How to Get a Rare Black Long Collar on Animal Jam

Last Updated: March 9, 2021

Spiked collars are popular member items, and they are available to win in Animal Jam adventures, trading, and the flying adventure, The Forgotten Desert. Although they are rare, they can be possible to win in the Forgotten Desert Adventure, as well as a number of other adventures, in rare occasions. If you really want something cool on this game, here are some methods.

Method 1

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Adventures

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Receive membership. Choose any membership you would like and buy it. Members gain access to several new adventures that can get you the black long spiked collar. Spikes are also only for members if you want to get them through adventures, so membership is required.
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Level up your animal. Make sure your animal is just high enough so you can complete larger adventures. Meet Cosmo, and requires level 4 animals to do hard mode.
- Complete the adventures that you have access to first to gain courage for your level. Go on the higher adventures once your animal is leveled up enough.
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Choose the forgotten desert adventure. This is the only member adventure that is known to reward spikes. Host this adventure with four other eagles/owls and work on getting the purple crystal shards.
- To get each of the purple shards in this adventure, have your eagles fly down until you reach a rock formation. Have each eagle sit on each rock tower on the formation until an arrow appears. Follow wherever the arrow points to, and it will lead you to the next formation. Do this again until another arrow appears. Repeat this five times until you get a purple shard. Repeat this same exact process until you get all five crystal shards.
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Open your prize. There are a ton of member prizes that are rewarded on the Forgotten Desert adventure, and one of them are rare spikes, including the black long spiked collar.
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Complete other shards in the Forgotten Desert. It's extremely rare, but spikes can actually be rewarded from green shards, and that's rarer than getting one from a ground chest (which is possible - see the animal jam wiki wikia for proof). Open all ground chests just in case as well - it's very rare, but a black long may actually be rewarded from there too. Yellow, blue, and even white shards also have higher chances of rewarding a black long or other rare spikes.

Method 2

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Seasonal Adventures

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Wait until the March adventure Lucky Clovers is released. This is the only type of seasonal adventure that rewards spikes as well as a number of other rares. This includes the black long spiked collar.
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Get membership. Again, spikes can only be rewarded from the member chest in this adventure.
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Go into the adventure and start.
- Collect all the clovers. You can also dance on some of the mini mountains with a rainbow slide to get an extra one. Use the key to open a simple chest every time you collect 10 clovers. Collect the last ten clovers and receive the epic key. Go to the middle and open the epic chest.
- There are some glitches that may help you complete the adventure way more easily. The last few clovers are very hard to find. This glitch may be patched, but there are others as well. One glitch is when you click the paw print on one clover several times, you can get more than one clover at a time. You can get 6 clovers out of one just by clicking the paw print more. Consider using a flying animal to get around faster.
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Open the member and non member chest and hope for a black long spike.

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Trade

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Learn your rares. Do not search up animal jam guides - anything on the Internet about that is usually outdated and inaccurate anyways. For example, about 62 den betas, 3 good longs, or 6 bad longs and add small is worth a black long. Here is a list of the bad longs and good longs:
- Bad longs
  - Yellow long
  - Orange long
  - Green long
  - Pink long
- Good longs
  - Purple long
  - Blue long
  - Red long
  - Black long (cannot be traded for another black long though)
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Become rare. If you are rare, people will be more likely to make a deal with their black long collar with one of your items.
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Collect as many den betas as possible. More than one den beta are worth rare spikes, and people will probably accept if you make a fair deal for them. Go on adventures and get den betas from them, or trade for den betas themselves. Put them up on trade and say something such as "My list for [color and type of collar], jag or go to my den if deal." You may even get an acception.
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Get a lot of rare items that are worth black long collars. Some examples are multiple neon bows and arrows, other spikes, large numbers of den betas, etc. Trade for those items first, or get them in adventures. Try the Forgotten Desert adventure a few more times. Top hats, den betas, neon bows and arrows (this a rare non member item that is worth a red short collar - you might get lucky and be traded a black short or an orange long), and clothing betas (mech angel helmets, non member rares, etc.) can be rewarded from there, as well as a number of other spikes and rares.
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Put the items up on trade. Go to Jamaa Township and dance to get their attention. Say something such as "Betas and glitched items on trade," or "My list for a black long."
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Go to the most crowded server in the game, Aldan. Go to the Coral canyons and call out for trades there. Frequently, jammers go there to trade betas for spikes, and you might as well do it too. Say things like "My den if you will trade me long black collar for my list," or something similar.
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Ask a trustworthy buddy. Ask if they have an extra black long or if you can trade them something to get one. If your buddy says, if I get another one I'll give it to you, then you're probably sure to get one. Do adventures with your buddies to get a black long collar, and you might just be able to win one, or trade them if you'd like.