[Guide] Fool Proof Guide to Moving Villagers OUT

[AquaStrudel]

If you don’t time travel, then stop reading here, you silly bean.

Imma silly bean :3

Even though I don't time travel, I might just TT to get Pate and Monique out ASAP. I hate both of them ._.

Thanks for the guide

 

[HeyImDashie]

Does it HAVE to be the day the villager moved in? My ninth villager moved out today and nowI have eight. But, literally, I hate all my villagers.

 

[GirlPolarBear]

Will this work if my 10th villager is moving in today?

 

[MsGlazy]

Really useful. I admit, I still haven't time travelled yet. :s Lol. On my to do list now. Tysm for the info!

 

[RegisZDB]

I hope this thread gets stickied, super helpful!

 

[SilkSpectre]

Bump to make new players aware~

 

[SilkSpectre]

So this guide seems to be wrong in the "TT 4 days trust me no one moves out" section. I TT'd 4 days, was notified of a rumor. Went forward 1 day thinking I had 4 days before she was gone and she was in boxes so no... Yes I should have talked to her that day but she didn't ping or I didn't think to save quit and reload which this guide also doesn't include.I'm now determined to do the 16 villager cycle hopefully keeping the 6 remaining dreamies.

 

[moonbunny]

So this guide seems to be wrong in the "TT 4 days trust me no one moves out" section. I TT'd 4 days, was notified of a rumor. Went forward 1 day thinking I had 4 days before she was gone and she was in boxes so no... Yes I should have talked to her that day but she didn't ping or I didn't think to save quit and reload which this guide also doesn't include.I'm now determined to do the 16 villager cycle hopefully keeping the 6 remaining dreamies.

I saw your other thread and wondered what went wrong, but yeah, I think I see what happened now. You won't necessarily hear about a moving rumour on the day a villager first decides to leave. If there's always 5 days between the decision to move and the actual move out date, sometimes you won't hear about it until day 3 or 4.

Did you run past the villager after you heard about the rumour? Sometimes a villager won't ping me when I first run past them, but they will once another villager tells me about their moving plans.

Regardless, I'm so sorry you lost your dreamie. If you decide to do the 16 villager cycle, I hope you can finish it as quickly as possible.

 

[SilkSpectre]

Yeah after reading some other posts I decided I'll devote tonight and tomorrow to the 16 cycle. I moved out Aurora, moved in Julian. I TT'd 4 days ahead like it said and did my usual talk to a favorite til she's exhausted. That day or the next I spoke to Coco who after 2 chats said Ankha is leaving. I go to Ankha and she doesn't ping or say anything about mvoing so I decide to load the next day like I do with cycling unwanted ones and get her to ping me. I didn't read til after this that if that happens you're not supposed to TT but reload or do the diving trick. TT next day, in boxes. NO! Another lesson learned on my journey to perfect TT'ing. I'll cycle 16 and find an original Ankha (the one I had had a very messed up house but original clothes) in the Trading Plaza or my own cycling town. I'm never TT'ing 4 days again. Doing 2 days after new move ins or day by day to be way more careful from now on. Only TT'ing 4 days when a villager that's unwanted is moving out.

 

[SilkSpectre]

I keep going over in my head what I could have done wrong. I found a post my a player who experienced this same thing using the guide to moving villagers out so assumed there was an error. What I think I did was treated 9 villagers like 8 assuming I was getting a new move in but a dreamie would move out. The game is always getting itself back to 8 so you have to remember when you have 9 or 10! Hey I'm learning. This is a painful lesson but maybe just maybe I've got it now. But I won't be TT'ing much anymore but I will know how to be careful and what to look for.

 

[Subatomic_Matt]

This TTing trick really works! Unfortunately I've gone from June to November through the game I can *NEVER* get Rolf to move.

I'm trying to get him to move from a town I inherited when I bought a second used copy to farm villagers out of to my "real" game. So far eeeeverybody wants to move (multiple times) but him. Ahh!!

 

[claddagh]

I have just started doing this. For about a week now of in game days, my safety villager has been telling me that Lopez is thinking about moving. Whenever I go talk to him, he never mentions it, though! What do I do now? I just can't seem to get past the "thinking about moving". I want to keep Lopez for now, so skipping ahead a lot of days won't help me.

Edit:
UGH. I just skipped ahead one day and was informed that Lopez is leaving tomorrow. Oh well I guess. He isn't someone that I HAVE TO HAVE buuuuut, I did like him. There are others I wanted to get rid of before him, lol.

ANYWAY, any tips in case this happens to me again? ):

 

[Crash]

I have just started doing this. For about a week now of in game days, my safety villager has been telling me that Lopez is thinking about moving. Whenever I go talk to him, he never mentions it, though! What do I do now? I just can't seem to get past the "thinking about moving". I want to keep Lopez for now, so skipping ahead a lot of days won't help me.

Edit:
UGH. I just skipped ahead one day and was informed that Lopez is leaving tomorrow. Oh well I guess. He isn't someone that I HAVE TO HAVE buuuuut, I did like him. There are others I wanted to get rid of before him, lol.

ANYWAY, any tips in case this happens to me again? ):

I'm sorry to hear you lost him :< if this happens again, where you hear a rumor that a villager is leaving but they won't ping about it, keep saving & quitting your game until he does. you can even skip a few hours forward or back, as that won't hurt anything. (keeping in mind though that a day in animal crossing begins at 6am, so if you TT before or after then it will count as a day). it can get a little tedious but he will ping eventually.

 

[claddagh]

@Crash;
Ok, thank you for the info! <3

 

[LinkToTheWorld]

The problem is that if you don't speak with any other villager while you're doing this, they won't be able to ping you. That's why its best to talk to everybody before you start cycling, go 4 days forward and then go back 4 days to the current date. Then go one day at a time for four days, then go back and repeat. That way you always keep within the same week which mean you will always be on talking terms with everybody, allowing them to ping you.

 

[phoenixfab]

This is a really nice guide thanks!

 

[CrisLu]

But as far i understood, this guide is to people who are traveller, but if u not, and want a certain villager leave your town?

 

[ian]

im wondering this as well.

 

[gaydani]

I have a question. So I'm starting to try to start cycling, and can you time travel backwards while an animal is in boxes and when you get back to what the date really is, will the animal still be in boxes?

 

[namiieco]

I have a question. So I'm starting to try to start cycling, and can you time travel backwards while an animal is in boxes and when you get back to what the date really is, will the animal still be in boxes?

I don't quite understand but if a villager is moving and 1 day passes in real life you can tt back to their moving date and they'll still be in boxes.