Tehya Faye
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How long ago were those gifts given? I'm honestly curious about the factors that make an item get duplicated like that, if the duplication happened after the most recent patch and without any time travel.
PSA: Giving a lot of gift can remove items from your villagers' homes
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How long ago were those gifts given? I'm honestly curious about the factors that make an item get duplicated like that, if the duplication happened after the most recent patch and without any time travel.
I have had some success restoring original furniture after giving other gifts, but it can take multiple tries. You can kind of predict where they *might* put it based on the furniture replacement guide
With Audie specifically, I had given her something that replaced the palm-tree lamp and the chalk menu. When I gave her a new palm-tree lamp, it returned to the right place. When I gave her the chalk menu, it put it in the wrong spot (in the designated free space), but then I gifted her something else to replace that. After I replaced the wrong chalk menu, I gifted her a new chalk menu and it put it back in the right spot.
At one point Lolly replaced her record player, so I gave her a new record player, and then she had two record players displayed at once. After I gifted her some other stuff, I got it back to one record player.
With Audie specifically, I had given her something that replaced the palm-tree lamp and the chalk menu. When I gave her a new palm-tree lamp, it returned to the right place. When I gave her the chalk menu, it put it in the wrong spot (in the designated free space), but then I gifted her something else to replace that. After I replaced the wrong chalk menu, I gifted her a new chalk menu and it put it back in the right spot.
At one point Lolly replaced her record player, so I gave her a new record player, and then she had two record players displayed at once. After I gifted her some other stuff, I got it back to one record player.
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Marshmallows
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I may have time traveled backwards after the gift.... I'm not sure. It happened with the last two things I gave her. But in that time, I gave things to Boots and Flora (much more often than Marina) and nothing got duplicated in their homes. This happened maybe a week or two ago?
I wish I had paid more attention to the details. The first was a soft serve lamp, and since two appeared (one in each corner) and it didn't look bad, I just thought it was a fluke. But then I gave her a couch, and it not only replaced the one she had, but added a new one in the empty space at the back of the room.
I could try changing her bed since I think she can only put one down.
Tehya Faye
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Yeah, I've also had pretty good luck with villager houses. I gave Maple a Retro Fan as a cute seasonal item to put in her free space, but the noise eventually bothered me so I gave her a Green Elephant Watering Can which replaced it. Apollo didn't put the red and black Record Box next to the Stereo free space like I thought he would, but instead under the lamp. Gave him a Mini Fridge for the other free space in the hopes of balancing things out...which he did put in the right place, but it looked awful. I crafted and customized a brown and red Acoustic Guitar, and mailed it to him since I already gave him some fruit that day, specifically recommending that he replace the Mini Fridge for it. In a stroke of most certainly complete coincidental luck he actually did. 
His house looks pretty nice now.
His house looks pretty nice now.
This happened with Julian when it was much too late. Now I no longer care for the state of his house. I’d have to burn through a lot of star fragments to fix the garlands.
If he finds a perma-home despite his messed up walls, I’ll offer to craft them garlands with their materials if they wish to try and fix it. Feel bad, wish I knew about this problem much sooner.
Wish there was an option to reset homes with Isabelle.
If he finds a perma-home despite his messed up walls, I’ll offer to craft them garlands with their materials if they wish to try and fix it. Feel bad, wish I knew about this problem much sooner.
Wish there was an option to reset homes with Isabelle.
Tehya Faye
Senior Member
This happened with Julian when it was much too late. Now I no longer care for the state of his house. I’d have to burn through a lot of star fragments to fix the garlands.
If he finds a perma-home despite his messed up walls, I’ll offer to craft them garlands with their materials if they wish to try and fix it. Feel bad, wish I knew about this problem much sooner.
Wish there was an option to reset homes with Isabelle.
Is it confirmed that villagers in New Horizons keep their modified house interiors when moving to a new island? Everything I've read says only clothes are carried over, and the houses are set to their base default.
There were rumors a while ago about Happy Home functionality coming to the game, but I don't know if that was based on anything real or just wishful thinking. If it would let us put their homes back to exactly default (or let you turn a starter house into the proper house), I think a lot of people would be pretty happy with that. And I would turn Erik's home into his New Leaf home.
