Complete Guide to Deep Sea Diving for Animal Crossing New Horizon
The latest update is here for summer, and here are our tips and tricks to get everything you need
- Get your Wetsuit from Nook
- Go to a shore and press A while wearing the Wetsuit
- Congrats you can swim. Now you can learn more advanced guide to swimming (how to catch every creature with ease and identify them quickly to save time) with our video below. This video was created with the assistance of over 10+ users building the brand new Critterpedia together. [every single stat and visual of the creature so its easier for you to recognize]
If you don’t have time for the video:
i. Mike Technique (Mike discovered this method while we were live streaming): Hold A + move joystick to follow any creature without scarring them. Once ontop of creature press Y and dive on them and direct your character towards the direction the creature may be heading, if correct you catch them immediately, if not just drift towards them again and take your time.
Pressing A is equivalent to running, but if the fish is too far away, there’s no harm because no stamina, but they will run faster from you.
ii. Always Dive at 9pm. Every single creature is available at 9pm.
iii. To maximize your Time Travelling, July, November, and April are the 3 months you need to travel to collect all deep sea creatures
iv. If your focus is only on rare creatures, all rare creatures are fast like Gigas Giant Clam, Isopods, and Spider Crab to name a few. You can tell if they are rare if the bubbles are formed as a criss cross vs a straight line from the bottom up (straight up is plant), and when the player is above, a fog of dust is quickly moved away. The faster they are the better chance its a rare creature you are looking for. Rule of thumb, if it takes more than 3 speed boosts (Pressing A while diving), theres a good chance its a rare, which you will have to use the Mike Technique.
Other then that here are every single creature information possible.
NOTE: Creatures with no times is because we got the screen shot in July, but as said at (ii), 9pm, dive there to get everything you want. If your casual here are the rare fishes spawn times:
Sea Bears: 4pm — 9am
Firefly Squid: 9pm — 4am
Vampire Squid: 4pm — 9am
Spiny Lobster: 9pm — 4am
Horseshoe Crab: 9pm- 4am [… its not even rare]
The rest… either very common to get around 5pm or are all day
