Where is Redd? Animal Crossing: New Horizons fans are having trouble finding the terrible, fraudulent fox. It’s a sign of how fun it is to spot art forgeries in his gallery. But there’s an actual formula to deciphering when he might show up,
Series veteran Redd arrived in Animal Crossing: New Horizons about a month after the game’s release, and while he’s only been there for a few weeks, fans are already clamoring for more fraudulent wares to buy. For some players, Redd isn’t showing up nearly enough — if at all, leading to myths that the terrible fox is missing. It’s gotten bad enough that some people are even trying to rearrange their islands in a futile attempt to entice his ship to make another voyage over.
Redd is an “art dealer,” and he will bring a series of statues and paintings to a player’s island on his boat. The player can peruse each piece of art in detail, but can only purchase one — and there’s a chance it will be a forgery.
It’s a charming gameplay mechanic, one that raises some delightful questions about the provenance of his wares and why they’re so cheap. Redd also provides a vital function for collectors who want to complete all the wings of their museum… but where the heck is he?
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Speaking to Polygon over Twitter, an Animal Crossing player named Alicia says the fox has shown up exactly once for her and then never again, despite time travel.
