Tarantula farming quickly became one of the most lucrative money-making schemes in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, next to playing the stalk market, but nobody ever said it was easy. If you've given up on finding the illustrious tarantula island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, we have good news: you can just make your own. Instead of spending 2,000 Nook Miles per ticket on the chance of finding the rare deserted island that's overrun with these spiders, which are desirable for how many bells they're worth (especially when sold to special visitor Flick), any deserted island can become a tarantula farm if you just know how to generate one. If your island is in the Northern Hemisphere though, you better act quick--tarantulas go out of season after April, which means tonight is your last chance to to farm tarantulas or catch one for your Critterpedia and museum if you haven't already.
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Tarantulas can be sold for a whopping 8,000 bells each (though you should put your first one in the museum of course), which means you can make some serious bells with this method. Make sure to purchase all the inventory upgrades first to get the best results, and ensure you aren't carrying more than you need to when you commit to creating your first tarantula farm.
If you're lucky, you may get the tarantula island without doing anything, but most likely you won't. Preferably you will want a single-level island, because islands with higher ground can make this more difficult, so feel free to try again to get a flatter island if you have the Nook Miles to spend.
The most important part of this method is to remove all of the resources on the island, removing the chance of other kinds of bugs spawning. Chop down the trees, dig up the stumps, break all the rocks, pick all the flowers, and remove all the weeds. To break rocks, just eat a piece of fruit and hit them with a shovel, sometimes they even have bells inside.
Don’t worry about digging up all the flowers on the island, just plucking the flowers is enough to stop bugs from spawning on them, press A when standing in front of a flower to pluck them.
You can dump all of these items onto the beach to free up inventory space, as the raw items won't affect how bugs spawn.
While this clears out the majority of the bugs, you will still have to clear bugs such as wharf roaches, mosquitoes, and crickets manually. Either catch and release these bugs or chase them until they run away.
Run laps around the island, chasing or catching other bugs as you go until a tarantula spawns. Once you do get a tarantula spawn, make a beeline for the closest trap. Continue using this method until your inventory is full, or until you run out of nets. If you've run out of shovels for digging trenches or forgot to bring one, you should be able to craft one using the materials you cleared out and dumped on the beach earlier. Just head to the simple DIY workbench near the dock. You can also purchase flimsy tools from Wilbur for 100 Nook Miles each while on the island.
If you don't want to dig trenches, the best method for catching tarantulas with nothing but the net is to approach them slowly before you've aggro'd them, firmly stop in your tracks when they raise their legs, and then continue approaching them slowly when they've let down their defenses. Keep that up until you're close enough to scoop them up with the net.
As of right now, the only way to really get around the giant water bug problem is to only attempt tarantula farming on bamboo islands, where there is no freshwater for the giant water bug to spawn on.
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