icecreamcheese
Senior Member
you have the canon punchy house? im so jealouss
lets talk about starting villagers house
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I actually appreciate the generic houses. Some houses are so well put together that I don't want to mess it up by gifting them furniture (looking at you Julian...). With my starters, I don't have to worry and can gift them whatever I want.
Although, I do wish they'd be a bit smarter and more predictable with gifted furniture....
Some observations I made.
Although, I do wish they'd be a bit smarter and more predictable with gifted furniture....
Some observations I made.
- they do put up wall-items, including K.K. Covers
- Concerning K.K. music: They can either hang the covers on the wall or put them on the ground/furniture.
- They will play it if they have a music player, however, they will alternate between the song they originally had and the new music. There is also no guarantee that they'll put out a stereo just to play a song. I gifted Sprocket a piece of music and a stereo to play it on. Took him 3 weeks to finally decide to use it. His room was silent before.
- They seem to choose at random which furniture to exchange for the new one. As people said before, they won't replace their bed with the new one they just got and might end up with two beds instead
- I gifted Reneigh a rug, but she didn't put it out. Maybe she didn't like it enough. Needs more testing.
starlightsong
♡ static's biggest fan ♡
i have his amiibo card so i got him that way! my starter lazy was rex because i didn't know you were supposed to get your 3 villagers from the islands and got randoms. i wish i could help you get his real house somehow, it's so cute.
Figment
Dreamfinder
I hope that eventually the starter houses will be upgraded. Surely the developers will eventually realize it's been too long for them not to be changed.
It doesn't bother me a whole lot though. I actually prefer Midge in the female DIY starter house than I think I would in her normal house. Her normal house has too much yellow, I think.
The starter houses for jock and uchi villagers are sad though.
It doesn't bother me a whole lot though. I actually prefer Midge in the female DIY starter house than I think I would in her normal house. Her normal house has too much yellow, I think.
The starter houses for jock and uchi villagers are sad though.
icecreamcheese
Senior Member
thank you im still hopeful for some kind of upgrade <3
btw awesome community! tnx everyone love to read what u find and found with this issue
icecreamcheese
Senior Member
update - i have made punchy a nice custom blue bed, sent him by mail yesterday and today he replaced his log cabin one with it!
ill keep trying - will update if something good happens
WintergreenMynt
Junior Member
I have Sherb in a basic house and tbh I couldn't imagine him in anything else. He's a lazy cute goat who doesn't aspire to do much of anything, so it fits perfectly. He also constantly talks about the bugs in his house. I don't even know what his fully upgraded house looks like.
Still love the guy though. Even as squalid as he lives.
Still love the guy though. Even as squalid as he lives.
icecreamcheese
Senior Member
hey ill explain my side on this - the designers of the game made a specific house for each character and a generic one for 5 starters, im a designer myself so its important for me to see things as originally intended -
but as u said - i also still love the guy thats why i don't want to replace or re invite him.
so my current plan is to make his house like a cross road between the basic one and the specific one.
im gathering as much data as i can about this subject in order to know what are my limits.
btw i love sherb my friend has him and he looks very cutee
I'm thankful to having Bam as my starter villager, love the basic house with blue paintings much more than his own. But the only thing I hate is he never remove the sleeping bag!!! Never!!! I gave him a bed and he then has two beds. I gifted him the kitchen and he replace the bed with kitchen. I gave him the Foosball table and yeah the kitchen is gone. Kitchen again and Foosball table disappear....
The only thing remain unchanged is the sleeping bag which is so uncoordinate with the whole room.
And when we talk about the sleeping bag. Guess what? he says:"Hey, looks like you are so unwilling to have the sleeping bag in my room. You just do not understand!"
??????? What the xxxxxxxx!!!! Considering what clothes you give me. Yes, I will never understand your aesthetic!
Here is a pic what he gifted me:
icecreamcheese
Senior Member
love his blue wall! this house looks awsome !
THE LAZY VILLAGER STARTING HOUSE IS THE UGLIEST THING EVER AND IT UPSETS ME EVERY TIME I WALK INTO REX'S HOUSE I don't even know what his actual house is supposed to look like but I swear it has to be better than DIRT FLOORING. Kid Cat's and Fuchsia's houses might as well be dumps. Olive's house is decent, but only because normal villager starting houses aren't bad and she doesn't have too much junk cluttering it. I'd still rather they all be regular houses. Both my starters are still using sleeping bags even though I've gifted both of them multiple beds. Kid Cat puts up all the exercise equipment I give him and it's kind of hilarious but now his house looks like a crappy gym.
I wrote my own comment before I saw yours but this bugs me SO MUCH Kid Cat and Fuchsia still have their red and pink sleeping bags and I don't understand why they'll place EVERYTHING I give them except beds!! Don't they want to sleep comfortably?!
