actually when i think about it.... all my villagers just walk around their home area, the flower garden sometimes (right beside the houses) and stay near the plaza. I have paths at the museum area (second cliff) and the zen area.
some do show up by my house (third cliff, no paths, use qr paths) so i dunno if its the paths? might look into it to see if there's a reason (i do have a lot of trees and bushes...). would love to see them by the zen area to relax
Same.. I made a really nice park area with pathing and everything, but I've never seen any of them hang out there. A market, music, sitting areas, the works.. none of them go there.
thinking about it... could it be because my zen & music/club area were fenced around? there's paths to it though, even connected to the main path from "main road", but i switched the path design ofc to match the theme. not sure that is an issue.
I've noticed that the more I terraform the more villagers will show up in places they never did before.
For example, the first thing I did when I got terraforming was make an experimental waterfall with a lake and stepping stones not far from my house. At first none of them went there, or even to the side of the island that it was on (granted all my villagers pretty much live on the western side of the island)
However, yesterday I started messing with that area again a good month after not touching it at all and villagers just... Decided they like that area now and won't leave it alone, they wander all the way over the beach, walk between the cliffs in the little alleyways I've made, and I haven't put any furniture or paths down yet in that area
that's the part I find most strange, cause I thought they were attracted to paths and furniture, but in starting to think it's more complicated than that.
This also happened to the northmost part of my island, even the villager who lived there never explored it until I started terraforming it more.
It's been a pretty big bummer for me because I made a fairly large arcade on the second level of my island, right behind the neighborhood I created. There's a step stone like dirt path leading up there and a bridge of course, but no one ever goes up to check anything out. I wonder if furniture being too crowded makes a difference to them? Like, even though I can interact with stuff and use seats, maybe more space between objects would make them more likely to visit? I'm not really sure what's up.
