Rainbow Tipped Butterfly

[Chakil]

This mf butterflies are going to be the death of me. I've been looking for Rainbow Tipped for about one week irl.
How much longer do I have to look for?

[Poppy Li]

they're super rare, but i can promise they exist haha. took me even longer to get the starred one. only advice i can give is, always pop a buzzy jar at 3am in the morning. i found them all around pulsewater plains (e/f 10), one at e9 (above the mines) and one at f11.

hope you find one soon!

[Ailes]

I think they have a good chance to spawn at flow groves. The groves spawn rare insects when they appear, but you basically have to be the first to get there as others likely won't wait for others to get a smoke bomb in, or they rush to the groves wholly unaware of the fact that they spawn rare insects, trigger them and make them vanish. At least that's how it was back when I still played the game.

So try to understand when and where flow groves spawn, approach them as the first person yet somewhat carefully and maybe you'll spot one of those butterflies. Maybe you can somehow manage to get into an underpopulated shard/server and by that increase your chance to be the first (or only even) at the groves?

[MadDawg2552]

You have to literally be the first one at the area, because they do not respawn (until the next in-game day).

[Spittz]

Caught one right after 3 AM rolled around, and most players were doing something together up north. White just as you'd expect it to be compared to the blue butterflies.

[Roan]

Origineel geplaatst door MadDawg2552:

You have to literally be the first one at the area, because they do not respawn (until the next in-game day).

Not sure how accurate this is, as I've actually had one *despawn* on me when day turned to evening one time lol. I guess it could have been there all day and no one came through, but seems unlikely.

[MadDawg2552]

It was more anecdotal evidence, since I've never seen one passed the 3 AM spawn time.

[Kevvin9999]

I can confirm for the second comment cause I also found one in the grove one time, and I'm the first one to get there. It's not a guarantee but there's a chance one spawned at the grove if you can't find it at daytime.

Surprisingly, the problem of catching bugs is the player themselves, since most of them are so unaware that they actually found some high-tier bugs, worse than that they alert it and it disappeared for a whole day (in game).

[apixie]

I have found two starred rainbow tipped butterflies...my 2nd one was last night at grove. Kinda funny my 1st one was at grove too. dont give up. Its possible.

[Soda-Pop]

I've been playing this game for almost a year every day for hours, and I've yet to come across an RTB. This is insane! Even with the live map, I haven't seen a single spawn, and I'm always in the area at 2:30 am. This is absurd. I'm starting to dislike this game!

[kr3m]

I've only caught maybe a dozen or so in the months I've been playing, but in that dozen or so was 1 star quality and 1 plushie..

tips:
- Use buzzy jar just before 3am.
- Try to fast travel to pulsewater plains by 2:45 so you can head up towards the pond by Hodari's house.
- RTB's pop up anywhere in the area south of the wall. From the top cliffs by the upper entrance to the Pavel mines all the way out to the Windy Ruins.. but only over grassy areas (not the beach).
- Group up. I don't see this near as often as we should. In fact, I never see anyone asking if others want to join, or have room for themselves in, a bug hunting group. If everyone ran around together, whenever someone finds a RTB and starts bombing it instantly, everyone else can bomb on it too.. Too many times I've chased down my buzzy jar lead to find a player just finishing their capture.. or worse, failing to capture and I see the bug poof away into oblivion..

[Orielle]

Origineel geplaatst door Roan:

Origineel geplaatst door MadDawg2552:

You have to literally be the first one at the area, because they do not respawn (until the next in-game day).

Not sure how accurate this is, as I've actually had one *despawn* on me when day turned to evening one time lol. I guess it could have been there all day and no one came through, but seems unlikely.

They can spawn anywhere between 3 AM and 6 PM. I have seen one spawn close to 6 PM and barely caught it before it despawned. Also had one spawn by me after 3 PM, which dropped a plush.

[MadDawg2552]

It's been a year since I made that post, and I've learned a lot about the RTB spawn since then.

The moths and butterflies take the same "spawn slot", so right at 3:00 AM all the moths despawn, and butterflies start to spawn. At this time, there's a huge chance for an RTB to spawn because of all the empty "spawn slots" that need to be filled.

For an RTB to spawn after this (naturally, not with a honey lure) you have to start capturing normal butterflies. When a butterfly spawns, there's a teeny tiny chance it will be an RTB. The thing that makes this the most annoying is that butterflies don't get scared when you run passed, so this decreases the chance of a natural RTB even more.

When you are using honey lures, you are supposed to scare away all the bugs you can, and catch the regular butterflies. If you leave the butterflies and other bugs, they will just clutter up your lure and an RTB will never spawn.

The thing about the "milkshake" (the RTBs that spawn at 3:00 AM) doesn't make any sense to me, so if someone can explain that, that would be great. What I know about it is that, supposedly, leaving the natural RTB spawn increases the chance an RTB will spawn in the lure.