Critterpedia Achievements

Complete Critterpedia achievements in animal crossing new horizons. Earn Nook Miles for catching fish, bugs, and sea creatures.

This page offers information on all of the Nook Miles achievements relating to the critterpedia in animal crossing new horizons.

Angling for Perfection

These achievements rely on you doing lots of fishing! It doesn’t matter what fish you catch, as these achievements are based on the number of fish you catch. Fish will spawn regularly in ponds, rivers and the sea. If you don’t want to rely on the fish naturally spawning, you can use fish bait made from manilla clams found buried in the beaches. When you’ve crafted the fish bait you can then choose to throw it into a body of water and it will spawn a random fish.

Island Ichthyologist

These achievements are reliant on the player finding new fish species. The best way to find new fish is to make sure you know the type of fish that are present during that month. For rarer fish, you should be aware of their specific spawn locations (i.e. the pier or estuary) and the time of day that they would spawn. A useful tip for fishing for rarer fish would be to use lots of fish bait to try to force that specific species to spawn.

You can catch lots of different fish species in animal crossing new horizons.

You’ve Got the Bug

These achievements require that you catch lots of bugs. Bugs will spawn on trees, near flowers, on the ground, on tree stumps, on the water’s surface, and inside trees. You cannot attract bugs like you can fish, but growing lots of flowers does help to spawn butterflies and certain bugs.

Bugs Don’t Bug Me

These achievements are reliant on the player finding new insect species. The best way to find new bugs is to make sure you know the type of insect that are present during that month. For rarer bugs, you should be aware of their specific spawn locations and the time of day that they would spawn.

New bugs are found every month.

Deep Dive

During the Summer 2020 Update, deep-sea diving was introduced, which allowed players to go swimming in the sea and catch deep sea creatures. For more information on how to dive for sea creatures, head over to the Deep-Sea Diving page.

Underwater Understudy

These achievements asks that you find lots of different unique sea creatures. Like the fish and insects, different sea creatures will spawn during different times of the day and different times of the year. Harder to catch sea creatures will spawn less, but they will also move very fast under the water when you try to dive for them. Luckily, they don’t despawn when you fail to catch them, so you can swim and chase them around until you finally catch them. You can’t swim underwater for long, so you want to swim above water and then dive at the last moment to catch the speedy ones.

Some sea creatures move fast, whilst others won’t move much at all when you dive for them.

Flea Flicker

Fleas can be found on the bodies of villagers. If you hear a strange noise and see a small black bug jumping off the villager’s body, then you can whip out your net and use it to relieve the villager of their flea-issue.

Cicada Memories

Cicada Shells are a rare specimen found on the trunks of trees during July and August (Northern Hemisphere). They can be caught using a net and they won’t fly away if you run too close to them.