Bird Trap

Bird Trap
Crafting
Recipe	×3 ×4
Tab
Tier
Properties
Durability	8 uses
Stacks up to	Does not stack
Perk
Capture winged beasts
Code
"birdtrap"

Empty Bird Trap (left)
Used Bird Trap (right)

“They keep falling for it!”

–Maxwell

A Bird Trap is a Survival item used to catch the 3 flying birds, Red Birds, Crows, and Snowbirds. Traps can be baited with seeds to speed up the hunt, though it is not a requirement. A Bird Trap is crafted using 3 Twigs and 4 Silk and requires a Science Machine to prototype. Using a Feather Hat will increase the amount of birds landing to speed up the process.

It would appear that, as of the "Strange New Powers" update, there is a chance a trap will fail to catch a bird and simply break, leaving the bird that triggered the trap lying on the ground for a very brief time before flying away. The failed trap can still be picked up and reset, but this still costs one durability use. It is currently unknown whether the chance of a trap failing is based on a certain probability, bird type, or player proximity.

Bird Trap icon on the Map

Recipe

3×

4×

Trivia

• Following the 13th December update, Feathers and Morsels can no longer be acquired directly using the trap. Instead, murdering the bird while it is in the inventory is now necessary.
• In old science system, it used to cost 30 Research Points to craft.

Bugs

• Sometimes birds will glitch out of traps after being caught.
• Sometimes the traps disappear, but they still show up on the map. The player can press space when near it to get it back.
• If you place the traps with seeds, save and get out of the game when you return there's a big chance two or three traps will capture birds.

• DS
• RoG
• SW
• Ham
• DST

 Sometimes pine cones eat the birds