Villager Hunting General Thread

[Heartcore]

Currently island hopping, looking for someone on my wishlist! Here are the results of the trips I took tonight:

Spoiler: Who I ran into along the way

1. Avery
2. Deli
3. Biskit
4. Cyrano
5. Bud
6. Eloise
7. Astrid
8. Pate
9. Tammi
10. Al
11. Drake
12. Doc
13. Broffina
14. T-Bone
15. Lopez
16. Norma
17. Barold (why do I kinda like him? lol)
18. Tangy
19. Eloise
20. Tom
21. Grizzly (He's super cute, what the heck)
22. Olive
23. Ketchup (almost lost my will to go on here, I love me some Ketchup.)
24. Dom
25. Goose
26. Flurry
27. Ed
28. Phil
29. Midge
30. Derwin
31. Avery
32. Marina
33. Purrl
34. Stitches
35. Benedict
36. Queenie
37. Plucky
38. T-Bone
39. Gayle
40. Pashmina (also almost took her, she's so adorable but I think I'll stick with Muffy for now)
41. Barold
42. Alfonso
43. Soleil
44. Willow
45. Ribbot
46. Celia
47. Dizzy
48. Peck
49. Rex
50. Colton
51. Cesar
52. Lionel
53. Cube
54. Buzz
55. Pango

 

[mercuryoso]

I just got the game (and a Switch Lite) literally two days ago but I've done some time traveling and I found SO many of my New Leaf dreams on the island tour.

So far I've found and invited...
- Zell
- Sprinkle
- Zucker
- Marina
- Maple
- Tangy
- Cole

Bam and Frita were my default villagers and Graham was the first visitor to my campsite. I'm legit really happy with my island so far!

 

[Lavulin98]

Currently island hopping, looking for someone on my wishlist! Here are the results of the trips I took tonight:

Spoiler: Who I ran into along the way

1. Avery
2. Deli
3. Biskit
4. Cyrano
5. Bud
6. Eloise
7. Astrid
8. Pate
9. Tammi
10. Al
11. Drake
12. Doc
13. Broffina
14. T-Bone
15. Lopez
16. Norma
17. Barold (why do I kinda like him? lol)
18. Tangy
19. Eloise
20. Tom
21. Grizzly (He's super cute, what the heck)
22. Olive
23. Ketchup (almost lost my will to go on here, I love me some Ketchup.)
24. Dom
25. Goose
26. Flurry
27. Ed
28. Phil
29. Midge
30. Derwin
31. Avery
32. Marina
33. Purrl
34. Stitches
35. Benedict
36. Queenie
37. Plucky
38. T-Bone
39. Gayle
40. Pashmina (also almost took her, she's so adorable but I think I'll stick with Muffy for now)
41. Barold
42. Alfonso
43. Soleil
44. Willow
45. Ribbot
46. Celia
47. Dizzy
48. Peck
49. Rex
50. Colton
51. Cesar
52. Lionel
53. Cube
54. Buzz
55. Pango

Barold is adorable! Had him on my island. If only he wasn't an exact copy personality wise of Zucker, I would have kept him

 

[hallejulia]

I found Deirdre on my first island of the day.

I almost didn’t invite her but then remembered that she is uchi and I was missing an uchi villager since I let Hazel move out a couple of days ago.

She isn’t one of my ultimate dreamies but she’s super cute and I’m excited to have her live on my island.

 

[PugLovex]

well, i’ve seen lots of villagers!

i’ve taken:
-peanut (moved away)
-judy (trying to move her out atm)
-merengue (moved out)
-sherb
-fauna (trying to move out)
-maddie (moved out)
-dobie
-beau

that’s all i can remember atm!

 

[Babylon]

The other night I spent 150 tickets and the ended up with Lucky. I was definitely looking for him, but wow that was a lot to spend on him.
I had 6 villagers I was willing to take home and NOT ONE of them showed up until Lucky. All my other hunts took less than 30 tickets so this was painful.

 

[Darcy94x]

I’ve just spent 4 tickets and ran into Rowan, Becky, Opal then I’ve take Merengue because she is just so cute! Need to get rid of Renee now!

 

[alitwick]

Thought about compiling some tips on here for anyone wanting to do the campsite method that I didn't see in the guides.

• When you set your date, set your time to at least 7-7:30PM. That way, you have the chance of seeing Celeste on your island on days where there's a campsite visitor, making it possible to get at least 2 guaranteed DIYs. Nook's is also open around this time if you're looking for specific furniture while using this method.
• Instead of setting the date 6-7 days after your last campsite visit, set the date to the next Sunday and TT one day at a time from there. Campsite villagers can only show up once weekly, so if your last campsite visitor was on a Tuesday and you set the clock to next Tuesday, you missed two days where one could have spawned. I found that if my island didn't get a visitor by the Wednesday of that week, there wasn't going to be one for the rest of the week. In that case, I'd set the clock to the coming Sunday and start over from there.
• I didn't find any duplicate campsite visitors, whether I talked to them or not before saving and closing the game. I'd still talk to them to get their names to take count.
• If you're looking for a specific villager that's part of a larger pool of villagers in their personality type AND you have a large-ish collection of amiibo cards, it may be worth having a decent amount of that personality type to have already lived on your island and left (so, any personality type that isn't smug or uchi.) This will cut down the amount of villagers of that type that the game will spawn since it will spawn the ones you haven't had over the ones you've had. I had two smugs before TTing for Raymond, cutting down the total possible smug spawns from 34 to 32 (not a ton, but it helps.)

