Bug Hotspots
 

So I was wondering were people have been going to bug farm lately since oasis is empty and it is now spring again. The only fairly good place I've seen is bottom of swamp town to catch dragonflies. There is also an occasional mantis behind the castle.

There's a lot of grasshoppers around the cliffs towards snowtown and onnet.

I see a few mantis' in between swamp and graal city

*summons Blueh*

The skies began to darken a deathly grey. Fire and brimstone fell as hail from the Heavens. Hell itself paled in comparison to the horrors that beheld. The bell struck three, and there he stood. Dressed in a suit of ash with tie that dripped of blood. The Orator.

"You called?"

The cliffs by deadwood usually have a few butterflies and at least 4 fireflies.

But you want a real hotspot? Check the island below belle. I swear there are about 9 mantises, 11 ladybugs, 3 grasshoppers, and usually one butterfly. Too bad it's inaccessible...

Ah.. Ill try my luck there. And ya it does seem like the bugs like to stay where no one can get 'em. >.> I need a longer net.

I recently had Jazz get on and tweak bugs a bit. Many bugs were either getting trapped way off on the outskirts of the map or just drifting away to distant levels. The problem with this is that the bugs weren't despawning unless caught, which meant for bugs that every inaccessible bug there was no new bug to take its place, slowly dropping the bug population.

So Jazz made a few tweaks to hopefully keep the bug population in a steady state. Butterflies despawn when they hit the outskirts of the map(butterflies were the worst offenders) and bugs like the mantis were tweaked to lower the distance they look for bushes, which should stop the huge migration going on below Belle.

I also asked him to give bugs a lifetime, so bugs that live a long time automatically despawn and spawn a new bug. Not sure if he ever got around to it though. Hopefully these changes keep a nice flow of bugs going.

that was taking yesterday.
under belle

Okay, the problem was that the very bottom tip of Belle island(like the bottom 10 tiles) was actually the same level as the very tip of the land to the south of Belle. Since every level of Belle is designated for spawning bugs, many of them spawned down there instead of actually on Belle. I removed the offending levels from the spawner and also made an NPC that despawns bugs when they enter a specified area, so I can place them at areas where bugs tend to congregate and make sure they don't collect there.

and this is why i used to go offmap to catch bugs :>.

Lol bugs already despawned.

Isn't it that the more players online the more bugs spawn?

Belle and castle area also have a lot of mantises, a few grasshoppers, and a ladybug occasionally. But it still doesn't have as many bugs as the island below belle used to.

Also, did the spawning rate of butterflies go down after they were tweaked? They seem a lot more uncommon now.

There's usually a bunch of rare butterflies around Master Li's Forest.