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Surviving Your Neighbours: Villagers
Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Surviving Your Neighbours: Villagers

Learn how to interact with villagers in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Discover tips for delivery, buying/selling, visits, gifts, and more to build friendships and get rewards.

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Learn how to interact with villagers in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Discover tips for delivery, buying/selling, visits, gifts, and more to build friendships and get rewards.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    Speak with villagers regularly to build friendship.
  2. 2
    Accept errands: Villagers may ask you to deliver items to others, buy items from you, or sell items to you.
  3. 3
    Fulfill requests: Villagers might ask you to bury a time capsule, give them a tour of your house, or visit their house.
  4. 4
    Respond to surprise visits: If a villager barges into your home, interrogate them for a potential gift.
  5. 5
    Gather items: Villagers may request specific fruits, bugs, or fish.
  6. 6
    Play hide and seek: Participate in a game of hide and seek with a villager and two others, where you are the seeker.
  7. 7
    Manage departures: When a villager wants to leave, decide whether to let them go or convince them to stay before their departure date.
Tips
  • The more you chat with villagers, the friendlier they become and the more likely they are to give you gifts.
  • When delivering presents, you will receive a present in return.
  • Villagers often offer low prices when buying items from you.
  • If you refuse to buy an item from a villager, they may lower the price.
  • Occasionally, a villager will give you an item for free.
  • When burying a time capsule, choose an obvious spot for easier recovery.
  • For house visits, ensure you have nothing to hide and be prepared for a potential present by post the next day.
  • Visiting a villager's house can lead to a present by post the next day, and you may be able to buy items from their home.
  • During surprise visits, interrogating the villager might yield a gift.
  • To get better presents, provide villagers with rare or specific items they request.
  • In hide and seek, villagers do not hide inside buildings or on Main Street; they hide behind trees, buildings, or on the beach.
  • If you let a villager leave, you have until their departure date to convince them to stay.
  • Even if you see a villager off, they might decide to stay anyway.

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