How did you choose your villagers?

[Croconaw]

If anyone has dream villagers, how did you choose them? All of my villagers are of the same color scheme and species (dog and wolf). I love all of my villagers and this is the best set of villagers I think I’ve had in all Animal Crossing games. I think it’s interesting to see how people choose their villagers. I’ve seen food islands and fairytale islands with matching villagers. How did you choose yours? Obviously I don’t care much for personality types, as I don’t have a snooty on my island. I definitely love my current group though!

 

[warrior_kitty]

cool villger 10/10

 

[. Rarity .]

I've picked mine from favorites, but also the main thing that all of them have to be male.

My dreamies were Kid Cat, and Sherb. I love Kid Cat, since he was my villager I played in the Wii U game, I love his design. Sherb, well hes just adorable. But I wanted to find him on my own, which I found him on a material hunt

Im currently very happy with my line up, Ive got my favorites. Basically if I vibe with them, then I take them, but if I dont then I don't. I gotta get along with them,
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However, my original plan was to use all my villagers I picked in advence, since my island was based on my novel. I spent a week picking animals to base off my chatacters

But that idea has changed, so now Im really only taking male, and villagers I get along with.
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Appearences don't matter to me. I got pairs, and I gotta get them getting along, and if they dont get along then I gotta try something else

But all my current villagers get along with their partner, so Im happy with my line up. Also with them.

 

[Moritz]

Well my first dreamie for new horizons was Tybalt. I found him by listening to a villager hunt and heard his name said. It got my attention because Tybalt is my favorite character from romeo and juliet. He's also my favourite to play in the sims 2 veronaville, and my favourite character in bare plays him in the show.
I saw him and he just looked so cool so I had to have him!

That was the start of my slippery slope into getting new villagers.

Since I had then got a new villager via amiibo (I bought his amiibo on ebay), I thought I would try out other villagers I thought looked cool through amiibo.

I set myself rules. I could not have more than 1 of the same species at the same time. And I had to have all 8 personalities.
That has stayed mostly consistent.

Since then I have tried out 42 different villagers and I think I have ran out of those I want to have on my island.
I think I've now narrowed it down to the 10 I want to keep forever.

So its been a long, time consuming, but very fun task!

 

[warrior_kitty]

Well my first dreamie for new horizons was Tybalt. I found him by listening to a villager hunt and heard his name said. It got my attention because Tybalt is my favorite character from romeo and juliet. He's also my favourite to play in the sims 2 veronaville, and my favourite character in bare plays him in the show.
I saw him and he just looked so cool so I had to have him!

That was the start of my slippery slope into getting new villagers.

Since I had then got a new villager via amiibo (I bought his amiibo on ebay), I thought I would try out other villagers I thought looked cool through amiibo.

I set myself rules. I could not have more than 1 of the same species at the same time. And I had to have all 8 personalities.
That has stayed mostly consistent.

Since then I have tried out 42 different villagers and I think I have ran out of those I want to have on my island.
I think I've now narrowed it down to the 10 I want to keep forever.

So its been a long, time consuming, but very fun task!

did you get tybalt

 

[Moritz]

did you get tybalt

I did indeed!
He is the one thing that has stayed consistent on my island this year. Hes built into my islands lore now. I'm never letting him go!
Even got a plush of him

 

[warrior_kitty]

I did indeed!
He is the one thing that has stayed consistent on my island this year. Hes 1built into my islands lore now. I'm never letting him go!
Even got a plush of himView attachment 376780

wait there animal crossing plushies

 

[Croconaw]

I did indeed!
He is the one thing that has stayed consistent on my island this year. Hes 1built into my islands lore now. I'm never letting him go!
Even got a plush of himView attachment 376780

Wow. I have to say... that’s an amazing plush. I love Tybalt. How big is that plush?

 

[Moritz]

Wow. I have to say... that’s an amazing plush. I love Tybalt. How big is that plush?

Yeah I was really happy with the quality of him!
Hes about 30cm I believe

 

[LuchaSloth]

I play normally. When I see one I like, I have them move in. That's about it. Never had any plans.

