re: Animal Crossing: New Horizons Official Thread (March 20)

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I think I’m bad at this game, I am only able to login at night time usually because every time I sit down to play my wife gives me some honey do chore. Taking me forever to get the iron nuggets, slowly going to other islands to get them. I got bit by the tarantula like 5 times before I finally caught it and little Tom nook gave me some big dough for that

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I might be able to help with that a little!

The rocks can spit out up to 8 items each a day but only if you hit them very fast in rapid succession. The trick is to position yourself with something behind you (I put pieces of fence or shrubs behind the corner I stand in) and then wail on A until the rock stops spitting things out. The pushback of each strike of the rock will bump you up against the fence but keep you in range of the rock for the next hit so you never have to reposition and you can get the most strikes in possible.

Also the tarantulas have a trick too! When you get too close, they will freeze and rise up on their hind legs and hiss. You have to play a bit of a red-light-green-light game with them until you are in striking range. Hold the button down that holds the net up but doesn't swing it and creep forward, pausing every time the spider rises up and inching a couple of steps forward when it settles back down until you get within range of a good swing and shoot your shot. Sometimes you can find that mystery island with the tarantulas and load up and make bank, and later on when Flick starts visiting your island, you can make even more selling them to him.