gloomville
Senior Member
I tried it and it didn't work for me. No one wanted to move the next day or day after.
How to Reset Which Villager is Moving
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Oh my god you have saved me SO much time... i used this earlier and instead of going forward a week at a time and then inching along until someone wanted to move, this has given me a move request a day. So much easier and should work without time traveling though I’m not sure... if it does work without time traveling would it be ok if I drew a little info graphic to spread this around? A LOT of people would appreciate this I think, and I’d of course give you credit for figuring this method out. God the time I could have saved the other day...
Edit: an adjustment I’ve made is if no one outside wants to move, save and quit then go back in and the villagers who are outside vs inside usually resets and that almost always roots out who wants to move (since it’s a set person, not always someone who is outside though)
Edit: an adjustment I’ve made is if no one outside wants to move, save and quit then go back in and the villagers who are outside vs inside usually resets and that almost always roots out who wants to move (since it’s a set person, not always someone who is outside though)
Unfortunately, I'm not really experiencing much success using this method? Either I'm doing something wrong or the RNG Gods hate me. I've been doing this for an hour now and the villager asking to move out has been rotating between 3 of the 10 villagers. So now, I'm giving up.
It went: Puddles, Buzz, Buzz, Stella, Puddles, Buzz, Stella, Puddles, Stella, Buzz, Puddles, Puddles, Stella, Buzz, Stella.
I'm pretty sure it's just RNG but...yeah...unfortunately, I'm not saving any time using this method. :/
It went: Puddles, Buzz, Buzz, Stella, Puddles, Buzz, Stella, Puddles, Stella, Buzz, Puddles, Puddles, Stella, Buzz, Stella.
I'm pretty sure it's just RNG but...yeah...unfortunately, I'm not saving any time using this method. :/
I'm sorry you're not having any luck with it! We all have bad RNG days unfortunately
I think a graphic would be great! I'm sure it would help a lot of people! And would be tons easier to share around!
If you wanted to credit could you credit it to my tumblr in my signature? ♥
Honestly I'm so thankful I figured this out, and it was all because I wanted to move Felicity's house for the next villager who was coming in! My love of moving around the houses has done more than just drain my wallet lol.
Thank you! It worked for me!! I first had Biff wanting to move, but I said no. Next day Merengue wanted to move, I said NO! Third day and KK Slider was in town, and no body had thought bubble. But then I TT'd back 1 day and Jacques wanted to move and I said yes 
DarkSlayer1331
Senior Member
This is definitely good to know! I feel like I'm finally in a place where I wouldn't mind TTing now and then in order to get a new villager. Not that I have anybody that I want to stay with me FOREVER. But there are some I'd like to see leave sooner than others.
di12tymary
Junior Member
Any good way to get animals to have the thought bubble? I know in new leaf you could reset pings by being far away (usually by swimming) for 10 minutes.
This is such great information! Thank you a ton!
If you don't mind TT, according to another guide, talk to a few villagers and then save and skip 15 days and choose time between 12pm - 3pm. You should see a bubble on this day, assuming there's no event and not a rainy day. Then if it's not the villager you want to leave, follow OP's guide.
di12tymary
Junior Member
Well I got it working for a while. And then one day (not a Saturday) there wasn't anyone who wanted to move. So maybe it was the crafting villager. I skipped ahead another day and now no one wants to move again. -sigh- waste of time.
Woah, can someone else join me in using the bug net to slap a villager who's doing a thinking emoji? i think it may have the same effect as the moving houses thing! it stops the thinking thing outright. i will continue to experiment as i furiously try to force curlos out
di12tymary
Junior Member
At it again, but not sure if the last villager to move in can be the one who asks to move. Reset the mover about 20 times and its never been the latest to move in.
Breath Mint
Minty#4226
You don't have to talk to Nook about moving their house, one time Fauna wanted to move and I restarted the game without saying yes or no and the next time I saw her she didn't want to move anymore
di12tymary
Junior Member
Yes but that doesn't allow you to refresh who wants to move.
I'm sorry, but I do not see much point in this method. You can easily reset who is wanting to move out by simply exiting the game without saving once you notice a thought bubble on a villager's head and time travel.
I've tried a BUNCH of time traveling, moving villagers in and out, with various methods found in the Discord servers
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I've been having difficulty myself trying to move out my most recent villager that I got randomly online.
This method also does not switch the target of the thought bubble either, as many people have claimed it is possible to get the same villager wanting to move again.
I've had very little success trying methods to move out my newest villager. Have seen multiple players struggle with it too.
I've tried a BUNCH of time traveling, moving villagers in and out, with various methods found in the Discord servers
time travel faq
zoe here! if you notice any misinformation, feel free to send a dm Time Travel: Frequently Asked Questions By: soda#8937, zoe#1811, davidjl123#6170, kitty#7395, boat#5069, and tt-general! Precursor(s): Weeks in this game are Monday-Sunday, not Sunday-Saturday. Time travelling will not break your...
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This method also does not switch the target of the thought bubble either, as many people have claimed it is possible to get the same villager wanting to move again.
I've had very little success trying methods to move out my newest villager. Have seen multiple players struggle with it too.
Honestly, I think it's down to luck for New Horizons. I have a friend that picked up an unwanted villager from the void. Literally one day after the villager settled in, she asked to move out. He didn't do any time travel or anything and had just reached the number of villagers needed to trigger someone to ask to move out.
On the other hand, I have tried to get my third village to move out for a while now and she finally asked today after extensive TTing. Literally every single of the 9 other villagers asked to move out at least once before her. One of my villagers had the thought bubble a total of THIRTEEN times throughout the whole process...
If I see a villager with a thought bubble and I immediately ask to move their house, will that reset any thought they have or only ones about moving? I want to do this while not time-travelling, but also don't want to miss out on any nicknames and catchphrases villagers might want to give me.
