PSA: Giving a lot of gift can remove items from your villagers' homes

[Ras]

I've been giving Audie a gift every day to build up friendship (with the aim of getting her picture)--things like iron lamps, hanging terrariums, and other things she won't display--and now she doesn't have any of her tabletop items. She no longer has a radio, a fruit basket, or coconut juice. I am assuming I filled up her inventory so that stuff got cycled out. I would never have given anything but non-native fruits had I known this would happen. And, I won't just gift her those items, because I am certain the game would not put them in the right place. The game doesn't know "fruit basket goes here," so the odds are she would replace a 1x1 piece of furniture if I tried.

Has anyone had this happen, or have you given tons of hanging gifts and their houses are left intact? I know there is a chance she'll cycle the furniture back in, but it's been at least two days and that stuff remains gone.

 

[Uffe]

Can't you just buy items for her and give them to her as gifts to have her house be remade?

 

[Tehya Faye]

This is a good resource for house information and house restoration.

 

[Ras]

Can't you just buy items for her and give them to her as gifts to have her house be remade?

No, because there is no guarantee they will go in the same place. They might even replace furniture that exists.

This is a good resource for house information and house restoration.

And I found the relevant info quickly:

"They will start removing old furniture once they reach their storage limit, notably wall-mounted furniture, furniture placed on surfaces, or other non-displayed furniture."

Dammit. Wish I had known. But, there might be hope:

"• Furniture that was originally on a surface will try to get placed in its original spot. By overflowing their storage to remove surface furniture you can make it very easy for villagers to place the originals in the right spots.
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So, maybe you're right, Uffe.

 

[Tehya Faye]

Best of luck in trying to restore her house!

 

[Ras]

But, does that bug still exist where they will put two of an item in place?

 

[Tehya Faye]

The only time I've seen a villager place two of an item at once was that one occasion where I time traveled backwards and then forwards again. I had given Fuchsia an item then, and I think the game registered it as being given twice due to the time traveling. All other times the villager has only displayed one.

 

[Uffe]

No, because there is no guarantee they will go in the same place. They might even replace furniture that exists.



And I found the relevant info quickly:

"They will start removing old furniture once they reach their storage limit, notably wall-mounted furniture, furniture placed on surfaces, or other non-displayed furniture."

Dammit. Wish I had known. But, there might be hope:

"• Furniture that was originally on a surface will try to get placed in its original spot. By overflowing their storage to remove surface furniture you can make it very easy for villagers to place the originals in the right spots.
"

So, maybe you're right, Uffe.

I hope I am right that way you can restore Audie's house. I don't give my villagers any furniture or clothes. But one day Marshal gave me his coffee grinder, right out from his house. I told him he should keep it, but he gave it to me anyway. So I returned it to him the next day in person and he put it right next to his record player, which is where it's supposed to be. So all I can think of is giving Audie furniture that's going to be sitting on the ground and then giving her the items that sat on top of any furniture before.

 

[Ras]

I hope I am right that way you can restore Audie's house. I don't give my villagers any furniture or clothes. But one day Marshal gave me his coffee grinder, right out from his house. I told him he should keep it, but he gave it to me anyway. So I returned it to him the next day in person and he put it right next to his record player, which is where it's supposed to be. So all I can think of is giving Audie furniture that's going to be sitting on the ground and then giving her the items that sat on top of any furniture before.

I'm going to do some TT to make this happen, so I'll either really screw things up or fix them! My only fear is that bug where two items appeared. You know what, I think I'll wait until the new update because maybe they fixed that. That'll give me time to order the tape deck. Thanks.

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The only time I've seen a villager place two of an item at once was that one occasion where I time traveled backwards and then forwards again. I had given Fuchsia an item then, and I think the game registered it as being given twice due to the time traveling. All other times the villager has only displayed one.

Oh, okay. And I was thinking of TTing. Ha. I guess I'll be patient, since I have already ordered five things today.

 

[Uffe]

I'm going to do some TT to make this happen, so I'll either really screw things up or fix them! My only fear is that bug where two items appeared. You know what, I think I'll wait until the new update because maybe they fixed that. That'll give me time to order the tape deck. Thanks.

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Oh, okay. And I was thinking of TTing. Ha. I guess I'll be patient, since I have already ordered five things today.

What do you mean two items appeared? I'm curious as to what that is.

 

[Quackattack]

Olivia's house is full of fish she's asked me to catch her. Maybe appropriate for a car, but doesn't quite fit with her decor.

 

[Darcy94x]

Thanks for posting this! Will only gift wrapped fruit going forward!

 

[Ras]

What do you mean two items appeared? I'm curious as to what that is.

A while back, people were saying they gave a villager one item--I think a nova light was the example--and they ended up having two of the nova lights in their houses. And other items were reported duplicated by others, too.

 

[Tehya Faye]

Yeah, I remember seeing a post where somebody gave Raymond an item and three of them appeared in his house. XD It was a recurring thing for them - every time they gifted an item there'd be multiple of it the next day. I haven't run into any problems like that, thankfully. Maybe that particular bug was patched, and only a little quirk with time traveling remains.

Edit: This PSA is particularly relevant for villagers like Julian who by default have over 20 pieces of furniture in their homes. I don't even have the Libra or star garland diys, so I'd be out of luck trying to restore that house. Which is a shame, because I'd like to give him a music player but if I regret it later there's not a whole lot of wiggle room before he starts taking down his star garland.

 

[Uffe]

A while back, people were saying they gave a villager one item--I think a nova light was the example--and they ended up having two of the nova lights in their houses. And other items were reported duplicated by others, too.

Oh, that's not good. Perhaps it would be a good idea to wait until after the next update like you said, just to be sure. At least I hope it's something Nintendo hasn't overlooked.

 

[Ras]

Oooh, I just had a swell idea! I can wait until the game saves, gift her one thing while she's in her house, and see if it goes in place! If not, I can hard reset before the next save! It might not work since gift placement is not always instantaneous, but it might be safer than mailing all three as that document suggests.

Edit: She didn't place it. Went out and back in, still no. I guess I can just keep trying this for a while.

 

[Tehya Faye]

Villagers won't display the item until the next day, though.

 

[Ras]

Villagers won't display the item until the next day, though.

Shaking fists! Gah, that was my favorite trick from New Leaf: keep giving them the gift until they put it in the right place, resetting until they did. Okay, I'm just going to: wait for the patch, gift them all at once via mail, hope for the best, get ready to mass mail hanging items if it doesn't work.

 

[Marshmallows]

Everything I give Marina gets duplicated. Two couches, two lamps... at least the placement is okay. Not sure I want to try to fix it.

Also has anyone managed to gift Flora something that replaces the campfire in her house? I hate it... but no matter what I gift her, she never chooses to replace it. I had her house almost perfect and then destroyed it trying to get rid of the campfire.

 

[Ras]

Everything I give Marina gets duplicated. Two couches, two lamps... at least the placement is okay. Not sure I want to try to fix it.

Now I know I'm waiting for the update in the hopes this is patched. This is ridiculous.