile... no wonder. I guess back to gifting Iron Wall Lamps

You could try the fruit stack trick. They'll mail you something the next day and it can be their photo.

 

[Misha]

Just when I have some decent inventory management going, now my inventory needs to be full. Thanks Nintendo.