Real paintings and sculptures aren't exactly easy to get hold of in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Redd doesn't always show up, and when he does, there's no guarantee any of his goods are even genuine pieces of art. As a result, it's taking quite a while for players to complete the art gallery section within the museum.
One other way to receive art in the game, though, is in the mail. From time to time, villagers might randomly send you either a painting or sculpture. While this was already known, reliable Animal Crossing dataminer Ninji has now shared the fine details about how exactly this system works. In short, you might want to start kicking out any smug villagers to improve your chances, as they'll only send you fakes:
Note: There was no mention of how this works with other personalities (normal, peppy, snooty, sisterly), but if we hear or see anything we'll update this post.
To learn more about Ninji's previous datamine, which revealed just how sly Redd really is, see our previous post. So, will you be evicting all of your smug villagers to increase your chances of receiving some real art in the mail? Leave a comment below.
[source twitter.com]
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It kinda feels like they are making this art thing a lot less fun than it should be.
I don't mind a slow burn, they should make it enjoyable though.
Already got all the art thanks to Nookazon and forum trading. I just wish there were more interactive things to do in Animal Crossing. After your island is ‘complete’, holding a 5 star rating and your house is paid off and fully furnished to your desire, there really isn’t too much to do afterwards... We need more things to do, ESPECIALLY in the online Multiplayer department.
I wish I could burn my island to the ground and rub my hands in glee as Tom Nook screams while his face melts away. Is this possible in a future DLC?
I think it’s fine, I just hate data mining like just leave at least some aspects of the game a mystery. That’s the whole fun of it.
With that saying julien did send me a fake painting on Tuesday. He did say he found it on the floor somewhere so I ain’t mad at em.
Fortunately I only have the one smug villager. Unfortunately they're the only one that sent me an art piece 😅
Really, the article should be "evict out all your female villagers because they won't send you art".
But that doesn't sound very good does it?
I find it so odd how people are rushing to get everything in the game when the 3DS generation of AC players just took everything at the leisurely pace the game was designed to be played at.
I like the smug personality. Much better than the jock, imho. I've got Phil and Marshall. Love them both. I'll risk getting their fakes.
My preference for data mine content would be to at least make it avoidable by not putting it all in the freaking title.
@popey1980 Welcome to the Got-To-Be-First generation.
Interesting
@RupeeClock they also wouldnt say 'evict out'
I randomly got a fake ancient statue in the mail from one of my villagers. I don't mind though since it's one of the 'haunted' sculptures
The good news is...
The fake paintings will turn alive on specific time.
Well I've still only ever seen this chap once so if most of the things he sells are fakes it's going to be about 3 years before I even get near to filling my museum up half full..
These villagers are taking after Redd... down with them!
Guess that means goodbye Raymond?
"Nothing personal, neighbour, I'm just concerned you might mail me a fake artpiece in the future. Goodbye"
ACNH is becoming more oddly Orwellian with every datamine, it seems.
@popey1980 it’s a beautiful representation of how used to living at a fast pace everyone is. We are all far to use to being able to get things right now that waiting is painful. Personally I’m getting a real kick out of moving and adding things day by day and waiting for purchases in the post. Not to mention I’m happy for the game not to feel completed any time soon!
Redd's about as frequent in New Horizons as he was in New Leaf, the slow burn of art collecting hasn't changed lmao
I’m ok with the slow burn to collect these things, it’s kinda the point of the game. But it is getting frustrating with certain characters just not showing.
I don’t see why they can’t be guaranteed to all appear at least once a fortnight and any extra is a bonus. Waiting over a month to get a single rusted part from Gulliver, knowing that I still have 20-25 more to get after that makes me feel like I’ll never achieve my goal rather than I’m slowly working towards it. Meanwhile Sahara is always here selling me rugs which would be cool except I’m just annoyed it’s them rather than a character that helps me work towards my collections and goals. I have rugs I like in every room I can’t really do anything with any more.
@Crockin
It's an oversight when I edited the comment from saying "kick out".
@Cartune are you kidding? who told you to trade with people online and complete it so fast? Most people are not doing that buddy. The way you maintain things to do in AC is to just do them slowly over time, like it was meant to be done.
I mean do you but then complaining about not having anything to do is really, really bizarre.
@DaCh33f In New Leaf, he was guaranteed to come once a week. Now he isn't.
@RupeeClock I thought the smug characteristic was only for guys in AC, with their equivalent being the snooty personality for the gals
@UsurperKing
I mean, yeah. Lazy, Jock, Cranky, and Smug are the male personalities.
Sweet, Peppy, Sisterly, and Snooty are the female personalities.