 

[Dewasa]

Spent around 100 or so tickets in a couple of sittings to fill in a plot of a villager that wanted to move out. Only ran into 1 of the new villagers and I had to invite him to the island. My super baby blue goat, Sherb.

 

[Lavulin98]

• If you're looking for a specific villager that's part of a larger pool of villagers in their personality type AND you have a large-ish collection of amiibo cards, it may be worth having a decent amount of that personality type to have already lived on your island and left (so, any personality type that isn't smug or uchi.) This will cut down the amount of villagers of that type that the game will spawn since it will spawn the ones you haven't had over the ones you've had. I had two smugs before TTing for Raymond, cutting down the total possible smug spawns from 34 to 32 (not a ton, but it helps.)

Yes, this is especially great! Because the campsite will try to bring villagers that have not lived on your island first in any way ( being amiibo-ed, adopted online, or brought from islan%d hoping. ) In my quest for Judy I narrowed my list by 5 snooties just by counting out the ones that lived on my island before. And true to this, they did not show up! So if you happen to have amiibos, try to get everyone in and out, regardless of personalities, because even if you miss a personality, you will still have other personalities show up! After all, its only a 60% chance to get your missing personality in the campsite.

I've had a lot of unlucky chains of 3-4 non-snooty in a row while hunting for Judy. The smaller the pool you make, the better.

 

[Rinpane]

Thanks so much to everyone who gave information on the campsite trick! I started it today and I just found Raymond as my 10th camper. There were only four smugs before him so it’s a lucky day! And kinda not. This is who I encountered on the way, bolded villagers are the smugs:

• May 26th: Hans
• 7th June: Merry
• July 12th: Crackle/Spork (I wonder why his name is different depending on regions...)
• July 20th: Flip
• July 29th: Chadder (I want him too, but Raymond and his no-amiibo clause...plus those prices...skipping Chadder was painful. T.T Please come back to me one day, Chadder...)
• August 11th: Hippeux
• August 19th: Gayle
• August 27th: Sprinkle
• September 15th: Kidd
• September 23rd: Raymond

I will miss Eugene dearly, but it was worth it for the extra chance. Now I just have to invite him in!~ In which it was supposed to be the temporary villager, but that ended up being Cranston who I find really cute and September 23rd happens to be his birthday...I can’t just kick him out on his special day, you know? D: Anyways, happy to report another success with this method. And now I internally grimace at my out of control flower patches...

 

[Ananas Dragon]

I screamed my head off when I found Audie while island hopping just for fun.

 

[Lavulin98]

Thanks so much to everyone who gave information on the campsite trick! I started it today and I just found Raymond as my 10th camper. There were only four smugs before him so it’s a lucky day! And kinda not. This is who I encountered on the way, bolded villagers are the smugs:

• May 26th: Hans
• 7th June: Merry
• July 12th: Crackle/Spork (I wonder why his name is different depending on regions...)
• July 20th: Flip
• July 29th: Chadder (I want him too, but Raymond and his no-amiibo clause...plus those prices...skipping Chadder was painful. T.T Please come back to me one day, Chadder...)
• August 11th: Hippeux
• August 19th: Gayle
• August 27th: Sprinkle
• September 15th: Kidd
• September 23rd: Raymond

I will miss Eugene dearly, but it was worth it for the extra chance. Now I just have to invite him in!~ In which it was supposed to be the temporary villager, but that ended up being Cranston who I find really cute and September 23rd happens to be his birthday...I can’t just kick him out on his special day, you know? D: Anyways, happy to report another success with this method. And now I internally grimace at my out of control flower patches...

Chadder is my ultimate dreamy too! haha I'm sure you'll find him on Discord again! that's where I found mine and saw a few coming along. I also sacrificed Olivia, a dreamy for Judy, but I bought her back after I found judy.

 

[angelmutt]

everytime i island hop, the villagers are lowkey ugly, n im fr just tryna have a cuteass village n they makin it impossible...ALSO ALL OF MY STARTERS HAVE BEEN UGKY

 

[BubbleBlowinDoubleBaby]

Still looking for Margie.. by now I've nearly cycled through every normal type villager. Had to pass up on Merengue and that one huuuurt.

 

[Lavulin98]

Still looking for Margie.. by now I've nearly cycled through every normal type villager. Had to pass up on Merengue and that one huuuurt.

You can do it! look on the bright side, Margie is very close with fewer and fewer normals remaining! And don't worry about Merengue, you can always find her island hoping!

 

[masheddoq]

i remember i was saving up nmt to go raymond hunting, and when i had saved up almost 600 tickets a villager popped up in my campsite. when i saw it was raymond i screamed haha

 

[Minimasher]

W

I just got the game (and a Switch Lite) literally two days ago but I've done some time traveling and I found SO many of my New Leaf dreams on the island tour.

So far I've found and invited...
- Zell
- Sprinkle
- Zucker
- Marina
- Maple
- Tangy
- Cole

Bam and Frita were my default villagers and Graham was the first visitor to my campsite. I'm legit really happy with my island so far!

ow you have found some really great villagers!

 

[seularin]

omg lolly :c shes my dreamie who has yet to be found!!

 

[FireNinja1]

I started island hopping a bit too (pretty slow, hitting all rocks to collect resources). The only notable villager I found was Bunnie, who I didn't invite. There's a few others (Spike, Quillson, and Nate are the ones that come to mind to me), but I haven't really liked my luck so far.