One of the best ways to make lots of moneyfastinAnimal Crossing: New Horizons, aside from playing the “stalk” market, is by catching tarantulas. Unfortunately, players won’t have much longer to do so, because Nintendo will be removing thenotorious tarantula island–and the furry spiders altogether–from the game.
Starting May 1, players will no longer be able to farm for tarantulas on their special island or any other visited via Nook Miles Ticket. Certain bugs and fish rotate in and out ofAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsbased on the time of year and which hemisphere players live in, which means the tarantula is on its way out for all players in the northern hemisphere.
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Tarantulas are generally a rare find, and they require alotof work to catch: they chase players who run too close and their bite can knock a player out entirely, not to mention the window for catching them is slim since they only come out at night. However, they’re also worth a lot; tarantulas can be sold for 8,000 bells at Nook’s Cranny (or an even better12,000bells whenbug aficionado Flickrolls into town), so many players find that the risks are worth the rewards. Spend an evening filling up pockets with tarantulas, and players can find themselves pulling in hundreds of thousands of bells for their efforts, making tarantula farming a popular pastime.
Players also discovered a workaround to catch tarantulas whenever they wanted. Aside from a special island designated fortarantula-catching, which players can randomly land on when using a Nook Miles Ticket, any of the random islands can be turned into tarantula islands so long as players dig up, cut down, and remove absolutelyeverythingfrom them.
Given all the invested time and effort players have put into tarantula hunts, they’re sure to be disappointedwhen the bugs disappearin a few days. However, another 8,000 bell-bug will take their place; scorpions arrive on May 1, also only catchable at night and also with their own special island for scorpion hunts.
Players still have a couple of days to get in some last tarantulas, before they disappear. Fans of theNew Horizonstarantula will have to wait until November for them to make a reappearance but until then, at the very least, danger-seeking players will haveanother gnarly bugto hunt.
