Villager


 * This article is about the animal villagers found within the . For the playable Villager character from Super Smash Bros., see the Villager (Super Smash Bros. series), and for the player character of Animal Crossing series, see player.

Villagers are the main non-playable characters in the. They are the player's neighbors scattered around the player's town. They do the same things as the playable character, such as fishing, finding fossils, and collecting insects. Villagers, as suggested by the title, come in variety of species.

Random villagers move into the town at any time, usually after another villager moves out. Each villager initially comes with a unique interior house design, which will gradually change over time depending on what furniture they request, or insects, fish, fossils, and clothes they obtain. Flooring and wallpaper eventually change, usually depending on how long the villager has been a resident of the town. Unlike the player, they do not have the ability to expand their home.

Interaction
Villagers can be interacted with in various ways. The player can talk to villagers by approaching them and pressing the interact button. These conversations usually result in a line of relative dialogue, or the player receiving a request to complete. Requests uncommonly will trigger a game or small event. Interacting positively with villagers will develop your friendship with them.

Villagers will occasionally attempt to get the player's attention by eliciting a surprised reaction and excitedly approaching the player (this is also known as a 'ping' within the player community). Interacting with them in this state will produce special dialogue and requests or a notification of their imminent departure from town, giving the player an opportunity to prevent(or encourage) their move. In villagers in this excited state might request a new catchphrase or greeting, may suggest an idea for a public works project, or could be thinking of moving out.

In addition, villagers can be annoyed in a number of ways:
 * "Pushing" villagers by continuously walking into them. If done for long enough, the villager will get upset at the player.
 * In and, a villager will automatically become sad or angry after falling into a pitfall, whether the player talks to them whilst they are in the trap or not.
 * Repeatedly talking to villagers to the point where the villager gets annoyed. They may give warnings or yell at the player, and then refuse to talk for a while, or in and, say that they are 'thinking' and cannot talk at the moment.
 * Repeatedly hitting them with certain tools, such as the net, the toy hammer or (in ), the axe.
 * In, using the megaphone too close to a villager, which they will be shocked and get annoyed.
 * In some games, refusing favors can annoy villagers. In, for example, declining a task (such as a delivery, Hide-and-Seek or greeting change) will usually result in the villager becoming sad.

Personalities
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Male

 * Emotion Sleepy NH Icon cropped.png Lazy
 * Emotion Pride NH Icon cropped.png Jock
 * Emotion Aggravation NH Icon cropped.png Cranky
 * Emotion Smirking NH Icon cropped.png Smug

Female

 * Emotion Pleased NH Icon cropped.png Normal
 * Emotion Encouraging NH Icon cropped.png Peppy
 * Emotion Disagreement NH Icon cropped.png Snooty
 * Emotion Mischief NH Icon cropped.png Sisterly


 * }

There are different personalities and characteristics found in villagers. Hobbies, style and color preference are not unique to each personality, but some are more apparent in individual personalities than others. There are eight different personalities: cranky, jock, lazy, and smug, which are male villager personalities and snooty, peppy, normal, and big sister (uchi) which are female personalities. The smug and big sister personalities were introduced in, while the rest were introduced in.

Certain personalities for one gender are equivalent to certain personalities of another gender. For example, lazy and normal villagers are calm and average but are very kind and easily able to make fast friends with. Jock and peppy villagers are energetic, cheerful, and slightly overbearing, but are very enthusiastic and mean well. Smug and snooty villagers are arrogant and have high standards, but they can be very experienced and caring when the player gets to know them. Cranky and big sister villagers are rude, belittling, and somewhat shady, but are quick to take the player under their wing when befriended.

Villagers of the same personality tend to have very similar dialogue, apart from their catchphrase. However, in, each personality has two subtypes (mostly correlated with one or two common hobbies per subtype) which have distinctive dialogue that can be encountered occasionally once the player reaches a high level of friendship with the villager.

Villager ID
Every villager that has appeared thus far in the series has an internal ID that is kept consistent between games since (prior games use a similar system with different numbering). The ID is composed of a three letter prefix that identifies their species followed by a sequential number, and villagers have been assigned these IDs in the order that they were created in. The promotional villagers from (Bow, Meow, Nindori, Pierre, Shoukichi, and Shinabiru) do not strictly follow this system and are identified differently. Special Characters have a unique three letter ID with no numbers which does not necessarily reflect their species.

The species prefixes for villagers are as follows: •  Alligator

•   Anteater

•   Bear

•   Bird

•   Bull

•   Cat

•   Bear cub

•   Chicken

•   Cow

•   Deer

•   Dog

•   Duck

•   Eagle

•   Elephant

•   Frog

•   Goat

•   Gorilla

•   Hamster

•   Hippo

•   Horse

•   Koala

•   Kangaroo

•   Lion

•   Monkey

•   Mouse

•   Octopus

•   Ostrich

•   Penguin

•   Pig

•   Rabbit

•   Rhino

•   Sheep

•   Squirrel

•   Tiger

•   Wolf

Initially in, there are six villagers in the town when the player moves in. The maximum number is 15; once 15 villagers have moved in, one of the already existing villagers will move out without warning to allow a new villager to move in. Villagers have a unique role in. During town events, they gather and celebrate in different areas of the town to partake in different events. Most noted is during the New Year's Eve celebrations, where they gather around the town pond (in future releases except in, they are simply scattered around town, and have special conversations revolving around the festivities).

