Author Topic: Tarantulas in Animal Crossing: Wild World... >_< (Read 19119 times)

JonLeung · « **on:** June 16, 2006, 07:50:49 AM »

Wow, does Nintendo know how to make something frustrating or what? Catching these suckers is tough!

Spoileriffic if you don't know anything about them...
They're extremely rare. Good thing they come out between 7 PM and 4 AM (unlike, say, 9 AM to 4 PM bugs that I can't get on weekdays), but that usually means I'm tired when I try to catch one. After walking around for hours, the two times I did run into one I was tired and distracted, so I wasn't even looking at the screen when they attacked me. I don't ever see the attacks, but apparently they cannonball you, (I'm guessing in the face) and I'm cursing and swearing as my in-game character wakes up in front of the house and the tarantula is nowhere to be seen. And after I do get one, assuming I will before I lose my sanity, or regardless if I have one (or my sanity), I'll still have to do the same for scorpions next month as well! >_<

I'm somewhat arachnophobic so I would never be on the lookout for tarantulas for ANY reason, and especially if they did THAT in real life. So I'm doing what I would never want to do in a video game. What's the word I'm looking for? Sadist? Is that what I must be to be playing Animal Crossing: Wild World?

Kairon · « **Reply #1 on:** June 16, 2006, 08:01:35 AM »

You're undergoing aversion therapy.

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UltimatePartyBear · « **Reply #2 on:** June 16, 2006, 08:06:51 AM »

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Originally posted by: JonLeung
What's the word I'm looking for? Sadist? Is that what I must be to be playing Animal Crossing: Wild World?

Only if you like beating up the other animals with tools and trapping them in tiny spaces by diggin holes around them. Destroying all the flowers they plant and chopping down all the trees would probably count, too.

JonLeung · « **Reply #3 on:** June 16, 2006, 08:20:04 AM »

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Originally posted by: JonLeung
What's the word I'm looking for? Sadist? Is that what I must be to be playing Animal Crossing: Wild World?

Only if you like beating up the other animals with tools and trapping them in tiny spaces by diggin holes around them. Destroying all the flowers they plant and chopping down all the trees would probably count, too.

Okay, self-inflicted pain or torture. What is that then? Masochism? Is that it?

Anyone have any tarantula-hunting tips, other than to be more awake and alert?

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #4 on:** June 19, 2006, 08:19:36 AM »

Finally, Animal Crossing has a boss battle...

JonLeung · « **Reply #5 on:** June 19, 2006, 09:10:40 AM »

I saw two more before they saw me, but one fell into the river and the other one must've somehow gotten away or drowned as well, because I was hesitant while sneaking up on them. >_<

At least I know it's possible to get them (well, I knew that before, but I wasn't sure how I'd get them) but I have yet to get them. Next month creeps closer, and we'll be contending with scorpions as well...

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #6 on:** June 20, 2006, 08:40:24 PM »

Here's the trick:

1. Get headphones. Makes ALL the difference.

2. Walk around normally and listen for a scratching noise. Don't run. It spooks them just like most insects, provoking the attack.

3. When you finally hear the noise, freeze.

4. If you don't see the tarantula, creep slowly in the direction where the noise seems to be coming from.

5. Tarantulas move on their own, so all you should need to do is stay still and wait until it comes within net range then bag it.

I don't know how possible it is, but try for an open area when you can see clearly if you can. The first two I ran into nailed me because I had already spooked them before I even saw them, but the real key is to listen for the scratching noise and that happens MUCH more easily with headphones (esp. with a DS Lite).

JonLeung · « **Reply #7 on:** June 21, 2006, 09:27:33 AM »

Haha, nice avatar.

Yeah, I've been using headphones (mostly because I'm playing too late at night, really) and a DS Lite may be in my future.

I'd figured those tips out myself, except for #5...are you suggesting that I shouldn't attempt to walk up to a tarantula at all? Like I said, the fourth (and last so far) that I saw I was really close...though I can't really tell if it's actually running away or just happening to be walking farther away from me by chance. Before I lost it in the flowers, there was one or two moments when it might have been in net range if only I could've been a step or two closer, but I was afraid of an attack and wasn't sure if it was already looking at me.

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #8 on:** June 21, 2006, 09:50:05 AM »

FYI, the avatar was made out of sheer joy at finally having caught one of the bastards, not to spite you or anything like that.

I'm positive about #5. I was walking around when I heard the scratching/skittering noise so I stopped then crept closer to the direction it was coming from. I saw it at the edge of the screen: it was moving around kinda randomly and after a few seconds of waiting it came within net range.

As near as I can tell, the best course of action is to never move toward it other than to simply allow it on the screen and wait until it comes to you, using tiny little taps on the d-pad to aim yourself in the right direction.

JonLeung · « **Reply #9 on:** June 22, 2006, 04:54:11 AM »

I think I can confirm that now, since a tarantula was quite close to me yesterday, but when I advanced towards it in excitement (I didn't want to hesitate like last time) I think it ran off. >_<

Do you think there is a maximum of one tarantula a day, or are they just rare enough that it seems so? The last two or three times (out of five) that I saw a tarantula, it was on my first walk-around on my first boot-up of the day, but never again for the rest of the night.

