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Although Animal Crossing: New Horizons campers request to replace random villagers, but there is a way to force them to replace someone specific.
A main feature in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the campsite, where random villagers will visit approximately once a week. Players have the option to invite these villagers to move to their islands, but there’s a catch: Unlike when players invite campers using Amiibo, random campers will ask to replace random villagers. Players ostensibly have no control over the choice, unless they use this trick.
If players are hoping to replace a specific villager with a random camper, they will need to go through all the steps of inviting that camper to stay on their island. This includes talking to the camper repeatedly and probably playing a card game, which is entirely based on chance. If the player wins, the camper will agree to move to their island. If the player loses, the camper will refuse — but continuing to talk to them and playing more rounds of the game may change their mind.
There is never a point at which a random camper cannot move to a player’s island in New Horizons, even if they keep insisting they don’t want to move. Persistence is often key in these interactions, though it can be frustrating to have the experience the same dialogue over and over again.
Amiibo streamline the process of inviting new villagers to an island, but even that process takes three days. An hour or so in the campsite with a random villager may be worth the payoff, especially if the camper is a player’s dreamie.
Once players convince a random camper to move in, one of two things will happen. If the player has an open plot, the camper will simply claim that space for their home. If the player has a full island, the camper will offer to replace a villager already living on the island. Much like the camper, the villager they ask to replace is randomly generated, so there’s no way to predict what name will pop up in their dialogue.
If a New Horizons camper asks to replace an Animal Crossing villager the player wants to keep, they can force quit the game by pressing the Home button on their Nintendo Switch, then selecting X with Animal Crossing: New Horizons highlighted. The game will shut down without saving and then the player can log back in and try again.
When the player returns to the campsite, they will have to once again convince the camper to move to their island. Ideally, the camper will ask to replace a villager the player wants gone within the first few rounds, but sometimes, this can take hours.
Several time-traveling Animal Crossing: New Horizons players jump from camper to camper to collect their dreamies, using what’s called the Campsite Method. Those who really want to curate their villagers will go to seemingly any lengths, even if it means spending hours doing the same thing over and over again.
Players who continue to talk to a camper after they’ve asked to replace someone will be stuck with that option. The only way to make the camper choose someone new is to force quit the game and try again, before moving on in the dialogue cycle. This prevents the data from saving and essentially allows the player a do-over on the randomizer. Although it may seem like a bad idea to force quit multiple times, time travelers have not reported any issues with this method of acquiring villagers — so it may be worth a shot next time a great villager shows up in the island’s campsite.
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