Villagers and vertical house placement

[Spooky.]

I'm trying to make a vertical row of villager houses via plot resetting. I got fed up while resetting Punchy, and accepted it when his house was 8 spaces below another villagers house. Is that enough space for another villager to move in between them vertically or no? Basically, it looks something like this:

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[ villager house ]
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[ villager house ]

I know a villager's house takes up three spaces vertically on their own, but I wasn't sure how many spaces above and below they need to fit. I have some villagers houses 3 spaces apart horizontally but I don't know if the same would apply vertically because of the space needed for the front doors. I can take a screenshot of this space, if needed. So, how many vertical spaces do villager houses need when lining up?


Sorry for making a whole thread for this instead of posting it in the questions thread, but I thought a question like this might be useful for others who are into plot-resetting and have a similar question.

 

[Reese]

You're one space short unfortunately, houses need to be three spaces apart when lined up vertically (one buffer space behind the house in front, and two in front of the house behind it)

 

[Spooky.]

You're one space short unfortunately, houses need to be three spaces apart when lined up vertically (one buffer space behind the house in front, and two in front of the house behind it)

Aww no. That'll totally ruin all my plans during plot resetting ;~;

but wait...I have 8 free spaces. From what you're saying, I need one space in front and two behind. That would be three spaces, then if the house itself takes up three spaces, that's 6 total.

 

[Kyu]

I think you need 1 space behind and 2 in front so adding the 2 in front of the back house and 1 in back of the front house, you need 3 spaces between each house, meaning you're 1 short. You can check with a new character house. I believe they're the same as a villager house vertically

 

[Spooky.]

I think you need 1 space behind and 2 in front so adding the 2 in front of the back house and 1 in back of the front house, you need 3 spaces between each house, meaning you're 1 short. You can check with a new character house. I believe they're the same as a villager house vertically

I'll try that, but my town plaza is so close it might not let me place a new character there anyway. I'll give it a shot though.

 

[Reese]

I think you need 1 space behind and 2 in front so adding the 2 in front of the back house and 1 in back of the front house, you need 3 spaces between each house, meaning you're 1 short. You can check with a new character house. I believe they're the same as a villager house vertically

Yeah, this. You're forgetting about the buffer spaces of the other two houses, the spaces can't overlap

 

[Spooky.]

Well this stinks. I have to totally re-think how I want to lay out my houses when I plot reset now. I wanted nice vertical rows. I guess I shouldn't have gotten so frustrated and given up when I was resetting for Punchy.