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[Ren's ACNL blog!] OH MAN CAN I TAKE YOU OUT OR SOMETHING?

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hey, sorry for this bc I feel like it was explained in the guide but I just need confirmation, once you get a campsite villager u want and they try to replace someone you want to stay, do u just close and restart the game and talk to them again until it's another villager?

Yes! Make sure you close out before the conversation ends because if you do it after the choice will be locked in and you won’t be able to change it anymore :)

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Hi! I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong with the campsite resetting, I'm struggling to get a visitor even every 15 days, even when I load in, talk to everyone and save - Isabelle still won't announce for weeks at a time.

Hello! I’m sorry to hear that :( Hopefully you’ll get a burst of luck and have a few weeks of consistent spawning! I had periods where I’d only get 1-2 campers a month when looking for Blanche as well. 

Thanks to the guide coming out and people transcribing it, we now know that the max campsite spawn chance is 20%, so it mostly sounds like bad rng :( The rates for campsite did get buffed with the most recent patch, so I hope you get some good luck soon! 

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Sometimes during quarantine you just need to vent to a friend.

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Lmfao

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AAA @inktho / Katy drew me super cute art DJGLKSDG MY BABY... JULIAN...... AAAAAA

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Commission for Ren!

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Finally starting to furnish the insides of my house!

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SLOWLY... PROGRESSING...

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this is probably a silly question but how do you force quit? confused about that step in getting a campsite villager to kick out a villager you want

Hi! Force quitting just means pressing the home button and using X to force close a game without it properly saving :)

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About the camp reset method....once i get the villager i want & they are moved in, can i safely reset back to the actual date? even if its been like 5 months? or should i TT-backwards little by little?

Hello! TT-ing backwards shouldn’t have any consequences! Feel free to jump back the entire chunk of time in one go :) I don’t even think the villagers have any lonely dialog to give you either. 

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Hi, thanks for the camper method! I got Reneigh this way. Thought I'd share my data. Out of 34 campers, 13 were uchi. I got pretty unlucky with a streak of 8 non uchi personalities. But this is definitely the best way to get a specific villager if you're willing to spend the time and they have no Amiibo.

YAYYY I’m glad it worked for you!! <3 Bad rng always sucks, but I’m glad she came home in the end. Those of us looking for smug/uchi personalities definitely got lucky as far as campsite resetting rng goes T_T <3 I hope going forward the amiibo still do become more accessible to people, but this isn’t a bad placeholder in the meantime! Enjoy your island~ 

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hi! sorry if this has already been asked, but i'm currently doing the campsite trick in search of raymond. i've just run into coco who i'd actually like to move in to replace a second lazy personality type i have. (i currently have 2 snootys and 2 lazys, if i move coco in i'd have 2 normals) i was wondering if it's safe to do this, or would it ruin the chain somehow? change the spawn rate?

Hi anon!! You should be fine! Especially since it’s a type you already have/you’re not actually changing the bias of it, it should be a -ok :) I moved in two campers to set up my bias before I found Raymond, and everything was ok!

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hello! thanks so much for putting together that guide. i've been trying it out in order to get raymond, and in the meanwhile i've gotten a few villagers that i wanted to recruit too. however, i've been having a lot of trouble getting them to move in? they would go to resident services, come back and say that there's not enough room, but never name a villager to move out... did i miss something here? TT

Hi Anon! I’m so glad it’s been working for you! Re: them not moving in- oh gosh, that’s so weird? Has this been happening before the patch update as well, or just after? Are you 10/10 villagers in? One plausible explanation off the top of my head is if If you’re 6/7/8/9 villagers and not 10 full in, they may not be naming someone because they want you to buy a plot of land from Nook and put it down from them. Kick out mechanics don’t kick in until your island is full of residents. 

If you are the full 10 in, I’m so sorry this has been happening to you! :( It might be a glitch in that case, because there’s no reason they shouldn’t be naming someone to kick out. It might be good to mail nintendo about it if you’re 10/10. If you manage to fix it or figure out what’s going on please let me know so I can add it to troubleshooting! 

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On Villager Personality Stacking...

So this has come up quite a bit, and I wanted to share my thoughts on it! 

First off, the campsite method is pretty flexible for its uses, but I specifically wrote it for fishing out one specific villager. That’s why my general answer is that you should stack villager types, since if you’re looking for Raymond for example you would want it to spew only smugs at you. This goes doubly for Audie, because there are almost twice as many peppys as there are smugs in this game and whatever is faster = better. This assumes you’re willing to wreck your island and your villager list for whoever you’re looking for, which I was because nook mile island RNG is crap and Raymond is wayyyy too expensive to try and trade for online + doesn’t have an amiibo. 

