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Question about villager birthdays: do villagers put the gift you give them in their houses every time? Skye's birthday is tomorrow, and I got her a shirt, but I'm afraid she will replace an item in her house for it.

Give her a dress or something that she won't be able to place like a wallpaper/flooring
 
Give her a dress or something that she won't be able to place like a wallpaper/flooring

Took the risk and gave her an elephant shirt (mostly cause I think it would look OK on her), but she just put it in her pockets.
 
Took the risk and gave her an elephant shirt (mostly cause I think it would look OK on her), but she just put it in her pockets.

Did you check her house the next day? Still in her pockets or maybe she's trying to sell the shirt to you? :D
 
Hiya I have a question, about streetpass.
I have two ds's and two copies of the acnl. And i want to know how to upgrade the house I see from my other town. I've tried everything but I dunno how to do so.

Thanks for any help
 
Hiya I have a question, about streetpass.
I have two ds's and two copies of the acnl. And i want to know how to upgrade the house I see from my other town. I've tried everything but I dunno how to do so.

Thanks for any help

I believe you gotta streetpass again for the house to update.
 
Have them on at the same time, close them (don't turn them off!) and wait for the green light to turn on. The feature is meant for when you're going away from home and you pass someone on the street (heh) who also has a 3ds.
 
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I'm pretty sure I know the answer already from reading the forums over the years but I want to be 100% sure. I'm accustomed to time travel, as that's the way I normally play. I'm usually time traveling numerous times per day, from one day to the next. I've not gone months ahead before, so my question is this: As long as a villager pings you wanting to move out and you tell them not to and save, you should be able to skip to your chosen date without worry of anyone leaving by surprise, correct? There is only one villager I want to move out, I don't want to endanger the other nine. But I want to do the Bunny Day event with my friend since she's never done it before. You see my issue. I'm good to go if I folow those instructions, right?
 
As long as a villager pings you wanting to move out and you tell them not to and save, you should be able to skip to your chosen date without worry of anyone leaving by surprise, correct?

Ehh, I was going to say you're fine, but sometimes villagers move out without saying anything at all when tt'ing. However I'm not sure that's the case if you're going back in time. How many days are you needing to go back?
 
Ehh, I was going to say you're fine, but sometimes villagers move out without saying anything at all when tt'ing. However I'm not sure that's the case if you're going back in time. How many days are you needing to go back?

It would be forward actually, my game isn't set to the current date, month, or even year. It would be skipping ahead like a month. I could do it more slowly though if need be.
 
It would be forward actually, my game isn't set to the current date, month, or even year. It would be skipping ahead like a month. I could do it more slowly though if need be.

that's your best bet, then you can still talk to your villagers and make sure everyone is still staying in place
 
that's your best bet, then you can still talk to your villagers and make sure everyone is still staying in place

All right, awesome, thanks. One last thing: if the one villager I did intend to get rid of pinged to move and I accepted, they should be the only one that would, hypothetically, if I tried the original method, correct? I'll probably go slow regardless, just curious.
 
All right, awesome, thanks. One last thing: if the one villager I did intend to get rid of pinged to move and I accepted, they should be the only one that would, hypothetically, if I tried the original method, correct? I'll probably go slow regardless, just curious.

I would assume so, but i'm not 100% on that
 
I have a couple of questions this time around.

1. Nookipedia says snails spawn on hibiscus bushes, but is this really true? I've seen a source saying any bush is fine, as long as it's raining.

2. I would like Marshal to give his sloppy stereo to me someday. What's the best way to do this? It's one of those items he'll never sell to you when you're over his house. Also, I don't want to 'lose' it in his inventory by sending him a replacement for his stereo. I did that with Rodney by giving him a kiddie stereo by mail and I never saw the sloppy stereo and of course he moved out.
 
I have a couple of questions this time around.

1. Nookipedia says snails spawn on hibiscus bushes, but is this really true? I've seen a source saying any bush is fine, as long as it's raining.

2. I would like Marshal to give his sloppy stereo to me someday. What's the best way to do this? It's one of those items he'll never sell to you when you're over his house. Also, I don't want to 'lose' it in his inventory by sending him a replacement for his stereo. I did that with Rodney by giving him a kiddie stereo by mail and I never saw the sloppy stereo and of course he moved out.

Honestly, regarding the Sloppy Stereo, if you don't want to send him a replacement item so he'd switch it out, I'd recommend just purchasing one from someone in the Re-Tail section of the forums. I'll leave it to people who know more about this make suggestions though.

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I have a couple of questions this time around.

1. Nookipedia says snails spawn on hibiscus bushes, but is this really true? I've seen a source saying any bush is fine, as long as it's raining.

2. I would like Marshal to give his sloppy stereo to me someday. What's the best way to do this? It's one of those items he'll never sell to you when you're over his house. Also, I don't want to 'lose' it in his inventory by sending him a replacement for his stereo. I did that with Rodney by giving him a kiddie stereo by mail and I never saw the sloppy stereo and of course he moved out.

Honestly, regarding the Sloppy Stereo, if you don't want to send him a replacement item so he'd switch it out, I'd recommend just purchasing one from someone in the Re-Tail section of the forums. I'll leave it to people who know more about this make suggestions though.
 
All right, so new question regarding moving villagers out by scanning in an amiibo card. As mentioned previously, I'm currently trying to get a resident (Beardo) out of my town so I can move my Coco from another of my towns into the main one, and then adopt Ruby from someone on the forums in Coco's old place. Here's my problem: I've been attempting this for days, time traveling one day to the next, trying to get Beardo to ping to move, but he's the 10th villager, the most recent resident until these new plans, and 10th villagers are notoriously difficult to get out. Seemingly every other villager pings but him. So, I have some amiibo cards for some villagers I don't want to move into this specific town, but if I scanned one in and invited them to move into my town and forced Beardo out that way, can I thereafter move my Coco in instead of the amiibo, in essence cancelling out the amiibo villager? Is there always a gap of a day or two for amiibo move-ins? If this does work, is it safe?
 
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