Animal Crossing: New Horizons nerfs bug spawns for the economy

A reliable dataminer has discovered the concerning news.

April 24, 2020

Nintendo has recently ramped up their efforts to fine-tune the inflated economy in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. While the latest patch adds a ton of great content, it also informs you that the Bank of Nook has decreased interest rates for player’s savings accounts. It looks like that’s not all the new patch does to address the bell inflation rate.

If you’re a fan of making money off of catching bugs, brace yourself. According to the data miner @_Ninji, who correctly reported on all of the Earth Day content, Nintendo has made huge changes to the spawn rate of bugs. Ninji found that Nintendo has unified the spawn rates for the game’s insects, which in layman’s terms means that instead of having specific months where one type of bug was coded to spawn more often, now all bugs have set spawn rates during the months they are to appear.

It gets worse. Peacock butterflies, emperor butterflies, and atlas moths — all the bugs that sell for lots of bells — have had their spawn rates reduced significantly. Scorpions and tarantulas, everyone’s favorite monsters to hunt and sell, also got whacked with the nerf bat. Thankfully you can still got wild hunting our eight legged friends on tarantula island if you keep up with collecting your Nook Miles.

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#ACdatamining #ACspoilers

— Ninji (undefined) (@_Ninji) April 24, 2020