ACNL Golden Net Route by Coldeggman

NOTE: This route requires you to be on v1.5 (Welcome amiibo)

- Start a New Save File on September 10th, 2021 at 5pm
- Get a map where the river is super short and out of the way leaving a big open space for bugs
- Bonus points if you can place your house right next to main street but anywhere close is fine
- Also bonus if you get town hall close as well (and plaza but that doesn't matter as much)
- Introduce yourself to the 3 villagers that greet you in front of the train station
- During intros, take any fruit you find and keep it
- Tree

Do the following tasks in any order you desire/find the fastest due to your map layout:

- Shop, sell perfect fruit and regular fruit for 560 bells and buy shovel with it (if you didn't find perfect fruit, take off shoes/socks and sell 5 regular fruit and the shoes/socks)
- Find money rock/more fruit trees if you see any
- Introduce yourself to the other 2 villagers that are in their houses
- If town hall is close, go to the MEOW Coupon Machine and get +4 MEOW coupons (you'll have to talk to it twice)
- Pay off 1st debt
- Go back to Nookling Junction and buy the net if it's there
- Save & Quit

***September 14th, 2021 5pm***

- Catch the following bugs IF you found a net on day 1, if you didn't skip to next point about 2nd debt:

Cricket
Bell Cricket

- As you're going around, pluck any weeds you see and keep track/find more fruit
- IMPORTANT: If you see ANY purple violets KEEP them for later
- At the end of it all, with your weed count, plant trees right up against train tracks until your total count reaches 30. Example: I plucked 12 weeds, so I only need to plant 18 fruit trees to reach 30 total

- Use MEOW coupons to pay off 2nd debt (+42,000 from 14 coupons)
- You do not need to talk to Nook after paying off 2nd debt
- Look for net in shop if you didn't get one before
- Save & Quit

***September 15th, 2021 12pm***

- Catch the following bugs:

Monarch Butterfly
Long Locust
Migratory Locust
Rice Grasshopper
Mantis
Orchid Mantis
Red Dragonfly
Grasshopper

- The only bugs you NEED to catch are Monarch Butterfly & Red Dragonfly, everything else can be gotten later
- Talk to Tortimer at dock to unlock island
- Save & Quit

***September 16th, 2021 11pm***

NOTE: This segment is at 11pm because you can find some additional bonus bugs on normal trees on the island such as Giant Stag and Scarab Beetle. However, you can not find the Tiger Beetle at this time. If you want you can go to 7pm instead it's up to you. You can find a Tiger Beetle later on in your town if you're lucky or you can just go back to the island later on to get it.

- Gardening Shop opens (check Gardening Shop for axe/purple violets if you went 7pm instead of 11pm)
- Go to the island and take the axe, shovel, and net
- Go around the left side and chop down the palm trees until you reach the right side
- Keep about 4 palm trees on the right side of the island
- Catch any free normal tree bugs you find then chop down all of the normal trees EXCEPT 1
- I HIGHLY recommend before you get rid of the flowers/bushes to find an Emperor Butterfly as it's much more common to find on the island than your town

- Catch the following bugs:

Cyclommatus Stag
Golden Stag
Horned Atlas
Horned Elephant
Horned Hercules
Goliath Beetle
Tiger Beetle (doesn't appear at 11pm)
Wharf Roach
Hermit Crab

- Store the palm tree beetles to sell after
- If there's a hibiscus in the shop do a tour to be able to buy it, the following tours are ranked from best (fastest to complete) to worst (slowest to complete):
- If there isn't, check tours anyway to see if you get one in the fastest group

FASTEST GROUP (around 3 min to complete):

Scavenger Hunt (can be less than 2 mins with good RNG)
Gardening Tour (3:30 for gold so around that + can get purple violets so this one's pretty good)
Hammer Tour (3 mins)
Item-Matching Tour (3:30 for gold)
Labyrinth Tour (3:30 for gold)

MEDIUM GROUP (around 4-5 mins to complete):