During summer and winter, villagers may live outside in a tent or an igloo for the day, where they become the source of collecting special furniture items. In future game releases, they are not a source of rare, unique furniture, but become a means of gaining furniture through trades. They also do not camp out, and only live in their homes.

Initially in, there are three villagers in the town when the player moves in out of a possible eight. Once eight villagers have moved in, one of the already existing villagers may move out to allow another new villager to move in, lowering the number to seven until the new villager moves in. Although villagers do have a similar role as they do in, they also have a few new features.

When the playable character befriends them, they are likely to give the player a picture of themselves as proof of their friendship. Each picture has a unique quote for each villager, which can be read when the picture is placed in the player's house and interacted with.

They are also competitive in, a feature unique to the game. During some conversations, they may ask the player if they want to see who can catch the biggest fish or find the rarest insect. These are games which are similar to the Fishing Tourney and Bug-Off. During these events, when two villagers meet they will not talk.

Another new feature were the rumors that some villagers were dating. This could be discovered by talking to some of the villagers in the town who would either be gossiping about the two villagers or one of the two villagers in the relationship. There was no proof of the two villagers dating, however, other than through conversation.

Unlike the first game, the villagers walk at a much slower pace than the player, which is continued through.

For the first time in the, a new villager species was introduced in : monkeys. (Although Porter is also a monkey and was in the games between and, he is a special character.)

Initially in, there are six villagers in the town when the player moves in. The maximum number is ten. Once ten villagers have moved in, one of the already existing villagers will attempt to move out to allow a new villager to move in.

Villagers have a slightly different role than in. They no longer compete against the player, as this feature was prominent enough in Bug-Off and Fishing Tourney events. They do, however, have a new feature: playing Hide-and-Seek, where a group of up to three villagers hide around the town. They no longer give out pictures of themselves when they become friends with the player.

Villagers now talk about the glamour and style found within the city, a new area found in the game.

Initially in, there are five villagers in the town when the player moves in. The maximum number is ten, although the tenth villager will not move in unless the player invites them to move in, either through the Campground (as of ) or Campsite, or if they communicate with a player whose town had any villagers move out.

Villagers now have more actions than in previous games. For example, they will shake trees, plant flowers, be seen entering and exiting stores, and will fish during the Fishing Tourney. Players can sometimes find lost items on the ground and return them to their rightful villager owners. Villagers will give the player pictures of themselves again, albeit in uncommon circumstances. Also, villagers have more expansive opinions about the player's reputation. Non-resident villagers of the player's town will be able to appear in the campsite where they can be interacted with for special dialogue and convinced to move in. They also may appear in the café in place of resident villagers. Villagers who move out of town eventually appear regularly on Main Street.

Two new villager species, the deer and the hamsters, were introduced in.

For the first time in the series, two new personalities are introduced, one new one for each gender. For male villagers, the new personality is smug キザタイプ (Kiza Type). For female villagers, the new personality is big sister アネキタイプ (Aneki Type).

In, villagers appear as clients, and the player designs a house for them to move in to. When visiting a house, villagers can be seen exercising, cleaning, or singing. The player can also invite villagers to the designed house. Villagers can also be seen in buildings, like the school and shops.


 * See also: Villagers/New Horizons

The roster is made of 391 villagers including all the villagers in Series 1-4 of Animal Crossing amiibo cards (333 characters), the 50 villagers of the Welcome amiibo series of amiibo cards, and finally 8 new characters to the Animal Crossing franchise.

The player arrives at the deserted island with two other villagers, the fewest starting villagers of any game in the series. These villagers are always one jock villager and one big sister villager, out of a total of 81 possible starting villagers. Three additional villagers can move in after meeting certain criteria, one at a time, and then up to five more, for a maximum of ten, can be moved in either via the Campsite, which can be built once the Resident Services Center is upgraded from a tent into a building, through further Mystery Island Tours, or by inviting them from another player's town.

Villagers have even more interactivity and actions than in. They can sometimes be seen in their homes, working on a DIY recipe, and they will share it with the player when talked to, even if the player already has that particular recipe. They can be seen attempting to catch bugs, along with the fishing they did in. Villagers may also perform a variety of other actions such as eating and drinking, sprinting, exercising (including stretches, yoga, and lifting dumbbells), reading books, examining objects with a magnifying glass, or singing to themselves. If music is playing on a nearby music player, villagers may even sing along to the song. While many of these activities can be performed by any villager, there can be slight variations by personality (e.g. lazy villagers can be more frequently seen eating donuts), and each villager has a primary hobby distinct from their personality which leads to certain preferred activities.

New to this game, after the player has annoyed a villager, they can apologize to them if talked to enough times while angry or sad, in which doing so results in the villager easily forgiving them.