Gamefreak created a broken location for shiny hunting pokemon...

[jetbluefinjames]

I find it funny how it is said in game, iron treads is cruel by nature. Then you have a bunch of them follow you and they give a happy noise and expression.

[theyammi]

“Without any herba mystica”

Proceeds to use herba mystica for the sandwich

[Hallow]

you can also find essentially all the paradox Pokémon in this area as well

[ZeDudeJoJo]

if you do 1 pickle and 1 cucumber and 3 ingredients of the type you want, you can mix and match all Herba Mystias for encounter power and sparkling power except for 2 bitters, 1 sweet and 1 bitter, and 2 sweets, which will give you catching power instead of encounter power for curtain types. Also, you get way more spawns for paradox mons just by running around the underground part of Area Zero after eating a sandwich of a type you want, including Iron Valiant and Roaring Moon.

[OutlawJoZWales]

Salty herba has never really been a rarity for me. My stock of salty has always been larger than than the rest. B4 all the recipes came out i had like 12 salty and 3 or 4 of the rest

[niuinkp]

I did this and got a marked shiny! Great Tusk the Feisty.

[Neevkl_]

If you do tomato onion green pepper hamburger followed by two of the same ingredient depending on the type for example tomato for fairy, you can make a sparkling and encounter 3 for all the types using any combination of any two herba mystica

[theauranoob]

Funny thing is, I just watched this video, and I found a Shiny Magnemite AND a Shiny Iron Treads in one sandwich! Welp, it really helps finding the other Paradox Mons.

[fatefinger]

Tried this three times and didn’t get a single one. At least you can reset when this happens. I’ve gotten every paradox Pokémon in Violet except iron treads. I seem to have bad luck with that one. Going to try again later when I’m not so frustrated. Luckily I now have 32 Herba Mystica.

[Xaaaach]

"You don't need ANY SHINY SANDWICHES OR HERBA MYSTICA TO FIND THIS SHINY MON IN 10 MINUTES!!"

Step 1: Make a shiny sandwich

[MaterialAmbience]

I caught a shiny Garganacl in this cave, looks like an ancient stepped pyramid. Also, no shiny enhancers used.

[FlareKnight]

been using it for Dudunsparce hunting and have gotten over 50 shinies at this rock already, great location! (Definitely not guaranteed for each sandwich tho, I've gone a few times not getting a single shiny in 1 or even 2 sandwiches)

[SHINYDEN]

turn off auto save and do a manual save before you make a sandwich so if your unlucky you can reset and make another sandwich without consuming more ingredients

[Maggotfan]

Says "no herba mystica" then proceeds to say "make this sandwich that you need to add herba mystica"

[PossiblyTheRealSirSqualo]

I’m pretty sure you can do it with the other paradox shinies to

[QuicksilverTheElegant]

I was just trying this method and a shiny great tusk spawned on the very edge of the despawn border so it disappeared within half a second-

(I did get it just at the 10 minute mark of my boost so not clickbait ig, but do note, as you despawn the great tusks/iron treads, more will spawn in place of those unoccupied spawn points, so you might have an instance like me if you run away too fast)

[LnelyRse]

Im not sure if most of the recipes dont work, but the fairy recipe on the list shown early on, doesnt give encounter rate, gives teensy rate unless i messed something up, but also gave shiny and title encounter rate up for flying

[LinkedxMemories]

people might/probably already know this, but making yourself a tasty dark sparkling sandwich gives you iron jugulis for days, just like iron threads c:
same location as well

[ConsumerOfDirtYumYumYum]

Bro I found 2 shiny great tusks but they both despawned before I found save near them 😭

[XxXAirsoftboyXxX]

i legit got 3 shiny flutter mane within 15 minutes with this method