A trick to getting villager pictures!

[ayeeprill]

I found a bit of a trick to manipulate the game into giving you a villager picture.

1. Give the villager whose picture you want a present every day. I usually give them non-native fruit and door decorations.

2. Keep doing this every day until they give you a lot of bells for what you gave them - for me it's usually almost 2k for a piece of fruit or 3k+ for a door decoration

3. When they give you the bells, restart the game. I would close right away so as not to risk autosave.

4. Start the game up again. Give them the gift again. If you don't get the picture, reset and give them the gift again. Repeat until they give you their picture.


I have gotten both Fuchsia and Tia's photos this way. I'm assuming once they're willing to give you more bells than the gift is worth, it's an indicator that your friendship is high enough to get the picture. It took me about 8 resets to get Fuchsia's picture. but only 4 for Tia's!

 

[BalloonFight]

This is awesome and I'm definitely going to be trying this. Thanks for the tip!

 

[Jared:3]

Do they eat the fruit or put it in their house?

 

[ayeeprill]

Do they eat the fruit or put it in their house?

They don't eat it in front of you, but they don't display it in their house either.

 

[Nefarious]

I was able to do that with Bettina a couple of hours ago. It really works haha.

 

[Feferily]

Woah! Thank you so much!

 

[mystery]

I probably won’t reset as I like to play as naturally as possible but this is also useful because it gives an indication on when your close to a picture.

 

[tajikey]

I probably won’t reset as I like to play as naturally as possible but this is also useful because it gives an indication on when your close to a picture.

I'm 100% with you on this. I talk and give a gift to Molly every day, and she still contemplated leaving. That made me sad. I imagine I could let her go once I get her picture, but not until then.

 

[Cancoon]

I'm 100% with you on this. I talk and give a gift to Molly every day, and she still contemplated leaving. That made me sad. I imagine I could let her go once I get her picture, but not until then.

It makes me sad when villagers I like want to leave too but just remember the game randomly chooses who wants to leave rather than them actually wanting to

 

[RooftopsRevolution]

I literally was like "Ah yes I'll spend the next few days just giving Tybalt non-native fruits to get his pic because he's my favourite.
So I switched on my game to get started and decided to give him a peach LOL RIP I'M SO HAPPY

 

[Dwayne Johnson]

i'll definitely be trying this out with punchy, will be interesting to see the results

 

[Krissi2197]

I've been giving my villagers foreign fruit, but not every day! I'll have to try this.

Do villagers have a specific favorite fruit? They give me 650 bells for each fruit I give them but people have said sometimes they get even more (but not as much as 2k).

 

[skylucario]

lol weird, i got cube’s photo without ever having given him a single gift, though i did find two lost items and complete a bug catching request for him (after which i got his photo). since he left, i’ve started giving the rest of my villagers fruit every day. hopefully something happens soon. x)

 

[Xara]

thanks for sharing! i’m only up to getting 750 bells from fruit but i’m hoping i’ll start getting pics soon!

 

[Clock]

Thanks for sharing! I’ve been holding a villager from moving out so I can get their picture.

 

[Arithmophobia17]

i'm not gonna reset for the pics, but it's really nice to know that there's an indicator as to when i've reached that friendship threshold!

 

[Underneath The Stars]

this worked for y'all??? omg i'm trying!! i think i won't reset too though, but good to have indicator. basically, aside from my favs i like to get their pics before i'd let someone move out.

 

[iGotNoiPad]

How do you get 2k per fruit? I been giving my villagers fruit everyday for at least 3 weeks and the highest I gotten is 750 bells....

 

[brockbrock]

How do you get 2k per fruit? I been giving my villagers fruit everyday for at least 3 weeks and the highest I gotten is 750 bells....

Same here, yet I've gotten 3 villager pics already!

 

[Loreley]

How do you get 2k per fruit? I been giving my villagers fruit everyday for at least 3 weeks and the highest I gotten is 750 bells....

don't give up! Also, wrap your fruits in wrapping paper, as this gives an extra friendship bonus. And try to talk to them every day (in addition to giving them a gift), as this increases friendship as well. Supposedly the talk friendship bonus increases exponentially if you talk to them every single day.