A trick to increase your chances of getting a good/rare Nook Miles island!

[Fuzzcloud]

i dont think this works. it was literally datamined that if you wear DAL merch it does increase your luck, but i didn't see this datamine for myself or any facts proving that. i said yesterday that i went to a regular island that had non-native fruit and native flowers with Rowan, then after that trip i dressed up in my DAL merch and the very next island was bamboo with Audie.

...so you don't believe in it, but you can confirm it works?

I'll try it later I guess. It's nice to clap for people anyway.

 

[Xara]

once i have room again, i’m definitely going to try this lmao

 

[xMatthew]

I did 3 island tours after making him blush. Got me 1x big fish island and 2x money rock islands. Might just be random, but still a bit suspicious

 

[LightFromFable]

i will try this once and see if it works, i just got started and found merry on an island but i need 2 more villagers now.
Dont want to leave it up to chance

 

[Paperboy012305]

Oh my, I may have to try that out right now. Then i'll do it for some tarantula islands at night.

 

[sdw4527]

i dont think this works. it was literally datamined that if you wear DAL merch it does increase your luck, but i didn't see this datamine for myself or any facts proving that. i said yesterday that i went to a regular island that had non-native fruit and native flowers with Rowan, then after that trip i dressed up in my DAL merch and the very next island was bamboo with Audie.

Not sure if this is sarcastic (I’m slow lol). But if it isn’t, it was actually datamined that bamboo island is the most common. There’s also no way the game would know which villagers you wanted more.

 

[marea]

Good thing i didnt get rid of the DAL shirt, then. Gonna try both methods when i go to islands tomowrrow.

 

[Circus]

Tried this and the dodo airlines shirt, and I got a hybrid flower island with non-native flowers.

 

[Paperboy012305]

I did it while wearing the tee and eye mask and I got the money rock island. (BORING)

Well, at least I know it works. Thanks, i'll take note of it.

 

[Ekuisun]

I don't think it works. I had an empty plot and made 18 trips to the islands. Probably clapped for about 15 of them. I lost the notes I was keeping so I can't say exactly what trips had what. From what I remember I had:
-4-5 pear islands (my native is apple)
-1 money island
-4-5 bamboo
-1 hybrid (this one I'm sure I didn't clap for)
-1 unusual? The layout was the first I've seen but nothing else was special about it. Definitely clapped when I got this one.
All other trips were normal.

I did try some other reactions 2-3 times along with clapping just to see how he would respond though haha. Nothing particularly special about those trips.

 

[whitherward]

This seems like it'd be really hard to verify without datamined proof. I tried it three times last night and got two normal islands with native fruit and flowers, and then one bamboo island. That's a small sample size though haha.

 

[0orchid]

I'll try wearing my DAL shirt and eyemask and making him blush next time. I kind of feel like it's a coincidence but it wouldn't hurt to try. I've gotten rare islands several times in a row in the past without doing anything specific, it's probably randomized or if anything tied into in game luck increasing actions like feng-shui.

 

[rezberri]

...so you don't believe in it, but you can confirm it works?

I'll try it later I guess. It's nice to clap for people anyway.

thanks for being mean!! <3

i specifically meant i dont believe in what op's saying works, but i do believe in the DAL merch one. it just makes more sense to me, at this point i dont rly care about what actually does what lol!

Not sure if this is sarcastic (I’m slow lol). But if it isn’t, it was actually datamined that bamboo island is the most common. There’s also no way the game would know which villagers you wanted more.

i dont think i was being sarcastic??? and many people are struggling to find bamboo island and i dont think one villager is more rare than the others. i was literally just sharing the facts of my situation. u said ur finding was datamined, i said my finding was datamined, so i guess i can also say santa clause was datamined because do we really know if what we're saying is true without us actually doing it??? im just chillin doing what i want to do.

 

[beansie]

i tried this today and it worked! i heard that holding different tools and making him blush increases your chance of getting a particular island. today i wanted the rare flower island to get some hybrids so i held my watering can, made orville blush by clapping and it worked! i got a bunch of black, pink and orange tulips

 

[DJStarstryker]

I dunno. To me this sounds like one of those "playground" rumors, like the old Mew under the truck Pokemon rumor.

I believe the DAL tee thing, because AC definitely has had clothes and luck in previous games. But this just sounds like coincidence for the clapping thing.

 

[Divergent]

I just tried this three times + wore the DAL shirt & eyemask and I got three bad islands.

 

[Fuzzcloud]

Oh god I feel horrible now! Sorry D:

 

[nyanicat]

I tried it last night and got money island!

 

[Bulbamander]

Also just to clarify (again) I never said it works just worth a try!

And looking through the responses it's very 50/50 what people are experiencing. Perhaps it gives you a better roll on what island you get. But apart from that it seems like its coincidence.

 

[Nefarious]

Wearing the DAL shirt = non-native fruit island
Making Orville blush = normal island

I’ll try both at the same time, but I don’t think making Orville blush will increase the odds. Would be great if someone could find something that indicate as such by datamining though.