

Have you ever been hard at work, designing and decorating your house with all the attention and you suddenly get interrupted by a random visit? Definitely, it was quite fun at first, but now it’s just annoying. The November 2.0 update introduced a plethora of new features in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
From adding hundreds of decorative stuff to introducing the highly requested feature that allows villagers to visit the player’s house, the 2.0 update has it all.
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Following the update, now villagers can randomly visit players’ houses to hang out, comment on their decor, have a chat or even play certain games for that matter. However, unfortunately, the feature has quickly become an annoyance for the majority of players out there. For those players who just want to spend their quality time decorating their house all alone, the sudden arrival of a villager can be pretty frustrating, to be honest.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons – How to stop villagers from visiting your house
With users unable to decorate their house when a villager comes to their house, players have now begun to find some workarounds for this annoying issue. Luckily, there are a few tricks to get them to leave immediately if you have to decorate your house uninterrupted and in peace.
Work in other rooms
The top way to get rid of these unwanted villagers is to work in a room that’s not the main room. Basically, if a player is working in a room, that’s not their main room, the villagers will think that there is no one in the home.
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Ultimately, they will leave the house immediately by interrupting your peaceful work. As it turns out when not at home, players can simply avoid the contact by staying or working in a room that isn’t connected to the main door. Interestingly. the villagers won’t check other rooms.
Put cockroaches in your house in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
If you leave your house for quite a long time, you’ll find your house infested with several cockroaches upon arrival. While some people choose to keep these cockroaches as their beloved pet whistle, others kill them.

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However, those who choose to pet them are in great luck. If a villager chooses to visit your house, the cockroaches will scare them off and ultimately they will leave immediately. Who knew such a small creature can be so helpful, right?
Leave your house yourself
The best way to be alone is to leave the house by yourself. Just head out of the door and the guest will get a hint that they are not welcome here and ultimately they will also leave immediately. Just ignore them and within a few seconds, they will leave.
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What’s your take on these nifty tricks to dodge the villagers in Animal Crossing New Horizons? Also, do you think Nintendo will come up with some kind of feature to step villagers from visiting the player’s house? Let us know in the comment section below.
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