Edit: To clear some confusion, this bug has nothing to do with amiibo usage or time travel. It can affect anyone playing the game at the moment even those not trading villagers actively.
Hey all. This glitch has been talked about a bit on the Animal Crossing discord community but I hadn't seen any threads pop up about it. You may be aware of the amiibo glitch that was "fixed" as of version 1.1.2. This glitch basically affected villagers who had been forced out of someone's town by an amiibo campsite villager. If the leaving villager was adopted there was a chance you would be plagued with a glitched plot of land - their house appeared, but it would say "I've moved out" and the villager would not appear around town. They appear in ceremonies and you can complain to Isabelle - but they technically don't exist. When this was patched, the fix made things exponentially worse - and this is where we are now. It's no longer just villagers forced out by amiibo - any villager can be affected.
There are a bunch of posts from people experienced this everywhere online. Reddit has a very comprehensive thread of experiences. There is also a great document that goes into the mechanics behind it and what to look out for.
I want to talk about my experience because it's a bit unique in that my villager reappeared AFTER being glitched and "moving out".
Yesterday I received Raymond from a friend. He was obtained via trade with an IRL friend. He had been forced out by a campsite (Not amiibo) villager. I TTed to get someone to move out, but my friend was not time travelling at all. When I went to talk to adopt him he went through the dialogue prompting me to ask him to move to my island twice. I didn't think anything of it in the moment but it suddenly hit me that this could be an issue. That's when I went on Discord and starting asking around.
He was fine for a day real time. I time travelled to speed up and move him in, I then came back to normal time and he was still fine. Woke up this morning and he was still there. My girlfriend came to visit my island over local co-op and that's when it triggered. He now was nowhere to be seen and his house had the "I've moved out" glitch. I left the dialogue box open for a few minutes while my girlfriend was in my town. As soon as I closed it after a few minutes, Raymond came out
He was interactable, had normal conversations and I could even gift things to him. My girlfriend left via airport and after the loading screens he was gone again, plot still glitched.
I decided to try to recreate it. I got her to come back, again over local co-op, interacted with his house again and left it open for a few minutes again. Once again he came out
He is interactable again, I can see him fine. But my girlfriend cannot see him at all on her Switch. My character is just standing still with thin air next to them when I talk to him. She ran around and she clips through him on my instance of the game
This is just super weird as I've seen no one else report this and it seems to be recreatable every time I try so far. I know people have been reporting glitches to Nintendo US but I'm not sure how to do that from Australia - would be useful for them to know this. I basically wanted to post this thread mainly to get this information out there but also as a warning to anyone doing villager trading online or with friends right now.
Hey all. This glitch has been talked about a bit on the Animal Crossing discord community but I hadn't seen any threads pop up about it. You may be aware of the amiibo glitch that was "fixed" as of version 1.1.2. This glitch basically affected villagers who had been forced out of someone's town by an amiibo campsite villager. If the leaving villager was adopted there was a chance you would be plagued with a glitched plot of land - their house appeared, but it would say "I've moved out" and the villager would not appear around town. They appear in ceremonies and you can complain to Isabelle - but they technically don't exist. When this was patched, the fix made things exponentially worse - and this is where we are now. It's no longer just villagers forced out by amiibo - any villager can be affected.
There are a bunch of posts from people experienced this everywhere online. Reddit has a very comprehensive thread of experiences. There is also a great document that goes into the mechanics behind it and what to look out for.
I want to talk about my experience because it's a bit unique in that my villager reappeared AFTER being glitched and "moving out".
Yesterday I received Raymond from a friend. He was obtained via trade with an IRL friend. He had been forced out by a campsite (Not amiibo) villager. I TTed to get someone to move out, but my friend was not time travelling at all. When I went to talk to adopt him he went through the dialogue prompting me to ask him to move to my island twice. I didn't think anything of it in the moment but it suddenly hit me that this could be an issue. That's when I went on Discord and starting asking around.
He was fine for a day real time. I time travelled to speed up and move him in, I then came back to normal time and he was still fine. Woke up this morning and he was still there. My girlfriend came to visit my island over local co-op and that's when it triggered. He now was nowhere to be seen and his house had the "I've moved out" glitch. I left the dialogue box open for a few minutes while my girlfriend was in my town. As soon as I closed it after a few minutes, Raymond came out
He was interactable, had normal conversations and I could even gift things to him. My girlfriend left via airport and after the loading screens he was gone again, plot still glitched.
I decided to try to recreate it. I got her to come back, again over local co-op, interacted with his house again and left it open for a few minutes again. Once again he came out
He is interactable again, I can see him fine. But my girlfriend cannot see him at all on her Switch. My character is just standing still with thin air next to them when I talk to him. She ran around and she clips through him on my instance of the game
This is just super weird as I've seen no one else report this and it seems to be recreatable every time I try so far. I know people have been reporting glitches to Nintendo US but I'm not sure how to do that from Australia - would be useful for them to know this. I basically wanted to post this thread mainly to get this information out there but also as a warning to anyone doing villager trading online or with friends right now.
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