Quads Bird Trap
A buildable bird trap: bait it with berries or seeds, leave it under the open sky, and come back to a gull to pluck for feathers.🪤 BirdTrap
Version 1.1.1 · all the mods · install it from Thunderstore (r2modman, Thunderstore Mod Manager) or the in-game mod manager (F7)
A buildable bird trap with its own hand-made look. Bait it with berries or seeds and leave it under the open sky: a gull hops in, the prop falls and the door drops. Pluck it for feathers and let it go. Birds come while you are away and at first light, so after a night's sleep every baited trap has its bird. A few traps keep you in arrow feathers.
📸 Screenshots
The Bird Trap
A row of traps along the fence
🔍 How it works
A buildable bird trap: bait it with berries or seeds, leave it under the open sky, and come back to a gull to pluck for feathers.
How it works
- Build it with the hammer at a workbench (8 Wood, 2 Leather Scraps). It is a slatted box with a drop-door propped up by a stick tied to the bait pedal.
- Use it to put bait in: raspberries, blueberries, cloudberries, barley, or beech, birch, carrot, turnip or onion seeds. Hold the alternate-place key (Shift) and use it to fill it at once. It holds five.
- Baited and with open sky above it, a bird comes in 8 to 14 minutes (game time, so it keeps going while you are away). It eats one bait, the prop falls and the door drops.
- Birds roost at night, and come at first light: sleep through the night and every trap you baited the day before has its bird in the morning. Under a roof none come, and the trap tells you why.
- Use it again to pluck the gull (2 or 3 feathers) and let it go. The door goes back up, and with bait left the next bird is on its way.
- Look at it to see how much bait is left and about how long until a bird. Build a few for a steady supply of feathers for arrows.
- It has its own hand-made look: wicker slats, a drop-door on a forked prop stick, berries on a leaf, and a grey-and-white gull that hops about and pecks once it's caught.
⌨️ Keys
| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
| E / Shift + E at a bird trap | Add bait (or pluck the bird) / fill it with bait |
⚙️ Settings
In BepInEx/config/com.quad.birdtrap.cfg (made the first time the game runs with the mod).
Catching
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
MinutesMin |
8 |
Shortest wait (real minutes, in game time) from baiting to a bird. In multiplayer the server's value applies. |
MinutesMax |
14 |
Longest wait (real minutes, in game time) from baiting to a bird. In multiplayer the server's value applies. |
BaitHeld |
5 |
How many pieces of bait a trap holds (each bird eats one). In multiplayer the server's value applies. |
NeedsOpenSky |
true |
Birds only come to a trap with open sky above it (not under a roof). In multiplayer the server's value applies. |
BirdsRoostAtNight |
true |
No birds come at night: one due then comes in the morning. In multiplayer the server's value applies. |
Plucking
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
FeathersMin |
2 |
Fewest feathers a bird gives. In multiplayer the server's value applies. |
FeathersMax |
3 |
Most feathers a bird gives. In multiplayer the server's value applies. |
👥 Playing together
Everyone in the world needs it, the host above all. It adds a new build piece. Restart the game after updating so it registers cleanly.
🤖 Made with AI
Made with the help of Claude (Anthropic), with Claude Code: designed, written and checked together, and tried in the game.
📜 Changes
- 1.1.1 A new id, com.quad.birdtrap (it was com.dhack.birdtrap): your settings move over by themselves the first time it starts, and the old settings file is kept as a backup. Restart the game after this update. If an old copy is still installed beside it, this one stands down and says which file to delete, so the two never both run. The DLL now says it was made with AI, as Thunderstore asks.
- 1.1.0 Fix: two players plucking the same bird could both get its feathers, and bait could be lost. Whoever presses E now asks the trap's owner, which plucks the bird or takes the bait and answers: the feathers come only on its yes ("The bird is already gone" otherwise), and bait that doesn't fit comes back to you. In multiplayer the server decides the catching and plucking settings. A problem with the trap's look can no longer stop it being registered.
- Fix: no more stutter every 5 seconds. Looking for Claude Tools searched everything the game had loaded; it now asks BepInEx's list of mods.
- First version: the Bird Trap. Bait it with berries or seeds under the open sky, and pluck the gull it catches for feathers.