(With the exception of Chai and Marty from the amiibo pack)...who I intentionally did the thing to get.

 

[VanitasFan26]

I pick villagers based on how they look. If they are a Jock or Lazy I would not accept them because I don't like their personality and any villager that has like a weird or ugly design it just won't fit well with me. I want to look for villagers that fit my style that has my favorite colors like blue/black and green. Also their homes must have an interior that makes sense. Any outdoor interior doesn't count.

Also by the time I get a villager's photo I wait to make sure that they are thinking of moving or I use an amiibo to kick out a villager that refuses to go if it takes too long and then I allow more villagers in just so I can get their photo and repeat the same process.

 

[Kattea]

I chose villagers with a soft pastel colour scheme (Melba, Lily, Maple, Deirdre, Diana, Etoile, etc.) I also try to choose species that would naturally reside in a forest such as bear cubs and deer, since that is my island theme. Etoile was a bit of a stretch but I just had to have her.

 

[Dunquixote]

I had a plan before getting ACNH to get my NL favorites. The plan was adjusted repeatedly since initially I had no interest in any of the new villagers but then I found a couple on islands and I grew to like all (not sure about Reneigh yet). And while posting here, my opinion changed on a lot of villagers. Designs are what makes me like or not like villagers but bonding also helps too. I still want to have a lot of the villagers that I had back in Nl, so that is a mixture of bonding and liking their designs. Ones I want to cycle through I’d invite probably solely for their design and to get to know.

 

[Lirinya]

My general rule of thumb is: are they cute? yes. > Move in.

When I started I tried to rotate them out based on personalities for the reactions but couldn't be bothered befriending villagers I didn't like for the sake of a couple reactions I'd never use.

Most of mine come from amiibos, but I think I have two who I leave to move them on when I get bored of them, and then go island hunting for someone I might not have known I liked (or any that dont have amiibos. I've still yet to meet judy :/ )

 

[Nefarious]

They either fit in the categories "childhood friend" or "look the type to partake in knife fights behind the Walmart dumpster" haha.

 

[Nunnafinga]

I have a pool of villagers that I would have in/on my town/island no matter what.After that I just choose villagers that I like for whatever reason.

 

[Rosch]

When I first started this game, I looked up a list of all the villagers and wrote a list of my previous favorite villagers, and a list of villagers that I find interesting.

I prioritized moving in my favorites, and now that I exhausted my list, I am at the point of inviting villagers that interest me.

 

[daringred_]

mine were all some of my favorites from my two NL towns, although i'm pretty sure biskit and lucky both date back to either WW or CF -- NL was not the first time i met them. dotty and pompom are two of the dreamies i'd move onto a second island (if i had one), and that's because i had them both as neighbors in WW (my first AC game) where they were best friends.

there isn't really a constant between any of my dreamies other than that a lot of them are cats. i just like what i like.

 

[Xara]

i went into new horizons with a list of 10 dreamies in mind - most were some of my favourites from new leaf but there were a few who were new to me as well. most of them were chosen because of previous experiences with them but for the ones who i hadn’t had before, i truthfully chose them because of their appearance as that’s all i had to go off of . i discarded my dreamie list a few months back, though, as there’s so many villagers that i love and want to experience and i don’t want to limit myself to a specific group. i currently have 5/10 of the villagers from my initial list + am hoping to add in one more eventually but now, i don’t really have a set list of villagers that i want or any requirements for who i do invite, i just go with whoever interests me for whatever reason aha. i’m incredibly indecisive which makes choosing villagers difficult lol but while island hopping (the main method that i use for finding villagers), as soon as i run into someone that i can’t imagine leaving without, that’s how i know that i’ve made my decision. stuff like interior/exterior, personality and species don’t really impact my decisions - as long as it’s a villager that i like, that’s all that matters to me.

 

[MadisonBristol]

All were found randomly on islands except Judy, who moved in on her own. Melba and Tangy were the first two villagers I found.