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Is it possible to have no visiting npc? My second island is only 1 or 2 stars so no KK today, and I can't find any of the other visitors. I've checked the beaches, the plaza, and I had CJ and Flick this week so I know its not them. Maybe Saharah is really well hidden, but I can't find her. I've also talked to my villagers to see if they mention anyone, but no
Since it's a weekend it's possible it "rolled" Wisp or Celeste tonight. I'm pretty sure that regardless of whether you've unlocked K.K., the regular NPC rotation won't go on the weekend.
 
hi there! when you have a villager in boxes and someone invites them to their island when that person left the villager is normally already gone! and the house says ive moved out. Is this still the case or has that glitch been fixed? I just let someone invite a villager and the person is not responding to me anymore but i'm worried because the villager is still in boxes on my island 😭 i havent traded a villager in months so i'm just hoping this changed or something.
 
hi there! when you have a villager in boxes and someone invites them to their island when that person left the villager is normally already gone! and the house says ive moved out. Is this still the case or has that glitch been fixed? I just let someone invite a villager and the person is not responding to me anymore but i'm worried because the villager is still in boxes on my island 😭 i havent traded a villager in months so i'm just hoping this changed or something.

The "Moved Out" glitch has been patched for months.

What do you mean when you say "is still in boxes"? Because seeing the "Moved Out" message is normal when a villager is invited. It's a fail-safe to prevent multiple people from inviting the same villager.

If the "Moved Out" message is displayed and you're unable to go into the house, then the villager will move out tomorrow normally. If you can still go into the house and talk to the villager even after the guest has left and you have also exited the house, then something like a communication error occurred and the adoption didn't complete properly.
 
The "Moved Out" glitch has been patched for months.

What do you mean when you say "is still in boxes"? Because seeing the "Moved Out" message is normal when a villager is invited. It's a fail-safe to prevent multiple people from inviting the same villager.

If the "Moved Out" message is displayed and you're unable to go into the house, then the villager will move out tomorrow normally. If you can still go into the house and talk to the villager even after the guest has left and you have also exited the house, then something like a communication error occurred and the adoption didn't complete properly.

The latter happened the guest went into the house and was there for a while but they left normally said thanks and went to my airport but i loaded the game up again after a few minutes and my villager is still in boxes... i just have no idea what happened so i was hoping that IDK there was any other explanation because I can't get in contact with the person anymore :(. I just wanted to know if any recent villager traders had this happen because there was no disconnect error at all!! Thank you though!
 
Yo is it normal that my uchi, who has a starter house that I have heavily modified by giving her replacement furniture, has just recently started to put her original starter furniture back for no reason? This has only happened since the update, and I don't believe I gave her anything before seeing it happen the first time. I have also never given her any furniture that resembles her starter furniture, so it has to be the starter furniture I'm seeing.

The first time I visited her house after the update landed, she had placed her wooden-block chair in the corner of the room (not in the "chair" spot next to the table). I then gifted her a watering can, so the watering can took the place where the chair was, and now she has replaced the wooden dresser I gave her back in like May with her old wooden-block dresser.

Does this mean villagers can now replace furniture other than misc. items at will? Alternatively, is this maybe something they're doing in response to a season change? I'd make a thread for this, but don't know if there's just something I'm not aware of that already exists
 
Need help finding a tarantula. Any tips? I need to get one for Blathers. I’ve been trying going to MMT islands and clearing everything out. Just getting damselflies and crickets.
 
I’m sorry if this is a dumb question but are items that come in different colors/versions different from items that are customizable? For example, the climbing wall that comes in white, blue, pink and wood. Can you own any one of those and use a customization kit to get all colors, or is it different from items that are customizable?

On that note if it is different, can you complete a set just by shopping at your own Nook’s over time or is every version only available if you trade with others?
 
