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Fireflies - any suggestion on how to catch them?

I'm trying to catch fireflies but everytime I open my firefly jar other fireflies i got inside fly away and I can't fill it with maximum possible fireflies (7/7). Also I was wondering is there something that could help me not to lose so much energy while catching them, except for eating food?
Thanks in advance!

Posted 14 months ago by Foot Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I always just look for swarms of 7+ because yes, they always seem to escape. I do find it helps to jump up close to the swarm and, while you're in the air, open the jar -- that way you can get 7 fireflies in the jar before the whistle stops.
    Posted 14 months ago by Cait Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thank you Cait! That helps. :)
    Posted 14 months ago by Foot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Any time you open your jar, any flies inside will leave.  It seems I have the best luck with larger swarms of fireflies.  (so, what Cait said!)
    Posted 14 months ago by noqualia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • 1) Find a good cluster of fireflies - as Cait says, look for at least 7 flies, if not more, in a nice cluster.  Do your best to open your jar right in the middle of them, you can do this by jumping and clicking on the jar mid-jump.  There's often more than one spot on a street where they like to congregate.  Find a route you like and learn them.  Jump up! They like to fly around hanging vines and around tree trunks and branches and walkways, but not often right down near the ground.  You'll get good at climbing and jumping, but the good thing is there are lots of quoins.

    2) Particularly in Chakra Phool, if you can see one or two flying near the top of the street and there are vines and things hanging down from above, jump up and release your jar at the very top of the screen.  They like to lurk just out of sight and there will often be 7+ up there before the song is complete.

    3) Partly filled jars are not helpful except if you want to take some time and you can set things up right.  The reason is that fireflies that escape aren't attracted to your jar again for some unspecified cooldown period. Similarly, you can't try to capture the same swarm more than a couple of times in a row before you're totally wasting your energy.  You're better off finding a dense swarm of 10 flies and opening  a partly filled jar inside of it - you will lose the ones inside but fill it with fresh ones.  Then kill some time (run around a bit, find some barnacles to scrape, crystamallize) and then go back to that swarm and try again with a second jar (or the same one if you've emptied it).  Sometimes I manage to capture 2 or 3 jars from a good swarm if I keep releasing the part-filled jars into it.  But you are way better off trying not to get partly-filled jars in the first place. :)

    4) In some places, the fireflies are strung out and not gathered together.  Here you might have to sacrifice some energy to draw them toward your jar before they're gathered enough to get 7 at once.  But beware that someone might come along while you're waiting for your cooldown and capture them instead while you're waiting.

    5) The song will be terminated after opening if you fall too far from the jar.  You can use this strategically to empty jars if you want in order to merge the contents of two jars together into one loose swarm, which can be recaptured in one jar if you are patient and lucky. You do have to be near a firefly to begin with though or the jar won't open.

    Mostly, I don't bother with techniques 3 to 5 - if fireflies are that hard to catch at that time, and there aren't any to find using the techniques of 1 and 2, then I come back later when it's not so busy.  Mostly I manage to get 7 flies on the first try 70-80% of the time.
    Posted 14 months ago by Scarlett Bearsdale Subscriber! | Permalink