Strategy for hunting nightmares

izabellatrix wrote:
Is there still the bank of 40 though? Because it seems like I'm finding random nightmares around town after collecting them at the Brown House initially.

I would like to know if there is still a bank as well.

I have placed my 4 brown houses for the kids to collect nightmares on the far right of my SF. For some reason, the nightmares don't spawn there. I usually find them wandering around the neighborhoods on the far left side of my SF. Why don't the nightmares appear where the kids and brown houses are? Instead, I have to chase them all over town. I have no idea if I'm getting the correct count because they are all over the place.

all my kids were in the same house but this time I got rid of all my star spawns before tapping the house and the correct number of nightmares appeared. First time I have got the right number so either they have fixed the glitch or getting rid of star spawns helped.

Really? We have to fill our town with additional ugly brown houses just to get the proper nightmares. Ugh. I like to only keep 1 of each house as it fulfills the requirement. Great now I have to build 3 new brown houses. If they want us to have duplicate buildings, then we should get sufficient land for them.

mystery2mi wrote:

izabellatrix wrote:
Is there still the bank of 40 though? Because it seems like I'm finding random nightmares around town after collecting them at the Brown House initially.

I would like to know if there is still a bank as well.

I have placed my 4 brown houses for the kids to collect nightmares on the far right of my SF. For some reason, the nightmares don't spawn there. I usually find them wandering around the neighborhoods on the far left side of my SF. Why don't the nightmares appear where the kids and brown houses are? Instead, I have to chase them all over town. I have no idea if I'm getting the correct count because they are all over the place.

I found this out when I used the shopkeepers challenge button to complete today's challenge. It took me to a brown house where there were no kids. I turned the Christmas lights on that house and then went to find the houses that the kids were in (I put all Lisa, Bart, Milhouse, and Martin in one house, the snake generating kids in another, the bunny generating kids in still another and so on.) and tapped one of those houses. Sure enough, the nightmares came out of the brown house with the Christmas lights. For clarification, I can only tap one building at a time since I have my IRS building in storage.
I wonder if the nightmares come from your original brown house just like what happened with the gummies and the adults if you had more than one kwiky mart or Krusty burger.

LPNintendoITA wrote:
you can only have 20 nightmares out at a time, so either send only as to get 20, or use multiple brown houses to send kids at. Remember to either space them out as to not hit them all with the IRS, or store the IRS all together.

thanks to TSTOAddicts for this strategy

In addition to the above (great tip!!)......


I've decided to not squish any skeletons at all over the weekend. As a mostly freemium player, I only have 2 out of my 15 kids producing them, and at 2 x2, that's only 4 skele's for 4 hours.

This way I'll at least start off on Monday having the full bank of 20 skeletons wandering about, and give me a solid head start on that days "Squish 30 Skeletons" Shopkeeper's Challenge.

It's not like I need bunches of the other nightmares for crafting over the weekend...... and even if you do, you still can get craftables from squishing the "Ood" (lil m'nthsters) over the weekend.

LPNintendoITA wrote:

drumnman wrote:
What horrible, horrible design. If this is their way of stopping wall farming, they've done a crappy job.

uh? this is how the event was setup from the beginning. they didn't change anything since the beginning for this (except the 8h->4h)

Not exactly. There's always been a bank. I don't recall losing nightmares en masse.

I don't really understand this...you mean buy each Browns house and put one kid in each Brown houses? I did store the IRS and bought more Brown houses. None of the nightmares are spawning at all like it used to at the campfire randomly every hour for bunnies, zombies, snakes, skeletons except the little little spawns after i defeat M'nthster. They spawn when the tower is sunken in the ocean. Appreciate any help, thanks :) I want more bunnies to get more hedges lol

So I just found this out the hard way.

Easiest way to get all your nightmares is to put all the brown houses near each other and store the irs building.

I found out that when you collect after the kids are done hunting nightmares it doesn't mean the nightmares are going to spawn right there. I had nightmares spawning near brown houses on the other side of the map so I just put a bunch of brown houses in one section and stored the rest.

lowjeff783 wrote:
So I just found this out the hard way.

Easiest way to get all your nightmares is to put all the brown houses near each other and store the irs building.

I found out that when you collect after the kids are done hunting nightmares it doesn't mean the nightmares are going to spawn right there. I had nightmares spawning near brown houses on the other side of the map so I just put a bunch of brown houses in one section and stored the rest.

Its not working for me :( sorry, i sent you pm by mistake lol

I don't think it spawns like that anymore. I think you just collect from the kids now