Happy Home Designer - Frequently Asked Questions (Got a question? Look here!)
- Thread starter Voluptua Sneezelips
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I want to know this as well it I haven't seemed to unlock that ability yet - I'm hopeful
mirukushake
Senior Member
Yes, and they carry furniture from one house to another.
KitchenWhisk
Senior Member
When does the online, home-rating bit unlock?
LexxyRaptor
Awkward Stoner Aunt
When am I gonna be able to redesign something?
Voluptua Sneezelips
Senior Member
I visited 7 or 8 stores and ended up with 19 packs in total. Some shops didn't have the cards at all and some had very limited stock. Most places were limiting purchases to 3 packs per person. After those 19 packs, I still need 33 villagers out of the 100.
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Hi Graciela: it might take a bit of time for that information to develop, since people are just now only opening their packs and it will likely be a number of days or weeks before there's enough info out there to be able to determine if any specific cards are "rare".
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Hi there: after about 8 or 9 "workdays" of gameplay, including designing the school, Lottie mentioned it to me, though I had already downloaded the update. Without downloading the update, you won't get a prompt from Lottie about it.
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Hi Lexxy: did you mean to redesign a villager's home/public building, or did you mean refurbish furniture?
For refurbishing, I got the opportunity to take "courses" from my desk at some point after I designed the school (the first public building). Tom Nook came by to visit the next day and told me about the courses. A series of them gets unlocked for you to choose from, including refurbishing.
If you mean redesigning villagers' homes, you can choose to visit them from your clipboard, and when you speak to them in their home, the option to redesign should show up.
If you mean redesigning public buildings, I believe you can do so through Digby, by talking to him in Nook's Homes. I can't recall if I've received a prompt about this option yet or not, but nor have I tried talking to Digby yet. If I figure out more, I'll post here.
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Hi Spontida: It appears we're limited to a smallish pool of villagers to start with, then the pool expands a bit once we start designing public buildings. It might be worth just designing the home of one of the villagers (like Ribbot) to "get rid of" them, so someone new shows up. You could even do the equivalent of a speedrun through their house and do the bare minimum to it so you can get them out of the way (you can always go back later and do a more thorough design).
Is there anyway to kick out villagers? Like if you don't want a villager can you tell it to move out? Also why can't you walk around your town? That makes me sooooo upset that all you can do is make houses for villagers and buildings in mainstreet. I want to walk around the map and chat with all my villagers I just don't understand, could anyone explain this to me? Like do I ever get to talk to my villagers? Or do I just make houses for them?
mirukushake
Senior Member
Is there anyway to kick out villagers? Like if you don't want a villager can you tell it to move out? Also why can't you walk around your town? That makes me sooooo upset that all you can do is make houses for villagers and buildings in mainstreet. I want to walk around the map and chat with all my villagers I just don't understand, could anyone explain this to me? Like do I ever get to talk to my villagers? Or do I just make houses for them?
I don't think you can delete villagers. You can't walk around town because there is no town. There's just several predetermined plots you can use over and over again. On the bottom of your screen, there should be a book. If you tap that, you get a list of all of the villagers you've designed for, and you can go back to their house anytime.
Bulbadragon
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I know you're supposed to talk to Digby to redesign public buildings, but when? I'm looking around and he's only in the office at night and won't do anything besides saying "good job today." I have the first set of buildings completed (hospital, cafe, school, and shop) and I don't want to make any more unless I'm sure I'll be able to redo them when I get better furniture.
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Oh, okay, thank you so much for answering my question! That makes the game seem a bit better to me now, still makes me sad that there's no town to walk around. It seems like everything would seem sort of cut off/ disconnected from the player in some ways. I don't know, I just thought for some reason it would be exactly like animal crossing new leaf but with more control over what your townspeople wear, how their houses look, and what you can put into your town. I'm sure when I actually get my hands on the game I'll understand it better but right now it's a bit cloudy for me.
I did not realize you could switch the seasons when I was picking Carrie's plot. I have a nice plot but it is fall. Is there a way to change the season after the fact? I want summer for the yard for her joey to play in.
LeAckerman
Kibiy
Can I change my characters eyes and hair color later on?
Bulbadragon
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Yes, you can change everything but the gender once you unlock the styling machine.
Bulbadragon
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You can design all three in any order you want to.
