How will animal villagers be housed in New Horizons ?

[Boccages]

I watched the Treehouse earlier and one line Aya said struck me as odd. She said : we used to let you drop in a pre-built town in previous games. Now, in New Horizons, you have to build yours from scratch on a deserted island. I'm paraphrasing, so this might not have been her exact words.

I was thinking about it and we could see a few villagers wandering around in the Treehouse footage. We could even see (in the island's minimap and also seen during the segment) that there were other tents on the island, besides the main character. These tents are not other players tents because they do not have the same shape (they are round tents instead of pointy tents like the human player's) as pointed out by Justin in his blog post.

On the other hand, we could see in the trailer shown during the E3 reel, that animal villagers will return with their own house and a few more interactions (like sitting under a tree). It struck me that for the first time, the player will get to choose where to build his neighbors houses. This was not confirmed in any way, at any time, but it's just the logical result from "having to build your village from scratch on a deserted island"

So what if :

• Freshly arrived villagers settle in your town with their tent;
• If they like your hamlet, they ask for you to build them a house;
• You can then choose if you want to build this newcomer a house or not;
• If you do, they stay in your town;
• If you don't, they'll eventually move out;
• I guess building/crafting will also enable you to customize your town further: you want a coffee shop, a municipal dump or a museum ? Sure, gather the materials and build them;
• So all the shops and service buildings could now lie within your island seemlessly, no need for a separate "shop" section like in New Leaf.

Does this makes sense. Am I the only one that thinks that may be how it will work in Animal Crossing: New Horizons?

 

[pinkfawn]

I think you've pretty much hit the nail on the head there, this is all what I was thinking too. I do hope though that even if a villager has a house, you can move them out later down the road.

 

[ScaryGhosts]

I watched the Treehouse earlier and one line Aya said struck me as odd. She said : we used to let you drop in a pre-built town in previous games. Now, in New Horizons, you have to build yours from scratch on a deserted island. I'm paraphrasing, so this might not have been her exact words.

I was thinking about it and we could see a few villagers wandering around in the Treehouse footage. We could even see (in the island's minimap) that there were other tents on the island, besides the main character. One of which (at least) was of the other player Aya was playing with.

On the other hand, we could see in the trailer shown during the E3 reel, that animal villagers will return with their own house and a few more interactions (like sitting under a tree). It struck me that for the first time, the player will get to choose where to build his neighbors houses. This was not confirmed in any way, at any time, but it's just the logical result from "having to build your village from scratch on a deserted island"

So what if :

• Freshly arrived villagers settle in your town with their tent;
• If they like your hamlet, they ask for you to build them a house;
• You can then choose if you want to build this newcomer a house or not;
• If you do, they stay in your town;
• If you don't, they'll eventually move out;
• I guess building/crafting will also enable you to customize your town further: you want a coffee shop, a municipal dump or a museum ? Sure, gather the materials and build them;
• So all the shops and service buildings could now lie within your island seemlessly, no need for a separate "shop" section like in New Leaf.

Does this makes sense. Am I the only one that thinks that may be how it will work in Animal Crossing: New Horizons?

Wait a minute. The idea of villagers camping and being able to move in and asking you to build them a house sounds really likely! Smart!

 

[BossMK]

As nice of a feature as that sounds, I don't it happening in my personal opinion, since you don't own the island, Nook does. They may ask for your opinion on where to live but I just don't think they'll ask you to build them a place, but thats not impossible either so we'll see later on. I'll be really surprised if they are going to allow the player to build every single full building from scratch, but you that would be fresh and I wouldn't mind being able to customize Brewster's cafe.

 

[Twisterheart]

I'm guessing that either

A) Once you pay off you debt to Nook, everyone will be automatically upgraded to a new house. The bigger your house gets, the bigger and better your residents homes will be as well.

B) Villagers will ask you to help build them a house the more your friendship progresses.

C) Villagers already live in houses. The tents we see are just some other feature. Maybe a camp ground or something.

