Tips on plot resetting?

[Sugarsprig]

I have tried plot resetting, but I always miss a spot and the villager simply refuses to move in another space! Also, the patterns mess up the town layout and looks out of place. Does anyone want to share some tips and tricks for plot resetting? Thank you^^

(I don?t time travel)

 

[Nezcat]

The last few days I have been rearranging my villagers and scanning in Amiibo villagers to get the old ones to move. When there are already a few houses in the vicinity I got them to move into a new spot no problem.

But sometimes I faced an Amiibo who was absolutely dead set on moving in on the previous villager's spot no matter how much I reset.


So I figured to just make it extra crowded around the undesired spot to make the new spot more attractive.
I moved in a new player (of which I placed the house as close to the undesired spot it would go) AND I built a small and cheap PWP (like a park bench), which I also place as close as it would to the undesired spot.


Once I did that, the villager immediately moved to the desired spot on the next load the following day. (Yay!) True, you will have to sacrifice some grass, but it will grow back anyway.
It helps if you grid your town first to get the right acre crowded enough for them to pick another spot.

It might be a total coincidence, but I will use this method a few times more to move the last of the stubborn villagers to their dedicated suburbs of Riverdale and Evergreen Heights

 

[Khaelis]

Let me give you the best advice you'll hear: patterns. Abuse them. They will make plot resetting sooooo much easier. It takes a long time to set up, and looks a little ugl, but it is so worth it. All you have to do is space out your patterns every two 'tiles', simply leaving a 3x3 open tile grid for where you want the house to be. If you ONLY have one 3x3 tile grid, the plot will always be there. However, always check with a fresh save file, just in case. You never know if you might have missed a place on your town map! I've done it before, thankfully even if you just miss one or two spots on your town, it's still simple to get them in that 3x3 grid.

Basically, it looks ugly but it's worth it. If you missed a spot, just be patient. They'll eventually go where you want them to go.

 

[Nezcat]

Forgot to add that, good point. Let me add then, that in my case I did have my complete town patterned, but with Amiibo move ins (when you have 10 villagers already) the new villager always has two spots to choose from. Namely, the 3x3 slot you have reserved for them and the villager's old spot. Because plotting of the Amiibo happens immediately after the villager's house disappears, you can't lay a pattern on the old spot. With regular move outs this isn't a problem.