Summary

• Villagers in Animal Crossing: New Horizons can have personalized greetings with the player for a special, private touch.
• Timing is key to changing greetings, with thought bubbles indicating when a villager is ready to switch it up.
• Greetings can be tailored to match each villager's personality type, adding depth and immersion to the game.

Villagers on the player's island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons can ask for suggestions on what special greeting they could share once the friendship level has become high enough. This clever way of greeting is shared between only that villager and the player, without spreading to other villagers the same way that catchphrases can do. This allows players to personalize the game in clever ways and even makes for a bit of silly immersion as the kinship with that villager gets stronger.

Even when multiplayer is incorporated, while players may see the catchphrases that villagers have adopted in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, they will not stumble across greetings. This makes greetings all the more special and private, kind of like a secret, hidden way to leave a message for the future or add a bit of cheerful levity to the game. Whether someone wants to make their unique greetings meaningful or fun, the options can be overwhelming, so here are a few ideas to get players started.

How To Change Villager Greetings In ACNH

Timing Is Everything

In order to change a villager's greeting in ACNH, the villager has to be the one to bring it up, making it difficult to time the situation for when someone is ready with the perfect greeting in mind. Villagers will show a thought bubble over their heads when they are ready to change a greeting or catchphrase or, essentially, when they need anything at all from the player. Friendship levels must be at level five before this event is triggered, which means it will not happen with anyone new to the island.

Haven't yet seen a prompt to change a villager's greeting in ACNH? That likely means you need to increase your friendship level with them! Check out the Friendship Guide video from Mayor Mori on YouTube below to see how to make friends in ACNH easy.

The chosen greeting for villagers in Animal Crossing New Horizons can be longer than nicknames and catchphrases, and it is important to pay attention to capitalization and spelling if that matters to the player. Even the first letter in the greeting will need to be capitalized when entering the suggestion, as the game will not automatically do this. Sometimes the villagers will put punctuation marks at the end of greetings, however, and this is made more difficult by the fact that this doesn't always happen. Therefore, it is up to the player if they want to add any punctuation such as an exclamation mark, but be warned that the villager may add their own as well.

Animal Crossing Greeting Ideas Based On Personality Type

Personalize The Greeting To The Villager

Villagers in Animal Crossing: New Horizons are split into eight categories of personality types. These personalities determine a lot of their preferences, catchphrases, and greetings that they come with originally, as well as clothing, hobby, voice, and more. Although players can certainly change the greetings to whatever they would like, fitting the greeting to the villager's personality can make things more immersive. It could feel strange, for example, to have a Lazy villager greeting someone with an energetic "let's go for a run."

Here are just a couple of suggestions for each personality type:

The eight personalities are split into four personality types for males and four for females, which helps pinpoint what type a villager is. Male villagers can be either: Cranky, Jock, Lazy, or Smug, while the female villagers can be either Normal, Peppy, Snooty, or Big Sister. Even if a player doesn't get the exact personality type, it is still fun to match a greeting to how the villager tends to act, and ultimately it is all just for fun.

Animal Crossing New Horizons: General Greeting Idea List

The Possibilities Are Vast

Animal Crossing greetings can be whatever a player wants them to be. They can range from funny to rude, or in some cases, players have used this as a way to promote positive self-talk for themselves. Because it is a special interaction between the main character and that villager, this provides a wonderful opportunity to customize the dialogue to fit that villager, and even include names if desired. For example, if a player has the popular cat villager Raymond in New Horizons, he could say something like, "It's [Name]! How purrfect!"

The following greeting ideas for Animal Crossing: New Horizons include simple salutations, funny examples, and uplifting words of affirmation - because why not make the game even more wholesome?

s can play around with different combinations of ACNH greetings to see what feels right for each individual. Even after players set a greeting for a villager, as they continue to give attention to them, they will eventually ask about changing the greeting again, similar to catchphrases and nicknames. The player can decide to keep the current greeting or change things to add variety and fresh interactions. This means if a player isn't happy with the greeting they chose for an Animal Crossing: New Horizons villager, they will, in time, be able to revise it.

Source: Mayor Mori/YouTube