Speaking of tarantula runs, I have seen talk here and there about how to 'force' tarantula spawning, so I decided to experiment with it and I developed a good way to farm tarantulas. With this technique, you can easily fill your inventory with tarantulas in an hour or less. I'm going to go ahead and post my guide here.
How to Farm Tarantulas
If you're looking to farm tarantulas but you can't get Tarantula Island, neverfear!
(1) Make sure it's night.
(2) Prep yourself for a Mystery Island trip. Ensure you have your metal axe and a shovel.
(3) Travel to a Mystery Island. If it's raining or Bamboo Island, you're in luck. If it's raining AND Bamboo Island, you're REALLY in luck.
(4) Clear all grass, flowers, rocks, trees, and stumps. You don't need to worry about bamboo stumps, but you WILL benefit from clearing those too. Flowers can be picked, stomped, dug up, whatever, but grass, rocks, and stumps need to be actively eliminated from the map. Once you've properly cleared the map, the only bugs that can spawn are wharf roaches, tiger beetles (unless it's raining! then they can't spawn either), and tarantulas.
(6) Dig yourself a tarantula trap. I prefer a 5x5 X-shape of holes, but a 5x5 + or a 5x3 T, etc, also work well. Run to the bottom of the map, on the beach or something, and drop all your tools and items in your inventory until you have ONLY your net.
(7) Run around the map, scaring away tiger beetles and wharf roaches until tarantulas spawn. Run past the tarantulas to get them to chase you.
(8) Run to your trap, then run around the edge. If you do it right, the tarantula will get stuck behind it and you can nab it with the net with ease.
(9) Fill your inventory.
(10) ???
(11) Profit!
A full inventory, minus one slot for the net, will nab you 232,000 bells - or 348,000 if sold to Flick.
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