On Villager Personality Stacking...
So this has come up quite a bit, and I wanted to share my thoughts on it!Â
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.Â
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.Â
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.Â
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 :)