How I Cycle // 1 - 1 - 5 Method

Hey guys!

Sometimes, when I get bored of my villagers in Kittyton and Puglet - which does happen sometimes, sadly, as I have a tendency to want loads of villagers with the same personality and then talk to them a lot and get sick of the repetitive dialogue, oops - I turn to Babville, aka the copy I originally intended to use as an occasional cycling town, and which I occasionally reset when I have the urge to start again and don't want to destroy the towns I actually put effort into. 

I thought that today, I'd talk a little bit about the cycling/time travelling method I use to get villagers out of Babville - this is a method I have tried and tested, after seeing loads of people on various forums talking about it, and it's the method I've been using in my third town for ages now when I want to kick out villagers. I recommend that you should mainly use this if you're a cycling town or just don't really like any of your villagers, as you can't control who moves in.

The method I use is the 1 - 1 - 5 method - this is where you time travel 1 year, then another year, then 5 days. On the second year, there will always be a plot in your town for someone new. When you leap forward another 5 days, someone will be in boxes ready to leave.

Note - this is all my personal experiences with using this method, and how I do it/what works best for me. You should mainly use this for when you don't really care who leaves/moves in, although there is a way for you to avoid having your favourite villagers leave. Also, stick on the beautiful town ordinance when you're doing this, unless you're trying to get the weeding badge, as if you don't, your town will be literally carpeted with weeds and clovers! I accept no blame if someone you wanted to keep leaves your town.

I usually do this when I have nine villagers, I'm not sure if it works when you have ten.

On the day your ninth villager is in boxes to leave - you may want to go on and check this before starting to cycle - before you load up your game, you should go to the menu and change the date to 1 year ahead - LEAVE THE DATE THE SAME, ONLY LEAP FORWARD A YEAR! When you have done this, load up your game as normal. When you come out of your house, you will have bed hair, and probably a lot of weeds if you haven't got the ordinance on.

Save.

Then, repeat the same step - go forward another year, leaving the date the same, and load up your game. You should now be exactly two years on from the date you started on - for example, if you had someone in boxes on the 7th May 2015, you should now be on 7th May, 2017. Load up your game as normal. Run all around your town, looking for a plot - you don't have to do this, I just like seeing who's going to be moving in next! 

If there's someone you're trying to keep - do the step above, but talk to all your villagers too. Save, then go back on (DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING) and run around until someone pings at you and asks to leave. If it's someone you care about, deny the request. If it's someone you don't care about, let them go.

Now, when you save and go forward, do not change the year - simply go forward 5 days - so from 7th May 2017, you'd just go to 12th May, 2017. When you're loading up the game, Isabelle will say who is leaving as normal.

Simply continue this method until you're happy with your villagers or just want to reset your town if you're a cycle town!

Example - 

When I was doing this, I was trying to move Fauna out because I wanted to move her into Puglet so I could reset Kittyton and try and find myself a Mitzi. This isn't my full results, as I was cycling for ages and I didn't record everyone who moved in/out, but it should be enough to give you an idea of what I did.

Starting villagers - Fauna, Agnes, Ed, Victoria, Tammy, Biff, Vladimir, Maelle, Puck.

Ed was in boxes when I started cycling, my in-game time was Jan 8th, 2012.

1 year - 8th Jan 2013 - no change.

1 year - 8th Jan 2014 - Gloria moved in.

5 days - 13th Jan 2014 - Tammy in boxes.

1 year - 13th Jan 2015 - no change.

1 year - 13th Jan 2016 - Shep moved in.

5 days - 18th Jan 2016 - Vladimir in boxes.

1 year - 18th Jan 2017 - no change.

1 year - 18th Jan 2018 - Tucker moved in.

5 days - 23rd Jan 2018 - Maelle in boxes.

1 year - 23rd Jan 2019 - no change.

1 year - 23rd Jan 2020 - Gaston moved in.

5 days - 28th Jan 2020 - Shep in boxes.

When you hit 2050 and someone is in boxes, I usually time travel back to 2012 and then either go forward a day at a time until someone new has a plot, or I'll invite someone in from the campsite and wait until they have a plot - when you find the plot, go forward 5 days and someone should be in boxes to leave.

I hope you find this guide helpful - remember, just use this as a guideline, this is just what I do and find helpful. Fauna eventually moved out with this method, she was very stubborn but not all your villagers will be - you may also get some pretty good villagers when you do this, I got people like Fang, Margie, Zucker and Diana! 

Happy cycling, and I hope this helps!

Update // Giving Puglet A Facelift

 Hey guys!

I haven't posted on this blog in a while because I've not really been playing Animal Crossing as much lately (partly because I've been obsessed with Fire Emblem Awakening and Mario Kart, but also because life has been getting in the way) and while I wasn't playing, Beau moved out of Puglet and I was gutted because he's one of my all-time favourite villagers!

