Villager Pictures - How Long To Obtain?

[Miss Misty]

Don't worry. The Iron Wall Lamps are a "wall item" so it won't interfere with the villagers interior. They don't ever put wall items in their homes.

(and @bestfriendsally )

Wall items are not safe. While villagers will not display the Iron Wall Lamps, the lamps will be added to the villagers' inventories which impacts what they display around their houses. It's possible to overwrite their default furniture and have them start removing things from their houses by gifting them too many wall items. If you want to keep them as original as possible, stick to fruits and crafting materials.

 

[bestfriendsally]

(and @bestfriendsally )

Wall items are not safe. While villagers will not display the Iron Wall Lamps, the lamps will be added to the villagers' inventories which impacts what they display around their houses. It's possible to overwrite their default furniture and have them start removing things from their houses by gifting them too many wall items. If you want to keep them as original as possible, stick to fruits and crafting materials.

oh.. okay...

i'll do cherries, peaches, pears & oranges, then... :3 so it's still wrapping 3 cherries, peaches, pears or oranges, right?


i've only given a iron wall lamp to ketchup & biff so far...


i'll do something else with the iron wall lamps that i've crafted, then.... just means, i've wasted the clay i gathered... probably...

 

[Slothicans]

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[bestfriendsally]

You only need to wrap 2 non-native fruit. You can also gift coconuts and pumpkins, but they require 3 pieces.

ohh... okay :3

thankyou :3


i've still got multiple coconuts of 3 wrapped in pink wrapping paper, that i was gonna give marina each day, laying in my basement...

 

[JKDOS]

I've been gifting 2-wrapped foreign fruits this year, and it seems to take as little as a few weeks if you're lucky.

 

[bestfriendsally]

why the heck does it take so long?!

i think i'll stick to giving julian, bubbles, biff & mira coconuts for now, to get their photos, as i can try to get the other villagers photos whenever..

 

[Miss Misty]

why the heck does it take so long?!

Villagers start with 25 friendship points, and you need to get them to 150 in order to have a chance to receive their photos. They're not intended to be easy to get. Some villagers are just more stubborn than others.

 

[bestfriendsally]

Villagers start with 25 friendship points, and you need to get them to 150 in order to have a chance to receive their photos. They're not intended to be easy to get. Some villagers are just more stubborn than others.

it'll take me a while, then, before i can move in pashmina, marshal, lobo & rudy/kid cat....
i want biff, bubbles, julian & mira's photos first...

 

[Miss Misty]

it'll take me a while, then, before i can move in pashmina, marshal, lobo & rudy/kid cat....
i want biff, bubbles, julian & mira's photos first...

Just keep talking to them and giving them gifts every day. If all you want is photos and you don't care about them being original, you can do jobs for them like catching fish, or buying things from them, or selling them things from your inventory that they want.

 

[bestfriendsally]

Just keep talking to them and giving them gifts every day. If all you want is photos and you don't care about them being original, you can do jobs for them like catching fish, or buying things from them, or selling them things from your inventory that they want.

they haven't been asking me to do certain things for them, recently

yeah... mira & jakey both asked me for my fortune-cookie cart... & i'm selling that... i need it...

i've been buying something from poppy & sally... i bought a floor light from poppy yesterday :3

 

[buny]

i started getting villager pictures with this method lately: 1. talk to them 3-4 times daily, 2. gift them 3 wrapped pumpkins daily

 

[bestfriendsally]

i started getting villager pictures with this method lately: 1. talk to them 3-4 times daily, 2. gift them 3 wrapped pumpkins daily

hmm... maybe i should try that, too then.. talking to them first... although, i do that a couple of times :3
& i have pumpkins growing currently :>

i'm gonna start giving them pumpkins tomorrow :3

 

[WaileaNoRei]

hmm... maybe i should try that, too then.. talking to them first... although, i do that a couple of times :3
& i have pumpkins growing currently :>

i'm gonna start giving them pumpkins tomorrow :3

the type of gift doesn’t matter (except in terms of superstition, which can matter a lot ) so you do not have to give them the same thing everyday, as long as you give them the right value of stuff - three pumpkins and three coconuts should work exactly the same so give whatever is easier.

