What to do with maggots?

[Peni4]

Everything is in the title. What should I do with these things? I suspect I could use them for fishing, but I haven't gotten to a body of water yet to test. But even so, there are just too many of them! Every time after respawning zombies, and after clearing them out, I have to go around my base in a circle, collecting these things, then throwing them in the trash can.
So... any advice? Is there some kind of magic mod that reduces the spawn of this garbage or somehow uses them to good use?

[VANGUARD]

It actually shouldn't be necessary to remove them by hand.
When creating a new world via sandbox the option World -> World Item Removal List should have the items Base.Maggots and Base.Maggots2 included.
So when the configured time went by they should be removed automatically.

Try downloading a mod that lets you edit the sandbox settings for your current save and have a look at this.

[Peni4]

Thank you! You are my savior!

[[²³²Th] Genesis]

Currently you can only use them as fishing baits.
I was also unhappy that maggots were mostly useless, so I made a mod where you can use them as trapping bait:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2852333263

[Greb]

Haven't played since maggots were added but I'd slip them into random food I cooked for my friends. They're probably also useful for fishing bait, maybe trapping stuff like birds, and they'll most likely be a nice treat for your pet chickens and rats(?) in the future when those are added.

Stockpile 'em in a maggot crate for a rainy day, and then fill your inventory with 50kg of maggots, including a full military backpack, and two suitcases full of maggots, call yourself the maggot man and then die somewhere so your pet maggots can finally make a meal out of you and ascend into fly-godhood. A piece of you in each fly that goes off and makes millions more flies themselves. Now that's real immortality, right there.

Something like that anyway.

[hardy_conrad]

As good a suggestion for their use as any.