But don't worry-they will be replaced with the nearly-identical scorpion. Tarantulas are going out of season for Northern Hemisphere players after April, along with a handful of other critters, making this even more of a headache for players who were hoping to cash in. Mystery Island tours are random though, so you just have to rack up those Nook Miles and hope you get lucky. So far, it seems there are only two ways to get around the giant water bug issue: you either land on the elusive tarantula island itself (a Mystery Tour island known for its tarantula population) or you land on a bamboo island, which doesn't have freshwater at all. Tarantula islands aren't impossible to make, they're just kind of annoying now. So to answer the big, looming question about whether or not tarantula farming is broken now-the answer is technically no. This is making an already time-consuming process a long, tedious loop for players looking to make bells fast. To make matters worse, giant water bugs don't flitter away when you sprint by them, meaning you have to actually catch them with your net and release them each time they appear. If you try to make a tarantula island now, you'll find that in addition to having to scare away tiger beetles or wharf roaches (bugs that also don't require flowers or trees to spawn) to force tarantula spawns, you'll also need to contend with giant water bug spawns. It appears on freshwater like ponds and rivers, meaning it doesn't require any of the foliage you'd typically clear out of your deserted island to generate a tarantula island. The giant water bug is an April arrival for Northern Hemisphere players. Why Tarantula Farming Is Harder Now The culprit: a giant water bug. Previously, players didn't have to worry about bodies of water on their deserted island, because in the Northern Hemisphere at least, there were no seasonal bugs that spawned on water. This removes spawn conditions for other bugs, which will force the tarantula to spawn more than usual. We have a whole guide on tarantula farming, but the gist of it is this: you head to a deserted island via Mystery Tour and clear out all the resources like rocks, trees, stumps, and flowers. But in the past couple of weeks, the arrival of new bugs for the month of April has also meant new competition for the profitable tarantula-the giant water bug is here and it's making tarantula farming in Animal Crossing a lot more difficult. Tarantulas, the semi-rare, nocturnal arachnid-and one of the few hostile creatures in Animal Crossing-are worth 8,000 bells each if you can catch them. Farming tarantulas quickly became one of the top money-making schemes for deserted island dwellers. Here are some examples.Animal Crossing: New Horizons had only been out for a few days before players found a way to exploit spawn conditions for valuable bugs and get rich quick. Importing that text back into the game, and changing bits of the UI into English, requires programming experience and often custom-made tools, like the one Cuyler uploaded to Github. It's not just about translating thousands of lines of dialogue, though that alone is a huge undertaking. "I'd like to release the final, complete translation before New Horizons releases."Ĭuyler's Twitter feed, though not updated too frequently, is a great demonstration of how much work goes into fan patches like this. "As this is a beta release, there will still be untranslated text," they wrote on Youtube. Since 2017, Animal Crossing fan Cuyler has been working on translating that final GameCube version into English, and recently released the first public version of the patch. That port was then enhanced with more new stuff as it was translated into English and released as Animal Crossing, so a couple years later Nintendo of Japan released yet another new version, Animal Forest e+, that included everything from the western release and even more changes. It started life as a late-era Nintendo 64 game, before being ported to the GameCube with new features as Animal Forest+. Animal Crossing (or Animal Forest, aka Dōbutsu no Mori in Japan) had some history before it was ever released in the west.