THIS GAME IS BUGGED. My villager vanished!!

[Amykins]

I was all set to do a villager trade but my villager is GONE! He said he was leaving the 10th. I screenshotted it to make absolutely sure I didn't mess it up, so I TT to the 10th, and...he's gone. I got the "haven't seen you around for a while" message but no "go say goodbye, he's moving" response. He's just gone. And I don't even have a letter from him saying he left, it's as if the game just forgot he existed at all!

What the heck happened to my game?!?

 

[FireNinja1]

I was all set to do a villager trade but my villager is GONE! He said he was leaving the 10th. I screenshotted it to make absolutely sure I didn't mess it up, so I TT to the 10th, and...he's gone. I got the "haven't seen you around for a while" message but no "go say goodbye, he's moving" response. He's just gone. And I don't even have a letter from him saying he left, it's as if the game just forgot he existed at all!

What the heck happened to my game?!?

Did you TT backwards?

 

[Amykins]

I did, but it wasn't before he was supposed to be in boxes. He told me he was leaving the 4th, I TT'd to the third, then to the 10th. And he's just gone.

I've done similar things in the past with no ill effect.

 

[FireNinja1]

That's it. You TT'd back one day, then you skipped like 6 days.

 

[TheCreeperHugz]

That's it. You TT'd back one day, then you skipped like 6 days.

that wouldn't explain the missing goodbye letter though

 

[Amykins]

^ Exactly. There's no letter at all. I TT'd forward one more day to see if maybe it got delayed for whatever reason, but nope. He's just gone.

I'm seriously on the verge of tears, guys. I was gonna trade Lolly for him, the ONE villager out of them all that I want.

 

[Sumemr]

Sometimes in my cycle town when I TT past the moving date of some villagers, I don't get a letter either. I always thought it was just because I barely talked to them and had little to no friendship with them. I don't know though

 

[Amykins]

Beau and I were best buds, I even had his photo. Just...GRR! I can't believe this happened! I'm such an idiot...

 

[FireNinja1]

Sometimes in my cycle town when I TT past the moving date of some villagers, I don't get a letter either. I always thought it was just because I barely talked to them and had little to no friendship with them. I don't know though

That can't be true. I do believe I ousted Patty, and I still got a letter with little friendship.

 

[harime]

It's true though if your friendship is too low, you don't even receive a letter. It happened multiple times to me with villagers I hated.

Although, I don't know what happened with your Beau, sorry.

 

[harvington]

Sometimes in my cycle town when I TT past the moving date of some villagers, I don't get a letter either. I always thought it was just because I barely talked to them and had little to no friendship with them. I don't know though

I have had this happen to me as well, I've found the best way to TT villagers into boxes is to travel to one day BEFORE they say they're going to move out, save, then travel to the move out day. In the past if I TT to the day they say they are going to move out, sometimes they just disappear. Same if I travel too far ahead (ie they say they're moving out on the 8th, I travel to the 12th, their house will be gone and I won't have a letter). Sometimes when you travel forward they will change their move out date to compensate for the days you skip, I'm not sure why. I'm sorry that happened, it really really stinks

 

[Suave_Spencer]

After they said they were moving out, did you travel backwards? Because that counts as a day. The date isn't actually programmed in to affect moving out, it's all based on number of days passed. So if they say they're moving in 4 days, and you travel back 5 days they'll be gone.

 

[sn0wxyuki]

Wait...why do you need to TT backward at the first place? When he said he is moving on the 4th, all you need is to TT to 10th the date he in boxes, TT backward not necessary?

 

[Snow]

After they said they were moving out, did you travel backwards? Because that counts as a day. The date isn't actually programmed in to affect moving out, it's all based on number of days passed. So if they say they're moving in 4 days, and you travel back 5 days they'll be gone.

This is really important to remember. When they give you a moving date they're just telling you how many days before they leave, assuming that you don't time travel. You need to count the days and move carefully if you tt. On the 4th he told you he would be packed in 6 days. You went back a day (counting as one day), then forward seven days, making it 8 days total since he told you he was leaving. So you overshot his move-out by 2 days.

That is a massive bummer though. I hope you are able to get your Lolly!!

 

[pocky]

I did, but it wasn't before he was supposed to be in boxes. He told me he was leaving the 4th, I TT'd to the third, then to the 10th. And he's just gone.

I've done similar things in the past with no ill effect.

your game didn't bug. here is what happened
he told you that he was leaving the 4th, and said that his last day would be on the 10th
when you TT'd back to the 3rd, the leaving date changed to the 8th

basically the leaving date isn't set on stone, it's just x days from the day that he told you
in this case, it was six days.

so if you hadn't tt'd backwards, here is what would have happened:
4th - he'd tell you that he was leaving on the 10th
(day 1) 5th - he'd still be there
(day 2) 6th - he'd still be there
(day 3) 7th - he'd still be there
(day 4) 8th - he'd still be there
(day 5) 9th - he'd still be there
(day 6) 10th - he'd be in boxes

but since you tt'd backwards:
4th - he'd tell you that he was leaving on the 10th
(day 1) 3rd - he'd still be there, but the leaving date would have changed
(day 2) 4th - he'd still be there
(day 3) 5th - he'd still be there
(day 4) 6th - he'd still be there
(day 5) 7th - he'd still be there
(day 6) 8th - he'd be in boxes
(day 7) 9th - his house would be gone
(day 8) 10th - his house would be gone

 

[Jaz]

That's odd. I never encountered this but I remember hearing some stories on this.

 

[Selky]

I did, but it wasn't before he was supposed to be in boxes. He told me he was leaving the 4th, I TT'd to the third, then to the 10th. And he's just gone.

I've done similar things in the past with no ill effect.

That would make no sense. If you TT'd to the third it still counts as a day so that villager would at the very least move a day earlier but in some cases even sooner as a result.
In the future the best thing to do it once you have a specific date only TT one day at a time to it...so you don't risk if it ends up being sooner.

 

[Piptocrossing]

:C