I'm so mad (tiles don't work for plots!)

Spooky. · Dec 19, 2016

So I started a new town last night, and I spent upwards of 3 hours making perfect plot spots using tiles and making a point of giving new villagers no room to move in anywhere but in those zones. However, I go on my game to find that I have a new plot, and he's not in any of those areas. In fact, he's somewhere I had path tiles laid down so that he couldn't go there. I guess the path trick doesn't work after all and I just wasted my time, augh.

Here are my plot areas I made, maybe they're made wrong?

Edit: Well, some good news! I invited Punchy to move in via amiibo card, and he plotted perfectly in one of my premade spots. I'm so happy ;~;

Amy-chan · Dec 19, 2016

It does work but you can only have a limited number of patterns on the ground.

Spooky. · Dec 19, 2016

Amy-chan said:
It does work but you can only have a limited number of patterns on the ground.

I've never heard this before, about a limited number. I didn't cover my entire ground, I did mostly checkerboard patterns or random tiles here and there. It's possible I messed up and left a 3x3 square in the area he plotted but I'm pretty sure I didn't. I dunno.

Amy-chan · Dec 19, 2016

Namstar said:
I've never heard this before, about a limited number. I didn't cover my entire ground, I did mostly checkerboard patterns or random tiles here and there. It's possible I messed up and left a 3x3 square in the area he plotted but I'm pretty sure I didn't. I dunno.

I tried this with Julia once. I did it the same way you described. I surrounded the 3x3 space with patterns. At first she plotted on the patterns so I went a day back via the system clock and removed 1 tile, the one where you normally can't place a tile (in front of villager houses). Then it worked.

Spooky. · Dec 19, 2016

Amy-chan said:
I tried this with Julia once. I did it the same way you described. I surrounded the 3x3 space with patterns. At first she plotted on the patterns so I went a day back via the system clock and removed 1 tile, the one where you normally can't place a tile (in front of villager houses). Then it worked.

I took out the tiles where the doors would go and left them open x-x
I think I must have left a space open where the new villager could have plotted without realizing it. Ah well, he's going to get moved out eventually anyway.

UglyMonsterFace · Dec 19, 2016

From what I've seen, the pattern thing DOES work as long as the spots left open are valid spots where villagers could move in. In your case, maybe you did miss a few tiles. I would play it safe and cover everything in tiles and leave 3x3 spaces for plots to make sure I don't make a mistake. Either that or maybe it doesn't work when you've just started? But missing a spot might be more likely. At least your town is still early in development so you can just work around it until it leaves. The pattern thing definitely works with my town so it /should/ work for you!

TooManyBunnies · Dec 19, 2016

It's like coding--you never get it completely right on the first try, you have to debug. I've had that lesson driven home twice now. I would treat the next few days as plot reset days.

Spooky. · Dec 19, 2016

Arize said:
From what I've seen, the pattern thing DOES work as long as the spots left open are valid spots where villagers could move in. In your case, maybe you did miss a few tiles. I would play it safe and cover everything in tiles and leave 3x3 spaces for plots to make sure I don't make a mistake. Either that or maybe it doesn't work when you've just started? But missing a spot might be more likely. At least your town is still early in development so you can just work around it until it leaves. The pattern thing definitely works with my town so it /should/ work for you!

Can you cover everything but those spots you want? Another member above says you can have too many tiles?

UglyMonsterFace · Dec 19, 2016

Namstar said:
Can you cover everything but those spots you want? Another member above says you can have too many tiles?

I covered my ENTIRE town in patterns except for a 3x3 spot and the villager moved in there, no plot reset necessary. ^_^ Just make sure the spot is valid and has the correct space requirements! (Don't know if this works in a new town with less than 8 villagers. I'd still try it though, just in case!)

Cai-crossing · Dec 19, 2016

That's really weird... I did the same thing, but it worked for me... Hmm... The only thing that I see that I've been doing differently is that I leave the 3x3 but also an opening for the door... so my plots are
XXX
XXX
XXX
X

I also have my town 100% covered in patterns other than 3x3 rock areas, 1x3 tree areas, checkerboard flowers... but if there was a pattern limit, I would have exceeded it. I've literally never had a villager move outside the areas I left for them D:

Good luck!

MightyMunchlax · Dec 19, 2016

The pattern trick worked for me. I had been plot resetting Bob normally for a while (on and off cause of school) and yesterday I finally went back to the date that the villager I kicked out was in boxes and blocked all the spots he'd been plotting in with paths and went back and forth doing that until he plotted where I wanted and he never plotted over the spots I blocked off after I put down paths, and I eventually got him exactly where my old villager had been which is where I wanted him to go. He did find like the most random spots in my town though so they're just more stubborn I think.

hamster · Dec 19, 2016

sometimes it works for me, other times it doesn't. it's a little bit annoying

Awesomeness1230 · Dec 19, 2016

Villager houses are a 3x3 format with 1 tile t the middle bottom, so I use this format.

xggxggxggxggx
xggxggxggxggx
xgxgxgxgxgxgx

x=pattern
g=grass.

Have you tried that or am I blind and you were doing it?

moss_asteri · Dec 19, 2016

I covered my whole town in tiles. Then, when I started landscaping, I would make sure there was never an empty 3x3. I actually use empty 4x4 slots plus another empty spot where the door usually is to make sure the house will fit in perfectly (just in case). I'm moving in dreamies now, and I have never had one go where I didn't want him/her.

Spooky. · Dec 19, 2016

I'm gonna just try and fill in everywhere except where I want the villagers instead of taking the risk. I plan on moving everyone out anyway (re-making my cat town) but I still thought it would be nice to at least have specific spots while the new villagers moved in on their own. Ah well.

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Awesomeness1230 said:
Villager houses are a 3x3 format with 1 tile t the middle bottom, so I use this format.

xggxggxggxggx
xggxggxggxggx
xgxgxgxgxgxgx

x=pattern
g=grass.

Have you tried that or am I blind and you were doing it?

I was doing
tile space tile
space tile space

So it made a checkerboard. However, in some areas I got lazy and made huge patches of tiles instead. I think I'd goofed and accidentally left a 3x3 area with no tiles on it at all by mistake and didn't realize.

And I'd also cut down so many trees to start landscaping I ended up spawning a raffelasia lol I've never had one in all my years of AC playing and now I got that stinky flower sittin there.

Kaiserin · Dec 19, 2016

Wait, I wanna do this for my first plot setting.
so do I have to cover the ENTIRE ground or?

LuigiDM · Dec 19, 2016

are you sure you're not trying to plot houses where they can't plot? like too close to the water or too close to the town plaza? I think they need to be 4-5 spaces away from the plaza.

Spooky. · Dec 19, 2016

LuigiDM said:
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are you sure you're not trying to plot houses where they can't plot? like too close to the water or too close to the town plaza? I think they need to be 4-5 spaces away from the plaza.

Yep. I have them two spaces back from the river (in the plots above the river) and one space below the river. I think I might have simply goofed and not covered up an area enough and for just my luck, that's the one spot they took.

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I tried going back a day to cover up that spot but it didn't work, and instead moved him in completely. I hate everything right now haha

LuigiDM · Dec 19, 2016

are you still able to go back and see no fence?

Spooky. · Dec 19, 2016

LuigiDM said:
are you still able to go back and see no fence?

Nope, he's moved in totally now, his house is there

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These are my plot zones.
2 spaces behind the river, 1 space in front, and 3 spaces for the two vertical areas.

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