How to get villagers into boxes?

[Airysuit]

Hi all!

I just wanted to know what ways there are to get a villager into boxes.
I heard about ignoring them several days, but i dont want to break my villager streak.
I also don't like to use amiibo still due to the glitch risk.

So are there other ways?

 

[Wickel]

TBH I feel like the whole ignoring them thing is useless. I honestly think it's random whoever moves out.
But there's no other way, so you should keep trying. I don't think you'll lose your streak though if it's only one person you don't talk to?

 

[Ciary]

I don't think it is. I was ignoring 2 villagers that I wanted to move out for at least a week. 1 of them just told me they wanted to leave.
though the one I have been ignoring for longer has not said anything yet. So while I think it's random how fast they want to leave, I do think that ignoring works.
Although, since it was taking so long I thought that, maybe ignoring multiple at the same time does not work? So I began talking one of them again. 1 day later, the one I talked to decided to leave

 

[TastyBells]

Has anyone tried gifting or mailing a villager a box? Does this trigger a move out sequence?

 

[oHaiZeta]

I've been using a method I saw someone share on google docs, basically the first day, you talk to any amount of villagers but i'm pretty sure you have to talk to the villager you also want to move out. From there the guide said go 15 days in the future but that was just triggering the two week notice that they haven't seen you and I didnt have much success with that.

So i went on to instead reduce it down to 7 days, reset the game and enter it again, talk to everyone and then went on to save and end the game and progress 2-3 days later, went back in to see the thought bubble would pop up with them wanting to move. I had basically every one of my villagers ask me to move out this way but the annoying part is that its random so you just have to hope its one of the villagers that you want to leave lol. If it is a villager you want to stay, i think you just tell him/her to stay and then go in the future a few more days and someone else will ping.

Edit: I only need to kick out Robin and give my friend Audie and then I'm set, from using this method

 

[Burumun]

I also think it's random. I had Canberra just move in yesterday from someone else's town, today's her first day living in my town normally and the first thing she told me was that she wants to move. Like, the only interaction I'd had with her before was to welcome her to my island while she was in boxes.

 

[Absinthe]

I didn't ignore my villagers, and also gifted them occasionally, and yet at one point (after a week or so) Ellie told me that she wants to move. I convinced her to stay however, she's way too kind.

 

[mayormars]

I've been using a method I saw someone share on google docs, basically the first day, you talk to any amount of villagers but i'm pretty sure you have to talk to the villager you also want to move out. From there the guide said go 15 days in the future but that was just triggering the two week notice that they haven't seen you and I didnt have much success with that.

So i went on to instead reduce it down to 7 days, reset the game and enter it again, talk to everyone and then went on to save and end the game and progress 2-3 days later, went back in to see the thought bubble would pop up with them wanting to move. I had basically every one of my villagers ask me to move out this way but the annoying part is that its random so you just have to hope its one of the villagers that you want to leave lol. If it is a villager you want to stay, i think you just tell him/her to stay and then go in the future a few more days and someone else will ping.

Edit: I only need to kick out Robin and give my friend Audie and then I'm set, from using this method

This is super interesting! I've been trying with the 15 days and that does work but some times it doesn't, could you go a bit more in depth with this? As english isn't my first language, a step-by-step process could help a lot!

 

[dragonair]

Honestly, I'm pretty sure it's random as well. Bam was the first villager to ask to move and I pretty much treated him like royalty. Bangle asked as well and I talked to her quite a bit. Then there's Al who I boolied and Croque who I ignored right upon move-in and they're still here.