Twitter user Zach Soares has revealed how to turn any Animal Crossing: New Horizons island into a so-called Spider Island. Basically, Animal Crossing: New Horizons players that want to have a Spider Island of their own needs to ruin the island by robbing it of almost all of its resources.
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More specifically, Animal Crossing: New Horizons players will need to chop down all of the trees on the island then dig up the stumps using a shovel. They will also need to pick all the flowers, remove all the rocks, litter the beach with junk, and catch other types of bugs. Then if they wait until night time, spiders should spawn endlessly.
While doing things like destroying rocks (Animal Crossing: New Horizons players will need to eat fruit if they want to do that) and chopping down all the trees seems counterproductive, there’s a good reason to do this. Spiders are worth a ton of money in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, so players can collect a bunch of them and sell them to the Nook family for a big cash payout. This in turn will allow players to pay off their debts in the game significantly faster. In short, they could use the Spider Island trick to get rich quick.
There are many other methods that Animal Crossing: New Horizons players are using to get rich quick in the game. One of the most controversial methods to get rich in New Horizons is time-traveling. Like past Animal Crossing games, players can manipulate the system time on their Switch console to bypass the game’s real-time restrictions. This in turn allows players to harvest fruit and other resources infinitely.
Another trick that Animal Crossing: New Horizons players are using is the item duplication glitch. But where the item duplication glitch will likely get patched out at some point in the future, it seems the Spider Island trick will be here to stay, as it appears to be in the game by design.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is out now, exclusively for the Nintendo Switch.
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