Tarantulas on your island

[HollyGirl]

I found a tarantula on my island. Has anyone else ever found one on their island or did you have to travel?

 

[Firesquids]

I see them on my island frequently, scorpions too. They are much more common than they were in New Leaf.

 

[Uffe]

I saw them during the summertime, I believe. Are they back already? I haven't seen a tarantula or scorpion in a while.

 

[Bluelady]

Yeah. Last month I was TTing back and forth gathering ornaments and only saw a Tarantula once on Dec 20th.

 

[Your Local Wild Child]

I’m in scorpion season on Evwirt, and they only seem to take a peek to sting my character (>(~ )<‘ )

 

[MapleSilver]

I saw them all the time during the summer. Haven't seen one lately, though I haven't been playing much during the past month.

 

[Miss Misty]

I used to get them all the time when I was just starting out. I think I had one on my very first night, it scared the bejeezus out of me when it ran around the back of the RS tent at me.

 

[Pyoopi]

I had tons of scorpions in the beginning days and they always KO'd me more than the hairy 8-legged friends.

Then when I had tarantulas, they spawned in what I deemed as "safe zones". So those went out the window.

And now I'm farming the chungus beetles and forgot about my pal scorpions, ran straight into one and died, lol.

 

[Xara]

i’ve found several but it definitely doesn’t happen as often as it did back when the game first game out and the probability of them spawning was pretty high. i don’t really play at night anymore, though, so i haven’t seen any as of late ^^.

 

[Rosch]

I still encounter them at night, although not as common as before. They always catch me off-guard when I see them though. They just appear out of nowhere and the next thing I see is I've already been attacked.

 

[Nefarious]

I honestly wish there was a free month or two. I hate it when I’m playing past 7 with the main camera and a fuzzy fiend comes out of no where. No matter how many times it happens I always get jumpscared by them.

 

[Emmsey]

I came across two last night on my island they must be back in season. I decided to try and farm em on spiral island epic fail so many damselflies next to none spawning

 

[Angelbearpuppy]

I saw my first one last night. But I dont usually play late enough to run into them often.

 

[Cadbberry]

I saw a tarantula the other night when I was making a new net. The camera zoomed in and there was a little spider running into a fence. It luckily respawned when I went back into the crafting menu so I didn't have to deal with it

 

[CrankyCupcake]

Back in spring, when the game first launched, tarantulas spawned frequently. Until I learned that they did not attack you if you didn't have a net equipped, I was constantly getting ambushed.

I may have done a thing or two on a few mystery islands to turn them into tarantula islands. They spawned endlessly. Returning home with my pockets stuffed full of tarantulas was, somehow, a very satisfying thing to do.

 

[Mick]

I saw them all the time in the first few months of playing, until the scorpions turned up. They were really common, actually. Someone in one of my discord groups actually caught about 20 of them one evening, it was pretty broken.

I think they changed something about their spawning behaviour since then, though, because people have reported not being able to make islands spawn as many tarantulas anymore & I have only seen one or two since their return.

 

[moonlights]

I found one last night! failed to catch it tho bc it was right next to a cliff and I ended up hitting the cliff

 

[dizzy bone]

They used to take me out constantly at the beginning of the game before I knew they were super hostile if you have your net out. I saw several every night. I didn't realise that they were around November-December and one got me by surprise the other night when I was spawn camping my rotten turnip for ants I was shocked when I saw a tarantula hanging around there instead of ants.

 

[maria110]

I haven't been seeing tarantulas as frequently. I like them better than scorpions. Since they have a round silhouette, I find them easier to focus on and catch than scorpions. The other problem is that they sometimes seem to jump out at you from nowhere and you die. Other times, you see them but they immediately run away from you and vanish into a cliff or something. It's definitely been harder to catch them, imo.

 

[Sara?]

For me its winter and i have already seen a couple of tarantulas running around