My villagers are teleporting out of their traps?

[Moxley]

I'm doing the "diving method" for more PWPs and so far I have trapped Freya and Flora. I did Freya first. I trapped her in a perfect square of holes and then ran off to the ocean and when I came back she wasn't in the "trap"???? I was confused but I just tried again, but with Flora. Same thing happened, except she ended up all the way at the shoreline when i pulled back in! Has this happened to anyone??

 

[mitzi_crossing]

May I ask why are you trapping them..? I do the diving method to get PWPs requested and it works just fine without having to trap them. If youre looking to run into a specific villager just keep note of where they are before diving and they should be nearby when you come back. It always works for me

 

[Akimari]

May I ask why are you trapping them..? I do the diving method to get PWPs requested and it works just fine without having to trap them. If youre looking to run into a specific villager just keep note of where they are before diving and they should be nearby when you come back. It always works for me

A lot of people trap them since the villagers can wander off to god knows where and it's easier to keep track of them. That's what I used to do at least.

OP, make sure that they're completely trapped within. Like, holes around every single corner. No room for escape. No hope. No salvation.

 

[TheEchoTimes]

True, but sometimes villagers teleport.

 

[Moxley]

A lot of people trap them since the villagers can wander off to god knows where and it's easier to keep track of them. That's what I used to do at least.

OP, make sure that they're completely trapped within. Like, holes around every single corner. No room for escape. No hope. No salvation.

that's what i did, which is why i'm like ????

 

[lizzy541]

villagers can teleport i'm guessing, because one time skye showed up wherever i went. she was in retail, then the able sisters, and then when i was back in my town she was in her house!

 

[Moxley]

It's just weird because I've done this hundreds of times and nothing like that has ever happened before today.

 

[starcharmer]

This has definitely happened to me before! There's nothing wrong with your game or cartridge or anything so don't worry! ^^
I think it has to do with villagers being idle for too long? Mine always decide to teleport when they've been stuck for a long while.
I like to think they get tired of standing for so long because they always take naps when they leave their spots haha!

 

[disneydorky]

When I trap villagers I give them a pretty big space, and usually use the river or a building for one side.

 

[Serif]

OP, make sure that they're completely trapped within. Like, holes around every single corner. No room for escape. No hope. No salvation.

Aki I freakin love you LOL

I'm not sure what it is. Might be a distance thing or a time thing. Maybe try giving them a little more wiggle room? Maybe their constant walking towards one corner is letting them port out of their prisons~

And I totes get why OP wants to trap them. I've had animals ask me to grab fruit. I go like two feet away to get fruit, and by the time I'm back, animal's moved across the entire gd map =_=

 

[stevo97]

I've seen them teleport many times, I've never considered it anything other than perfectly normal. The same thing happened on Wild World if memory serves.

 

[Jacob]

when u go swimming for 10 minutes (idk how long) it resets some things, like the opportunity for them to ping you

but it also resets the villager positions i believe...

 

[Arabelle]

Hmm did you go inside any buildings/houses and came right out by any chance?

I used to trap my villagers too and go for diving when I needed more PWPs suggested.. sometimes I found them outside of their trap(?) and wondered how they escaped.. then I remembered I went inside the town hall real quick or someone's house xD.. maybe they jump or something when we're not looking >.<

 

[Dinosaurz]

Illuminati? Aliens? TBT 2 confirmed?

 

[erikaeliseh]

same thing has happened to me, i was so confused aha. i figured its because villagers have little timetables where they get sent to the beach at a certain time, or retail, mainstreet, ect. and they have to teleport if it overlaps with the time they were trapped.

 

[Vizionari]

I always trap my villagers to get them to stay in one place, but I remember trapping Ruby, and after I got in the water for 5 minutes, I came back out and somehow she escaped to the other side of the river :/

What I've noticed is that if you trap a villager near the beach (like the cliff of the beach) then somehow they're able to escape down to the beach, I did this with Hamlet several times and he teleported down there each time. :|