Holes barely spawn in my town

[Twisterheart]

Holes barely spawn in my town, and I don't know why. My town does have a lot of space taken up, but it still feels like there should be more holes spawning in the areas I don't have anything. In the several empty spaces in my town, there is enough room for several things to spawn there but still hardly anything.

I find maybe two or three fossils a day, and when it rains only two or three gyroids. I know there should be more than this but I can never find anything. I have flowers and clovers behind all of my buildings and bushes, so I know there is nothing back there. I have checked everywhere to see if there are any hidden ones I somehow missed, but I haven't seen anything.

I am so confused. I'm thinking about visiting my dream town and tearing everything up, but I don't want to go through all that and not find anything...

 

[Rabirin]

I'm having the same problem. I think it might be due to the paths that I have, because I have them almost everywhere so I think that some could possibly be hiding underneath them. But I haven't really bothered to try and unearth them to check and I don't really fancy getting rid of all my paths just to find some fossils that I might have missed. If it's really bothering you though, perhaps try buying some fossils from here? there are a quite a few people who're happy to sell them.

 

[AppleBitterCrumble]

I'm having the same problem. I think it might be due to the paths that I have, because I have them almost everywhere so I think that some could possibly be hiding underneath them. But I haven't really bothered to try and unearth them to check and I don't really fancy getting rid of all my paths just to find some fossils that I might have missed. If it's really bothering you though, perhaps try buying some fossils from here? there are a quite a few people who're happy to sell them.

I'm pretty sure you can't put paths down over holes.
I only have 2 out of the 4 fossil holes each day but I'm perfectly fine with that since I completed my fossil museum

 

[Twisterheart]

Can things spawn under your paths? I didn't think they could, unless this changed with the update...

I actually have all of my fossils found already. It just bugs me that I don't find all of the ones that are supposed to be spawning in my town everyday. I hate having holes not dug up. Seeing that little symbol anywhere on the ground just drives me crazy so knowing there are some possibly hiding around my town bother me lol

 

[watercolorwish]

i wish holes didnt spawn in my town, whenever i see them it makes my town look messy and my pockets are always full so its kinda bothersome

 

[AppleBitterCrumble]

Can things spawn under your paths? I didn't think they could, unless this changed with the update...

I actually have all of my fossils found already. It just bugs me that I don't find all of the ones that are supposed to be spawning in my town everyday. I hate having holes not dug up. Seeing that little symbol anywhere on the ground just drives me crazy so knowing there are some possibly hiding around my town bother me lol

Honestly I'm just going to fill my town with paths, flowers, trees, and bushes anyway so I don't really mind but when I see a star I make sure to dig it up bc thats precious bells right there.

 

[Twisterheart]

i wish holes didnt spawn in my town, whenever i see them it makes my town look messy and my pockets are always full so its kinda bothersome

That's how I feel about them so that is why I try to find them as quickly as possible and dig them up. Something about them really bugs me

 

[Moonfish]

i wish holes didnt spawn in my town, whenever i see them it makes my town look messy and my pockets are always full so its kinda bothersome

I dug up my 4 fossils and re buried them behind a house. No more spawn and you can't see them

 

[Spooky.]

I feel like I've been getting random amounts of them as well. One day I found four fossils, then the next I found three. I haven't seen a pitfall seed in a long time either, it's kind of strange.

 

[Sheando]

To the best of my knowledge, four holes always spawn for fossils, and one hole for the pitfall seed. Five holes per day, and if you don't dig one up, it will remain and count as one of the five the next day. I think you must just not be finding them, though I could be wrong.

 

[Loriii]

I feel the same way since I intentionally leave spots for fossils to respawn but there were times I'm only getting three a day. But now, I've already completed the fossils so I'm kinda ignoring them but still don't have any idea why I'm not getting four even if it isn't raining and I had that one pitfall seed planted on the beach.

 

[KaydeeKrunk]

You could always leave an empty area just a small area for them to spawn, I leave a little section along one of my cliffs for my fossils/gyroids and they also spawn around my rocks which I leave space around because bell rock. But since I am still not completed on my fossils in the museum I check them everyday I play and it's also a good source of bells when you sell them. But yeah if they have nowhere to spawn they wont.

 

[amanda1983]

I still get my 4 fossil, 1 pitfall seed, and 3 gyroids (if it rained the day before) in both my towns every day.

I don't believe these items can spawn on/under a path since the update - if they could, why wouldn't we be able to put items down on top of paths (or have slingshot items land on them without disappearing)?

The times I can't find my full quota of spawned underground items have ended up with me spotting the last hiding star behind or between trees. Sometimes it's taken awhile to spot them all, especially if the stars land in a well camouflaged spot. But they're always there in both my towns.

From memory there is a suspected limit on how many items can spawn in ~crowded~ areas. So if your town has lots of paths etc then the game might not spawn the full quota. That's the only thing I can think of aside from them just being well hidden.

I hope you work out what's going on and find a solution that works for you.

 

[hamster]

i get a lot of holes but i've been time travelling a lot recently. however my bamboo shoots are really annoying me, my town is supposed to be a mess but it makes everything look disordered and worse.