How to prevent the Nightmare of Hare loss

mystery2mi wrote:
I'm never sure if I have found all of the starspawn anyway.

Replace your streets with concrete except for one area and you won't have to hunt them - they'll come to you (hint, hint)

mystery2mi wrote:
I tried something with the Gate to Nowhere yesterday and got every nightmare including the bunnies. What I did was move it to a secluded area with nothing else around before tapping the floating icon. Then after I tapped the icon, I tapped every group of nightmares quickly while they were still tightly grouped together. Got em all that time...

(Moving Gate to empty Heights area...) I'll have to try that tomorrow. I already used up the Gate for today. I'll report back on it, but with my slow reflexes... (or is it my brain that's slow?)

Unfortunately I still seem to be spawning the stars pawns instead of nightmares on occasion with this method (which is the same as it was after clearing the star spawns). I think it is another one of those random things that works differently for different people. I hope yours continues to work!

wadebear wrote:

mystery2mi wrote:
I'm never sure if I have found all of the starspawn anyway.

Replace your streets with concrete except for one area and you won't have to hunt them - they'll come to you (hint,

Sorry, that's not gonna happen. I started to remove them after you suggested it at the beginning of this event. I just couldn't stand how it looked so I put them back... My sincere apologies as I'm sure it makes finding starspawn/nightmares difficult to find for you and my other neighbors.

This is what I usually do to tap starspawn. First, I get the bunch that are hanging around the bonfire. Then, I go to the center of town near the Stonecutter's Daycare (for some reason they like hanging out there) and wait for the other bunch that spawn in the neighborhoods to come to me. Once they have slowed to a trickle and seem to be coming only from the direction of the campfire, I head back towards the campfire. They only seem to come from the campfire after that and are easy to pick off.

mystery2mi wrote:
I tried something with the Gate to Nowhere yesterday and got every nightmare including the bunnies. What I did was move it to a secluded area with nothing else around before tapping the floating icon. Then after I tapped the icon, I tapped every group of nightmares quickly while they were still tightly grouped together. Got em all that time...

Just tried this again today and......didn't get the bunnies. I saw one disappear before my eyes. Maybe I was too slow this time. Reminds me of that commercial with the fisherman dangling a dollar bill above the girl. "You have to be quicker than that..."

madfish86 wrote:
Great tip! It's contrary to the practice of clearing your town to make room for all the new spawns but it does work.

I had a bunch of star spawns corralled in one area. After releasing the kids, all of star spawns in that area were gone and a bunch of zombies, bunnies, and skulls were wandering around the brown house.

Thanks Wadebear!

You're welcome. I'm just trying to spread the joy of tapping.

So, here's a possibly embarrassing question...is anyone else getting zero star spawn in their town?

I have two towns, I have zero star spawn in either. I had some when the new quest line began, but haven't had any since day two of this stage of the update.

Can I be doing something wrong? I send my four kids to fight Mnstr at the campfire, and the rest to hunt nightmares in different brown houses. But no star spawn, and there's no "bar" or whatever on either of my sunken palaces...

Are my games glitching, or am I really missing something obvious? I don't have any tasks waiting relating to the quest line for this part of the event...

NuclearPip wrote:
So, here's a possibly embarrassing question...is anyone else getting zero star spawn in their town?

I have two towns, I have zero star spawn in either. I had some when the new quest line began, but haven't had any since day two of this stage of the update.

Can I be doing something wrong? I send my four kids to fight Mnstr at the campfire, and the rest to hunt nightmares in different brown houses. But no star spawn, and there's no "bar" or whatever on either of my sunken palaces...

Are my games glitching, or am I really missing something obvious? I don't have any tasks waiting relating to the quest line for this part of the event...

Did you Defeat M'nthster? When M'nthster is at the Campfire there is a row of 10 tentacles in the menu. You have to send Bart, Lisa, Martin, and Milhouse to fight M'nthster until all 10 tentacles are all gone. You have 16 hours to defeat him or the tentacles will regenerate and you have to start over again.

Once you have defeated M'nthster he will disappear into the Sunken Temple and you start getting Starspawn at the same spawn rate you were getting Nightmares.

If it isn't working right for you I would suggest you do the following:

Close app
Force close app
Un-install
Restart your device
Re-install

wadebear wrote:

mystery2mi wrote:
I tried something with the Gate to Nowhere yesterday and got every nightmare including the bunnies. What I did was move it to a secluded area with nothing else around before tapping the floating icon. Then after I tapped the icon, I tapped every group of nightmares quickly while they were still tightly grouped together. Got em all that time...

(Moving Gate to empty Heights area...) I'll have to try that tomorrow. I already used up the Gate for today. I'll report back on it, but with my slow reflexes... (or is it my brain that's slow?)

Ok, I think this worked. I'm not positive because (stupid me) I forgot to check how many of each I had before I tapped the Gate.

I tapped the Gate and as soon as I saw the Bunnies start to fade in I tapped them. I got an explosion and a payout, then I got the other 3 sets of Nightmares.

I did this with my town overrun with Starspawn of course... That was a booger. I had to keep going back and doing more Friend Actions until I got the overrun message in my own town, not just in the neighbor towns.

wadebear wrote:

wadebear wrote:

mystery2mi wrote:
I tried something with the Gate to Nowhere yesterday and got every nightmare including the bunnies. What I did was move it to a secluded area with nothing else around before tapping the floating icon. Then after I tapped the icon, I tapped every group of nightmares quickly while they were still tightly grouped together. Got em all that time...

(Moving Gate to empty Heights area...) I'll have to try that tomorrow. I already used up the Gate for today. I'll report back on it, but with my slow reflexes... (or is it my brain that's slow?)

Ok, I think this worked. I'm not positive because (stupid me) I forgot to check how many of each I had before I tapped the Gate.

I tapped the Gate and as soon as I saw the Bunnies start to fade in I tapped them. I got an explosion and a payout, then I got the other 3 sets of Nightmares.

I did this with my town overrun with Starspawn of course... That was a booger. I had to keep going back and doing more Friend Actions until I got the overrun message in my own town, not just in the neighbor towns.

This only worked for me the first time I tried it. The second time, I thought maybe I tapped too slow. The third time, I never even saw a bunny, although I tapped out the skeletons, zombies and snakes very quickly. I hope it works for you. I'll keep trying it, nothing to lose except my sanity...

I read on the TSTO Addicts site that there is supposed to be a patch coming out to fix the Gate payouts, but this event is over in a little over a week so good luck with that! This has been one confusing event to say the least...

here's whats also working for me.

If you dont want to remove your streets - just stay in the same place. After a couple of mins the nightmares / star spawns come to you.

Build 4 brown houses and space them out - one for each type of nightmare

Figure out your spawn spots - meaning, just because you tap one brown house, doesnt mean thats where the nightmares will come out. For example, I have 4 brown house, the gate and several other items - pet cemetery, spooky car, hollow logs - but only one of my houses is a spawn point. So I tap a house, then scroll over to the house where they spawn from.