* * Introduction * *
Fairly unimportant;
feel free to skip down to the Important section!
Hi everyone. Like many people here, I've been searching for the fastest and easiest (also cheapest!) method to hunt for my favorite villagers (looking at you, Raymond). I tried searching to see if anyone has brought up this method yet, but I couldn't find any results.Fairly unimportant;
feel free to skip down to the Important section!
After island hopping over 200 times and finding repeats of the same villagers, and TTing day-by-day to get ANY campsite villager to spawn proved fruitless, I finally gave up on those methods to search for Raymond. I decided to just let villagers randomly move in (the horror!) and hope for the best.
I had zero smugs living on my island when I finally got my first actual random move-in (I was initially getting voided villagers from people I visited/hosted, but since I "quarantined" my island, I began getting random move-ins). They were smug! Unfortunately, it was Rodney and not Raymond. I thought, heck, this may be just like New Leaf. In New Leaf, you were almost guaranteed a personality that you lack as a random move-in.
* * Important * *
Please read.
The information here is important for this method to work!
* You need to quarantine your island, which means you need to stop hosting/visiting others. This method relies on random move-ins – if you visit and host people, you will be getting their voided villagers instead of random move-ins.Please read.
The information here is important for this method to work!
* You need at least one of each of the other seven personality types - the amount doesn't matter! All that matters is that you do not have a villager with the personality of the specific villager you're targeting. For Raymond, this means you need to get rid of all of your smug villagers.
* If you're missing two personality types, such as lazy and smug, you'll get either a smug or a lazy as a random move-in: either one of the personalities you're missing.
* You need two plots for this method to work efficiently: A Target plot and a Cycle plot. This is because I can never get my most recent move-in to move out (which is important for this method to work).
* * TT Method * *
Please use the TT method in this thread to TT out villagers if TTing is something you're willing to do! It is very fast and efficient.
Tip: If you're doing the method in that thread: if you TT a day and you see no one with the thought bubble, close the game without saving and start the same day again! The villager that is supposed to have the thought bubble stays the same on the same day, so restarting the day may have them outside instead of inside.Please use the TT method in this thread to TT out villagers if TTing is something you're willing to do! It is very fast and efficient.
* Example: I'm trying to get rid of Chadder. I start up my game and notice Chadder is in his house. I also see no one with the thought bubble outside, even though there should be someone moving (There should be someone moving if it is not Saturday/an event and if on the previous day you had Tom Nook "reset" who is trying to leave with the moving island home trick). This is a day Chadder may be the one with the thought bubble, but since he's inside, you can't get him to move. Close the game without saving, and start the day again. I'm pretty sure Isabelle will give her morning announcements again. When the day is started, look around for the thought bubble - there's a good chance it's someone who was in a house, such as Chadder! If it's not who you want, close the game without saving and TT one day forward. Rinse, repeat.
* * Steps * *
Important:
Ensure you have two extra plots:
a Target plot and a Cycle plot.
Target Plot: Dedicated to the personality type of the villager you're targeting.
Cycle plot: Dedicated to help move out whoever is in the Target plot, due to the most recent move-in rarely asking to move.
Start with the plot that was not your most recent move-in. For these steps, we'll start with moving out the villager in the Cycle plot.
1. Begin TTing until the villager in the Cycle plot asks to leave. Let them leave.* Optional: After TTing out the villager from the "Cycle Plot," you can either do enough nook miles tasks for a single NMT and recruit a villager from an island, bring someone in via amiibo, or allow a villager to randomly move-in. Ensure that whoever you allow to move in is not the same personality as your target villager.
2. After you have moved out the villager in the Cycle plot and a new villager has successfully moved into the Cycle plot, begin to TT out the villager in the Target Plot.
3. Once you move out whoever is in the Target Plot, TT until you get a random move-in. It should be a villager of the personality that you are targeting. If you're targeting Raymond, you should get a random smug villager to move into the Target plot.
* If it isn't a villager of the personality you're targeting, you're either missing a personality type or you picked up a voided villager from multiplayer play. Continue the method until you clear out your void of other player's voided villagers. This may take a few times to clear your void.
4. Repeat steps 1-3 if you do not get your targeted villager.
* * My Experience * *
My target was Raymond, a smug villager.
My target was Raymond, a smug villager.
1. Since Rodney was my most recent move-in, I moved out Bob from the Cycle plot.
2. After Bob left, I used a NMT to quickly find a villager replacement for Bob's old plot (the Cycle plot).
3. After the villager moved in, I then proceeded to TT out Rodney from the Target plot.
4. Once Rodney left, I continued to TT until I got a random move-in (can take several days for an actual random move-in; a voided villager takes up the plot very quickly, usually within a day or two).
This occurred eight times over the course of two days, and each time it happened, I got a smug villager to move into the Target plot 100% of the time.
These villagers are who I got to "randomly" move in with this method while targeting Raymond, a smug villager:
* Rodney
* Chops
* Chadder
* Lucha
* Lopez
* Tex
* Phil
* Colton
All smug villagers!
When my boyfriend did this method to help me hunt for Raymond, he had to kick out two of his smug villagers: Curlos and Phil.
When he got his first random move-in, it was Chadder.
After he kicked Chadder out and got his second random move-in, he got Raymond!
Despite not getting Raymond myself (luckily my bf gave him to me!), I'm very happy that this method worked so well – 100% of my move-ins had the targeted personality: smug!
* * Conclusion * *
With a 100% success rate of targeting a specific personality, this method is far more efficient than island hopping. It is highly recommended to do this method as well as the campsite method!
Note: I could have moved out more villagers in a shorter time frame if I had forced out my smugs via amiibo, but I was doing this during a time when villager plots were glitching as a result of forcing out villagers via amiibos. It should be much quicker to do this method when using amiibos to force out your target plot!
I hope this helps people find their favorite villagers – good luck everyone, and please feel free to post if this method has proven successful for you! ^_^
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