animal-crossing-new-horizons
I have been playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons every single day since the update where Redd comes to your island to sell art.
I've managed to get him 2 or 3 times, but after that, he just never came back. The spot where he comes does not have any furniture on it, and I have not performed any glitches or time traveling on my island.
Is this some sort of bug? If so, how do I fix it?
User discussion of the game online seems to indicate that it does not, or at least that it isn't an especially robust filter:
(Image source: https://twitter.com/cacodemonfan/status/1240859064487141379)
The tweet in question also has replies featuring others' screenshots of names one would expect a language filter to catch.
Currently, there is no way to transfer saves. Everything is saved local to the system. Nintendo is working on a system for a one time recovery/transfer in case things go haywire with a console, but New Horizons is not designed to be moved.
The savedata cant even be saved to an SD card.
https://www.newsweek.com/animal-crossing-new-horizons-save-files-backup-recover-cloud-online-1488326
Best Answer
Unfortunately random visitors are, in the end, random. There are certain visitors that are guaranteed to show up on certain days, but most are put into a list that is randomly selected from to determine which visitors will appear on your island throughout the week.
On Saturday, K.K. Slider is guaranteed to come. On Sunday, Daisy Mae is guaranteed to be present in the morning. That leaves 5 weekdays where random visitors are pulled from the list. Saharah and Kicks are guaranteed to fill two of these slots, and during certain events, other characters make take other slots (for example, if it is during the Nature Day event, Leif is guaranteed one of the slots). That means in the best case, there are 3 slots for the 7 remaining visitors.
The three visitors that are selected to fill slots during any given week are given reduced priority for the following week, which means they won't be selected. That means if you don't see Redd for an entire week, there is a 3/4 or 75% chance that you will see him in the next week.
However, this still means that each sequential week still has a 25% chance that you will not see a specific character. While this is fairly low, it is still possible, and there is nothing you can do to increase the probability of encountering them. It is likely that you are simply getting unlucky. Make sure you visit your island every single weekday to ensure you don't miss him when he finally shows up.