Spawn rates for Insects were stealth-nerfed

[Bioness]

Source:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1253495611300741126

- Spawn rates have been unified for all insects e.g. agrias butterfly used to be less common in April than in its other available months. wharf roach had a higher rate in March. That’s all gone now.

- Peacock butterflies have been cut by 80-90%;

- Emperors and atlas moths by 50%

- Regular stinkbugs are up 100%, man-faced ones down 50%

- Tiger beetles up by 33%, scarab beetles down 40%

- Scorpions and tarantulas have both been nerfed significantly as well

Raw Data: https://wuffs.org/acnh/insects120.html

 

[Xara]

i’m a little disappointed about the butterflies - those were a huge chunk of my income lmao

 

[Reginald Fairfield]

I didn't even know scarabs were on the menu yet.

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i’m a little disappointed about the butterflies - those were a huge chunk of my income lmao

Same.

 

[Bioness]

I even didn't know scarabs were on the menu yet.

It seems 1.2.0 as a whole had a lot of income reducing changes made. Only one of which was publicly stated.

 

[Amissapanda]

It kind of boggles (and disappoints) me that they would want to nerf so many of these and actively discourage players from spending time catching bugs and working up their own income (even without time traveling).

 

[LambdaDelta]

flick was so powerful, that nintendo had to kneecap his bliss

 

[Clock]

Didn’t realize they lowered the chances, I‘m probably not paying attention. I hope it doesn‘t affect fish as well, because I usually make profit from selling red snapper, barred knife jaw and oarfish as well.

 

[starlightsong]

as someone who's scared of tarantulas and scorpions i don't mind that particular nerf too much lol but overall i feel like this really stinks for non-tters, especially with the interest rate being severely nerfed too i tt and have a ton of bells but my dad and brother play more normally--and i don't think either of them sell stuff on forums and such at all--and interest and bug catching are big moneymakers for them so this'll make things harder! i get that the interest could kinda be exploited by tting but i don't understand why they'd nerf the bug spawns at all. especially since i've already been seeing people saying they felt like it was too hard to make bells in this game ever since release day...

 

[Khaelis]

Eh, nerfs happen. I still see them enough, so it's good enough for me.

 

[trashpedia]

Tbh I really don’t want to resort to turnips to make more bells due to how greedy some people can be about them but there really aren’t many options to make lots of bells without it being extremely time consuming.

 

[Raz]

I indeed saw tiger beetles more often today. Like, they were everywhere.

Scorpions were rampant on my island: I recall having three straight encounters in less than 10 minutes a week ago.

 

[Bioness]

Didn’t realize they lowered the chances, I‘m probably not paying attention. I hope it doesn‘t affect fish as well, because I usually make profit from selling red snapper, barred knife jaw and oarfish as well.

Fish have separate spawning mechanics and there doesn't seem to be any changes to them.

 

[flurrybuster]

Definitely noticed way fewer good butterflies this morning...

I guess it's good I've already made a few million on turnips, but anyone who just starts the game after this patch is really getting the short end of the stick.

 

[Reginald Fairfield]

It seems 1.2.0 as a whole had a lot of income reducing changes made. Only one of which was publicly stated.

If you have a bunch of iron nuggets saved up, the iron frame sells for 15,000, of course it uses 20 pieces.

 

[Mooglemog]

Nintendo:

Let’s allow everyone who duped bells in the first week to keep their 999m bells

But let’s make it harder for the people who actually have to work for their bells to earn them

 

[Reginald Fairfield]

If you have a bunch of iron nuggets saved up, the iron frame sells for 15,000, of course it uses 20 pieces.

Then there's the stone arch.

 

[Insulaire]

I loved the PC butterfly for easy big bells, but let’s be real here: it was clearly spawning way too often for how big its payoff was. I will miss them, but this makes sense

 

[Jas]

definitely noticed the lack of pc butterflies! i understand but i'll miss seeing 3-4 of them constantly and having a big stack to sell to flick LOL

 

[Mink777]

Glad I completed my encyclopedia before this nonsense was implemented.

 

[CrankyCupcake]

Can't say I'm surprised.

I remember thinking, on more than a few occasions while playing, that New Horizons is way easier than Wild World or New Leaf because so many of the more expensive insects spawn so often. (And I did spend an unreasonable amount of time in my game just catching and selling them.)

From the developers' point of view, Animal Crossing is meant to be played for short periods at a time, so that the pace is relaxed, and you unlock more things as you go along. It isn't meant to be played like most of us are playing now, for crazy long hours at a stretch, day after day.