What's a good size for villager housing plots?

DinoTown · Mar 30, 2020

I'm getting started on my villager housing zone while I can. I really wanna make a village-y vibe though, so everyone gets their own gardens, with some furniture and some flowers and maybe a tree if I like them enough lol. Thing is, as much as I would love to give everyone their own giant garden, my map plans kinda limit me to about 4 squares of the map grid (that's a rough estimate, considering where the plaza is and where rivers and cliffs are placed.)

So, I ask this question to anyone with a maths-y brain/has TT'd and has villager gardens they're happy with, how big would you recommend I make my fenced-off gardens if we include the actual house (2x3? or 2x4 or smth?).

Bluebellie · Mar 30, 2020

I gave mines a 5x5. Couldn’t really give anything smaller as I felt there was no walking room or place to place anything. The whole neighborhood area takes about a little bit less than half my town map though. Some I had to make 5x4 (and those I feel like the whole area is kind of squashed. I fenced each in through, so maybe that’s why.
I feel like 2x3 2x4 is really small and you won’t be able to place anything.

DinoTown · Mar 30, 2020

I set a couple of those out and it looks pretty good!
I'm not using a thick chunky fence so that probably helps give the area a more open feel, like it's bigger than it actually is.
Thanks for the tip!

JKDOS · Mar 30, 2020

As close togeather as possible for me.

DinoTown · Mar 30, 2020

JKDOS said:
As close togeather as possible for me.

Yeh, same here! A lot of mine are gonna be right up next to each other, so much so the left fence of one plot is the right fence of another lol. I really wanna try for a close-knit community feel...

... where I live on completely the other side of the island to everyone else but y'know

luantoine12 · Mar 30, 2020

I did 7 x 7 (excluding the water) so I can have enough space to make a nice entrance and some space to add flowers or potentially fences, not sure yet! (ignore the house in the middle, not sure where I'm going to put it yet haha)

DinoTown · Mar 30, 2020

luantoine12 said:
I did 7 x 7 (excluding the water) so I can have enough space to make a nice entrance and some space to add flowers or potentially fences, not sure yet! (ignore the house in the middle, not sure where I'm going to put it yet haha)

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Oh, that's cool! How many grid squares does that take up on the map?

FaerieRose · Mar 30, 2020

Mine are 6x9, including fences. It's large enough for a bit of furniture and garden on each side of the house.

DinoTown · Mar 30, 2020

FaerieRose said:
Mine are 6x9, including fences. It's large enough for a bit of furniture and garden on each side of the house.

Oh that's cute! It looks a lot better than my current perfect square design too! I think I might steal your idea lol

RandomSanity · Apr 1, 2020

This is a really useful thread, thank you for sharing. How do you go about making sure your plots are the same size? I wish there was a grid you could turn on in-game as I can never get the placement of plots to line up.

I'm far from being able to afford to move my houses and I set them up pretty much at random as I heard they could be moved at will. I didn't think they would be this expensive to move.

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This is a really useful thread, thank you for sharing. How do you go about making sure your plots are the same size? I wish there was a grid you could turn on in-game as I can never get the placement of plots to line up.

I'm far from being able to afford to move my houses and I set them up pretty much at random as I heard they could be moved at will. I didn't think they would be this expensive to move.

Underneath The Stars · Apr 1, 2020

5x5 to 7x7 would be enough. but personally, i went overboard because i was having too much fun putting furnitures on yards as we couldn't do it before and now we can haha. so mine goes to 8x8 and up.

i made some of the houses interconnecting with the fences, with 1 line to separate houses--if that's something you'd like to do. it's cute to me. they look like close neighbors.

DaviddivaD · Apr 1, 2020

I have to destroy a cliff before I can do anything like this.

stiney · Apr 1, 2020

DinoTown said:
... where I live on completely the other side of the island to everyone else but y'know

Part of me wants to move my house to the top of a cliff with no inclines or bridges leading to it but then villagers can't come over, I assume.

What's a good size for villager housing plots?

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