Did you know about the incredibly rare shiny bugs in Animal Crossing?
You can catch bugs up to 5 days before they're supposed to spawn in season at 1/6 their normal odds. However, this isn't always possible due to a hidden value in the game referred to as the bug value index. This hidden value is randomly generated each month and can range between 0 and 5. Whatever number is generated is how many days before the next season that it's possible to catch the next season's fish. So there's only a 1/6 chance that it's even possible to find shiny, off-season bugs 5 days before they're supposed to spawn.
For bugs that have a 1/100 chance of spawning normally, they now become 1/600 with a 1/6 chance of even spawning, resulting in 1 in 3,600 odds of spawning, on average.
That means I need to reroll this hidden value until I get a value of 5. But because it's hidden, the only way to verify if I got a 5 is if I actually catch a shiny bug. Then I can catch the other shiny bugs for that month from there. And for each month, I have to reroll this value again and again until I catch every bug. I thought it would make for an interesting challenge to catch every bug at these crazy odds. Join me on this never before done shiny hunting challenge!
Oh and sadly, shiny bug palettes aren't actually in the game, but their rarity is, so I decided it would be fun to get custom shiny bug palettes for this challenge. Shoutouts to crqbi for designing the shiny palettes and Cuyler for helping me mod them into the game!
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/ @cuyler
You can find the Shiny Bug List in my Discord channel under (my-ac-documents)
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