Villagers

[Jamieb3566]

Hello! Any tips or tricks to make certain villagers want to leave? I've complained to Isabelle about them already but nothing happens.

 

[xxcodexx]

get to be best friends with them. they seem to leave much quicker if you are. one of my villagers that i wanted to leave simply Would Not give me her photograph so! i started making her the iron wall lamp everyday and she finally gave me her photo and left. if you gift your villagers an item thats worth over 2500 bells everyday they will become friends fairly quickly. once that happens they start bugging you more, which in this case is a good thing lol!
good luck!

 

[DarkSlayer1331]

There is actually no way to make certain villagers want to leave exactly. It is random, although there is a higher chance for villagers with a lower friendship level to want to leave than those with a higher friendship level. But there's still always a chance that any of them will want to leave, except for the newest villager to have moved in. They will NEVER ask to leave. Also, if you have a villager ask to leave and you tell them to stay, they will not ask to leave until another villager does. Treating them poorly, reporting them to Isabelle, etc. doesn't do anything. One thing that could help is simply ignoring them, because then you're not raising your friendship level with them. But note that friendship levels won't drop, although the spot in the level you're at with them can deteriorate. For example, you could be in the middle of friendship level 2 with them, and it can drop to the very base of level 2, but it will not fall to level 1.

You have to wait at least 15 days from the time you have an empty plot open before a villager will think about leaving. If you tell a villager to stay, you will have to wait at least another 5 days before another one will ask to leave. No villager will ask to leave on a day of an event, and this does include days that K.K. Slider is on your island.

The chance of a villager thinking about leaving is calculated through a formula. This formula is (Vx5)+D. V is the number of villagers you have on your island and D is the number of days that have passed since you had an open plot. So if you have 10 villagers, you start out at a 65% chance that someone will be thinking about leaving after the first 15 days. I've noticed that sometimes it can take a bit of playing before the villager that will be thinking about leaving shows that they are thinking about leaving. For example, on Friday when I first played, nobody was thinking about leaving. But when I played again later, Coach was thinking about leaving, and he was walking around when I played earlier that day too. So there is no guarantee that the villager who will talk about leaving will be thinking about leaving as soon as you start your game. I always suggest you play a few times in the day if you're really trying to get someone to leave so you can go island hopping or whatever you want to do.

I hope this helps!

 

[Croconaw]

My favorite method is using Amiibo cards. This is definitely the quickest way to boot out villagers. This is why it’s efficient to have at least one Amiibo card of a villager you do not want to keep. You can use it to kick out villagers.

 

[Jamieb3566]

There is actually no way to make certain villagers want to leave exactly. It is random, although there is a higher chance for villagers with a lower friendship level to want to leave than those with a higher friendship level. But there's still always a chance that any of them will want to leave, except for the newest villager to have moved in. They will NEVER ask to leave. Also, if you have a villager ask to leave and you tell them to stay, they will not ask to leave until another villager does. Treating them poorly, reporting them to Isabelle, etc. doesn't do anything. One thing that could help is simply ignoring them, because then you're not raising your friendship level with them. But note that friendship levels won't drop, although the spot in the level you're at with them can deteriorate. For example, you could be in the middle of friendship level 2 with them, and it can drop to the very base of level 2, but it will not fall to level 1.

You have to wait at least 15 days from the time you have an empty plot open before a villager will think about leaving. If you tell a villager to stay, you will have to wait at least another 5 days before another one will ask to leave. No villager will ask to leave on a day of an event, and this does include days that K.K. Slider is on your island.

The chance of a villager thinking about leaving is calculated through a formula. This formula is (Vx5)+D. V is the number of villagers you have on your island and D is the number of days that have passed since you had an open plot. So if you have 10 villagers, you start out at a 65% chance that someone will be thinking about leaving after the first 15 days. I've noticed that sometimes it can take a bit of playing before the villager that will be thinking about leaving shows that they are thinking about leaving. For example, on Friday when I first played, nobody was thinking about leaving. But when I played again later, Coach was thinking about leaving, and he was walking around when I played earlier that day too. So there is no guarantee that the villager who will talk about leaving will be thinking about leaving as soon as you start your game. I always suggest you play a few times in the day if you're really trying to get someone to leave so you can go island hopping or whatever you want to do.

I hope this helps!

Thank you. This is off topic but is there actually a way to see the friendship level of your villagers? There is so much I don't know about this game! I didn't even know there was friendship levels.

 

[azurill]

Thank you. This is off topic but is there actually a way to see the friendship level of your villagers? There is so much I don't know about this game! I didn't even know there was friendship levels.

The easiest way is to go to Harv’s island and ask Katrina. She can tell you about your friendship level with villagers.

 

[QueenCobra]

The longer you ignore certain villagers, the more likely they'll move out.

 

[kemdi]

Amiibo is pretty much the only way to guarantee that a villager moves out.