Welcome back everyone! Crazy as it sounds, Lumber Tycoon 2 is about to have it's sixth Halloween season.
To celebrate, we'll be kicking off the fifth official hunting thread (I promised I wouldn't give upon these!), and a brand new spooky theme.
But more importantly, it seems as if the fall season is the one time the wiki and the community in general revitalizes in preparation for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, and this is extremely important for a game as old and stagnant as LT2. To all reading this—new members, non-members, and veterans, I wish a good rest of 2020 for you. It has been a chaotic, disappointing, and annoying year for many and I hope this event can take your mind off of that for a while.
So with that out of the way, prepare your hunting bases, because things are about to get spooky.
2019 Gallery
2019 Data
First off, I would like send a huge thanks to Skyblaze for tracking the numbers of Spooks and Sinisters found every day for most of October last year and for organizing all of that data.
Here is the distribution of different spook spawns from 2018. The taiga, tropics, and various cliffs are the most common locations of spook.
Hunting
(Many of you have heard these tips a million times but its important to reiterate every year how much these make a difference)
I see people get left in the dark every year on how to hunt efficiently. It is important to have good hunting strategies and to give yourself the tools you need to find plenty of Spooks or maybe even your first Sinister:
- Use public servers. When you play on private servers, Spook will never generate during server initialization, and you will have to wait upwards of several hours just to get a tiny sapling to spawn. After you cut it down, you'll have to wait for a few more hours; you will barely find anything this way. Public servers, on the otherhand, are going to have plenty of fully grown spooks just waiting for you.
- Hop between servers. Going off of the last tip, serverhopping between various public servers will get you more spooks than sitting in the same server for hours. When serverhopping, quickly scan each biome if you can (I generally avoid the Tropics though). If it is nighttime you likely won't be able to see, so closely scan the tops of cliffs for fuzzy shapes.
- Don't cut saplings! Watching a sapling grow is pretty cool—you get to see the shape they grow into and the longer you wait the more wood you get from the tree. If you stumble across a spook sapling and you can't wait around for it to grow, it is considered common courtesy to leave it be so that someone else with more time on their hands can come along and wait for it to grow.
- Halloween. On Halloween, Spooks will absolutely explode and will start growing in every single server. This is your best opportunity to abandon hard-to-reach spooks and go after those elusive Sinister trees.
- Prepare! Many people have different ideas on how to prepare for spook hunting. I prefer to have a spook storage base and a hunting base. For the hunting base specifically, I have a tall tower to check biomes like the swamp, plenty of bins to chuck spook into, lots of dynamite for the taiga and other locations, and a chopsaw with an 02L.
- Most importantly... Share your images with us on this thread! There is no thread if there's nobody posting images, and we want to see them. If you can, also list the location, date found, and the number you found for this year for each spook.
2019 FAQ
- Where do we post images? You can add them to the comments of this thread, or in the #spooky-reports channel of our discord server instead if you wish.
- Will there be any challenges this year? No, I'm going to discontinue those. I don't want this event to be excessively competitive like before.
- Are hunting teams still banned? No. But please be respectful to other users participating in the event.
- You said you would stop doing these! I did, but everyone changes their mind sometimes.
Conclusion
It's five years in, but amazingly these threads are still going strong. I am really hoping we surpass 2,600+ comments like last year and create a more friendly environment for everyone involved. Im positive we can do that!
~Trainsparency (talk) 00:57, August 31, 2020 (EST)
While the current consensus is that spooks no longer grow in September, I plan to continue posting these threads around August 31 each year for a month of preparation. You can expect the thread to be closed sometime after December.