This guide will show you the best techniques and set-ups required for effectively farming every gold critter in the game.This guide is meant to be used by journey mode players who wish to research them, but could be used to help normal players who are having trouble finding them.The first thing you’re gonna need to know, is what tools work best, and what environment you’ll need to make all this work, so I’ll go over it step by step..Here’s a very basic list for things that will assist with critter farming.Firstly, you’re going to want your farm to either be on the side of, or ON your village.. NPC’SThis is a big factor when encouraging critter spawns.Secondly, you need a boss arena.. Why? So to get the setup you need, pause time, and flip back and forth between midnight and noon, waiting a minute at noon to see how many tend to spawn.Make sure to give this some time.. You might get 1-2 in a group, and have nothing happen for a minute, then suddenly see a group of 7, so give it a few solid minutes before deciding to skip to another day if you think the spawn rates aren’t high enough..You can tell you have a good day for farming if you’re getting groups of 2-5 about every other minute, or faster.Stay in one spot, and let them spawn offscreen, only going to catch them after it looks like a full group has appeared on screen.This will take a VERY long time, but I got it done over the course of 2-3 days, so it’s not that terrible.You won’t have to worry as much about mobs killing the critters, since most of the time they’ll spawn in the air.The wiki says there is a 1/150 chance for a golden butterfly to spawn.. During my entire time farming for them, I kept a chest where I put all critters caught in it from start to finish. The dragonflies will only spawn if they are fully matured, so making sure to avoiding breaking them is extremely important, but this is where medusa’s head and bug net come in..Medusa’s head is one of only two weapons in the entire game that can deal non-physical damage, meaning it can damage mobs without breaking grass or other things. Mine is stable at x12 but chugs going any faster), and just wait for the cattails to grow.. Once you have at least onePause time, crank up the spawnrate, and enjoy the farming.Those cattails are precious..

So to get the setup you need, pause time, andI haven’t gotten this far yet, I’ll give info as I farm the mobs one by one.Terraria 1.4 How to Make Terraria Plays in FullscreenTerraria 1.4 Fishing Changes What's New in Journey's End Critters are passive monsters that absolutely deal no damage at all. Besides, if you only tried to critter-farm on a single flat plain, that’d make your critters a LOT more vulnerable to a random slime popping up and nomming them.Next, are water candles and battle potions.. I’m not sure if they stack with the x10 Spawn Rate Slider, but I use them anyway.Walls are an optional way of discouraging enemy mob spawning, but I’ve found they also discourage critter spawning to a degree..

Besides, if you only tried to critter-farm on a single flat plain, that’d make your critters a LOT more vulnerable to a random slime popping up and nomming them.Next, are water candles and battle potions.. I’m not sure if they stack with the x10 Spawn Rate Slider, but I use them anyway.Walls are an optional way of discouraging enemy mob spawning, but I’ve found they also discourage critter spawning to a degree.. This guide will show you the best techniques and set-ups required for effectively farming every gold critter in the game. This guide is meant to be used by journey mode players who wish to research them, but could be used to help normal players who are having trouble finding them.

You tell me if this sounds like 1/150 to you..After you are finished farming for butterflies, make sure to skip a day or two ahead to assure the butterfly spawn rate is low again, so as to help other mobs you may be farming appear more often.Make sure the weather is set so wind never changes, and set the wind to maximum in one direction.Stay in one place, and shimmy a small distance from left to right to encourage spawning, and eventually some clusters will appear for you. All critters can be caught with the Bug Net, and can later be used for creating critter cages, or several items that require them.

Disable weather/wind changes, freeze the time to noon, and, once you’re completely ready and in-position, set that spawn rate to x10 and get farming!Remember to catch EVERY CRITTER you see, regardless if you need it or not, this does two things. The damage happening to the enemyAs for the normal bug net, unlike the golden net, it will NOT break grass/cattails when swung, allowing you to run at the dragonflies full speed ahead without worrying about trimming the cattails.Once everything is ready, removes ALL platforms around the area, even the boss-arena ones, asFirstly, you can just lock the weather to permanent rain so that walking goldfish spawn.Or, you can just catch them passively while farming for dragonflies.By the time I finished farming gold dragonflies, I had 3 extra gold goldfish, aside fromBoth ways are equally viable, but if you haven’t done either yet, I’d suggest the dragonflyStay in one spot, and let them spawn offscreen, only going to catch them after it looks like a full groupThis will take a VERY long time, but I got it done over the course of 2-3 days, so it’s not that terrible.You won’t have to worry as much about mobs killing the critters, since most of the time they’ll spawn in the air.The wiki says there is a 1/150 chance for a golden butterfly to spawn.. During my entire time farming for them, I kept a chest where I put all critters caught in it from start to finish. Mine is stable at x12 but chugs going any faster), and just wait for the cattails to grow.. Once you have at least onePause time, crank up the spawnrate, and enjoy the farming.Those cattails are precious..

Terraria – Journey Mode Golden Critter Farming Guide.