Hide-and-Seek (5:00 for gold so less than 5 mins at least)
Ore-Hunter Tour (4 mins, note for this one you will need 4/4 of the "bonus" ore that is worth 3 points + rest of the inventory other ore in order to get at least 5 medals. so this one is kinda risky to go for if you get screwed over with bad RNG)
Any 5 min tours (Diving, Bug Catching, Balloons)

WORST GROUP (6+ mins to complete):

Beginner Fishing Tour + any other fishing tours (6 mins)
Fossil Finder's Tour (8:00 for gold)

- Save & Quit

IMPORTANT: If you get a hibiscus go forwards 2 days right after to make it grow in case you get rain later for snail
ALSO IMPORANT: If you find an axe, keep trying to get more, you'll be using all of them later
ALSO ALSO IMPORTANT: When you see flowers in Gardening Shop, just buy them instead of saying no since it's faster and having more flowers is better for some bugs. If you found purple violets already however, ignore the flowers

***August 15th, 2021 10am***

- Sell beetles to Nookling's for about 30k+
- Check Gardening Shop for axe/purple violets (min. 1 axe/1 purple violets needed)
- Find Joan and buy about 40 turnips from her then ungroup them to have 4 seperate stacks of turnips
- Check Island for hibiscus if you didn't find one before, save & continue before heading to the island since it's faster to reset than go back to your town to save & quit
- Save & Quit

***December 15th, 2020 5pm***

- Spoiled turnips, drop them outside house to attract ants/flies
- Check Gardening Shop for axe/purple violets (min. 1 axe/1 purple violets needed)
- Catch the following bugs:

Mole Cricket
Bagworm
Dung Beetle (in snowballs)
Pill Bug
Centipede

- Check Island for hibiscus if you didn't find one before
- Save & Quit

***June 15th, 2020 7pm***

- Check Gardening Shop for axe/purple violets (min. 1 axe/1 purple violets needed)
- Catch the following bugs:

Firefly
Moth

- Check Island for hibiscus if you didn't find one before
- Save & Quit

***June 14th, 2020 12pm***

- Check Gardening Shop for axe/purple violets (min. 1 axe/1 purple violets needed)
- Catch the following bugs:

Common Butterfly
Yellow Butterfly
Tiger Butterfly
Peacock Butterfly (on purple violets; can be gotten later if you don't have them yet)
Honeybee
Ladybug
Violin Beetle (on stumps; axe needed)

- Check Island for hibiscus if you didn't find one before
- Save & Quit

***August 11th, 2019 12pm***

- Check Gardening Shop for axe/purple violets (min. 1 axe/1 purple violets needed)
- With however many axes you got, try to chop down trees in 1 big area to have open space for some bugs
- Catch the following bugs:

Brown Cicada
Robust Cicada
Giant Cicada
Walker Cicada
Cicada Shell
Walking Leaf (near trees)
Jewel Beetle
Agrias Butterfly
Raja B. Butterfly (near bodies of water)
Birdwing Butterfly (near cliffs)
Darner Dragonfly
Banded Dragonfly
Pondskater
Diving Beetle
Any other September bugs you didn't catch before

- Save & Quit

***Same day, 11pm***

- Catch the following bugs:

Emperor Butterfly
Oak Silk Moth
Lantern Fly
Stinkbug
Fruit Beetle
Scarab Beetle
Miyama Stag
Saw Stag
Giant Stag
Rainbow Stag
Horned Dynastid
Spider
Mosquito
Longhorn Beetle
Tarantula
Scorpion
House Centipede (can get later)

- Save & Quit

- If you didn't catch House Centipede go to 6am for that
- If you didn't catch Snail go to early September to get rain (around 12pm is fine)

***Same day, 5pm***

- Catch the following bugs:

Evening Cicada
Walking Stick
Petaltail Dragonfly (near bodies of water)
Flea (on villagers, make SURE when you're hunting for it you already introduced yourself to the villager otherwise it won't spawn on them)
Fly (if not gotten already; on spoiled turnips)
Ant (if not gotten already; on spoiled turnips)

- DROP SOMETHING/HAVE AT LEAST 1 OPEN SPACE!!!

***August 18th, 2018 5pm***

- Talk to Nat for Golden Net (say "no" to hearing rules then first option to show him your collection)