If the information here is correct, to maximise your chances of receiving genuine artworks, you would want an island that only has Lazy, Jock, and Cranky villagers, all male.
There are probably players who do have all male or all female islands though, because that's just what they want.
@RupeeClock just pulling your leg, but I feel like he probably just doesn't have a clear enough understanding of this data in particular to know if female characters send art or not. Seems he is not 100% clear
@popishighbrow that still doesn’t change the list of interactivity to do in the game. Simply ‘collecting’ things doesn’t exactly equal fun all the time, especially having a character like Redd that only appears twice a month on average that sells fakes half the time, they could have AT LEAST made getting art more fun than what is. I guess my complaint isn’t necessarily ‘not enough things to do’ but more so the lack of interactivity the game has to offer; Furniture that does nothing other than look cool, friends’ islands I can visit that I can do no more than tour their island and check out shops, no other places to go besides mystery islands. There is definitely room for improvement for interactivity.
@RupeeClock
Living on an island only inhabited by dudes is my ultimate fantasy
@Cartune something tells me this is your first Animal Crossing game and the series isn’t for you. Generally people focus on creating in AC, and collecting a secondary thing over a long period of time. Creating patterns, altering your town, designing your house, etc. It’s like making art - an artist doesn’t paint a picture then lament that there’s no way to interact with their picture. It’s all aesthetics because it’s about making something visually appealing.
@Roto13 He wasn't guaranteed to come once per week in New Leaf, it was that he couldn't come more than once per week. You could still go 2-3 weeks without seeing him like in New Horizons lmao
@ShadJV I’ve been playing AC since Population Growing, but your argument can also be a problem. Why rely on the, ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ mechanic instead of adding new ideas to keep it fresh?... and that isn’t to discredit the newly introduced terraforming and crafting abilities, but again, those things aren’t interactive. I wanna do cool meaningful stuff and especially with friends in Animal Crossing. Why is it that since Population Growing, the primary focus is, complete museum, pay off debt, furnish house. Is there really NOTHING else they can think of???
@RupeeClock There's no proof in the datamine whether or not any type of female villager will send you art, so no, that would be highly misleading.
@popey1980 ...no there were plenty of people who rushed the 3DS one, they just disappeared after a few months from the community.
If your cool with time travel you can do this::
when you see redd you get what you need, save and exit the game.. go back 1 day.. open the game, save and quit.. go forward back to the day you seen redd.. he is there again!! But with new stuff... do this until you have the entire collection of real and fakes that's you want.. I have almost all the art, missing a few pieces that I'm thinking are either really rare or they can only be collected by villagers sending them 🤷♀️
"Just Evict Your Smug Villagers In Animal Crossing: New Horizons"
What do you think I've been trying to do for the last 7 weeks?
@Kalmaro I wish art would sometimes be a spotlight item at Nook's Cranny. Even if it was only weekly.
@RPGamer well it does work like that... I wouldnt suggest something I havent tried myself.
@LuigiTheGreenFire You and me both.
@Cartune
When you circumvent the way you're supposed to play the game, you'll get into situations such as yours.
@popey1980 I've had NL since 2016 and I still don't have all the art. I still love playing that game, acquiring each piece one at a time.
@Cartune I wish there were more things to do as well, but I won't play online, so for me, it really is taking my time, and playing my pace so I always have something to do. Even if I play for a year, I'm sure I'll still have things to do. I feel like going online and trading everything or buying everything there, makes the game too quick to be done. Reading your post let's me know I was correct in that assumption. Not saying either one of us is playing it "better" than the other, just different. And I'm kind of glad each day I have the opportunity to maybe find something new.
Everyone using internet groups to "speed run" the game then complain there's nothing to do. 😂
Me playing normally: Oh boy I hope I can find a log bench recepie this week. 😍
You guys crack me up.
@Cartune I feel like adding minigames (maybe those arcade machines) and extra modes could make AC muuuuuuuuch more of a social media bomb than it already is.
Fake haunted art is way better than real art anyway.
hah, this is probably a trick to get people to move Raymond out of their island. I'm not falling for it.
I had no idea this was a thing. My villagers basically never send me gifts unless I send one first.
And Redd has only returned to my island once. And on the return trip he only had one real piece - I feel like it was karma, punishing me for setting up my alternate account...
@k8sMum Yeah I also got Phil and I love having him around.
Aw, I hadn't realized that personality types were gender-dependent. That's disappointing. The personality types have already grown to feel a bit samey to me, what with all the quirks and dialogues being identical regardless of villager. Cutting half the types off to a particular gender only minimizes the variety more.
New Horizons is my first AC game, and I already don't know whether I'll be interested in whatever comes next (years from now). But I think this personality factor will... factor... into my decision.
