Getting a villager you don’t like is bound to happen in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, especially at the beginning of the game. Whether they just aren’t your favorite character or Cobb is chasing you around town to tell you about his gains, bad villagers are a letdown. It doesn’t help that there is no clear way to get rid of villagers, which has led players to try everything under the island sun to get them to leave.

While none of these methods below are proven to work, they do show that players are pretty aggressive about their town aesthetics.

10 Reporting Them

As soon as players got the town hall, they realized that there was an option to send Isabelle after townsfolk. Players can either report a villager for there speech or their outfits. Gamers took this as an invitation to send daily cease and desist orders to those inhabiting their town, though.

Some players would even report a villager multiple times throughout the day to try and get them to move out faster.

9 Ignoring Them

When players realized that threatening villagers to change didn’t work, they move on to passive-aggressive action. Players began to ignore the villagers day in and day out. If the villager ran up to them, then they would walk the other way. Some players would even plan their route around the poor animal.

The only problem was the villagers you do talk to seem to want to move out more.

8 Trapping Them On Mini-Islands

Once you get the water terraforming upgrade, you can build lakes, or even better connect your island. Instead of making their town a better place, though, some gamers decided to use their power for evil. The web is filled with pictures of hated villagers stuck on small patches of land.

Sadly, though, it seems that these villagers can swim as they often get off their mini-island.

7 Filling Their Yard With Gnomes

Desperate gamers have even tried some strange and slightly disturbing things. One user decided to feel their neighbors yard with gnomes. In their defense, though, nothing says get out like being surrounded by a bunch of beady-eyed ornaments in the middle of the night. Other users have attempted this with objects like lawn flamingos.

To be honest, having to look at bad yard furniture should cause anyone to want to leave town.

6 Surrounding Them With Holes

Some players just haven’t gotten to the point where they can use a terraforming kit to try and starve their neighbors. Instead, they will follow the animal until they rest and begin to dig holes around them. Unlike in previous games, though, the villagers don’t seem to fall into the holes.

Using pitfall seeds would probably also be a popular method if the recipe wasn’t so hard to obtain.

5 Hitting Them

Some players decided to take a more hands-on approach to the problem. This approach involves creeping up behind their poor neighbor and hitting them on the head with a net. If they only do this once, the animal will think it was by mistake. Hitting them several times in a row, though, will leave them fuming.

4 Imprisoning Them

When holes and water didn’t work, some players decided to try to wall in their residents. These gamers used the cliff kit to literally imprison the villagers where they stood. This, like other methods, always just ends in the villager magically overcoming the obstacle to wander through town again.

Some gamers did take it a bit further, though, by walling in their whole house.

3 Sending Them Hate Mail

Since being passive-aggressive doesn’t seem to work, some players decided to be louder with their hate. To do this, they even marched down to the airport and spent bells on buying a postcard. They then proceeded to vent their feelings towards the villager and send the letter to their house.

Sadly, the village only gets happier with the player and even lovingly shows off the letter.

2 Isolating Them

Some wealthier players have spent money to move a disliked villager’s whole house to an isolated area. Many of them even made a walled-in plot of land surrounded by water to try and cut the animal off. This is more of an extreme measure as moving a house costs you 50,000 bells.

While this is a great show of petty revenge, it still won’t help the player get rid of the villager.

1 Trashing Their Yard

Another popular action taken by disgruntled islanders is literally spending time to trash a villager’s yard. To do this, the players take all the trash they get while fishing and proceed to dump it in front of the villager’s house. Sadly, this will drop their town rating, and the villager is likely to not even notice.

The villagers won’t even be less happy to see the player no matter how much they litter.

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