How rare is Scorpion Island?

[Cetoddle769]

Last night, I tried looking for Scorpion Island. I had over 70,000 nook miles saved up and purchased around 30 tickets. Also, Flick was on my island, so I wouldn’t have to wait for him and store the scorpions. I went through 10 tickets, nothing. 7 more tickets, nothing. Purchased and went through 10 more tickets, STILL nothing. Purchased 7 MORE tickets, STILL NOTHING. I felt like the game was like “Yeah, we want you to be frustrated and not get lots of money from Flick.” Is Scorpion Island really THAT rare, or did I just get EXTREMELY unlucky?

 

[QueenCobra]

I’ve read it’s about 1% of the mystery islands. Personally, I’ve had New Horizons for four years and not once encountered it! But maybe that varies from person to person.

 

[Snek]

I've had Tarantula island before on my old island playthrough but not Scorpion island. In my new island playthrough I haven't encountered it once. Then again, I don't island hop as much as I did for my old island.

 

[Pyoopi]

I think I've only encountered like 3-ish tarantula ones and 2 scorpions ones. You can always technically force the mystery island to become one by just destroying all the foliage and rocks.

 

[Dunquixote]

I think I’ve only gotten one (tarantula island; 0 scorpion) in all the years that I’ve been playing; I didn’t do as much mystery islands back when they first became available but that was when I got one and the only one.

Spoiler: flashback to April 2021

 

[Cetoddle769]

I think I've only encountered like 3-ish tarantula ones and 2 scorpions ones. You can always technically force the mystery island to become one by just destroying all the foliage and rocks.

I’ve done that before, but it was a disaster. For the full story, see the DIY Tarantula Island thread I posted back in April. The search for the Scorpion Island wasn’t a total flop though, as I made some money when I got 2 money rock islands. On the first one I visited, I destroyed all the flowers and forced all of the crickets and tiger beetles to despawn or jump into the water. Needless to say, a lot of crickets were killed that night. After around 15 ish minutes, I successfully got a Scorpion to spawn. I caught it and sold it to Flick. I just want to visit the actual Scorpion Island, not make one. I was looking for the regular one BTW, not the gold nugget one cuz it’s the rarest mystery island and I knew my chances of getting it were zero to none. Here’s a photo of me catching the Scorpion I forced to spawn.

 

[Rainy.Nights]

I found one once, but I don't visit mystery islands very often