How do I place baits in a trap?

[Oedipus's Stepdad]

I just placed a cage trap and there's no option for me to put bait in

[Bluetank]

If you have the correct type of bait for a given trap then all you need to do is right click on the trap otherwise it wont give you the option.

[hardy_conrad]

Actually it's more complicated than that, but thankfully not much. The biggest issue I kept running into with bait was it doesn't register unless it's in your main inventory. So if you have some chocolate in your backpack and try putting it in a mousetrap by clicking on the trap, you won't get the option to place bait. Oh yeah you also have to place the trap rather than just dropping it, but sounds like you have that figured out already so you're ahead of me :)

[Warr]

also worth noting that a trap requires 5 units of a food. example - a fresh carrot is worth 9 units so its enough to bait 1 trap but falls short to bait a second trap. a fresh cabbage is worth 25 units of food so 1 cabbage will bait 5 traps. I normally start trapping when my farm harvest comes in so have plenty of fresh veggies for bait. havnt experimented much with what types food are acceptable but always found veggies to work so I only use those
edit* never tried a mouse trap so dont know the amount those require

[stevasaur]

Mouse traps still take 5 hunger.

You can sort of cheese traps in order to use up the inevitable tiny bits of bait left over: if you have the right-click menu open while your character puts bait in another trap, you can still place the "remaining" amount of bait in a second trap even if it wouldn't be enough to bait the trap otherwise.

For example: a grasshopper has 7 hunger, and could normally bait only one Stick Trap. But if you tell your character to bait one stick trap, then bring up the context menu on a second trap before your character has finished baiting the first (with only one grasshopper in your inventory), you can use the remaining 2 hunger grasshopper chunk to bait the second trap.

[Nordil(Hun)]

Originally posted by Oedipus's Stepdad:

I just placed a cage trap and there's no option for me to put bait in

Why don't you check the wiki?
Or a video?
You are asking basic questions all the time.

[hardy_conrad]

Good advice, I rely on the wiki a ton myself.

[Oedipus's Stepdad]

Originally posted by Nordil(Hun):

Originally posted by Oedipus's Stepdad:

I just placed a cage trap and there's no option for me to put bait in

Why don't you check the wiki?
Or a video?
You are asking basic questions all the time.

I would if it's up to date more often; literally more than half the pages haven't been updated to the current build

[Fatpanda15]

Originally posted by hardy_conrad:

Actually it's more complicated than that, but thankfully not much. The biggest issue I kept running into with bait was it doesn't register unless it's in your main inventory. So if you have some chocolate in your backpack and try putting it in a mousetrap by clicking on the trap, you won't get the option to place bait. Oh yeah you also have to place the trap rather than just dropping it, but sounds like you have that figured out already so you're ahead of me :)

Thanks!

[gonavy-beatarmy]

Originally posted by Nordil(Hun):

Originally posted by Oedipus's Stepdad:

I just placed a cage trap and there's no option for me to put bait in

Why don't you check the wiki?
Or a video?
You are asking basic questions all the time.

If only there was a “discussions” forum for new players to ask questions in.