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #10 on:** June 22, 2006, 09:02:06 AM »

It's hard to say, but the two I encountered (and stepped on) before this one were fairly close together in timing and I don't recall shutting down between them.

nitsu niflheim · « **Reply #11 on:** June 22, 2006, 11:26:59 AM »

Polly.

JonLeung · « **Reply #12 on:** June 22, 2006, 12:33:16 PM »

Ick, WTF man. I SAID I was arachnophobic. I don't think I'll be entering this topic again! >_<

nitsu niflheim · « **Reply #13 on:** June 22, 2006, 04:09:20 PM »

Polly is my mother's pet tarantula.

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #14 on:** June 22, 2006, 05:28:50 PM »

Actual tarantulas tend to be quite tame.

My friend received one for his birthday and I've held the thing on a few occasions.

The concept of a pettable spider is definitely an odd one but a pleasant reality.

Caliban · « **Reply #15 on:** June 23, 2006, 05:30:30 AM »

I haven't played ACWW for 2 months, or so said one of the characters after I started playing the game 2 days ago. I started playing it because I read this thread and I was all excited that I could catch a Tarantula.

Yesterday I caught 2 of them within 30 minutes, they are so freaking easy to catch. I did see 3 Tarantulas, but I only saw the first one when it attacked me and I didn't hear anything because there were other characters walking around and so there was too much ambient noise to hear it and notice it, so it just jumped at me lol.

Here's how I caught the other 2, once I spot one at a distance I circled around it until I was facing it's rear and that way it can't see me, so I just grab my net walk at normal speed towards it and zap, it's in the net, and as I walked towards it it didn't even move. I did the same thing for my 2nd Tarantula.

Also yesterday I caught some other interesting stuff, I caught a SeaHorse, a ClownFish, a Mosquito, a Darner Dragonfly, a Bird Wing Butterfly, a Moth, a Rainbow Stag, and a FireFly . So is there anything else that is interesting to catch? A Shark perhaps?

Bloodworth · « **Reply #16 on:** June 23, 2006, 05:42:11 AM »

Searched for a while. No sign of them. But I caught a flea on my first attempt. Lucky me. I couldn't even see it. Just swung my net at a random neighbor and voila!

Yes! There are sharks. Haven't caught one yet, but some of my friends have.

Caliban · « **Reply #17 on:** June 23, 2006, 07:13:08 AM »

Don't forget that you can only catch Tarantulas's at night. If there are Sharks I will be doing some grand fishing then hehehe.

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #18 on:** June 23, 2006, 11:32:32 AM »

You can catch sharks, hammer head sharks, and ocean sunfish, all of which have a tell-tale fin poking out of the water.

I think you got lucky, Cal. The only time I caught my tarantula was when I heard it before I saw it (and before it saw me). The other times, they were both behind trees so I never even had the chance to see them before it was already too late.

Caliban · « **Reply #19 on:** June 23, 2006, 05:28:52 PM »

The ones I caught I heard, since they were in a good open area next to some trees so it was easy, I guess I'm lucky afterall.

Do they really have a fin coming out of water? lol that is so cool, I can't wait 'til I see one.

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #20 on:** June 25, 2006, 04:20:33 PM »

Yeah, they have a fin poking out alright.

An update: the 2nd tarantula I caught was just sitting there on the beach when I came upon it and I literally just crept up on it via small D-pad taps and netted it.

I'm guessing tarantulas have "aggro" range which means that, if you come within a certain range while moving at walk or run speed, they'll stop and just stare at you like this one did.

I also swear I've had one come down from the trees at me...

Caliban · « **Reply #21 on:** June 26, 2006, 05:38:50 AM »

I caught another Tarantula, also on the beach, I snuck slowly behind it and net it. Oh, I was also lucky enough to have caught a Shark just before the Tarantula, the Shark was so cool to catch. And then later on my luck went down when I missed a bunch of new tree-bugs, including one on a coconut tree which I assume must of been one of those crabs that climb trees in certain tropical zones.

Smash_Brother · « **Reply #22 on:** June 26, 2006, 08:29:10 AM »

The coconut beetle was the goliath beetle, 6,000 bells.

I've caught a 3rd now. It seems that either they wander around on their own or they stop and stare at you. I'm not sure if I spooked the 2nd one or something but the 3rd one patrolled like the first one did, and they don't seem to see you if you stand still, like the T-rex in Jurassic park.

I'm not sure if you get bitten if they accidentally bump into you, but I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case.

Bloodworth · « **Reply #23 on:** July 04, 2006, 06:38:12 PM »

Finally saw two of them and completely failed. Caught tons of new bugs and fish today though, including the Atlas Beetle.

Caliban · « **Reply #24 on:** July 04, 2006, 07:32:35 PM »

You suck! (just kidding)

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