So, after he left, I decided that Puglet was getting on my nerves a bit, and after Shari suggested a wisteria trellis PWP to me (one of the ones I've been wanting for ages!) I decided that it was time to redesign Puglet a bit, especially when I was left with open space where Beau's house used to be.

First, I moved in Frita - I quite like her, in a weird way, and I thought that I didn't have an uchi in my town because it was late at night and spur of the moment, and I forgot about Shari - I might move her out soon, I haven't decided yet. Anyway, so I moved her in, and she lives in the general area where Beau used to live, so that filled the space a bit.

I also finally replaced some of my benches - I've been meaning to do that for a while, and I got a few nice bench suggestions from people - and built a few new projects after demolishing some that I never used (for example, the face cutout standee) and that I put in my town before I knew anything about plot resetting.

I also moved in Lobo a few days ago, so I now have 10 people again, and I'm trying to make room for one more villager I really want, so am considering who to get rid of.

Also, if anyone's interested my current Puglet villagers are - Pecan, Diana, Marshal, Phil, Lobo, Poppy, Shari, Frita, Merry and Rosie.

If you have Animal Crossing New Leaf, I'd really love it if you could visit my town and leave me some feedback - I've put a picture of my dream address at the end of this post, along with a couple of screenshots of some of my favourite parts of town! If you do visit and leave me a comment with some feedback, feel free to leave your dream address too and I'll visit your town in return.

I'm in the process of redoing Kittyton now too, as I really am having issues with the layout and my PWP and just everything, haha, so I'll probably do an update post for that soon too! I also want to reset Babville once I've got a villager I want to keep out of there, so keep your eyes peeled for some new posts soon!

I'm Back! // Town Updates

Hey guys!
Sorry it's been so long since I updated this blog. In all honesty, I kind of stopped playing Animal Crossing as much as I had been - partly because I had some other games that I wanted to play, like Kirby Triple Deluxe and Pokemon Alpha Sapphire, which require a lot of time and effort, but also because, shock horror, I was getting kind of sick of playing!

It's a lot of work to play and maintain just one town, let alone three - I know the original intention for Babville (my third and most recent town) was for it to be a cycling town, but I started doing that for a while for myself and my friends who play, as a trial run, and in all honesty I got so bored of cycling so quickly that it made me wonder if that's what I really wanted to do with it. So, in the end, I decided to keep it as spare town/a third town - I'm not making loads of effort with PWP and hybrids and stuff like that in it, but I'm going to use it to hold villagers me and my friends want/we accidentally TT out, and also to hold some of my spare rarer furniture, like Sloppy and Cardboard.

So anyway, that's what I'm going to do with Babville, I think. At the moment I have Fauna, Apollo, Sterling, Tangy, Beau, Stitches, Shari and Coco, and I'm waiting for a ninth to move in, as Elise just left.

Puglet is still pretty much the same as before - luckily, Monty moved out, after ages of trying - sadly, he now lives in Kittyton, as I had to go and do some stuff in Puglet not long before he left, boo. Genji also finally left, so I could redo my little bamboo garden outside Retail again, which made me really happy. I also moved Freya and Bruce from Kittyton to Puglet, as Freya was in boxes without telling me, and I just didn't really want to keep Bruce in Kittyton any more because he kept asking me to leave. The currently list of villagers in Puglet is now Beau, Bruce, Diana, Poppy, Marshal, Phil, Shari, Freya, Rosie and Merry. 

The ground in Puglet is also still all patterns - I like it a lot more than I was expecting to, so I decided to keep it how it is, at least for the time being! If you'd like to dream about Puglet, and leave me some feedback, please feel free - 7600-3099-9248.

Finally, Kittyton. 

Months ago now, I set myself a goal - when I hit 100 million bells (so I could get the post office ABD) I'd tear down a load of my public work projects that I wasn't happy with, fully expand Kitty's house, then split the money between me and my friends who play. Well, FINALLY, I managed to hit that target - actually, I exceeded it, aha - so in the coming weeks, I will be planning a major overhaul for Kittyton - my other towns too, of course, but mainly Kittyton. If you'd like to see it before I start working on it, my dream address is 7600-2297-5320. 

Please leave me feedback and ideas if you have any, as I'd love to see what you think too and I'm open to suggestions!

I don't think the villager list has changed that much in Kittyton since I last blogged, but my current villager list is Diana, Beau, Flurry, Kiki, Marina, Lolly, Fang, Chrissy, Monty and Molly. 

(I don't know why I have Beau in every town, aha, I genuinely didn't plan it. Two, I was fine with, three I'm not so sure but yeah, that's just what seemed to happen!)

Hopefully, I'll be back to updating more regularly now - I definitely have a lot of work to do in all my towns, so I'm going to be playing a lot more again! Wish me luck, and I'll be back with a new blog post soon!