When I adopted Eugene he carried over fish, a laptop and a Newton’s cradle, which are not part of his original interior. Only starter villager’s houses get fixed like this. Wish it did with everyone else as well.
I’m pretty sure it was wistful thinking. I haven’t heard any datamines info that suggested something like that. That would be great though, if they ever take up the idea.
Tehya Faye
Senior Member
Ah, good to know. I wonder why they don't just reset all the houses to normal?
As I was taking my shower, I was getting more and more convinced that I royally screwed up Audie's house, including removing the neon sign and palm tree. I shouldn't admit this, but I was getting fairly depressed. When I finally was able to get into the game again, those things are still there. Phew. But, I did notice her wall fan is gone. Now, the guide says you can easily replace that by giving her the same item of the same color. The problem is, the wiki says she has a *white* wall fan. In the picture, it really looks green to me:
I don't want to screw this up, so if anyone knows for sure. . . . My best recourse might be to just let the fan go. Because if I give her the wrong fan, it'll take yet another inventory slot. Of course, if I first fix the tabletop items, maybe it'll be less of a concern.
I don't want to screw this up, so if anyone knows for sure. . . . My best recourse might be to just let the fan go. Because if I give her the wrong fan, it'll take yet another inventory slot. Of course, if I first fix the tabletop items, maybe it'll be less of a concern.
I used this method to clean up alot of my villagers homes. I bombarded them with wall items to clear off all their surfaces. Then gifted them their original items back. I just really hate that nintendo did not take the time to program the villagers to put items correctly. I kept giving Murphy some really nice items but he almost always put them backwards. A wood stove facing the wall then a nice custom log couch facing the wall.
Do you mean he puts them wrong with this method, or this method is how you fixed that?
Tehya Faye
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Yeah, that's why I'm really careful about what kinds of stuff I give them. Nothing would bug me more than seeing a couch the wrong way around, so stuff like plants or things that look the same both sides is ideal. It doesn't always look right, but at least they can't place it incorrectly. I'm a bit amused by Phoebe's new rotating Portable Record Player, though. Every day she just turns it 90 degrees and I've accepted it as a silly quirk.
Oh no the method cleared up objects on surfaces. So alot of my villagers put stuff I gave them awkwardly on surfaces. To get rid of all that I gifted them wall stuff which will get rid of everything on surfaces but not stuff placed on floor. To fix the stuff placed on the floor that they put backwards I have to gift them another item the same size and hope they get it right. It is alot of trial and error. They can hold 32 items in their storage including the items currently in their house. So you have to gift them quite a few items to cycle through everything. I have 3 characters and with mailing 5 items each I can clear their surfaces in 2 days.
As I was taking my shower, I was getting more and more convinced that I royally screwed up Audie's house, including removing the neon sign and palm tree. I shouldn't admit this, but I was getting fairly depressed. When I finally was able to get into the game again, those things are still there. Phew. But, I did notice her wall fan is gone. Now, the guide says you can easily replace that by giving her the same item of the same color. The problem is, the wiki says she has a *white* wall fan. In the picture, it really looks green to me:
I don't want to screw this up, so if anyone knows for sure. . . . My best recourse might be to just let the fan go. Because if I give her the wrong fan, it'll take yet another inventory slot. Of course, if I first fix the tabletop items, maybe it'll be less of a concern.
I don't have Audie, never had her, but I went and looked at multiple screenshots of her house, and it does seem like the original color is in fact green.
Thanks for doing that. I got the green fan and I'll give giving it to her a go.
Skandranon
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Yeah I started out giving random stuff I didn't want to villagers, then I saw the anatomy model in whitney's house and realized I should be more careful what I give out
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That last part would be such a dream. Fixing villager homes is such a pain, I’d rather shell out a few thousand bells than hack away at my sanity trying to fix the house myself.This happened with Julian when it was much too late. Now I no longer care for the state of his house. I’d have to burn through a lot of star fragments to fix the garlands.
If he finds a perma-home despite his messed up walls, I’ll offer to craft them garlands with their materials if they wish to try and fix it. Feel bad, wish I knew about this problem much sooner.
Wish there was an option to reset homes with Isabelle.
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