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[Xanarcah]

Is it normal if you do everything else correct but the villager's placement will be stubborn and won't move somewhere else on your 2nd try or whatever? 'Cause I think I read somewhere about that happening. If so, do you just keep repeating the process until they finally move to another spot?

Completely normal. There appear to be "hotspots" around a town that villagers moving in seem to be more likely to put plot in than other places. If you keep making new characters, they should eventually put their plot in a different place.

Last week I was moving Fang into my town and 9/10 resets he put his plot in the same place, but maybe one space up or down or to the side.


I put PWPs to block villagers from moving into certain places in my main town. There are like 26 Flower Beds in strategic places. xD;

 

[mayorvanessa]

Completely normal. There appear to be "hotspots" around a town that villagers moving in seem to be more likely to put plot in than other places. If you keep making new characters, they should eventually put their plot in a different place.

Last week I was moving Fang into my town and 9/10 resets he put his plot in the same place, but maybe one space up or down or to the side.


I put PWPs to block villagers from moving into certain places in my main town. There are like 26 Flower Beds in strategic places. xD;

Ohh okay, I see! Thanks for everything, you've been a huge help!
xD Yep, same, I have a lot of PWP's all evenly spread around. The place where I want my 10th villager to move is in the same spot as Elvis (he just moved out yesterday). That is possible, right? o:

 

[Xanarcah]

Ohh okay, I see! Thanks for everything, you've been a huge help!
xD Yep, same, I have a lot of PWP's all evenly spread around. The place where I want my 10th villager to move is in the same spot as Elvis (he just moved out yesterday). That is possible, right? o:

No problem! Feel free to PM me any time in the future if you've got questions, I'll try and answer them if I can.

It's entirely possible for a villager to move into the exact same place a villager moved out of. It just takes time. Sometimes a lot of it.

Also, as long as you don't log in as a pre-existing character, you can keep resetting for plot placement for days. So if you don't get the villager in the right place today, you can go to sleep and try again tomorrow. And the next day. Etc.

 

[Ras]

Sometimes, the game loves putting villagers where other villagers were, so you might get lucky. I have a space reserved for Erik, and I didn't know how easy it would be to get him there, but the game kept putting Ed in that spot (it had been Clay's). I eventually got Ed to go elsewhere, but the game really liked that spot.

 

[mayorvanessa]

Sometimes, the game loves putting villagers where other villagers were, so you might get lucky. I have a space reserved for Erik, and I didn't know how easy it would be to get him there, but the game kept putting Ed in that spot (it had been Clay's). I eventually got Ed to go elsewhere, but the game really liked that spot.

Maybe I will get lucky O: Well, I hope! Because I don't think there are any other good places in my town where a villager can place their house.

 

[mayorvanessa]

Hehe I ask too many questions
Will the pattern change to white on the custom design sign if I erase it from my inventory?

 

[Flop]

Hehe I ask too many questions
Will the pattern change to white on the custom design sign if I erase it from my inventory?

I've been wondering this as well c:

 

[HoennMaster]

Is there a set pattern to what trees the garden shop sells? Trying to stock up on Oak Trees for Cherry Blossom time and it seems that I'm getting 3 days of Pine trees and then one day of Oak.

 

[Xanarcah]

Hehe I ask too many questions
Will the pattern change to white on the custom design sign if I erase it from my inventory?

I'm pretty sure it does. Which is why people make other characters solely for the pattern space.

Is there a set pattern to what trees the garden shop sells? Trying to stock up on Oak Trees for Cherry Blossom time and it seems that I'm getting 3 days of Pine trees and then one day of Oak.

Not that I can tell. o:

You can try planting 1k bags to make saplings, though. Not sure if you need a Golden Shovel to make it work or not...

 

[Peisinoe]

Hehe I ask too many questions
Will the pattern change to white on the custom design sign if I erase it from my inventory?

I've been wondering this as well c:

I'm pretty sure it does. Which is why people make other characters solely for the pattern space.



Not that I can tell. o:

You can try planting 1k bags to make saplings, though. Not sure if you need a Golden Shovel to make it work or not...

Actually it doesn't to the design board question. I tested this out, the reason I think is because it doesn't automatically change when you change QRS. For picture boards, design boards, the game saves a current copy onto that board. So you can delete it after you add it on there.

I've tested this out as well.

 

[Xanarcah]

Actually it doesn't to the design board question. I tested this out, the reason I think is because it doesn't automatically change when you change QRS. For picture boards, design boards, the game saves a current copy onto that board. So you can delete it after you add it on there.

I've tested this out as well.

Oh, herp a derp, I misread the question. xD; I thought it was for designs in general, most prominently paths. Ignore my reply, Stina got it right.

 

[Aesthetic]

What are the consequences of TTing BACKWARD a huge chunk of time?

 

[Xanarcah]

What are the consequences of TTing BACKWARD a huge chunk of time?

Not very many. o:

Going backwards in time only counts as one day, no matter how far back you go. You can still lose a villager this way if they were thinking of moving the "next day". Bushes/trees/flowers don't grow when you TT backwards, only forwards.

Those are the only two consequences I'm aware of.

 

[Ras]

The biggest consequence is that you then have to travel forwards to get back to current time, and all of those days count. If you went back a year, that counts as one day. But, to be safe, you'd need to slowly travel forward. If you waited until the day someone pinged to move, you could safely make the yearlong jump. But, all your friendships will be knocked way down.

 

[Gizmodo]

So i walked into Bluebears house today and she asked me to dig her time capsule up
so i do, go back in and shes shivering and has a cold so wont do any dialogue except that
will the capsule expire :l or can i still give it to her when shes recovered?

 

[stardrop-crossing]

If I have ten villagers and someone is in boxes, will streetpass give me someone else's void garbage, or am I safe because I would still have ten?

 

[Fox-Teeth]

I have some questions about your birthday in game that I've gotten conflicting/vague answers from google about so maybe someone here that's already had their birthday in-game knows what's up. (mine's coming up and I'm trying to plan ahead )

1. I know there are special birthday items (cake, sign, candles, hat, etc) that are given to you by your villagers. Do you only get one item or multiple?

2. Are the birthday item(s) you get random or determined by your friendship with your villagers? (Thonky says random, moriDB says determined by friendship level) If it's by friendship level is there any way to predict which item you'll get?

 

[stardrop-crossing]

I have some questions about your birthday in game that I've gotten conflicting/vague answers from google about so maybe someone here that's already had their birthday in-game knows what's up. (mine's coming up and I'm trying to plan ahead )

1. I know there are special birthday items (cake, sign, candles, hat, etc) that are given to you by your villagers. Do you only get one item or multiple?

2. Are the birthday item(s) you get random or determined by your friendship with your villagers? (Thonky says random, moriDB says determined by friendship level) If it's by friendship level is there any way to predict which item you'll get?

I can't help you out on the second question, but my birthday came and went and received just one birthday item.

 

[katelynross]

While trying to tt beau into boxes, my freakin dreamie genji leaves unexpectedly. How many villagers do i gotta cycle to allow genji to move back in? & if anyone went through the cycling process, did it really work?

 

[Macaron126]

While trying to tt beau into boxes, my freakin dreamie genji leaves unexpectedly. How many villagers do i gotta cycle to allow genji to move back in? & if anyone went through the cycling process, did it really work?

You'll have to cycle out 16 villagers before Genji can move back in ;w; I've done it with Tammy and it does work...but it took a long time xC