It’s also why I recommend only doing campsite for villagers you REALLY want to have, since it requires the rest of your villagers to at least be flexible if not completely replaceable. Resetting for them to kick out one specific villager is also hell, from my experience.

The second thing you could do is use the campsite to set up your entire Island, which is possible but a really long project and not one that can be expedited if you stack certain personalities. I aways try to have all 8 on my town/island (which is why I’m currently.. shifting out Marshal for Audie, lol) and my current list looks like this:

JOCK: Bam LAZY: Erik, Sherb SMUG: Julian, Raymond, Marshal CRANKY: Fang NORMAL: Stella UCHI: Muffy SNOOTY: Blanche PEPPY: Missing!

I lucked out at the time and Raymond asked to replace Cleo, my stand-in snooty, so I could use my campsite to look for Blanche who I was missing. After Blanche came in, I amiibo-d out my peppy with Julian and I can now look for Audie with the campsite if I wanted to.  However, because there are 10 slots and only 8 personalities, you are always going to have trouble finding 2 out of your perfect 10 list. Try to work through your list by shifting your focus on which type is missing and who gets replaced. Since things like nookazon and nook.market exist, at a certain point I would prioritize just trying to TT out villagers you don’t like and finding them on those sites. It then becomes a priority list, which I would personally order as: NEED TO HAVE, EXPENSIVE, NICHE.

Julian was my ‘need to have’, which I was covered for because of my amiibo card. Raymond is expensive, so I fished him out. Blanche was niche enough that after I got Raymond and got tired of resetting I went ahead and just got her on a trade on Nookazon. 

It’s really figuring out what your options are (if online trade is even an option for you with a nintendo online sub, etc) and trying to finagle it to work for you most effectively and quickly. I emphasize stacking so much in the guide because I want people to find results asap, I’d feel horrible if someone pushed in 20+ hours and couldn’t find who they were looking for. It doesn’t mean that it’s necessary or that it won’t work if you don’t do it, it just means that it’ll take a lot longer. Everyone’s threshold of how much time they’re willing to invest before something becomes ‘not worth it’ is unique, so I can try to offer tips but in the end it’s up to you if you want to stack villager types or not! You’re always free to try the odds that you want, and if you have villagers you absolutely don’t want to let go of then that’s totally understandable :)

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A few things I wanted to add to the guide: 1- you don't need to save and quit out after finding a villager you want and talking to them the first time. Once they are they, they will stay there until you change the clock again. 2- villagers will start repeating after you find all of the same personality types at least once. I don't know the full extent of this yet. 3- bypassing the card mini-game doesn't seem to be based on amount of fails, I had a villager go right to Nook after talking once.

Thank you for the additions! Noted in the guide :)  Re: the card minigame I really just have the worst luck don’t I LOL my friend just told me they offered to move in after 3 tries and now there’s someone who got 1 why did Cleo hate me so much to make me lose 6 times first 💀💀💀

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I’ve been doing this camp reset method for about 40 hours and I wanted to share a few findings. Repeats will start happening after you’ve encountered every villager of a personality type at least once (for me, sisterly, and now jocks too). E.g. I’m constantly getting sisterly and jock repeats but every other type does not repeat. For people who are wanting to use this method for all 10 villagers, more careful planning is probably needed. Because this ~60 hour project just turned into a ~100 hour one without knowing that info beforehand.

Hi Anon! Thank you for sharing! I’m not surprised about the sisterly thing (since there are very few uchis and smugs compared to other personalities in this game), but getting repeats at all is still news. I’m glad it’s only happening after you encounter everyone at least once, though! I’ll add that into the doc :)  Which personality type are you looking for, and have you stacked your villager types in that direction? If you’re not looking for those types, it’s a little concerning to me that you’ve gone through jocks enough for them to loop back when they’re a pretty large pool of male villagers at 55 :( 

I echo your thoughts though, when I made this guide I always did it with the thought of only really using it to find Raymond/Audie or hardcore dreamie villagers you center your town around (old favorites like Bob, Kiki, Rosie, etc- for me it would have been Julian if I didn’t have his amiibo card) otherwise it’s too time consuming to be worth it. Just getting them to kick out someone you’re ok with losing is an uphill battle with how many dialog options they have + card game chances + random kick out, I can’t imagine doing my entire town this way until they only kick out one specific villager. Best of luck on your quest anon I hope you find who you’re looking for soon :(

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I got a camper!

I haven’t gotten a camper since I went back to present time, so I was considering that maybe they really are date-locked- but I got one just now! Perhaps the patch did it?  In any case, I hope anyone having issues spawning campers has an easier time now :) Good luck everyone!