The precision of villager plot-resetting

[Kolechia]

Yes that is correct! Apparently it has worked for a lot of people, and although the last time I plot reset I really didn't notice it because I had so many spaces, I do agree that there is a recurring pattern when you plot reset!

hmmm I might try this! I having a lot of trouble as I have a massive open space where they can put their house when I
only want them all in a little line .-.

rip my thumbs

I think I'm safe...at least I hope so! I'm not alerting my path because it will mess up my plans

 

[Laurelinde]

This is so useful, thank you! Can I ask what programs people are using to make their town maps? I have started plotting mine out on graph paper but the sheets are too small (or the grid is too big) to fit on one page. I'm wondering if doing it digitally would be easier.

 

[BluebellLight]

Ugh just counted it off and the place I've been plot resetting for is just BARELY in the acre with 3 buildings in it already... ugh guess thats where my police station is going

 

[Last_bus_home]

I'm starting a new town today and I found this immensely helpful! I agree with Laurelinde, what have you guys chosen to use when making your maps? Graph paper would make it massive.

 

[Cudon]

Hey can I ask smth rq? I just now realized that I've run into a problem with acres, but thank god I seem to have gotten lucky enough to only have one problematic spot even though all of my villagers share the same 4-6 acres.

Basically my problem is the fact that due to all of my 3 player houses barely being in the same acre, I can't fit a villager into it. However I'm fully capable of deleting one of my player characters. Would I be able to delete a player character, get Naomi in and then put them back?

I could also move both of the player houses away from that acre to an entirely different spot but that would require me to replan a lot.

 

[Chrystina]

Hey can I ask smth rq? I just now realized that I've run into a problem with acres, but thank god I seem to have gotten lucky enough to only have one problematic spot even though all of my villagers share the same 4-6 acres.

Basically my problem is the fact that due to all of my 3 player houses barely being in the same acre, I can't fit a villager into it. However I'm fully capable of deleting one of my player characters. Would I be able to delete a player character, get Naomi in and then put them back?

I could also move both of the player houses away from that acre to an entirely different spot but that would require me to replan a lot.

If you decide to delete the players house then try and get Naomi in the acre, once rebuilding the house nook will show you the preview for it being off a bit so that the middle of the house is in another acre. If it's too close then he'll just say it's too close to other houses.

 

[Cudon]

This is so useful, thank you! Can I ask what programs people are using to make their town maps? I have started plotting mine out on graph paper but the sheets are too small (or the grid is too big) to fit on one page. I'm wondering if doing it digitally would be easier.

I just marked it in paths in my town. The plaza seems to be a perfect image of what the size of an acre is. The plaza acre is plaza + 2 extra spaces on each side of the plaza.

I was lucky enough to have all of my villagers live in the long strip under the plaza, so all I had to do was continue the diagonal line down and just fill in the horizontal lines.

I'm not 100% sure though, I only started messing with the acres today after finding out.

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If you decide to delete the players house then try and get Naomi in the acre, once rebuilding the house nook will show you the preview for it being off a bit so that the middle of the house is in another acre. If it's too close then he'll just say it's too close to other houses.

Aw man, technically it's not too close to anything except it's in that acre. I could also move the houses a bit down too but that would mess up the path a bit.. wouldn't be able to plant bushes on a large part of the bottom path.


Wut. I decided to try and place my 4th human right in the middle of that acre and Nook didn't protest it at all?

 

[Last_bus_home]

Thanks for the mapping info Dinomates. I have a question, there are six spaces between the bottom of my plaza and my river (I can dig six holes or plant six flowers in a vertical line) is this enough room for villagers to plot or would this mean them infringing on the plaza acre? I plot reset for 2 hours earlier and not one attempt to plot anywhere near that area, but I have so much (too much) open space to choose from at the moment as it is a new town, I have not had a chance to herd villagers into the right places using PWPs etc.

 

[Cudon]

Thanks for the mapping info Dinomates. I have a question, there are six spaces between the bottom of my plaza and my river (I can dig six holes or plant six flowers in a vertical line) is this enough room for villagers to plot or would this mean them infringing on the plaza acre? I plot reset for 2 hours earlier and not one attempt to plot anywhere near that area, but I have so much (too much) open space to choose from at the moment as it is a new town, I have not had a chance to herd villagers into the right places using PWPs etc.

I'm pretty sure that's too little space since the plaza takes 2 of those 6 spots away and the house is 4 spaces long (the door included) And houses and pwps most of the time have to have a gap of two next to the river. There are some exceptions but I don't think the river is one of them and even if it was you'd need to have 7 spaces total.

The plaza is really weird though, you can plant stuff right next to it with like 0 gap and it's weird.

Oh also I got Naomi to plot where I wanted her to by removing one of my human houses first, which I later put back where it used to be. So the whole acre thing seems to only affect moving villagers.

 

[Mura]

Okay so I know this is quite a big bump, but I have a question, and would rather not make a new thread considering I've made like two threads about plot resetting in like a week.. Plus I'd like this thread to be seen by more people, as it is very helpful.

My question is this; Can a villager plot right in the middle of the supposed blue line (The door being in the center of the blue line)?

 

[katysu]

My question is this; Can a villager plot right in the middle of the supposed blue line (The door being in the center of the blue line)?

I don't know, but I'm online and can tell you what the answer would be in acww - its no because that line doesn't actually take a space, the spots or spaces that make up an acre are on one side of the 'line' or the other. The line does not exist as a space.

 

[namiieco]

holy **** that really planned out...
i don't have the time to plan all that out xD

 

[Believe]

One question I have about this is that certain acres have more than 3 red dots in them? For example, the acre with the letter A and the acre below the one with the letter C both have 4 red dots within the same acre. Or do you mean only up to 3 FULL villager houses/permanent buildings can be in the same acre?

Otherwise, this is a really useful guide

 

[Greggy]

Thanks for this!

 

[epoch]

One question I have about this is that certain acres have more than 3 red dots in them? For example, the acre with the letter A and the acre below the one with the letter C both have 4 red dots within the same acre. Or do you mean only up to 3 FULL villager houses/permanent buildings can be in the same acre?

Otherwise, this is a really useful guide

I think she's saying that a villager won't move into an acre that already has 3 red dots in it but it doesn't apply if you are the one to put the permanent building there. If that's the case, then the villager houses were already there before the Cafe/character house was built.