Is it true, that Villagers won't move on pattern designs on the ground anymore?

[Princess Mipha]

I heard that on another website but I wonder if that is really true.. any idea?

 

[Chloebug44]

It is 100% true, yes!

 

[Panda Hero]

its true. you can use paths to prevent them from moving in bad spots

 

[Paperboy012305]

Yup, its true. And you are able to manipulate your town with it too while you plot reset.

Place down paths to where you think the villager will plot. And plot reset the next day. If the house didn't plot where you wanted it, you missed a spot. Use your 3DS clock to fix that problem and rinse and repeat until you got it.

 

[namiieco]

Yes, it makes it much easier to plot reset now

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I literally put patterns all over my town with no 3x3 or bigger spaces and then deleted some where I want villager houses to go

 

[Loriii]

I can also confirm this based from personal experience. I was expecting for a random move in to come today so I've made several 3x3 spaces then put paths on everything. I restarted around 20-30 times (until I got what I wanted) and each time, they would only place their plot in one of those spaces. Very convenient haha

 

[pynkuu]

Yes and no
I've tested it out and while they will move into spaces that you designate paths around, if there is no available spaces, they will move on top of patterns. This happened to me twice during replotting by accident. I set down patterns all over my map and closed all the 3x3 spaces except for where I wanted them to move in but had my spaces too close to edges where houses don't spawn and they spawned randomly elsewhere on the map. Don't be like me and miscalculate the space and they won't move in on your patterns C:

 

[angelina]

I know this will sound crazy...but how do you start laying out these paths? Do you edge the entire town and put horizontal and vertical paths every 3 spaces? Or do you block out entire town and just open random 3x3 spaces?