Need help finding a tarantula. Any tips? I need to get one for Blathers. I’ve been trying going to MMT islands and clearing everything out. Just getting damselflies and crickets.
AFAIK Nintendo actually nerfed the spawn rates of tarantulas (or rather, raised the rates of other critters) so that people won't be able to farm tarantulas with the makeshift tarantula island so easily anymore. It's still possible, but takes a significantly longer time. Have you been chasing off all the other insects that spawn by running around the island? There will always be wharf roaches - I think that's what they're called - spawning on those rock formations near the beaches that need to be scared away in order to encourage other bugs to spawn.
If you have lots of empty and wide open spaces, you might be able to just get a tarantula on your own island by running around and looking for them, but only take your net out when you actually spot one. Other than that, your best bet is and will always be the actual tarantula island, which can be visited once a day and has a 2% chance of occuring when you're flying to a mystery island.
EDIT: also wanted to mention that the Bamboo Island remains the best choice for making a tarantula island because of it's lack of rivers. Since giant water bugs received a rate boost and are kind of hard to scare off, they often prevent tarantula spawning, but on a Bamboo Island that won't be a problem.
I’m sorry if this is a dumb question but are items that come in different colors/versions different from items that are customizable? For example, the climbing wall that comes in white, blue, pink and wood. Can you own any one of those and use a customization kit to get all colors, or is it different from items that are customizable?

On that note if it is different, can you complete a set just by shopping at your own Nook’s over time or is every version only available if you trade with others?
There are only a select few items from Nook's that allow customization, mostly furniture that has fabric on it which you can then customize to show a custom design. Things like the different climbing walls however can't be customized and have to be acquired one by one. You can get different colors via shooting down balloons, and there is a SMALL chance that they will show up in Redds boat one day, as he will be able to sell you color variants of an item different than what your Nook's sells, but the chance of it being not only the item you want but also getting it multiple times in different colorways is kept staggeringly low on purpose to encourage buying the online membership and trading with other people. So if you're fine with waiting a potential lifetime for one item in a different color, yes, it's possible with Redd and balloon hunting. But for cataloguing everything, trading is much more reliable and faster.
Nook's Cranny will never sell you a different colorway other than the one assigned to your island of any item.
 
Hi, anyone else experienced this? When you go on your game to start playing, but your save data or at least half the saved data is missing? I know I saved manually after putting some stuff I had in my pockets into my storage but when I started the game later on, majority of my items were still in my pockets and outside the house... and along with missing items i got from hunting balloons and the reward from Wisp D: I didn't have any pop up saying my save data was corrupted or anything... and I remember when i turned off my game before, it was on the title screen, so I know i waited before exiting the game...
 
Yo is it normal that my uchi, who has a starter house that I have heavily modified by giving her replacement furniture, has just recently started to put her original starter furniture back for no reason? This has only happened since the update, and I don't believe I gave her anything before seeing it happen the first time. I have also never given her any furniture that resembles her starter furniture, so it has to be the starter furniture I'm seeing.

The first time I visited her house after the update landed, she had placed her wooden-block chair in the corner of the room (not in the "chair" spot next to the table). I then gifted her a watering can, so the watering can took the place where the chair was, and now she has replaced the wooden dresser I gave her back in like May with her old wooden-block dresser.

Does this mean villagers can now replace furniture other than misc. items at will? Alternatively, is this maybe something they're doing in response to a season change? I'd make a thread for this, but don't know if there's just something I'm not aware of that already exists
Yeah, they do that & they've been doing it a lot longer than the most recent update. I gifted a ton of stuff to Sprocket (my starter jock) to make his house look a little less bland. I gave him a bed to replace his sleeping bag (he didn't, he just put them both up) and some workout equipment. The only things he's kept up are the weight bench and the throwback hat table. Everything else just disappears into the void of his inventory after being displayed briefly.
 
