do you connect villagers houses to paths and how?

[orchidflesh]

When I first started doing paths in my town, I had all the paths connect to the villagers houses and connect all over town. Then I got way too overwhelmed (and my paths were placed in bad spots) so I deleted all of my paths.

Now, I’m going with a stepping stone idea, where I have stepping stones laid out all over town, and barricaded with bushes and trees so that they can’t be ignored by my villagers, but no real set paths. I like the idea of it, but I couldn’t find any paths that I felt fit with my town theme or aesthetic, so I thought stepping stones would be great. Also fixes the problem for me that you can’t make paths leading directly to villagers houses (those dang blank squares right in front of their doors were too annoying for me).

 

[Christy.lee1989]

You need to go through your whole town and make sure that there is no 3x3 tiles without a design on the floor (place down a grid of designs every 3rd space:
x = pattern, O= no pattern

OOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOXOOXOOXOOXOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOXOOXOOXOOXOO​

then leave open only the 3x3 space where you want the house to be. It doesn?t need to be framed prefectly by designs but you can "draw" the x-boarder around the plot to make it easier to imagine where th house will be placed.
If you do it correctly, the villager will only move in that one space. As long as there is one 3x3 space that a villager can move in without designs, they won?t place the house onto patterns.

- - - Post Merge - - -

A quick guide on plot resetting:
Make sure not to load the game with a character that already exists when a villager could move in. That will save the state the game is in when you load: if someone moved and where their house is.

• You need to create a new character and check in your town. The first day after someone moved out, it?s unlikely that there will be a new house. The next day it?s more likely and so on.
• If you see that the villager makes a plot in a space where you forgot to place a design, turn off without saving the game and TT a day back (it wont count as TT because the game didnt save as it loaded because you made a new character) and place a design there to fix it.
• Set your time one day ahead again and start the game with a new character again, if there is no house, find a place for the new character?s house, place that and save. Then delete the character. The designs will be removed from the plot where you had placed the house so you need to place them again to not have an open space for the villager to move. The grass will be gone there too. But the game has saved that no one moved in, so you are save for a day AND resetting will be less annoying because with each day you skip ahead and save if no one moved, you get closer to a 100% chance to always see a house.
• If you always see a house in the right spot when you start with a new character (without saving), reset untill the right villager moves in, then create a house for the new character (where the grass is already gone) and save.

Yes it?s a bit tedious but that way you can get your dreamies in the perfect spot without amiibo. If you adopt a villager from someone else, it will be much faster because you just have to put down all the patterns and start the next day with a new character to make sure the villager moved to the right space. This is the fastest method to make sure everything is exactly how you want it.

ok thanks. i will save this for next time. right now i have 10 and someone is moving out soon, but i will haave to do this next time someone moves out

 

[Tomoe Hotaru]

ok thanks. i will save this for next time. right now i have 10 and someone is moving out soon, but i will haave to do this next time someone moves out

No problem. if you need anything else let me know.
If you want to see an example of this you can take a look at my town, just be warned that it?s very messy because of all the patterns and a lot of trading lately. But I have my paths and the grid layout done, so I?m cycling villagers out now.

 

[MalinkaLuna]

I dont bother with paths. For me they are a pain to lay out and some thinsg never add up and then i have to recreate the whole path and its just soooo tiresome..

Though i line paths with bushes and trees, flowers and clovers, to make it more natural, thats the only "pathing" i allow and want in my towns!