I posted a video about this last week and there are a lot of questions about the way this works. So in today’s video I’m going to give you the complete ultimate breakdown and step by step guide on how to make scorpion island. If you’re new here please thumbs up this video, leave us a command and hit that subscribe button. Now before we get started o do need to mention:
The most important part of this whole thing is you MUST go to the island between 7pm-4am according to your systems time. You cannot go there at 6pm and wait until 7pm. It won’t work. You absolutely positively 100% have to go between 7pm and 4am. No if ands or buts.
The first step to this whole process is to get your inventory prepped for this process. This means you want to bring at least two axes, not flimsy axes, real axes. You’ll be cutting down trees so it’s important to gave the right tools. I’m also bringing along 3 bug nets and a shovel. That’s it. You won’t need anything else, other than a book mile ticket of course.
The second step in making this island is to land on an island that is favorable. This means you either need to land on bamboo island or you need to land on a one tier island. Today it was not fortunate enough to land on bamboo Island, but I did find a great one to your island to work with. Bamboo island is usually better because there’s no lakes or ponds that will spawn water bugs. Additionally this is much easier if you are on an island where it is raining. It does not have to be raining, but when it is raining there’s actually a higher chance of spotting tarantulas or scorpions after we’ve cleared the entire island.
Now it’s time to clear the island. I get a lot of questions about this, so here’s the breakdown.
Flowers – you must pick every flower, however, you do not have to dig them up. Leave them where they are.
Weeds – you must pick every week. Leaving just one weed can be detrimental to this process.
Trees – all trees must be cut down and the stumps will need to be dug up. Additionally, all Of the holes will need to be filled.
Rocks – must be broken and removed from the island. I usually do not hit them with my ax and I’ll show you why in a minute.
Extra items in inventory once completed – items from tour inventory can be left on the rocks on the beach. I do want to mention, the bug on the rocks will still spawn even if you drop items. Dont forget to scare away those bugs frequently.
Step 3 is to clear the island. I usually start on one side and work my way over to the other. I leave the tree stumps and the rocks. I don’t hit the rocks until I come back around. This is so that I’m not switching between items. It speeds up the progress this way and if I hit the rocks with my ax, then it’ll break faster and I lose the risk of not being able to chop all the trees down. You can certainly craft more if needed, but there’s no Garuntee that there will be enough resources on the island to do so.
Once you only have tree stumps and rocks remaining, take out your shovel. I prefer to hit the rocks and get resources, then eat a fruit to break it. If you are planning to fill up you’re full inventory with just bugs, then don’t worry about the resources and break the rock.
Go back through your island and dig up all of the stumps and break the rocks.
Finally the island is clear! If you don’t want the resources and items from the island, go to the nearest rock and drop them off. Yeah that one scorpion I caught at my dock as I was headed to the island.
Now it’s time to take out your favorite net and catch those scorpions.
Keep in mind it’s very important to scare away any bugs you see. I also will catch and release water bugs. I don’t do anything about the mole crickets. I just ignore them and it’s never caused an issue.
You’ll probably go through a lot of nets. So when you’re net breaks, go buy another, or just bring a lot of nets!
Now I want to be fully transparent here. You May run around for quite a while before you find a scorpion. It depends on what island you’re on. I find they tend to spawn in bunches. I might run around for 5 minutes and then catch 3-5 of them and then run around for another 5 minutes and not see one. This isn’t like being on the real scorpion island. It takes time and patience. If you’re looking to come fill your inventory in 15 minutes then head hone and cash them in for a small fortune, then I’m sorry to disappoint you, but it’ll take a little longer than that.
Once youve caught as many as you want you can head home and sell your bugs. I want to know how much you guys make! Leave me a comment letting me know your grand total. I stated on the island for one hour and kept a few water bugs. My total after that hour was 146,000 bells