\u201cScary\u201d Animal Crossing New Horizons villager glitch is ruining paradise NintendoAnimal Crossing players are calling for Nintendo to fix a \u201cscary\u201d villager glitch which is leaving them with empty plots after adopting unwanted villagers, before the bug completely spoils New Horizons\u2019 paradise. The highly-anticipated Animal Crossing sequel released on March 20. Considering it\u2019s been almost seven years since the franchise\u2019s last main entry, players have \u2014 very understandably \u2014 been grinding the game pretty hard. For the most part, everything\u2019s gone swimmingly for the mega-release \u2014 until now. A \u201cscary\u201d villager glitch, sparked by the loving act of adoption, seems to be ruining paradise, and Animal Crossing players are pretty grumpy. PSA: there\u2019s a pretty bad bug in ACNH that hasn\u2019t been patched yet. If a friend has a villager \u201cin boxes\u201d because they\u2019ve been forced out via campsite visitor, DO NOT adopt them. Could result in a glitched spot. This reddit post explains it in detail: https:\/\/t.co\/2CNK2jp5Cf pic.twitter.com\/KGG5N1DjSz \u2014 NintendoFanGirl (@NintendoFanGirl) March 28, 2020 The new bug, discovered by Animal Crossing player Barnse and shared by CeciliaCrescent on the Bell Tree Forums, is certainly a worrying one. With only ten plots on your island, one being unuseable can be pretty frustrating. But how does the glitch happen? Basically, if a villager was forced off another player\u2019s island, and you adopt them, they will bug out the new plot. The now-unusable area will simply read \u201c_\u2018s New Home.\u201d The evicted villager will never arrive. It\u2019s worth noting villagers who leave other player\u2019s islands of their own accord aren\u2019t affected by this bug for whatever reason. Make sure you check before trading \u2014 if the new villager is \u201cthinking of leaving,\u201d you\u2019re good to go. How to fix Animal Crossing\u2019s missing plot glitch Luckily, until Nintendo rolls out a server-side fix, there is a workaround for the villager glitch. These require you to follow eight steps to recover the missing island spot, but it\u2019s worth it to recover your glitched plot as soon as possible. Here\u2019s the process to recover your glitched plot: Make sure you have one plot open, as well as the glitched plot (occupied by Vil.1). – Go on an Island Tour and find a villager (Vil.2) to invite to your island. – The new villager (Vil.2) will now occupy the bugged plot, but look like the house of the old villager (Vil.1) who was originally in the glitched spot. – Make sure a new house, which you cannot enter, has also appeared on your island. This is part of the process to fix the bug. – Check your map, and make sure it looks like this. – Now make Villager 2 move out. You can force them out via campgrounds, but this is risky, so use \u2018time travel quicker\u2019 where possible. – Visit Villager 2 and confirm they are moving out. If this has worked, they will have a sad expression on their face, and a \u201c!\u201d above their head. – Once Villager 2 moves out, both houses will disappear. This will leave two empty plots on your island, both of which can be accessed again! – So there you have it \u2014 the best way to get around the bugged plot until Nintendo responds to the issue. Hopefully, they\u2019ll be preparing a patch to solve the issue as soon as possible, but it never helps to be proactive either! When is Nintendo expected to fix the villager glitch? Nintendo are yet to respond to this plot-munching bug, but they are aware it\u2019s been wreaking havoc in Animal Crossing. It did take a little bit for the bug to be flagged though \u2014 according to Kattastic, they were the very first to report it. Thankfully, the devs are now working on a fix. Abbreviationz, who spoke to the help team on March 29, revealed \u201cthey\u2019re in the process of fixing, but can\u2019t fix the bug without messing up other bugs right now, so this could take\u2026 maybe a week.\u201d The last big bug which plagued New Horizons \u2014 an item copying exploit \u2014 lasted just a few days before update 1.1.1 \u201cfixed a serious bug affecting game balance.\u201d If that\u2019s anything to go off, this new glitch shouldn\u2019t last long either. Not everything in Animal Crossing\u2019s new release has been copying bugs and vanishing plots either, which is good. Hilariously, New Horizons has even become a place for students who will miss their graduation to run their own instead. There\u2019s also plenty of stuff to do while you\u2019re waiting for Nintendo to roll out the missing plot patch. You could undertake some terraforming on your island \u2014 we have four great ideas to do \u2014 or you could learn how to time travel too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cScary\u201d Animal Crossing New Horizons villager glitch is ruining paradise NintendoAnimal Crossing players are calling for Nintendo to fix a \u201cscary\u201d villager glitch which is leaving them with empty plots after adopting unwanted villagers, before the bug completely spoils New Horizons\u2019 paradise. The highly-anticipated Animal Crossing sequel released on March 20. Considering it\u2019s been almost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}