Traps (Crab Pots)

A fully passive trap system. Place a baited pot in deep enough water, walk away, and return later to a pot full of fish.

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#Placing

Use a trap item, drop it overboard or off a dock, and a surface buoy appears at the placement point.

The buoy is a real GTA dynamic object — wave physics drive the bobbing motion automatically.

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#Pulling

Approach your buoy and trigger Pull In Trap. The pull is a rope-pull minigame that hauls the trap to the surface.

A cinematic camera pans up with the pot as it surfaces.

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#Inspecting the Haul

Once on deck, hover catches to identify them, then keep or release individually. Bait can be swapped without pulling up an empty trap.

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#Stale Traps

Abandoned traps don't litter the map forever — they auto-expire on a configurable timer (default 48 hours). The stale time is set under Basic → General in the configurator.

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#Behind the Scenes

• Catches accumulate on a per-trap tick (default 90 seconds, configurable).
• On open, missed ticks are caught up server-side — capped at 2 hours so a trap left for a week doesn't dump the entire ocean at once.
• Bait preference scales catch chance per species: biteChance × abundance × trapCatchRate × baitWeight.
• Trap state survives server restarts — pots persist in the dirk_traps table.