u/badwwolfe

If you look up information on what recipes campsite Amiibo's will request from you, you'll find every source just refers to the list of recipes exclusive to the respective Amiibo's personality. After a few months of experimenting, I don't believe it's as simple as that.

If you haven't invited an Amiibo to your campsite before; they will not only ask for a recipe from their respective personality list, but they will also give you the recipe if you don't already have it.

And more importantly, if you don't deliver the recipe they ask for, they'll request a different recipe the next day.

If you make what they ask for and deliver it to them 3 times total, they will never ask for DIYs and only ask to move to your island.

This all led me to try getting the Bamboo Stopblock DIY from a daily guaranteed jock recipe. Every day for around 2 months I invited Tulin to my island to RNG roll the recipe out of 38 possible jock recipes. I didn't keep track of what he asked for, and after around 2 months of weirdly patterned requests, I decided to give it the old college try with new villagers and some data tracking.

EXPERIMENT:

Invite 2 different Jock villagers for 3 weeks each. One villager I responded with "Yes I will make that" each day, and the second villager I responded with "No I won't make that" for the possibility of different results. The lists are posted in the order I asked and are labelled with whether they're duplicate requests. During this experiment I was not offered any recipes I did not already have.

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Ribbot (yes each day)

1. Wooden field sign (furniture
2. Beekeepers hive
3. Wild log bench
4. Mountain standee
5. Doghouse
6. Mountain standee #2
7. Iron frame
8. Kettlebell
9. Iron frame #2
10. Plain wooden shop sign
11. Iron frame #3
12. Kettlebell #2
13. Plain wooden shop sign #2
14. Beekeepers hive #2
15. Simple DIY workbench
16. Simple DIY workbench #2
17. Beekeepers hive #3
18. Simple DIY workbench #3
19. Kettlebell #3
20. Kettlebell #4
21. Kettlebell #5

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Snake (no each day)

1. Mountain Standee
2. Beekeepers hive
3. Kettlebell
4. Firewood
5. Tree standee
6. Plain wooden shop sign
7. Bee keepers hive #2
8. Kettlebell #2
9. Wooden field sign
10. Mountain standee #2
11. Iron frame
12. Barbell
13. Doghouse
14. Beekeepers hive #3
15. Iron frame #2
16. Simple DIY workbench
17. Firewood #2
18. Doghouse #2
19. Doghouse #3
20. Tree standee #2
21. Iron frame #3

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RESULTS:

Unfortunately, I don't know much statistics. I tried finding a way to calculate how random these results are from a set of 38, but after a while I conceded defeat.

In offering my unprofessional analysis; one pattern I noticed is that the requests are ALL furniture items. This wouldn't exclude the bamboo stopblock as that's a furniture item, so I think it's something more specific than just furniture.

My next theory is that price has something to do with it. The cheapest item is the plain wooden shop sign at 720 bells, while the bamboo stop block is only worth 480. However that still doesn't explain the eventual recycling of the same 15-16 recipes.

At this point I'm at a loss for this method of getting recipes from Amiibo's. There is certainly something behind the scenes on how the recipe requests are drawn, but it's something I imagine only a data-miner would be able to tell us.

Feel free to ask questions, however I'm likely done with this experiment.

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TL/DR:

Amiibos invited to the campsite don't give random recipes from their personality list. The pull pattern seems to change between saying yes or no to a villagers request, and eventually starts requesting the same few recipes over and over again. Don't know why. Any ideas?