There's so much to discover in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, but there are some things in the game you'll probably never work out or be able to make sense of unless you have a little extra information.

Just days after the reliable Animal Crossing dataminer Ninji revealed how certain villagers will only send you fake paintings in the mail, they've now explained the process behind villagers moving out - and don't worry, it's not really your fault when they do leave, it's much more random than that.

Ninji sums up by explaining how there is no "magic method" to make villagers move out and says it's all still heavily chance-based?

In saying this, you can kick out villagers if you really want (by asking an existing villager to move out) - but it's not exactly a straight forward process, as explained in our guide.

Has a villager left your town recently.

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Here comes the people “Nintendo should have made it easier to kick villagers out so I can finish muh island in a week”.

@Kalmaro the same people who were complaining about Nintendo patching the duplication glitches?

I'm fortunate to have mostly gotten villagers I'm happy with?

I do have one I really want to get rid of though...Olaf?

Otherwise I use amiibo to rotate villagers!

@fafonio I don't recall seeing that many people complaining about how hard it id to remove people!

I do wish it was less to do with chance and more about you treated a villager.

It's so jarring and unnatural when the villager you talk to every day, buy presents for, help when they are sick, just randomly ask to move away?

So if you don't play for a month and come back, there is no longer a chance that all your favorites left.

@Daruncic they can, if you don't speak to them about it.

I ignored a villager for weeks and isabelle announced they were leaving that day.

So, it's clear the villagers will NOT moving out without my acknowledge when i don't play the game for long time.

You mean whacking them with a net for 20 minutes won’t make my villagers hate me.

The last villager that moved in will never move out if no one else does.

@status-204 Best friends would tell you they are leaving.

They did this all to push amiibo sells why else would they design it so a random campsite visitor will randomly pick a villager to replace while the amiibo campsite visitor let’s you choose!

Sorry no not in this case the way the game handles villagers leaving is obtuse and a regular player will spend months trying to grasp it without having outside information, you’ll still see sites claiming that complaining to Isabelle works which is false?

Kicking out specific villagers was hard even before amiibo existed.

The more I read about Animal Crossing, the more I realize, that I would play the game totally wrong apparently.

@MrBlacky exactly nintendo life is turning into nintendo get a life

To be honest my villagers potentially wanting to move out always worries me

Why does everyone care about what villagers they have or don't have

I've been playing this since the Gamecube and I don't care which ones live on my island or not

I don't wanna lose Sprocket..

"Why does everyone care about what villagers they have or don't have

Because there are some gamers want specific villagers to stay on their island

And once they got the villagers, they want to keep them forever

Not everyone want villager cycling

Some players do not want their villagers moving out after they got them with a lot of efforts

I will cry if my villagers moving out without my acknowledge

From data mining and also from player's experience, I got clarification if i can leave the game without losing my villagers since they will only moving out by my agreement and i felt relieved

It's funny to me to see all the new people complain about villagers leaving randomly, when this type of thing has existed since the series was first created

For me, I don't time skip all that much so I have nothing to worry about in terms of villagers leaving all the time

If I want a villager to stay I always have enough time to keep them

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