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I wrote my own comment before I saw yours but this bugs me SO MUCH Kid Cat and Fuchsia still have their red and pink sleeping bags and I don't understand why they'll place EVERYTHING I give them except beds!! Don't they want to sleep comfortably?!
futuristicsalad
Unpearable Pear
I'd like to ask: how were able to time it so that you had a spot open while Reneigh's house was still in boxes? I am trying to see if I can eventually get Mac back from my boyfriend's island. However, I'm finding it to be rather impossible to perfectly time it so that I'd have an open house plot at the same time that he'd be in boxes unless I'm super lucky or unless I time travel, which I don’t do.Sadly, it's literally impossible to get them to change their wallpaper and flooring, they can't use different ones at all, as was the case in NLYou can try gifting them other stuff but the AI isn't very smart so you have to be really lucky for them to use it correctly. I hate it because as a result of this, I consider getting villagers I really like for my starters to be really unfortunate and annoying and the exact opposite of lucky. I wish they'd upgrade to their real interiors over time or at least change the wall and flooring.
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Oh, I should add this, though, sorry I forgot it in my initial reply: If you trade that villager to a friend and have them trade the villager back to you, they'll get their real house instead of keeping the basic one--I did this with Reneigh. They also have special dialogue in your friend's town indicating they remember you. I'm not completely sure if it keeps friendship levels and such though because I'm not even sure how to really know what my friendship level with a villager is, beyond if I've gotten the last reaction from them or gotten their picture.
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starlightsong
♡ static's biggest fan ♡
Sadly I don’t have a solution for you because we’re both TTers. It seems you’ll either have to make an exception for this and TT back to the real date once you’re done (which will keep your friendship with your villagers as they won’t notice you were gone as long as you don’t talk to them while TTing). You can also, if one of you is willing to make an exception, do one of the following things:
- When Mac is in boxes, your boyfriend can keep TTing back to another hour on the same day until you have an empty plot. This will keep him in boxes as long as needed without having to go ahead to a new day
- Or, you can keep TTing back to another hour on the same day that you have an empty plot to ensure that nobody moves into it until your boyfriend has Mac in boxes.
Unfortunately if you’re completely set against TTing then I don’t think there’s any way to influence this sort of thing. Villagers move when they move, who’s chosen to ask to move is random, and the rate for how frequently they ask seems to be fairly low compared to NL and you can’t stop random villagers from filling your empty plot
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oh that’s awesome to know that they can replace their beds, then! thank you! i must’ve just gotten unlucky with chief and teddy ending up with 2 beds haha. if you’d like the exact bed that he has in his default house i can gift you one, or other items his default house has since i have most of not all of them. the bed you used looks cute, though!
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i’d like to explain why i feel so strongly about them having their real houses as well: it may be silly but to me, the way each villager decorates their house is a part of their character and something that helps make them unique and while i do hate the way some of the houses in NH are designed (mira or sterling for example had way better ones in NL and the new ones just plain don’t fit them) and i do also love gifting my villagers furniture i think they’ll like instead of keeping it 100% original, i like that no matter what, even if i give them pieces of furniture and new clothes and change their catchphrases, they’ll always have something that’s completely special and unique to them because no other villager’s house will look exactly like theirs. when i go in there and look at the stuff they’ve chosen to use—even stuff i gifted them since it means they liked it enough to use it!—it tells me about their character and what they like.
so yeah, your first jock/uchi/lazy/peppy/normal having a generic basic interior that matches literally everyone else’s first 5 villagers and which they will never upgrade to their real one majorly kills that for me, especially since wallpapers and flooring are unchangable
i still loved aurora and puddles when i had them as part of my first 5 but it made me sad knowing they could’ve had houses that were special to only them and instead had carbon copies of my friends’ normals and peppies. it was like they all just went and bought pre-furnished houses and left everything they owned behind. which maybe was the intention since you craft stuff for the lazy/normal/peppy but it still makes me sad and if anything, you only craft them 3 interior items—they could’ve brought some of their own stuff!
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Rubombee
Moth · they/them, shey/ther
I've already decided to try to find someone who would be willingly to TT for me when Cherry asks me to move, so that they can hopefully TT until she wants to move again so they could get her in boxes when I still have her plot…
Although I think I'll also be keeping Erik as well as his starter lazy house, because I think it feels so much more comfortable than the ice-themed one he has as his "real" one!
Although I think I'll also be keeping Erik as well as his starter lazy house, because I think it feels so much more comfortable than the ice-themed one he has as his "real" one!
