Starting villagers arevillagers that appear when the firstplayer moves into theirtown (island inNew Horizons). The starting villagers roster varies between differentAnimal Crossing games.

Appearances[edit]

InAnimal Crossing[edit]

InAnimal Crossing, the game starts with 6 villagers. An initial town will always have ajock,lazy,cranky,normal,peppy, andsnooty villager, with further villagers being added to a maximum of 15 villagers.

The following villagers cannot be starting villagers:

InDoubutsu no Mori e+[edit]

InDoubutsu no Mori e+, all of the previous non-starter villagers return, and are joined by the following villagers that can only be obtained by scanninge-Reader cards:

InWild World[edit]

InAnimal Crossing: Wild World, the game starts with 3 villagers. The player's town will continue to have new villagers come in until there are 8 villagers.

The following villagers cannot be starting villagers:

InCity Folk[edit]

InAnimal Crossing: City Folk, the game starts with 6 villagers. The player's town will continue to have new villagers come in until there are 10 villagers.

The following villagers cannot be starting villagers, nor do they appear in the city:

InNew Leaf[edit]

InAnimal Crossing: New Leaf, the game starts with 5 villagers. The player's town will continue to have new villagers come in until there are 9 villagers. A tenth villager can move into town if invited via thecampsite orcampground. The town may also receive a tenth villager after a player visits another player's town or viaStreetPass. The town cannot start withsmug orbig sister villagers.

The following villagers have either a smug or big sister personality, and cannot be a starting villager in the player's town:

InNew Horizons[edit]

InAnimal Crossing: New Horizons, the game starts with 2 villagers: 1jock and 1big sister villager. The next 3 villagers that move onto the island will bepeppy,normal, andlazy respectively. After that, 1smug villager will move onto the island the day after thecampsite is built. Additional villagers can be invited by the player until there are 10 villagers. The starting 5 villagers will not have their default interior; they will instead use a starting interior that cannot be changed unless the villager moves out, or theHappy Home Paradise DLC is purchased, allowing the player to either redesign their interior or askIsabelle to reset their interior.

The following villagers have either a jock or big sister personality, and therefore can go to the island with the player on the initial plane flight:

Gameplay elements

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