Certain fish and insects not appearing

[Lucky Vicky 🐝]

I restarted my farm to be a bit more efficient and it's day 28 of spring already and I'm missing a pond fish and two spring insects. I know their location and time of the day/weather. But for the past 15 days in the game, they NEVER appeared. Is this how it's supposed to be or is it a bug?

[rapidsfinesse]

I caught all fish set and nearly all insects - it takes me 4 game years, but I never found Legendary insect set - only one insect from this set.

Use trick "come in/out" to refresh fish in any locations. Go to the pond, catch all fish, out from this location, enter in this location again - there will be new fish to catch, repeat.

Also fisher woman sells some fish randomly and Balor sells some insects and crop/foraging randomly - so you can buy from them some stuff for the museum / quests.

[Lucky Vicky 🐝]

Originally posted by rapidsfinesse:

I caught all fish set and nearly all insects - it takes me 4 game years, but I never found Legendary insect set - only one insect from this set.

Use trick "come in/out" to refresh fish in any locations. Go to the pond, catch all fish, out from this location, enter in this location again - there will be new fish to catch, repeat.

Also fisher woman sells some fish randomly and Balor sells some insects and crop/foraging randomly - so you can buy from them some stuff for the museum / quests.

I actually did all of that, but since it took you 4 years, maybe it's just not possible to finish it in the first year, or it was a bug? Because they were really just not spawning at all during this time to me

[rapidsfinesse]

I didn't go fishing in my first 2 years. I did farming, mining, animals, quests, talked to NPCs till Green hearts, raising all skill except fishing. Game content (dialogues and quests) is currently only designed for up to 2 years of play, then all dialogs repeated and nothing new.
When I finished all mining and quests - it was in the end of the 2 year - and it was only fishing is remain to do - so in my 3 year I spent all the time for fishing - and in my 4 year I only have to catch 2 types of fish - because I need to wait for a certain season. And In my 4 year I just breed animals because it is nothing to do else.

[braveofheart]

Originally posted by rapidsfinesse:

I caught all fish set and nearly all insects - it takes me 4 game years, but I never found Legendary insect set - only one insect from this set.

Use trick "come in/out" to refresh fish in any locations. Go to the pond, catch all fish, out from this location, enter in this location again - there will be new fish to catch, repeat.

Also fisher woman sells some fish randomly and Balor sells some insects and crop/foraging randomly - so you can buy from them some stuff for the museum / quests.

I've only caught one of the Legendary Bugs, too. Meanwhile I've had much more luck with the Legendary fish. Maybe the chance for these to appear is higher coded than for the bugs?

But also, at least five fish appear in any given water area. If you don't fell trees, at most two insects appear in any of the areas, which skews the odds even more.

[rapidsfinesse]

For now I only need to catch a legendary Spring insect Flower Crown Beetle - the last one -

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3329388915

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3329388821

To catch the legendary bugs I used the approach:
-set the scale to 1x to see more
-learn the required time and weather in the tutorial
-and go to Haiden farm and then back to my farm many times untill I manage to catch the required bug.
-if you don't catch the legendary fall bug until 11am then restart the day from your save file - so you repeat the same day again and again until success

It took me nearly an hour for repeatedly walking back and forth between farms to catch the fall legendary bug, and in the process I saw speedy snails twice.

[rapidsfinesse]

I finally got all Legendary Insects Set completed - it was hard and time consuming - and Reward is an ugly useless flooring. See my screenshots -

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3331824640

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3331824484

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3331836681

[TeenyTinyT]

Can someone help me? I accidentally give Dell her snail that she requested instead of turning it in & I am on day 18 of spring & no other snails have reappeared... I've looked everywhere & I've hit a lot of stones to see if they'd be underneath like most bugs would be & still, nothing. Am I doing something wrong or am I just going to have to wait until the next spring year?

[Mermaid Hime]

I am still waiting around for worms. :( been only getting inchworms

[Kaylee]

Originally posted by Mermaid Hime:

I am still waiting around for worms. :( been only getting inchworms

Worm is under rocks in the Upper Mines. The other worm (inchworm/redworm) are under rocks outside.

[Miscneil]

Unfortunately the game relies heavily on RNG and you'll need the appropriate perks that unlock rare/legendary fish/bugs, so you'll just have to keep exiting/re-entering the location the bug spawns in or during and hope you get lucky. I've managed to complete all fish and bugs using a save scum method of quitting to the main menu and reloading a save to redo the search. (Saving any progress made such as taking care of chores/crops/animals before doing this will reduce how much backtracking you have to do.)

It's not ideal and I genuinely hope they come up with a better solution to this. Either increasing rare/legendary spawn rate, or giving us some magic spell, or perk, that lets us have an easier time finding them.