Ever since its inception back in the early 2000s,Animal Crossingfeatured a wide variety of villagers for players to encounter. InAnimal Crossing: New Horizons,there are 400 potential villagers in the game, and players can only choose 10 of them to live on their deserted islands. But, given the vast amounts of villagers available, picking the 10 that players will invite as neighbors is not an easy task, given that each villager has something different to offer.
Of course, each player will have their own preferences when it comes to filling up their villages. Some would opt to just take in whichever villager the game throws at them, while others like to put more effort and hunt down specific villagers. The question now is, is there such thing as rare villagers inAnimal Crossing: New Horizons?
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Do Rare Villagers Exist in Animal Crossing: New Horizons?
The answer to that question is yes and no. Technically speaking, there are no rare villagers in the game, but it is worth knowing that encountering a specific villager in the mystery island tour or in the player’s campsite would differ. Now to help players understand how villager encounters work, there’s been a lot of extensive research on the probability of coming across a certain character on the mystery islands tour or via the local campsite.
Most conclude that all species of villagers would appear at the same probability. This means that players have an equal chance of meeting every available species inAnimal Crossing: New Horizons, given that the game selects the animal group that players will encounter randomly.
Of course, this means that players who want to fill up their islands with a specific animal group would have a harder time getting certain villagers of the same species because there is no pattern in only encountering, let’s say justcow villagers, in the mystery island tour. On the flip side, this system gives every single group an equal chance of having one of its members become a villager.
The Probability of Finding a Specific Villager
However, things are slightly different for players who are looking for a specific villager. InAnimal Crossing: New Horizons, not all species are represented equally. For example,cats are the most numerous in the game, and octopuses are the least. Now, it is important to remember that the more villagers are in the same species group, the lesser chances there are for players to encounter a specific villager from that group.
As an example, Raymond, who isthe most popular villager right nowis also one of the hardest to find. This is because Raymond is a cat and there are 23 of them in the game. As previously mentioned, when the player visits the mystery island, the game selects the species of the villager that player will encounter at random, which means that players have an equal chance of seeing a cat and an octopus. Now going back to the Raymond example, if the game selects for players to encounter a cat, then finding Raymond specifically could be trickier given that there are 22 other cats that could appear instead. On the flip side, finding Octavian, who is an octopus could be easier given that there are only three other villagers in the same group that players would have to contend with.
The Breakdown of Villager Species in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Now for those who are curious about how many villagers are in a certain animal group, here is a breakdown of all the species available inAnimal Crossing: New Horizons.
In summary,Animal Crossing: New Horizonsselects the species of villagers randomly during encounters, which means that there is an equal chance of meeting a horse villager and a sheep villager. However, when looking for villagers from a certain species, it would be more difficult to find a specific character from a group with the most members than those with only a handful. Lastly, in the context of the rarest villagers without taking into consideration the chances of encountering them in the game, then the list above would reveal thatoctopuses are the rarest onesbecause there are only three of them available in the game.
Animal Crossing: New Horizonsis out now for the Nintendo Switch.
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