Nintendo has already rolled out two updates for Animal Crossing: New Horizons on the Nintendo Switch. Despite this, there still seems to be some serious glitches that could potentially ruin your experience.
According to a post on the Animal Crossing website, Bell Tree Forums, there's a glitch that can bug plots of land on your island paradise. Here's a quick summary, courtesy of the Twitter user NintendoFanGirl:
The repost over on the ac_newhorizons subreddit goes into more detail, explaining how exactly this glitch can occur. Here's the full explanation:
When you adopt a villager that was FORCED OUT by another player via the CAMPGROUNDS (either amiibo or normal random camper), the plot that the villager will occupy can become bugged and will simply state "'s New Home ". You CANNOT place any more new plots if this happens and the actual villager doesn't move in.
For example. My friend has 10 Villagers and one of them is SKYE. They then scan another villager's card (For example Sterling) and convince him to come for several days. On the third day, to accommodate Sterling, they choose to KICK OUT SKYE, putting her in boxes. Afterwards, I, who wants her, comes along and ADOPTS SKYE. My Island's plot where Skye is supposed to move in can then be glitched.
Villagers that decide to move out on their own accord (they come and tell you via exclamation or thought bubble) are SAFE TO ADOPT even if they originally came via amiibo. What determines the glitch is HOW THEY LEAVE.
Also, just to clarify. Villagers obtained via amiibo from your campsite straight to your own plots are 100% safe for you, the owner of the amiibo. It's the adopting (sending them off to other players who don't have the amiibo) that you should be careful about.
There's apparently a way to resolve the glitch, by removing the plot of land (follow these steps), but there's no guarantee it will work. Some replies in this same thread even said they'd tried the "fix" and had no luck.
The same post encourages all Animal Crossing players to contact Nintendo directly, to ensure this glitch gets resolved. Some already have – with one Reddit user claiming Nintendo already knew about the issue and was in the process of fixing it:
They said they’re in the process of fixing but can’t fix the bug without missing up other bugs right now, so this could take a few days if not, maybe a week. But they are AWARE of this glitch/ bug
Upon further inspection, there are reports of the same glitch over on the official Nintendo Support Forums.
Have you encountered this glitch? Tell us below.
[source reddit.com]
Comments 17
Well at least Nintendo is aware and working on it.
I am sure it'll get patched out soon. This is a pretty specific issue.
THANK you Nintendo, let's get this fixed.
Meanwhile I haven't even built Nook's Cranny yet.
@Anti-Matter It's a glitch you probably wouldn't even be susceptible to until a week when you're fully equipped to even do the things the glitch needs you to do. And by then Nintendo would probably have it fixed.
@Wormold you can grab an item in your inventory and separate them from the bunch so you could take 5 off your pile of 17 that way before you send. You just press and hold a if I remember correctly
@Wormold That one's easy. Before you send the letter, open your inventory, press A at the ores, there'll be an option that says "grab 1". One ore will occupy a new slot, repeat this 5 times. Now drag and drop (hold A) the individual ore onto another to combine them into one slot of 5 ores. Then send letter.
All games have bugs. Just takes time for them to get worked out
This is bigger than Corona virus
They're just shopping about for the best adoption family, the process takes a while and not all candidates are suitable. This is reasonable when you've been given up by your original carers. Think about the poor animals uncertainty!
As excellent as New Horizons is, it seems to have quite a few glitches right now. I had one where two objects placed outdoors became immovable and couldn't be pocketed, and the only way to get rid of them was to create a new character and place their tent on top of the items so they were sent to the bin at Resident Services.
@Hordak I only got one on a mile ticket. Make sure you're at the mouth of the river to ocean. The shadow looks much bigger then the other fish. Good luck!
I don't envy any developer trying to bug test a game with as many unpredictable variables as Animal Crossing. I mean seriously: "What if two different players do this very specific thing in conjunction?" How to you catch that?
After 2 hours of bait grind and fishing, finally caught golden. And then, 5 min later, caught a second golden with the remainder of my bait and hit the 100 catch in a row challenge too (which is not fun! Miss one, you go all the way back to one!)
@Hordak like @Winkie456 said. Use a nook ticket until you travel to an island with a cliff top lake. Keep scaring away smaller fish to spawn new ones until the large shadow shows up. That will be your string fish. Rinse and repeat at the mouth of the river for the sturgeon. Good way to get bells too. You csn do it on your own island but its so big you will be running all over the shop to scare off fish. Takes ages.
Can’t wait for the stability patch
I have on two different occasions crafted items but when I was done and looked at my inventory, they weren't there and yet my resources were spent. I don't know why that happened or what triggered it, but it was really annoying.
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