I’m not getting any new DIY recipes

[Cetoddle769]

These days, I’m having trouble obtaining new DIY recipes that I haven’t learned yet. I know that I still have a good chunk to learn because I have and constantly update a checklist, but I always get ones I already know. For example, whenever one of my villagers is crafting, most of the time it’s a DIY I already know. Very rarely it’s one I don’t know. Same thing applies to message bottles. I feel like the game is making sure that I have a very hard time getting new DIYs. I REALLY want to craft the ironwood cupboard so I can put it in my kitchen, but I need an ironwood dresser to craft it. Since I don’t know the DIY recipe for the ironwood dresser, I can’t craft it. It makes me feel sad. Is the game really just making sure that I don’t learn any new recipes, or is it just REALLY bad RNG?

 

[Clock]

Its definitely bad rng. Even after 4 years playing on and off, I rarely get any new diys and all I get is duplicates most of the time.

 

[azurill]

It is really bad rng. I think they made it that way so you would have to trade for some of them. The only reason I was able to get all of them on my main island was the amazing people here. So many helped me get the ones I still needed.

 

[Bruscoe]

Yeah, I was in the same boat for a good long while. Receiving repeat DIY recipes is a common occurrence for all players, and it’s due to the bad RNG system on the game’s end. I’ve got them all now, but it was especially frustrating for me when it was a seasonal DIY I was trying to get, and I was forced to wait another year (without relying on friends or time traveling) before having another chance at it.

Eventually, I did rely on friends to get the remaining recipes, and that seems to be the quickest method of receiving them all. What also isn’t great is having to crosscheck ACNH Guides to figure out if you have them all or not. The game strangely does not let you know if you’ve learned everything. No counter, no “grayed out” recipes, nada. It is what it is.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

That’s the thing I hate about the DIYs. Your Islanders will give you a copy of the ones you already have no matter what you say and the Bottles and Balloon ones are a pure luck thing and it’s irritating when you get the Iron Wood table for the eighth time! At least give us the option to decline DIYs we already have and don’t want.

 

[Cetoddle769]

That’s the thing I hate about the DIYs. Your Islanders will give you a copy of the ones you already have no matter what you say and the Bottles and Balloon ones are a pure luck thing and it’s irritating when you get the Iron Wood table for the eighth time! At least give us the option to decline DIYs we already have and don’t want.

Yeah, it’s a pain when villagers insist on giving you duplicates and you have to throw them away, put them in your storage, or go all the way to Nook’s Cranny to get rid of them. At least on plane/boat tours you can just drop the recipe on the ground.

 

[xxcodexx]

im having the same issue on my island. i get cooking recipes instead of normal missing DIYs. its making me want to stop playing simply because its impossible or takes MONTHS to get the DIY that you want or need.

 

[Nooblord]

I started playing again recently and came across three new DIYs in a matter of days. Well, two recipes and one piece of furniture.

I know some DIYs are from specific personalities. and I’m still missing a few, but not sure when I’ll come across any new ones again. I’m expecting another drought especially after receiving three in such short sequence.