How do you arrange your villager's houses?

[bam94-]

I'm curious as to what you guys decided to do with your villager houses. I can't decide whether to have mine all together in a sort of neighbourhood, or to spread them out around my island. I think like the idea of having them in a row, and then having another row of them one level higher.

I also think I'd like to have my house close by to other villagers as opposed to out on it's own somewhere!

What about you?

 

[kirbbys]

I had them scattered before terraforming because I thought I wanted it to be more natural...but just as I did in City Folk, I became too annoyed with running halfway across my island to find a villager to speak with.

I'm making flower shaped islands one tier up, and splitting my villagers across those 5 and 5. All my fav villagers will be on the island closer to me. :-] The 'shopping district' island will be between them!

 

[dino]

cute ! i think the nh neighborhoods are really sweet. so many people have wanted that for so long in this series.

i have mine situated around the map in different biomes (beach front, mountain valley, grasslands, etc) in sets of two - with a joining plaza for each :")) it satisfies both my need for variety and my need for order

 

[Jam86]

i spread out my villager houses on my island because i wanted room for each villager to have their own garden but then i also wanted some to be close so i got 3 houses in one corner of my island, 3 more in another corner and then 4 more in a different corner
then because i'm extra i put my house all the way at the back on the highest cliff i could get lol

 

[CrankyPirate]

I do a seaside little town with streets and the villagers living close together. Looks like this. I have point of interests around the town, but they live close to each other otherwise.

 

[Imbri]

I have 2 neighborhoods set up - 4 and 6. Each one has 2 lines of houses, set up in front of each other.

X---X---X

X---X---X

There's a single tile path in front of each house and it connects to the door. It makes for a nice, neat setup, but also gives a bit of room around each house to plant trees, shrubs, or flowers.

 

[Mairen]

As of now, I'm planning to have mine spread out throughout the island. The neighborhoods are cute that everyone is doing, but I don't think it's personally my style. I dont' like the idea of having all of the buildings and people crammed into one corner because it makes the rest of the island feel so lonely. I'll have to see where everything ends up though!

 

[bam94-]

I had them scattered before terraforming because I thought I wanted it to be more natural...but just as I did in City Folk, I became too annoyed with running halfway across my island to find a villager to speak with.

I'm making flower shaped islands one tier up, and splitting my villagers across those 5 and 5. All my fav villagers will be on the island closer to me. :-] The 'shopping district' island will be between them!

That's exactly why I'm leaning more towards a neighbourhood sort of layout, I don't want to run all across my island to speak to villagers either! I love the idea of splitting villagers across tiers 5 by 5!

cute ! i think the nh neighborhoods are really sweet. so many people have wanted that for so long in this series.

i have mine situated around the map in different biomes (beach front, mountain valley, grasslands, etc) in sets of two - with a joining plaza for each :")) it satisfies both my need for variety and my need for order

I love that, biomes like Minecraft? Such a nice balance between variety and having that structure still.

i spread out my villager houses on my island because i wanted room for each villager to have their own garden but then i also wanted some to be close so i got 3 houses in one corner of my island, 3 more in another corner and then 4 more in a different corner
then because i'm extra i put my house all the way at the back on the highest cliff i could get lol

I like that, they're like different clusters of houses, that was another thing I was considering!

 

[Feraligator]

In NL, my villagers were all in a row and personally I didn't like it too much, I didn't hate it either but it felt too 'confined'.

At the start of my island for NH, I made it all scattered about like in other AC games but it got difficult running to villager's houses across the map, and poor Audie was all alone in the corner

So now, it looks like this:

Still random sort of, but all on the 2nd and 3rd tier so I've still formed a neighbourhood. Also the map is a huge WIP so its unfinished, but I'm really happy with my layout so far

 

[Mairmalade]

I've scattered them into groups of 2-3 to make mini neighborhoods.

I have Able's/Nook's Cranny on a lower-level with two houses on the second level overlooking them (the idea was a traditional downtown setting where a shop is on the main floor and apartments are on the upper levels).

Some houses I have nestled near cliffs and others are scattered around a pond or open space that I'll eventually turn into a park/community space.

 

[Loriii]

In New leaf, I used to prefer lining them all up. I like how it's neat and the challenge that comes from doing it, but right now, I prefer them spread out a little bit in every corner. Almost everyone is trying to lined up the houses since it's easier now. I don't feel like it's a challenge anymore. I have nothing against people doing that. I mean, they look perfect, but yeah, I just feel like it's not for me anymore haha

 

[ForbiddenSecrets]

I have my villagers grouped in mini neighborhoods. 4 near resident center, 3 on a T1 cliff and 3 more on a T2 cliff.

 

[bam94-]

In New leaf, I used to prefer lining them all up. I like how it's neat and the challenge that comes from doing it, but right now, I prefer them spread out a little bit in every corner. Almost everyone is trying to lined up the houses since it's easier now. I don't feel like it's a challenge anymore. I have nothing against people doing that. I mean, they look perfect, but yeah, I just feel like it's not for me anymore haha

Mine were the same in New Leaf, I loved the challenge, but man I got tired of plot resetting!

I know what you mean. I'm thinking maybe spread my villager houses across two tiers, either 5 and 5 split or 3, 3 and 4!

 

[JKDOS]

I did this, but I am kind of regretting it. The general idea may be good, but I think my execution was poor.

 

[Altarium]

I tried going for a neighborhood but I didn't like having them all cramped up in a small space, so I'm going to spread them out and give each of them plenty of space to carry out the jobs I've planned for them :3

 

[meggiewes]

I'm going to have two little neighborhoods. One with me in it and one with just villagers in it. I never bothered plot resetting in NL and I love how the little neighborhoods look, so it is a design challenge for me.

 

[bam94-]

I'm going to have two little neighborhoods. One with me in it and one with just villagers in it. I never bothered plot resetting in NL and I love how the little neighborhoods look, so it is a design challenge for me.

I like the idea of having my house in one of the little neighbourhoods too, rather than out on my own. Maybe that way I could do three neighbourhoods with 3, 3 and 5 houses.

 

[Moon Cake]

Here's my current layout if you're interested! I have three mini neighborhoods. I really like things to be neat and orderly and I almost entertained the thought of having all ten houses in a row but I like this layout a lot better!

 

[Figment]

I started out trying to spread my villager's houses apart. Then, I decided to move my villagers into rows. After moving about five houses, I decided I wanted my island to have a natural theme so I'm moving them again. Lots of wasted bells, but I like how it's shaping up.

There are two houses in a row that I decided to leave as they are and terraform around them. This marks what I like to call the market district where the tailors and a small outdoor market is located. It's very cozy.

 

[JKDOS]

Here's my current layout if you're interested! I have three mini neighborhoods. I really like things to be neat and orderly and I almost entertained the thought of having all ten houses in a row but I like this layout a lot better!

How much space is in between the houses?