I'm not getting rid of my favorite villagers for the sake of the freaking art gallery, lol.
Nooo I refuse to part with Raymond and Julian
I've not seen Redd or any art yet...
@popey1980 There's just something about ACNL that keeps it from being boring. I got ACNH the day it released, played it for 2 weeks, and then didn't touch it for a month. I've been playing animal crossing since I was 10, and I love the series. Ig I should have just waited some time after it released so I wouldn't feel like the game was extremely slow. ACNL had new things unlocking regularly that ACNH doesnt seem to have yet.
@popey1980 I find it so odd that you think that's true. The only difference between then and now is social media presence equals you're more aware of how certain loudmouthed people play. There have always been gamers who played this way, even back on the N64 in Japan and every where else on the GameCube. And there are still millions of players taking it slow. This is one news article on one website. It doesn't mean anything about a perceived community. And there really isn't a community in the first place, just millions of disparate people all playing their own way.
So... if I want more paintings I should evict Raymond and Marshal. (and no, I didn't buy them, they just showed up at my campsite)
I remember Beardo (smug) gave me a sculpture in the mail. It was the Informative Statue and it was fake! I can tell because it's blue instead of gray. I'm not mad, it was hilarious and good to put on my house.
@fadedcolors And that’s all I’m saying! My complaint ISN’T exactly ‘not enough things to do’ it’s simply the lack of INTERACTIVE things to do. Cause obviously there is plenty things to do, I just think the series needs to kind of shake things up a bit more; I have a whole basketball court on my island that I can’t even use, a laptop in my bedroom that only turns on and off, tourist telescopes that do nothing, arcade machines in my basement that I can’t even interact with and etc. THOSE are in align to my complaints, and it’s not to say that AC isn’t a good game, I love AC, it’d just be nice if the series got shaken up a bit with some more razzle dazzle.
@Kalmaro "I don't mind a slow burn, they should make it enjoyable though."
My post from last night on a very simple way to make the game more fun. Apologies for the repost.
So which "1 per week" am I getting if Sahara shows up every week? Neither CJ, Flick nor Redd showed up this week and those are really the the only 3 I care about. Both Labelle and Kicks stuff can be sold in Mabels and Leifs stuff an be sold in Nooks Cranny. And Gulliver was funny the 1st couple of times but now he serves no purpose. And Sahara and are blind loot boxes can never come back, I have everything I need on sale elsewhere.
CJ, Flick and Redd should be the 3 that show up every week, like KK on Saturday and Daisey Mae on Sunday. The other 2 weekdays can rotate Gulliver and Sahara. The salespeople like Leif, Kicks and Labelle who never leave their spot oin front of the residence center shouldn't even count as the wanderers since they don't move from their spots. So every day could have 1 non-moving AND 1 roving visitor. Or only 1, or neither. But 1 wanderer and 1 non-mover max per day.
And the moron camping - moron b/c they go camping on an island but never leave their tent - shouldn't count since they ever leave the tent. Or they can cou t as a non-mover. If they did actually leave the tent then they could count as a wanderer that day.
I don't count Celeste, she shows up occasionally at night and basically does nothing. And I don't think she does, I feel like others are there that day as well as I never see her until late and there is always 1 person on my island. Spirit ghost doesn't seem to count either, he seems very random. I may have even had nights with both Celeste and ghost, but maybe not.
I'm just saying, they could easily make our islands a little more interesting, graphics and AI can't be pushing the Switch so hard it can't handle a camper, sellor and wanderer on the same day.
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@rjejr I wholeheartedly agree, it feels like there's so much more that could be happening but doesn't because they just want to pad playtime.
@Kalmaro "pad playtime"
The thing about "padding playtime" that they obviously haven't thought thru is that if everyone's playtime goes down to ZERO b/c people stop playing that doesn't pad the playtime, it ends it.
Leif (I think that's his name, the korrokok looking thing) was on my island this morning selling his seeds. So annoying. I took an aggravated pick but forgot to post it to twitter.
I know they didn't develop the game to get people through a quarantined pandemic but surely the could tweak the code to get us some more going on.
Oh well, June next Monday, maybe we'll get some bikini's for all my hippos and speedos for all my fat guys for summer wear. 🤣
Ah, good thing I have Rizzo and Limberg. I need to get a Gallant Statue and I haven't been getting any luck on my offers on Nookazon. I'm gonna need to start mailing them. Also, I'm never evicting Chadder, he is my precious villager, number 1 favorite (might be tied with Rod). A little fake artwork won't hurt anyone, it'll still look nice in my house.
Tex sent me a fake painting.
@Lordplops tanukis can scream?
@AlulunaToons Tanukis can run shops?
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