For villagers who are brand new it takes pretty much a month minimum, if you are gifting everyday, so I don’t think it sounds like you need to worry yet. Since your villager have some amount of established relationship with you already it may take less time, but I think it would be safe to assume you will be gifting daily for about a month.

if any of your villagers ask to set a secret greeting, that means they are at the correct friendship level to gift you a photo. They do not always set the greeting before you get the photo, but it is a good way to know what level they are at when you are feeling impatient.

this guide has some information on friendship mechanics, but please note that is has not been updated since august, and the gifting mechanics have changed since then (as described in this thread). But it is still useful in terms of understanding the friendship levels and how they work.

Ultimate Friendship Handbook

yuexr.github.io

(Sorry if this was already linked previously)

Again, it sounds like you are not doing anything wrong. It just takes time and patience (which can be frustrating, I know)

 

[bestfriendsally]

the type of gift doesn’t matter (except in terms of superstition, which can matter a lot ) so you do not have to give them the same thing everyday, as long as you give them the right value of stuff - three pumpkins and three coconuts should work exactly the same so give whatever is easier.

For villagers who are brand new it takes pretty much a month minimum, if you are gifting everyday, so I don’t think it sounds like you need to worry yet. Since your villager have some amount of established relationship with you already it may take less time, but I think it would be safe to assume you will be gifting daily for about a month.

if any of your villagers ask to set a secret greeting, that means they are at the correct friendship level to gift you a photo. They do not always set the greeting before you get the photo, but it is a good way to know what level they are at when you are feeling impatient.

this guide has some information on friendship mechanics, but please note that is has not been updated since august, and the gifting mechanics have changed since then (as described in this thread). But it is still useful in terms of understanding the friendship levels and how they work.

Ultimate Friendship Handbook

yuexr.github.io

(Sorry if this was already linked previously)

Again, it sounds like you are not doing anything wrong. It just takes time and patience (which can be frustrating, I know)

well, mira & jakey seems to have gotten to the point where they ask for stuff in my pockets... in my case, it was my recently got fortune-cookie cart... well, i say no to that :>


& yeah, i've been gifting them coconuts every day :3... well, pears, cherries & peaches too, previously :>

if any of your villagers ask to set a secret greeting, that means they are at the correct friendship level to gift you a photo. They do not always set the greeting before you get the photo, but it is a good way to know what level they are at when you are feeling impatient.

ah! i see :3 so i have to look out for that :>

thankyou :3

 

[bestfriendsally]

the type of gift doesn’t matter (except in terms of superstition, which can matter a lot ) so you do not have to give them the same thing everyday, as long as you give them the right value of stuff - three pumpkins and three coconuts should work exactly the same so give whatever is easier.

i was actually thinking about giving biff my baseball cap that marina gave me... i'm sure she won't mind :3

& bubbles just asked me to do something for her :3

 

[Croconaw]

I’ve gotten all of my dream villagers’ pictures. I basically just wrapped items worth more than 10k bells and gifted them to each villager. Within a week or two, I’ve had everyone’s pictures. You can do this if you don’t mind the interior of their houses looking crazy.

 

[Bobbo]

i was actually thinking about giving biff my baseball cap that marina gave me.

I wonder if I gave villagers items from Labelle when she does her visits what would happen.

 

[bestfriendsally]

I wonder if I gave villagers items from Labelle when she does her visits what would happen.

i don't know what would happen... hmmm...

 

[bestfriendsally]

can i give blanche a bamboo sphere, either wrapped or unwrapped? would that get me closer to getting her photo?

 

[WaileaNoRei]

can i give blanche a bamboo sphere, either wrapped or unwrapped? would that get me closer to getting her photo?

it will in the sense that you get the ‘friend points’ for giving her a gift, especially wrapped ( i am not sure how much the wrapping matters for non birthday gifts or stacked items you want to give together)

you can’t get a photo in return for giving her the sphere itself is all (because it sells for 480 bells).

But if you want to give one to her I would give it! I love gifting my villagers little things like that. And it will still contribute to building your friendship with her and building toward getting a picture in the long run that way.