How are your villagers homes organized?

[Parsnip]

I'm curious about how people like to organize their villagers homes! I see a lot of people with perfectly in line streets of villagers, but I also see a lot of scattered out house placements. What do you guys do, and what is your preference?

Personally, I used to like to plot all my vilagers in straight lines, but I felt like it made my paths too boring. I like the challenge and the chaotic aesthetic of twisty turny curvy all over the place paths I guess! That being said, I also like to keep my villagers packed in pretty close to each other, so I guess it's not a total free for all.

 

[AppleBitterCrumble]

My villagers homes are some how in straight lines of some sort. I have never plot ressetted in my new town and its all by luck some how. Also all of my villagers are on the bottom half of my town.

 

[vel]

i don't care enough to have set spots, it seems like it'd take a lot of work. i just make my town around the houses, and i change the paths whenever someone moves in

 

[Aleigh]

I don't really plot my homes

 

[xInfiniteStars]

At first I wanted them in straight lines (and they were, too) but Lopez ruined it... So now I just have them scattered along my paths.

Although for Hearts it's just total chaos. I don't even care anymore Hearts will be landscaped soon though.

 

[ArtsyDreamer]

I pretty much just let them go wherever, so they're all over the place x3

 

[SilkSpectre]

i don't care enough to have set spots, it seems like it'd take a lot of work. i just make my town around the houses, and i change the paths whenever someone moves in

This. I don't think I have it in me to control where they go. Landscaping is a big enough challenge for me without having to engineer where these animals go. I mean it's annoying atm how 5 decided to cluster together in one part and 2 went to BFE all the way across the map.

 

[drowningfairies]

Just scattered lol. I could care less to plot reset.

 

[amanda1983]

I let them go wherever they want, and I don't have paths at all. I do pull up my hybrids before someone moves in (which is pretty rare anyway) to keep them safe.

I plot my own homes reasonably carefully, though. I have 4 characters in each of my 2 games, and arrange the location, and order of those houses in order to best suit the space and my needs (mainly, lots of open "shared ground" the chars can reach easily in order to dump and swap items).

 

[randoM024]

I'll admit that I plot reset if I know I’m getting a new villager, but I'm not too picky, they can go wherever they want provided it isn't blocking something, most of the time I don't even need to.

 

[Sdj4148]

I couldn't allow my villagers to move in without plot resetting! In Sapphire, my houses are scattered because they always were scattered. I just put my villagers in the same place if one leaves. In Palinoia, the villagers are in a relatively straight line. In Apricity, I still plot them, I just want them to be in the lower half of the map.

 

[treetops]

I always make sure to plot reset each time I get a new villager. I can see why others prefer having villagers plot reset in certain places as it challenges them to try out alternative ways to landscaping, but I just feel that I can get a better idea on how I want to landscape things if I plot reset.

I actually have a 'neighbourhood' area of sorts in my town, where about 6 of my villagers live all close together. I kind of regret the idea now though, because I really can't do any creative landscaping things other than paths and clovers.

 

[Whisper]

Seven of my villagers live very close together on one side of the town and the other three villagers are scattered around the other side.

 

[Soda Fox]

I used to plot reset, but it was pretty boring to do. I haven't plot reset at all for my current town. I'll just change things around when someone new moves in. I keep my hybrids in places where I know they can't get moved on.

 

[namiieco]

I like to put them in nice spots but I like to scatter them around

 

[Lady Sugarsaurus]

I just let villagers put their houses wherever they want, and then I make my town around it. So I still have dreamies to obtain and have minimal PWPs and no landscaping so I can see where everyone goes first, then plan around it. For my other town I plan on getting later on, I may plot, I don't know.

 

[ams]

For some reason I have a preference for having all of the villager houses south of the river and all of the PWPs and town hall/plaza north of the river. As long as they're on the right side of the river I don't really care about the exact spot unless it's really hard to walk around.

 

[Kirbystarship]

My villagers houses are messy.

 

[Invisible again]

I plot reset, but I let them pick a place that's not inconvenient, usually where a former villager used to live, so it's not awkwardly placed. My villagers' homes are scattered a bit across my map, but it doesn't look bad or anything.

 

[Breath Mint]

Mine are scattered, but I used the plot reset trick to put most of them in an area where I wanted them. I didn't want the villagers houses to be way too close or too far apart.