Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the latest way to interact with the favorite and least favorite Animal Crossing villagers. Players don’t have a lot of control over who moves to their island, but they do have control over who gets kicked off. If there is a villager or two that needs to take a hike, here’s how to boot them off the island for good.
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How to Kick Out Villagers
In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, there are two ways to get a villager to pack their things and leave. Both involve a bit of time and effort on the player’s part, but both are equally efficient.
The first thing players can do is treat the villager like garbage. Ignore them at all costs. Don’t talk to them even when they try to chase you down. A couple of wacks to their head with a bug net will also reinforce the point. Eventually, they will feel lonely and out of place. With enough neglect, the villager in question will soon have a cloud above their head. Now is the time to finally jump into a conversation with them, where they will bring up their thoughts of leaving the island. Tell them that’s a great idea and they will finally take the hint and leave.
If players have upgraded Residential Services, which will allow them to do things like build bridges, they can go speak with the manager about the villager they don’t like. By talking to Isabelle, players can discuss any current resident. Complain about them enough and they will decide to leave the island.
The latest Animal Crossing takes customization to a whole new level. If the villagers aren’t the problem, but the island itself is, players will want to learn how to unlock terraforming. This allows players to do some incredible things, such as altering paths, cliffs, and water features. Those who aren’t content with the layout of their island can change it to look however they’d like. Unlocking will take some time (unless players do a little time traveling), but it is absolutely worth it.
Players don’t have to literally move the earth to make a difference on their islands, they can use the many craftable tools at their disposal to do that. The durability of these tools, however, can be an issue. It is in a player’s best interest to start working toward unlocking golden tools. Unfortunately, these too will break after some time, but they can be used a lot longer than regular tools.
Lastly, another major way players can change things up on their island is to pay for construction and demolition through Residential Services or buy some new furniture to spruce up the place. This all takes bells, though, so players will need a good source of income. There are a lot of ways to make money, some more creative than others. For example, players can play the Stalk Market or create a Tarantula Island where they can farm the critters for tons of bells.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available now, exclusively for Nintendo Switch.
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