Kabuto Park 100% guide

The game runs through August. Each tournament battle moves the calendar forward one day, for 31 battles in total, fought in order. Hunting bugs does not use up time, so you can hunt as much as you like on any day before taking the next battle.

Boss battles fall on #11, #21, and #29, and each awards a badge. The final battle, #31, is against Midori. Losing a battle has no penalty, so retry as often as you need.

Sunny Farm is open from the start. The other three areas open by buying rain boot upgrades in the shop:

• Level 2 boots (20 coins): available after battle #1. Opens Calm Lake.
• Level 3 boots (40 coins): available after the first boss, Ivy, at battle #11. Opens Pine Forest.
• Level 4 boots (60 coins): available after the second boss, Satoshi, at battle #21. Opens Crawler Swamp.

Buy each pair as soon as it becomes available. If you are ever short on coins, the third badge from battle #29 is a late safety checkpoint: every area should be open by then.

Sell duplicate bugs for candy, which levels up your team. Keep at least one of every species until its area achievements and Entomologist have unlocked. It is not confirmed that selling your only copy is safe, and keeping one costs nothing. Spend battle winnings in the shop on:

• Net: bigger catch zones.
• Bugpedia: improves your odds of finding rarer bugs and shinies. It does not raise your bugs' level cap. Higher bug levels unlock through tournament progress.
• Magnifier: more capture spots per trip, and later the ability to search the same spot again.
• Honey: slows the catch slider.
• Boots: open new areas.

Prioritize boots whenever a new pair is available, then Bugpedia and magnifier. Both of those feed directly into shiny hunting.

New bugs are added partway through the month. Six species appear from around day 6 and six more from around day 15, so no area is truly complete until after day 15. The area selection screen shows how many bugs you have found in each area. The total grows as new bugs arrive, so a full count early in the month does not mean the area is done.

Each area Expert achievement counts only the bugs you caught in that area. A bug that lives in two areas can already show as found in the second area after your first catch elsewhere. You still need to catch it in the second area for that area's achievement.

• Shiny Huntress (PATCHED / NO LONGER A CURRENT ISSUE, June 2026): A launch bug was patched in June 2026, and the achievement unlocks normally across sessions for players since. An isolated later report exists. If it does not unlock on your third shiny, update the game and reload your save. Catching all three shinies in one session is an optional extra precaution, not a requirement.
• Area Expert achievements (HISTORICALLY REPORTED BUG, 2025 builds): Early builds sometimes failed to award an area achievement after everything was caught. A patch addressed this. If one still does not pop, go back to that area and play out a full capture trip, using every magnifier search without quitting early. This usually triggers it, but it is not a guaranteed fix.
• Corrupted saves (HISTORICALLY REPORTED BUG, June 2026): Some Xbox and Game Pass PC saves have loaded with no money or locked areas. Let saves finish before quitting and avoid closing the game mid-trip. If a save does load damaged, hunting again will not fix the locked progress. Check whether a backup or cloud save can be restored, or contact the publisher's support, before you reset your save.

Catch everything you can on Sunny Farm, sell duplicates for candy, and level a core team. From the start the Farm has six species: Hoverfly, Rainbow Beetle, Rhino Beetle, Rosemary Beetle, Earth-Borer Beetle, and the rare Golden Hart. The opening opponents are weak, which is the best chance for a very fast win.

After battle #1, buy the level 2 boots for 20 coins as soon as you can afford them. Calm Lake starts with nine bugs: Honeybee, Cerulean Chafer, Ox Beetle, Ruddy Darter, Blue-banded Bee, Greater Stag, Jewel Beetle, Blue Emperor, and the rare Goliath Beetle. Ox Beetle, Ruddy Darter, Blue-banded Bee, and Blue Emperor also live in other areas, so catch them here regardless.

From around day 6, new bugs appear. On Sunny Farm these are the Ladybug, Hummingbird Moth, Crab Stag, Praying Mantis, and the rare Monarch Butterfly. Calm Lake gains the Ladybug, Hummingbird Moth, and the rare Orchid Mantis. Recheck both areas after the day 6 battle, and catch the Ladybug and Hummingbird Moth in each area separately.

