Lemonhartsour

2 hours ago, Raphael van Lierop said:

Super cool to see this development ongoing! Kudos to the mod team. ❤️

No monetizing mods, please. Mods should be free.

If you want to get paid to make content for TLD, join the dev team.

Just wondering, and not to bother anybody here, but would a Patreon be allowed at all? Of course the mod would be free to install and use to its full ability, but if people want to support the devs or what have you, would that be allowed/legal? I don't really know anything about that kind of stuff so I am kind of curious.

On 4/25/2023 at 10:05 AM, piddy3825 said:

How devious of them.  They must have been built and administered by Vault-Tec Corporation...

Raphael did work at Bethesda, if my memory serves me right, so we could have some crossover... 

4 hours ago, hozz1235 said:

Hey @Lemonhartsour.  Sounds like a fun adventure!  Not really many tips to share, but you will be drowning in rabbit pelts! 

If you've never seriously trapped rabbits in TLD, trap lines are the way to go, but I'm sure you already knew that.  I like to observe the rabbits roaming pattern to determine the best place to lay my line.  I tend to place up to 10 snares spaced evenly apart.  I set up the snares during the day, wait a night and check them in the morning.  Make sure you have plenty of reclaimed wood to repair/make more snares.

Have fun!

Thanks!

5 minutes ago, Sito said:

A trap LINE (as in the Canadian tradition of a long spread out line of individual traps over a large territory) for rabbits will likely prove impractical. A bunch of traps in a local rabbit grove can be VERY successful. The reason is that the rabbits spawn in the traps in the morning (in my case when I exit my cabin) and then start to decay from that moment on. You have to go collect them while they still have good condition. If you have a line of traps scattered around HRV then it takes time to go collect and they can get ruined. Also you will have broken traps that you have to replace if you want to keep it up and that also takes time to do. In HRV if you live in a cave then you don't have a loading screen when you exit a building so I don't know what will trigger the spawn. Perhaps when you wake up.

I spent considerable time in CH just doing rabbit trapping. My traps were on Jackrabbit island with my base in a coastal house. I had around 20 traps in a semi circle where the rabbits were seen to hop about. The amount of snared rabbits each morning were random but often more than half of the traps were full with only some of the snares ruined. I had enough rabbits and guts to easily sustain the trapping forever. There was no depletion of rabbits at all. I believe the Wiki and any other info about depletion of rabbits (and fish for that matter) is old info and wrong for some time now. Another wrong info about traps is that you can collect rabbits in the morning and the evening. It is only in the morning once a day that they spawn in your trap. Another thing is that they do not RUN INTO the trap. They spawn in the trap if you have one there. 

Yeah, I'm not doing this for super effective run, I'm mostly just doing it for a fun sort of run around HRV for a few weeks. Those tips will come in handy later though, I have never done a lot of research into rabbit farming before. Thanks!

I've always loved watching and hearing stories from family about trappers and the lives they used to lead. It is sort of a dying occupation however, and quite frankly I'm not a resourceful enough person to be one in real life, so I figured that I could do it in Canada simulator, the long dark. HRV has been my chosen region, as it is almost void of manmade structures (except the new bunker), and is quite plentiful in wildlife, and already has some established snow shelters as bases along the line. I was just wondering, as I set up for this adventure, if anyone has any tips for it.

I made a little route on a map, and the new bunker would be my home base as it has (perhaps spoilers ahead) a workbench, and is in a really great location for doing rounds through HRV. I plan to kill deer and Bears with Vaughn's rifle for food, as well as snare rabbits for supplementary food and gut. I am doing this on my ~55 day run in stalker difficulty, and am gathering gear in the ML trappers cabin to transport through MT to HRV. I have got technical backpack and moose satchel as well as the rifle sling to further decrease the weight of Vaughn's rifle (but I'll bring curators rifle just to put on display).

Thanks in advance for any advice! 

I found this while looking at the new roadmap, thought it could be more concrete evidence of what the trader may be... 

(Notice the boots hanging under the rifle)

(Now look at the icon for the Trader)

I'm super excited to see what great work hinterland comes up with next!