Yeah, they do that & they've been doing it a lot longer than the most recent update. I gifted a ton of stuff to Sprocket (my starter jock) to make his house look a little less bland. I gave him a bed to replace his sleeping bag (he didn't, he just put them both up) and some workout equipment. The only things he's kept up are the weight bench and the throwback hat table. Everything else just disappears into the void of his inventory after being displayed briefly.
Does Sprocket put them away after the first day you give the furniture to him, or does he keep it up for MONTHS and then randomly take it down one day, again, months later? I know they'll put something away after they had it out for a day. I'm talking about Ursala accepted the replacement a very long time ago, had the dresser I gave her up since May (actual May because I don't TT), and only a few days ago has she decided to revert it.
 
AFAIK Nintendo actually nerfed the spawn rates of tarantulas (or rather, raised the rates of other critters) so that people won't be able to farm tarantulas with the makeshift tarantula island so easily anymore. It's still possible, but takes a significantly longer time. Have you been chasing off all the other insects that spawn by running around the island? There will always be wharf roaches - I think that's what they're called - spawning on those rock formations near the beaches that need to be scared away in order to encourage other bugs to spawn.
If you have lots of empty and wide open spaces, you might be able to just get a tarantula on your own island by running around and looking for them, but only take your net out when you actually spot one. Other than that, your best bet is and will always be the actual tarantula island, which can be visited once a day and has a 2% chance of occuring when you're flying to a mystery island.
EDIT: also wanted to mention that the Bamboo Island remains the best choice for making a tarantula island because of it's lack of rivers. Since giant water bugs received a rate boost and are kind of hard to scare off, they often prevent tarantula spawning, but on a Bamboo Island that won't be a problem.

Yes, I’m catching/chasing off all the other bugs as fast as I can find them. The water bugs don’t spawn in November, so it been the wharf roaches, crickets, and damselflies. Probably mole crickets, but I’m not digging those up.

I don’t want to farm the tarantulas. I have gobs of bells. I just need one for the museum. :(

And I have never in all my travels landed on the tarantula/scorpion NMT island.
 
Yes, I’m catching/chasing off all the other bugs as fast as I can find them. The water bugs don’t spawn in November, so it been the wharf roaches, crickets, and damselflies. Probably mole crickets, but I’m not digging those up.

I don’t want to farm the tarantulas. I have gobs of bells. I just need one for the museum. :(

And I have never in all my travels landed on the tarantula/scorpion NMT island.
Then it's just bad luck. Again, running around empty spaces on your island late in the evening could get you one eventually, but other than what I've already mentioned there really aren't any secret tricks or anything to make them spawn quicker, sorry!
 
Does Sprocket put them away after the first day you give the furniture to him, or does he keep it up for MONTHS and then randomly take it down one day, again, months later? I know they'll put something away after they had it out for a day. I'm talking about Ursala accepted the replacement a very long time ago, had the dresser I gave her up since May (actual May because I don't TT), and only a few days ago has she decided to revert it.
He had them out for a few weeks at least and then put them away one day never to be seen again. I didn't keep track of the actual dates of gifting vs removing because I just kind of assumed it was a normal game mechanic for them to rearrange their stored furniture. He definitely had them way longer than one day.
 
If I've received a villager's photo, can I get another one from the same villager if I keep giving them gifts?

Do friendship points with a villager reset to zero after they give you a photo?
 
If I've received a villager's photo, can I get another one from the same villager if I keep giving them gifts?

Do friendship points with a villager reset to zero after they give you a photo?
Yes, they can essentially gift a single player an infinite amount of photos, but they remember the last 64 gifts they gave you, so you would need them to give you 64 new gifts before a duplicate photo even becomes a possibility. And no, this does not reduce the points. Matter of fact, I've not seen any clear evidence for it, but it seems to me that your villagers never actually lose already acquired friendship points even if you stop talking to them, always deny their requests, or give them things they don't necessarily like. I've read once that hitting them with a net until they react might lower their friendship, but again, no hard evidence.
 
Anyone know the exact hour that balloons change direction? I tried looking online but “At night” is not specific enough
 
Anyone know the exact hour that balloons change direction? I tried looking online but “At night” is not specific enough

Mine changes at either six or seven o'clock at night and six or seven in the morning, so try looking then.
 
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