Keep levelling a strong team for the first boss. This is also the cheapest time for My Fav, because levelling three copies of one common bug is quick while levels are low.

Start catching in Pine Forest once the level 3 boots are bought. Spread the rest of your money between Bugpedia and magnifier upgrades, which make the late-month shiny hunt much easier.

Pine Forest has Giraffe Weevil, Leaf Beetle, Longicorn, Woolly Chafer, Roly Poly, Blue-banded Bee, Earth-Borer Beetle, Hercules Beetle, Luna Moth, Oak Treehopper, and the rares Giant Stag and Rosy Maple Moth. Earth-Borer Beetle and Blue-banded Bee must be caught here as well as in their other areas.

Another six species appear from around day 15:

• Sunny Farm: Bumblebee, Lesser Stag, Blue Carpenter Bee, and Weevil.
• Calm Lake: Bumblebee, Sunburst Beetle, and Diving Beetle.
• Pine Forest: Lesser Stag.
• Crawler Swamp: Blue Carpenter Bee, to pick up when the Swamp opens.

The Sunburst Beetle and the Diving Beetle are two different Lake bugs, and you need both. Likewise the Farm's Weevil is a different bug from the Giraffe Weevil and the Glitter Weevil. Catch whichever new bugs you can reach now. Anything left over is covered in the day 30 cleanup.

Buy the level 4 boots and head into the Swamp. Every Swamp bug is available at this point, including the day 15 Blue Carpenter Bee. Crawler Swamp has the largest roster, 16 bugs: Hoverfly, Rainbow Beetle, Ruddy Darter, Leaf Beetle, Imperial Tortoise, Ox Beetle, Giraffe Weevil, Longicorn, Japanese Rhino, Blue Emperor, Hercules Beetle, Emperor Moth, Umbrella Rhino, Blue Carpenter Bee, and the rares Atlas Beetle and Spiny Flower Mantis. Only six of these live nowhere else, so expect several to show as found already. Catch every one of them in the Swamp anyway.

From around August 25, shiny bugs become noticeably more common, and searching the same spot again with a max-level magnifier helps a little. Shiny hunting is not pure luck: the game guarantees an early first shiny within your first several dozen encounters, and your odds improve the longer you go without one. Keep buying Bugpedia and magnifier upgrades now if you have not maxed them.

Stop here, before taking battle #31. Every area is open, every mid-month bug has appeared, and the shiny boost is active. Finishing here is an optimization, not a deadline: hunting continues after the credits, but the late-month shiny boost is only confirmed before them. Time does not pass while you hunt, so stay on day 30 as long as you need.

Then work through each area in turn using the Collectibles section. For each Expert achievement, catch every bug on that area's list in that area itself. These 16 species live in two areas and must be caught in both:

• Blue Carpenter Bee (Farm, Swamp)
• Blue Emperor (Lake, Swamp)
• Blue-banded Bee (Lake, Forest)
• Bumblebee (Farm, Lake)
• Earth-Borer Beetle (Farm, Forest)
• Giraffe Weevil (Forest, Swamp)
• Hercules Beetle (Forest, Swamp)
• Hoverfly (Farm, Swamp)
• Hummingbird Moth (Farm, Lake)
• Ladybug (Farm, Lake)
• Leaf Beetle (Forest, Swamp)
• Lesser Stag (Farm, Forest)
• Longicorn (Forest, Swamp)
• Ox Beetle (Lake, Swamp)
• Rainbow Beetle (Farm, Swamp)
• Ruddy Darter (Lake, Swamp)

After the credits you can pick any of the 31 tournament opponents, and all of their teams are now level 20. Use candy from duplicate bugs to bring your team up to 20 as well. Strong picks include the Giant Stag, Atlas Beetle, Spiny Flower Mantis, Golden Hart, and Imperial Tortoise.

If anything is still missing, it can be done now. Shiny hunting and area catching continue indefinitely, and every battle achievement can be retried in replays. If an area Expert achievement is stuck, remember that a shared species showing as found in that area does not prove you caught it there. Go to that area, recatch every shared species on its list below, and then complete a full capture trip there without quitting early.