 

[MissShema]

Oh my gosh I hope you're right! That would be the perfect animal crossing game! I also really hope for Amiibo compatibility because I'm planning to move all of my villagers from my new leaf town in, I spend a lot of money buying the amiibo cards separately, I really wanted to make sure that my villagers will be there too, I've grown quite accustomed to them haha

 

[adeline]

My wildest hope was for some HHD functionality with villager homes... maybe it wasn't so wild after all!

 

[Kaiaa]

My wildest hope was for some HHD functionality with villager homes... maybe it wasn't so wild after all!

I want this more than anything for this new game. I’d like to be able to not only build their house but maybe decorate it too!

 

[Boccages]

I want this more than anything for this new game. I’d like to be able to not only build their house but maybe decorate it too!

Yup, that would be the logical next step, wouldn't it ?

 

[Jason Voorhees]

It depends what authority we have.

Does the island have any form of government?

Are we the owner?
I don't think we are. Nook looks to be in total charge.

 

[satine]

We saw two tents and she asked for the second Islander to "join" her in the Treehouse gameplay, so maybe both of the tents belonged to the players? And the villagers have homes somewhere else. Though I didn't see them on the map either so... Who knows.

 

[lars708]

Wow I like your idea a lot! I hope that they'll do it like that now but who knows if they will...

 

[Boccages]

We have a tiny bit more information coming from this IGN article regarding how many animal villagers start out with you on your deserted island.

Here is the direct quote:

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, players start their adventure on a deserted island with a tent and only two other animals rather than an established town. To progress, players must work toward improving the island.

 

[Chouchou]

We saw two tents and she asked for the second Islander to "join" her in the Treehouse gameplay, so maybe both of the tents belonged to the players? And the villagers have homes somewhere else. Though I didn't see them on the map either so... Who knows.

Oh shoot I did not think about the tents as houses from the players.. I was thinking they where from Fuscha and Hamlet. But I'm sure we will get to choose where a villagers is going to live. We can plan out the whole island so why not the housing aspect of it?

 

[Stevey Queen]

I'm really hoping we can choose where villagers will live. I really dont want to plot reset again in this series, if it will even work in this game

 

[UglyMonsterFace]

What if we build empty homes on our island as some sort of pwp and then villagers would come and take up an empty house. When they move in, they would decorate the house interior and exterior so it would look different! This way makes sense with building a town from the ground up and also be a way for us to choose where houses can go, but at a price since we will have to pay Nook ti build the house for us!

 

[Soot Sprite]

That?s kinda what I was thinking, and I really hope that?s going to be the case. I don?t mind having a villager just pop a tent wherever, but I want to choose where their actual house is going to be. I can deal with building it for them if I get that kind of control.

If we?re building everything from scratch I don?t see why that wouldn?t be the case.

 

[Boccages]

Oh shoot I did not think about the tents as houses from the players.. I was thinking they where from Fuscha and Hamlet. But I'm sure we will get to choose where a villagers is going to live. We can plan out the whole island so why not the housing aspect of it?

The two tents we see on the minimap in the Treehouse segment were Hamlet's and Fuschia's, not the other player's. Why ? They have different shapes (round) than the player's tent (which is pointy). Besides, they have signs besides their tent to identify the owner of the tent unlike the player's tent.

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That’s kinda what I was thinking, and I really hope that’s going to be the case. I don’t mind having a villager just pop a tent wherever, but I want to choose where their actual house is going to be. I can deal with building it for them if I get that kind of control.

If we’re building everything from scratch I don’t see why that wouldn’t be the case.

I couldn't have said it better

 

[Villager Fan]

I'm crossing my fingers that we can get more than 10 villagers per town this time. Maybe bump it up to 12, 15 or even 20. The maps seems to be bigger than the New Leaf map, so that's exciting. I wonder what they'll do about the museum, Re-Cycle, Town Hall etc. Do we build those and will there be a separate area similar to Main Street for other buildings like a shoe store, barbershop, etc? I'm just so excited to see what else they have in store! Especially new and returning villagers.