Mouse trap

[Vancle_B]

Hey guys, I need help. I want to catch animals with traps so i dont use to many non perishables to fast. I have traps and food, but I dont know how to use them. Can anyone write down a mini walkthrough for me?

[Vancle_B]

also how do you rotate furniture?

[.: DBM :.]

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Trapping

most of the world map--generally excluding newly added areas as they need to be properly flagged afterward--is divided into various trapping zones. These are FarmLand, TrailerPark, TownZone, Vegetation, Forest, Deep Forest.

There are a wide variety of traps and critters in the game; certain traps catch certain critters, certain critters only spawn in certain areas/within a certain time frame, and only eat certain bait. Some of the combinations are obvious--some are not--so I recommend checking the wiki and committing some of the more conventient ones to memory.

Using the trap is as simple as setting it on the ground by right-clicking (with the trap in your inventory), adding a piece of non-spoiled food to it, and standing at least 75 tiles away /waiting for it to make a hit. Once it's read to be used, it's good to check hack every 30 mins/1 hour or so because they have a durability system and can break if an animal is caged for too long.

Cage traps are generally the best, since they catch squirrels and rabbits at a Hella fast speed, but take 5 wire each to make as well as Trapping 3 + it's respectable magazine so it might take a while to get to that point....unless you're a diehard Park Ranger like me. Stick traps, on the other hand, arent costly at all to make (only 1 twine + 4 sturdy sticks), can be used from Trapping 1 onward, and are generally a good choice early on in the game.

Zombies can smash your traps up, rendering all your efforts useless, so careful placement and prep-work is key. For this reason I find myself not using trap boxes/crates/snares as much since the new, erratic zombie respawn system makes trying to keep them up a real pain in the butt (until you've cordoned off a large area of land from zombie traffic--log walls with plugged-up corners works).

Once you get familiarized with the system, it's quite easy. It's less of a hassle if you utilize it in tandem with farming and cooking but you can get by with one, or neither.

[Vancle_B]

@-𝔅elligerent 𝔅rad life savor bro. Hate to haggle you out of more time but do you know wich baits attract/catch what?

[lintholds]

https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Trapping

[Hatesu]

Stick traps are better in my opinion. You can catch more birds then you know what you do with if you have about 9 traps. They also don't break like every other trap and are easier to obtain then mouse traps. Also, worms are easily renewable since you can readily get them from digging or foraging.

[Lesser Evil]

It's impossible to starve in this game. Just dig up some worms, they're available any time of the year

[Vancle_B]

@Candy Squirrel they dont really feed you, you gotta go in a forest, and you get lots of debufs. only good if you have tons of books lieying around and if you can forage that much

[Challak]

How do you know if you've put the trap in a valid place?

I have a mouse trap. I can place it, and add bait (cheese).
I have tried placing it just outside my short-term "base" (a house in a residential area) about 10-15 ft away.
I have tried about 100 ft away (say, just past the max view distance when I scroll it all the way out).
I have tried it more than 500 ft away 3 houses, 2 roads, away), about 5x the max distance.

Whenever I went to visit it (roughly every 3 hours) in all 3 of those locations, my only options were to remove bait or remove trap. Never any indication anything was caught.

What does catching even look like?
Do I have to place it in an area that has "Forage" as an option when I click the ground?

Any and all help is appreciated.

I am playing in the latest version (the "normal version", no beta opt-in or anything).

[Ficelle]

It is a mouse trap....
Put it inside your house
Use tomato as bait

As a general rule for traps....if a trap is left untouched after a few days, the place is not valid for this trap

[Challak]

Ficelle の投稿を引用：

It is a mouse trap....
Put it inside your house
Use tomato as bait

As a general rule for traps....if a trap is left untouched after a few days, the place is not valid for this trap

It cannot be placed inside (at least, the option to place never pops up anywhere inside the 3 houses I've attempted - seems to match up with what others have said online as well).

I seem to be very good at finding places that are invalid (despite following the info for the trap found on the wiki, including bait and placement) so if you have a specific placement format or position you've found to work, please share.

If you have a screenshot, all the better.

[Ficelle]

Others are telling you BS
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2590778896

[Ficelle]

Now, perhaps you are doing it wrong
Have the trap in inventory, right click the floor

Here a new pic with another new character
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2590782162

[Mitzuriki]

I'll try my best to brief it here

Mouse trap - High chance to catch mouse on farms and trailer parks.
Use cheese and butter for non perish. Tomatoes for non perish

Box trap - High chance to catch rabbit on forest and deep forest
Use lettuce or potatoes. Carrots are preferably

Stick traps - Catches birds only. can be captured on town/fields
Use worms. The rest are too expensive to spend just to catch birds