Campsite Trick Results: 64 Campsite Visitors, 33 Smugs later...

[ThePhantom]

Raymond has finally shown up on my campsite! He was a pain in the ass to convince to move in but I was persistent and eventually won his damn card game!

Spent a couple of days using the campsite trick and honestly this is probably the most guaranteed way to get your dreamies (aside from purchasing them, of course). The game REALLY did not want to give him to me. 33 is a significant number of smugs because there are only 34 in the game. None of them were repeats. The 34th would have been Pietro (someone I previously had). I had him move out to a friend's island early on during the process so that I wouldn't have any smugs living on my island. Every single smug villager in the game has stepped foot on my island now.

I'm so glad this is over and now I can finally relax. My island has been ravaged by overgrowth of weeds and flowers. I'm surprised my mailbox hasn't exploded from all the letters and presents from villagers. Friends are going to have a field day pulling weeds for their hedges

Some takeaways:
- I never had any repeats, so I suspect the game tries to diversify visitors while also biasing towards the personality type your island lacks.
- 51.6% of visitors were smug (33/64)
- Days between campsite visitor ranged between 7 and 24, which emphasizes the importance of TTing at least 7 days after a campsite visit. I recorded these in the link below.
- Don't give up! This applies not only to the campsite trick but also when convincing the visitor to move in. Keep at it and you'll eventually get what you want!

Campsite Results

Campsite Visitors Visitor #,Date,Villager,Personality,Animal,Days Between,Personality,Count 1,6/7/2020,Eugene,Smug,Koala,Pietro move out 6/17/2020,Smug,33 2,6/18/2020,Plucky,Sisterly,Chicken,11,Sisterly,2 3,6/29/2020,Croque,Cranky,Frog,11,Cranky,3 4,7/7/2020,Paula,Sisterly,Bear,8,Lazy,6 5,7/17/2020

docs.google.com

 

[Xara]

damn congrats on finally getting him!

 

[thelonewanderer]

But I don't want Raymond?

 

[Khaelis]

But I don't want Raymond?

Then don't get Raymond? Why would you even post this? The OP just posted their results. It's entirely unrelated to you, or even the rest of us.

 

[Moon Cake]

Congrats! I got Raymond through this method too. It took me 26 tries thankfully but major props to you for sticking it out!

 

[Loriii]

Congrats! I know that feeling as I've gotten 40+ campers and only 7 smug villagers left before finally seeing him. It's worth it haha

 

[coffee biscuit]

But I don't want Raymond?

...And? The OP was just posting their experience to share that the campsite method works, and their excitement for getting Raymond. It works for other villagers too, not just him.

Congratulations OP! I might try this method to get Ketchup or Dom.

 

[ThePhantom]

But I don't want Raymond?

Perfectly fine to not want him. The campsite trick will work for other dreamies too!

 

[sigh]

big congrats on getting your desired villager from the trick!!!! so happy for you!! i'm glad to see this working out for people. i've been doing it myself now actually, for like maybe 2 days so far? still no sign of raymond yet but i'm not going to give up, i'm in way to deep to stop now.

once i manage to find him, i'm probably going to make a thread sharing my data too

 

[Jared:3]

so basically your just going back and forth in time? that's neat definitely going to try this tonight!

 

[Mikaiah]

just a note, I think that the "You can not find campers on dates you have already Time Traveled to." has been patched out somehow recently. I did this method to get marshal and jumped to march, 2021 (and jumped back) but have gotten multiple campers since the patch hit (I have been doing some TTing trying to cycle a bit).

 

[Jared:3]

just a note, I think that the "You can not find campers on dates you have already Time Traveled to." has been patched out somehow recently. I did this method to get marshal and jumped to march, 2021 (and jumped back) but have gotten multiple campers since the patch hit (I have been doing some TTing trying to cycle a bit).

I heard somewhere that they made campers appear more frequently in the patch

 

[Annika.]

Awesome that it works! I want to have 10 different personalities, so I might use the trick in the future.

 

[Mikaiah]

I heard somewhere that they made campers appear more frequently in the patch

That's interesting then, I wonder what the new spawnrate is and if jumping a week after a camper still works. I might do some testing later.

 

[ThePhantom]

so basically your just going back and forth in time? that's neat definitely going to try this tonight!

Actually you have to keep moving forward in time. Good luck tonight! This is the guide I used: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19UjxJjw9GZ8BGm5mcDERelZLjCoC26wUW6TJVlnrCV0/edit

That's interesting then, I wonder what the new spawnrate is and if jumping a week after a camper still works. I might do some testing later.

For what it's worth, I found that it took anywhere between 7 and 24 days before another camper spawned. Granted, I TT'd 7 days after I saw a camper so I could have missed potential campers that would have shown up sooner. I recorded the days between encounters in my spreadsheet!

 

[Khaelis]

That's interesting then, I wonder what the new spawnrate is and if jumping a week after a camper still works. I might do some testing later.

Now that its mentioned, I got a camper today and I believe its only been 3 days since my last one. Could chalk it up to good luck since I think 3 days past since last camper is about 10% chance, but.. yeah.

 

[Mikaiah]

For what it's worth, I found that it took anywhere between 7 and 24 days before another camper spawned. Granted, I TT'd 7 days after I saw a camper so I could have missed potential campers that would have shown up sooner. I recorded the days between encounters in my spreadsheet!

was all of this done post-patch?

 

[Rosch]

I actually had a camper appear 5 days after the previous one, but I've only encountered this once.

Anyway, I've used this method to get Elvis after 70+ campers. Started May 2020 and reached June 2022. I'm not looking for Raymond and I only had one smug, but wow... he didn't show up.

 

[ThePhantom]

was all of this done post-patch?

Yup, I started this process Thursday night (4/23) and finished this morning (4/25). All of this was post patch; I haven't been able to participate in the Nature Day events.

 

[Aleigh]

I also found out that if you keep jumping back and fourth 8-15 days you'll get a good amount of campsite villagers too! (for example, May 1st to May 15th then back to May 1st and so on)

I was attempting to kick someone out for an empty plot, and I jumped from april 24th (the current day I did it on) to may 8th back and forth several times, and got so many campsite villagers (though since I wasn't actually trying to get campsite villagers, I didn't pay much attention to the stats)