Altarium
輝く月がまた雲に隠れた
Gift her the wooden bed customized to have white wood and a blue sheet! It's the one she has in her original house, and she will display it as it's the same that comes with the starter normal house but in a different color! When I get the DIY for the wooden table I'm sending her one customized to be the same way, as she also has that in her original house. Luckily the light blue wallpaper kinda fits her, lol
Yes they will! They will have their intended original houses
N a t
In the name of the Moon, Indeedaroo!
The only thing I've been able to do is swap the colors on certain items. Fuchsia was a starter and has the wooden block furniture starter house in my town. I hate the kiddie colors that she had, so I would give her the exact same furniture she already had except I made it all pastel to match her better and so far she has replaced a bunch of the kiddie colored stuff with pastel and even added a few items to her house like a sofa and a lamp. She has yet to swap out her wall clock for me though and I feel as though maybe she never will but she has all pastel block furniture now. I don't know that she would up and replace them with a different furniture item entirely but you can at least maybe color swap and add new stuff next to the old stuff like I did.
i notice the villagers seem to like switching their houses around sometimes; i gave raymond a few things to put on his desk and everytime i go in they've changed places, hes removed one thing or added one thing back, etc.
i also found that usually if they have no music in their homes, its easier to get them to use it by giving them a 1x1 player like a tape deck rather than something bigger. i gave raymond a big music player and he didn't use it, but then gave him, zucker and genji tape decks and they all were using it the next day
i also found that usually if they have no music in their homes, its easier to get them to use it by giving them a 1x1 player like a tape deck rather than something bigger. i gave raymond a big music player and he didn't use it, but then gave him, zucker and genji tape decks and they all were using it the next day
futuristicsalad
Unpearable Pear
Ahh yeah that’s what I figured. We’ll see what we can do. It’ll be a while until I think about it because a villager just moved into my island. Regardless, thanks for your help and tips! I appreciate itSadly I don’t have a solution for you because we’re both TTers. It seems you’ll either have to make an exception for this and TT back to the real date once you’re done (which will keep your friendship with your villagers as they won’t notice you were gone as long as you don’t talk to them while TTing). You can also, if one of you is willing to make an exception, do one of the following things:
- When Mac is in boxes, your boyfriend can keep TTing back to another hour on the same day until you have an empty plot. This will keep him in boxes as long as needed without having to go ahead to a new day
- Or, you can keep TTing back to another hour on the same day that you have an empty plot to ensure that nobody moves into it until your boyfriend has Mac in boxes.
Unfortunately if you’re completely set against TTing then I don’t think there’s any way to influence this sort of thing. Villagers move when they move, who’s chosen to ask to move is random, and the rate for how frequently they ask seems to be fairly low compared to NL and you can’t stop random villagers from filling your empty plot
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oh that’s awesome to know that they can replace their beds, then! thank you! i must’ve just gotten unlucky with chief and teddy ending up with 2 beds haha. if you’d like the exact bed that he has in his default house i can gift you one, or other items his default house has since i have most of not all of them. the bed you used looks cute, though!
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i’d like to explain why i feel so strongly about them having their real houses as well: it may be silly but to me, the way each villager decorates their house is a part of their character and something that helps make them unique and while i do hate the way some of the houses in NH are designed (mira or sterling for example had way better ones in NL and the new ones just plain don’t fit them) and i do also love gifting my villagers furniture i think they’ll like instead of keeping it 100% original, i like that no matter what, even if i give them pieces of furniture and new clothes and change their catchphrases, they’ll always have something that’s completely special and unique to them because no other villager’s house will look exactly like theirs. when i go in there and look at the stuff they’ve chosen to use—even stuff i gifted them since it means they liked it enough to use it!—it tells me about their character and what they like.
so yeah, your first jock/uchi/lazy/peppy/normal having a generic basic interior that matches literally everyone else’s first 5 villagers and which they will never upgrade to their real one majorly kills that for me, especially since wallpapers and flooring are unchangable
starlightsong
♡ static's biggest fan ♡
no problem! i did just think of one thing, though: do either of you have amiibo cards? you need an empty plot, and your boyfriend needs mac to be in boxes, right? if you have any amiibo cards your boyfriend can use, he can force mac into boxes that way whenever he wants by telling the amiibo villager that mac wants to move. this should be safe since all the glitches surrounding amiibo seem to have been fixed. you’d also need to keep in mind, though, that before an amiibo villager will move onto your island you must invite them to the campsite on 3 separate days. edit: should also add that the 3 days don’t need to be all in a row, just any 3 days at all! that should make things way easier to coordinate if you go with amiibo cards.Ahh yeah that’s what I figured. We’ll see what we can do. It’ll be a while until I think about it because a villager just moved into my island. Regardless, thanks for your help and tips! I appreciate it
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