Worst. Update. Ever.
You will easily be able to do it, I've bought the tree trunk thingy aswell and I already have 1,700 snakes without visiting friends.
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As long as you keep track of how many snakes you had before entering a town and whack any that go missing plus your 5 or 10 you will be fine. It's a pain but it works I visit all my friends and am up over 5k snakes by following that method.
