My son said that if people talk to your villagers while they are visiting, that they might move out of your town and go to the visitors town. Is that true? I've been avoiding all of his villagers and I keep worrying one might talk to me. He likes his villagers, so that would be awful. And I also like most of mine, so I wouldn't want visitors to be able to take any of them.
Can other players take your villagers?
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Florence + The Machine
Pulled apart against my will
You can adopt villagers from other people, but not as easily as your son suggested. Just talking to villagers while visiting someone else's town is totally fine. Sometimes a villager will ask you to move out, and if you tell them yes, the next day they will pack all of the furniture inside their house into boxes. When their stuff is in boxes, someone from another town can visit you and talk to the villager to get them to move onto their island. However, the person who wants to adopt needs to have an open plot in their town to actually get the villager to move in.
So in summary, yes you can adopt villagers from other people, but only under specific circumstances.
So in summary, yes you can adopt villagers from other people, but only under specific circumstances.
Miss Misty
Senior Member
You, as a visitor, can convince a villager to move to your island only if they are in the process of moving out of their home island (in boxes, cleaning up). You need to have an empty house plot available for them to buy as well. It's not really something that can happen accidentally; most people have to TT to time it properly. Talking to them when they're just out and about doing normal things is perfectly safe.
Okay, that makes much more sense! Otherwise, people would be hesitant to invite others to their islands! I have been avoiding his animals like the plague. HA!
He did have a pig that was boxed up and moving out when I first started playing. I went to his town and shopped, but I didn't talk to any of his villagers. That pig wound up moving to my town. I don't know if it was random or from his town.
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What a relief! Knowing that makes the game more enjoyable.
You have a chance of getting a villager that moved out from another player’s island as long as you played with that person online. You’ll know if they come from another player’s island because the first time you talk to the villager they’ll mention where they came from.
Florence + The Machine
Pulled apart against my will
There's a mechanic in the game called "the void" and that's probably how his villager wound up in your town. Basically, if nobody adopts a villager that's in boxes, they still move out the next day like normal, but instead of going to someone else's town, that villager goes into your "void" (which is technically called the move-out queue). When you have an animal in your void, there's a chance you can give them to someone else by visiting another person's town or having someone visit yours (which would take the villager from your move-out queue and put it in the visitor's move-in queue). So likely what happened is the pig moved out, you visited your son to shop, and that put the pig in your move-in queue (you can have multiple villagers in this queue by the way). When you next had an empty plot, I assume you didn't fill it so it chose the next villager from your move-in queue, who ended up being the pig from your son's town. The first time you talk to a villager, they'll mention if they came from someone else's town, so that's how you'd know if he really came from your son's town.
Hopefully that made sense because it's kind of confusing but I tried my best to explain.
Yes, that makes sense!! I never talked to the pig because I didn't like it, either. So it asked me to move out the following day and I said hurry! Ha ha. Poor pig...
Thanks for answering my questions, both of you!
I bet that pig is now in someone else's queue because I've had visitors and visited others since then.
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