How do you get a lot of Bug Off Furniture?

[RainCrossing]

Hi! I'm new to ACNL (one month hehe). My brother and I really want the whole Bug Off set. Do you guys have any tips (I don't have any friends I could play with)? Please! I would like at least one of every item from the Bug Off set. Thanks xxx

 

[Clavis]

I'm not 100% sure on this, but i think that this is how it works :

Nat doesn't give the whole set on one day, cause it's split into 2 halves, and he gives a halve on every "bug off". What i'd suggest you do, to get 80points is to shake trees and catch the bees that fall, they can potentially get you 80 points if you're lucky . You could also farm on the island, and try to sort them by size, and hope that the "shine" factor will be il your favour .

 

[applecarts]

Nat gives you a prize every time you break the current record, so what I do is give him increasingly rare bugs hoping that I will beat the score by a little each time. I use this chart to determine what to give him (bugs from the least rare category first, and then so on until the highest). Of course, I usually have to break the current record that some villager holds first, so that might make me have to start in a higher category at first. That's how I get the most furniture out of it!! :>

P.S. Also, sometimes, bugs end up being super good and messing up my plan, but this general outline does maximize my furniture-getting.

 

[Cou]

try to remember the size/rarity of the bugs and give each to nat starting from smallest to biggest?

 

[kite]

I've visited a person during their Bug-Off day. We spent some time on the island catching beetles (then he time traveled to a little earlier in the day after I left) and then I came back I turned in all my bugs. I kept beating the current record (which didn't change because I was a visitor). All I would get was furniture (plus duplicates). I left the host my prizes. If you could get a visitor to beat your record and leave the furniture for you, you could get the Bug Off furniture this way too.

 

[Red Cat]

Time travelling backward even a few minutes resets the record, so give him a rare bug to get special furniture, then save and quit and TT back a few minutes (just enough so that you load the game on a time before the time you saved) and give him another rare bug to get another piece. You can collect a lot of beetles on the island and keep them in your basket to have them ready to give to Nat. Note that you can only get half of the items on one Bug-Off day. He'll either give you an item from this set: Firefly Lamp, Caterpillar Sofa, Ladybug Carpet, Ladybug Chair, Snail Clock, Stag Beetle Chair; or this set: Beetle Chair, Butterfly Table, Butterfly Wall, Cicada Stereo, Honeycomb Chest, Spider Clock. To get items from the other set, you'll have to wait for the next month's Bug-Off.

 

[Taj]

I have 4 characters, so my chances of winning bug furniture is quadrupled