Traps, why won't they work for me?

[Grimm Spector]

I'm in an area where goshawks are common, floating about several times per day. I've put down snares and light lever traps about, in a kind of L shape, near the water where I often see them and baited half of them with bits of fish. I have never had a single goshawk get caught in a couple of in game weeks of play. If I wasn't fishing, I'd be long dead. Why are the traps not working for me??

[Fransjakob78]

Try to reset the traps by kicking at it with 0 then then reset the triggered trap under the meny, its quick and you level up your trap-skill that way by repeating this. I do this every second day to maintain my trap-line.

I have the feeling, but Im not exactly sure, that if I dont reset my traps the effect of the trap will diminish...? Do other have an opinion about this?

Also if your skill is low, you make bad traps, either the game will roll so an animal wont show up near the trap or the animal will simply not walk into the trap because it looks clumsy and are not hitted or or the trap wont trigger when the animal walk on it - dont know the underlying mechanic.

What I know is that I wouldnt survive on birds from traps alone, I need to build a trap-fence with trap-pits for larger game. But I guess this is a matter of how many snares and light lever traps you set up.

[Grimm Spector]

Originally posted by Jakub78:

Try to reset the traps by kicking at it with 0 then then reset the triggered trap under the meny, its quick and you level up your trap-skill that way by repeating this. I do this every second day to maintain my trap-line.

I have the feeling, but Im not exactly sure, that if I dont reset my traps the effect of the trap will diminish...? Do other have an opinion about this?

Also if your skill is low, you make bad traps, either the game will roll so an animal wont show up near the trap or the animal will simply not walk into the trap because it looks clumsy and are not hitted or or the trap wont trigger when the animal walk on it - dont know the underlying mechanic.

What I know is that I wouldnt survive on birds from traps alone, I need to build a trap-fence with trap-pits for larger game. But I guess this is a matter of how many snares and light lever traps you set up.

I see, I'm assuming in the thirties is low. Guess I have a lot of work cut out for me.

[YourLittlePogchamp]

If you're trying to catch grouse around a lake, the traps don't need to be in any specific order to be super efficient. For me I just place them almost randomly in the tree line where I can spot them easily again for when I come back. Maybe one every 5 steps in a short staggered row if I'm desperate to catch something.

The main thing is that lever traps should be about twice your viewing distance away from where ever you're choosing to hang out for the time being. Birds won't land anywhere near your character. I have mine also at least 10+ steps away from the actual shoreline as birds never actually land near the water unless it's frozen over.

For example if I'm hanging out on the western shore in an area with a lot of bird sightings, and I place traps around the southern and northern sides of the lake, it's very likely that in a few hours I will here a "thump" from the northeast or southeast where the traps are.


Maybe it's possible that high relationship with the spirits, and very high trapping skill can cause an animal to spawn to walk into your traps. But that's hard to say for sure. Just keep trying to trap on tiles where you've seen animals actually walk on.

[Major Isoor]

I tend to put snares in bushes around a screen away from my home (so that they're not TOO close) and catch a lot of birds, even with super low trap skills.
Where are you placing yours - just on grass, or?

[Grimm Spector]

Originally posted by Major Isoor:

I tend to put snares in bushes around a screen away from my home (so that they're not TOO close) and catch a lot of birds, even with super low trap skills.
Where are you placing yours - just on grass, or?

Grass, bushes, shorelines. More on grass than anything since there's much more grass than anything, and the bushes nearest are mostly more into coniferous forest where I haven't seen a lot of birds.

[quiescentCeez]

I catch a lot mallards placing loop snares on the shore line.. close to water vegetation(forget the name). Summer time they keep me busy to the point i get annoyed and take down the traps.. lol

I have only caught a goshawk if I know it's in the area. I sometimes scare them off before they finish eating their kills and its a perfect time/bait to place a trap.
But if I know they are around.. i usually trap them. They tend to hunt around in the same area for a long while.

i have never randomly caught one by placing random traps in the wild.. from my experience.

[g0815krieger]

I place my birdtraps on things you can gather or harvest - Berry, Grass, Grains, Vegetables

Don´t need to use baits, the plants is the bait.

I am always good with the spirits, do a lot general sacrify rituals (daily) even if I don´t have a catch in the traps. On top of that everytime there is an animal in the trap I do a sacrify for every trap, even if it is 4-5 a day.

You get something from the woods, give something back to the spirits of the woods.

[Grimm Spector]

Originally posted by g0815krieger:

I place my birdtraps on things you can gather or harvest - Berry, Grass, Grains, Vegetables

Don´t need to use baits, the plants is the bait.

I am always good with the spirits, do a lot general sacrify rituals (daily) even if I don´t have a catch in the traps. On top of that everytime there is an animal in the trap I do a sacrify for every trap, even if it is 4-5 a day.

You get something from the woods, give something back to the spirits of the woods.

When I do multiple sacrifices in a day I generally get the foolish message. So I don't know if that's productive?

[YourLittlePogchamp]

It's best to sacrifice every day and a half, or two days to avoid accidentally getting that feeling foolish message.

It takes a lot of effort to bring your karma with the spirits down, like cutting down a massive amount of trees or killing too many animals in one day would be terrible for sure, so you don't have to worry about missing a day of doing the ritual.

[Grimm Spector]

Originally posted by Codychan:

It's best to sacrifice every day and a half, or two days to avoid accidentally getting that feeling foolish message.

It takes a lot of effort to bring your karma with the spirits down, like cutting down a massive amount of trees or killing too many animals in one day would be terrible for sure, so you don't have to worry about missing a day of doing the ritual.

Originally posted by Codychan:

It's best to sacrifice every day and a half, or two days to avoid accidentally getting that feeling foolish message.

It takes a lot of effort to bring your karma with the spirits down, like cutting down a massive amount of trees or killing too many animals in one day would be terrible for sure, so you don't have to worry about missing a day of doing the ritual.

Yeah I generally just do it every day, after I check my nets, which I do on the next time increment each day.

[g0815krieger]

Originally posted by Grimm Spector:

Yeah I generally just do it every day, after I check my nets, which I do on the next time increment each day.

If you sacrifice fish, that counts for the water spirits not the forrest spirits.

To be good with the forrest spirits you need to sacrifice meat or vegatables or other food that is not fish !

[Grimm Spector]

Originally posted by g0815krieger:

Originally posted by Grimm Spector:

Yeah I generally just do it every day, after I check my nets, which I do on the next time increment each day.

If you sacrifice fish, that counts for the water spirits not the forrest spirits.

To be good with the forrest spirits you need to sacrifice meat or vegatables or other food that is not fish !

Yes I understand that, I'm just commenting on timing, not commenting on what items. Though it's not clear to me if I can sacrifice to both or just one each day, or if cooked fish counts differently, it seems to.