Give me your plan lol since i am trying to get a few sloppy items from a certain villager and he isn't biting lol
Mine is more like giving villagers furniture to make it exactly the same rather than taking items from it. But it works in similar manners.
I too would like to hear your plan! I wrecked Wolfgang's house and am trying to fix it up.
I usually just try sending or giving villagers furniture I want them to use if I don't like their decoration. If I like how someone's house looks like when it's original, I try hard not to give them fish or bugs. But it feels bad to turn down requests.
All right, this takes a lot of patience and a lot of saving and quitting.
So the first thing is the fill up Retail's spots with flowers at ridiculous prices that no one would buy at. If the spot isn't being used, leave the flower there. Order all the furniture that is needed to get the house back to how it was originally. Make sure to note the size and what it must replace. There are several ways that the house can be fixed.
1. Villagers can invite you to visit their homes where when you talk to them enough during the visit, you can buy something from them. You can't buy bugs and fish but things like shirts and extra furniture are fair game. When you buy something from them, they will have an open spot in their home. You can mail them that piece of furniture that is meant to be there and they will for sure, place in that spot.
2. Next, villagers will sometimes ask you to give them a new piece of furniture. This can be very general OR they will ask for a small item for a small space OR will ask for an item to be placed on top of a table OR will ask to replace something. If it's to replace something, you're in luck (especially if they want to replace a fish!). Give them the furniture that matches the space and they will replace it. If you are trying to get a specific item from them, it is best to give the furniture when they are inside the house so you will see the switch and they will mostly give you the item that they just replaced yours with.
But if they asked for a general item, this can get tedious. You want to save and quit until the villager is in their home. Go in and give them the item. They will replace a like item in their home with the one you gave them. If where they placed it is not where it is supposed to be, exit out of the game and reload and do it until you're satisfied with the placement.
3. If a villager had two of the same item in their home, the best way to get them both back into the house is to free up the space in their house when you visit them (see #1). Then put the item into Retail and save and quit until that villager goes into Retail. Then PUSH the villager towards the item you want them to buy until they ping it and then convince them to buy it. They will put it into their open spot and voila! They will have two of the same item with no worries.
If you try to give an item that they already have, they will refuse it. If you mail it to them, they will not put it into their houses.
I'm still trying to see if this will work out with replacing fish, but I have Deidre to work that on. I've gotten Bunnie's house back to her original content and I've come close with several others using these methods together. Just gotta mostly work with Gaston and Tex to fix their houses that I ruined so bad.
