Watch out for small animals that have been expelled from the villagers in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

You may need to think twice before adopting a village in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Players encountered a major new glitch that involved absorbing villagers from other players' games.

In New Horizons, villagers can leave one player's island and then allow another player to bring it in. However, some villagers only leave after being forced to leave, and sometimes due to restrictions on each island, players have to do so. Problems arise when you host a villager who has been kicked out, rather than one of the many villagers who volunteered to leave.

If you choose one of the villagers, their land will be shown as "New Home", but the villagers will not move. You will also be unable to place any new land for new villagers. According to players on Reddit, it doesn't matter how the villagers were initially acquired (e.g. via amiibo), the error only happens when they are forced out.

There is currently no guaranteed way to resolve this error, so you should find a way to know if the villagers you are bringing in are forced to leave. For example, you can ask the player who sent them to provide evidence that they were not forcibly deported from them. The villagers in the boxes were kicked out.

However, the same Reddit thread does give us a possible workaround which involves deleting the failed graph. This is not always feasible, but some people at the Bell Tree Forum originally discovered seemed to be lucky.

Their suggestions are as follows:

1. Take an island tour.
2. Find villagers on the island and invite them to your island.
3. This will cause them to move into problematic plots, which means that their houses look like the houses of forced villagers.
4. The villagers you invited will still appear in other places, but you will not be able to enter them.
5. Now ask the villagers you just invited to move out.
6. When this happens, both houses will disappear, giving you two plots.

Recently, we updated our Large Animal Crossing: New Vision Guide with a new page on bugs and fish prices. For more detailed guides, such as a guide that shows you how to time your trip, click the first link.