Question about Time Travel and moving out villagers

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I restarted my town with the intention of TTing quickly back to December. It's taking a lot longer than I planned x____x
My whole reasoning for starting earlier is to get all of the bugs. Unfortunately, I started in August and now I have to wait until July to get a honeybee unless I go back to July.

My actual question:
I have a lot of undesirable villagers. If one of them states a moving date, can I TT way past their moving date and have no one else move out?

Basically:
It's near the end of September. Renee tells me she's moving out on October 2nd, for example. I TT to October 31st. Since she moved out in the time I TTed, is there any chance of another villager leaving during that time? I'm fully prepared to hear "Where have you been?" and all that stuff. I just want to know if I can use moving out villagers to TT faster than I am, since I want to experience Toy Day on Christmas. Thank you!
 
Well, it's kind of complicated. Here are the steps:

1. Ask the villager to move out. Keep in mind the date. Any day they're not in boxes is safe. These safe days will be the time travel days.

2. Any safe day before the villager is on boxes, talk to ALL your villagers. If they ping, restart. If they talk about someone moving, restart. Make sure you talk to them fully. They should say something like they're thinking about something if you have talked to them fully.

3. Once you finished Step 2, TT to the move-out day. Nobody except the desired villager should move, assuming you completed Step 2 carefully.

I may be wrong on this. There are plenty of ways to move out villagers.

IMPORTANT EDIT: If the villager mentions someone moving that is NOT the desired villager, restart.
 
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If you TT took far, than yes, other villagers will move.

You are only safe for about 4-5 days once a villagers move out. After which, depending on the numbers of villagers you currently have, another will move.

Not advisable to TT too far if u have villagers you want to keep.
 
Well, I know how to move out villagers. My question is if someone is moving out and I TT long past their move out date, is anyone else going to leave on me because of the time skip?

EDIT: just saw the other response. Thank you. I figured it was unsafe, but I wanted to ask. Thank you!
 
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Find a post by static sparks, its the method im using, but don't be distracted by other things or you will lose your dreamies like me :(
 
Well, I know how to move out villagers. My question is if someone is moving out and I TT long past their move out date, is anyone else going to leave on me because of the time skip?

Before you TT, talk to your villagers fully like I mentioned. Assuming you did, no one will leave except the desired villager.
 
Actually, I'm pretty sure only one villager wants to move at a time if any. I accidentally TT'd an entire year and NO ONE moved out. So, if someone is wanting to move, yes you can TT any amount of days forward, and they will move out but no one else will (though, I assume someone will WANT to move on the day you start playing on again).
 
Actually, I'm pretty sure only one villager wants to move at a time if any. I accidentally TT'd an entire year and NO ONE moved out. So, if someone is wanting to move, yes you can TT any amount of days forward, and they will move out but no one else will (though, I assume someone will WANT to move on the day you start playing on again).

This. In my second copy I tt from winter to spring (the next year). I usually wait until a villager is planning to move, then tt a few months forward. I've done it twice, and so far no other villagers were lost.
 
I can confirm that jumping forward any amount of time while you already have one villager planning to move will only result in that one villager leaving.

The same can be done simply by turning down a villager's move notice, then jumping forward from that day. No one will have moved out when you load up the game, then.
 
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