How to Find Witch Islands with Fireflies: 1. The first set of fireflies you encounter the Narrator will let you know. After that you have to see them yourself. 2. Craft the Winch and Throwing Ring's from Phase 7's research. You only have to research the Winch to craft it. The rings, you have to craft at the workbench. 3. Craft a few of them, each craft produces 5 rings and stacks up to 20. 4. Find the Fireflies and follow them as far from your train as you can. 5. Toss one of the rings (Q to equip them) at one of the floating rocks. 6. Press the Middle Mouse button when targeting the ring you threw to latch on to it. 7. Repeat 4-6 until you see the Witch Houses on the giant rocks. Note: Sometimes you will see spikey orange/yellow balls that you can grapple on to to save your rings so be on the lookout.
I have been looking for these dam things since the narrator first mentioned them and still haven’t seen them. I even got on the wiki to look up a picture of what they’re supposed to look like just to be sure, because I wasted 10 hooks trying to get to an empty island that wasn’t even really there So far the closest thing I’ve seen to the fireflies is the little yellow orbs that float around coal and ice chunks. I know that each game is supposed to be different so I guess I’m just getting a really bad spawn rate. Either that or I’m not in the right biome
Honestly, you may have a bug on your hands if you've done that much research, know what to look for and haven't encountered then again. I run into them at least once per trip to the depot. So my recommendation is to create a new save file location and rush the game to see if it works. I know that's a lot of work, but it's the only thing I can think of. You should pop into the discord and see if the Devs will respond in the Support channel. They were pretty active a while ago before I got tired of the game.
How to Find Witch Islands with Fireflies:
1. The first set of fireflies you encounter the Narrator will let you know. After that you have to see them yourself.
2. Craft the Winch and Throwing Ring's from Phase 7's research. You only have to research the Winch to craft it. The rings, you have to craft at the workbench.
3. Craft a few of them, each craft produces 5 rings and stacks up to 20.
4. Find the Fireflies and follow them as far from your train as you can.
5. Toss one of the rings (Q to equip them) at one of the floating rocks.
6. Press the Middle Mouse button when targeting the ring you threw to latch on to it.
7. Repeat 4-6 until you see the Witch Houses on the giant rocks. Note: Sometimes you will see spikey orange/yellow balls that you can grapple on to to save your rings so be on the lookout.
I have been looking for these dam things since the narrator first mentioned them and still haven’t seen them. I even got on the wiki to look up a picture of what they’re supposed to look like just to be sure, because I wasted 10 hooks trying to get to an empty island that wasn’t even really there
So far the closest thing I’ve seen to the fireflies is the little yellow orbs that float around coal and ice chunks. I know that each game is supposed to be different so I guess I’m just getting a really bad spawn rate. Either that or I’m not in the right biome
Honestly, you may have a bug on your hands if you've done that much research, know what to look for and haven't encountered then again.
I run into them at least once per trip to the depot. So my recommendation is to create a new save file location and rush the game to see if it works. I know that's a lot of work, but it's the only thing I can think of. You should pop into the discord and see if the Devs will respond in the Support channel. They were pretty active a while ago before I got tired of the game.