🪤 Quad's Bird Trap

A buildable bird trap for feathers: bait it with berries or seeds, leave it under the open sky, and come back to a caught gull to pluck. An early feather farm for your arrows, without hunting birds.

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✨ Features

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.

📸 Screenshots

The Bird Trap

A row of traps along the fence

🎮 How to use

Key	What it does
E / Shift + E at a bird trap	Add bait (or pluck the bird) / fill it with bait

🧩 Other mods

Goes well with

Quiver	Rainbows	Skal Tavern	Cigars

Known clashes: none known.

Found a clash with another mod? Tell us which one and what happened.

👥 Multiplayer

Who needs it: Everyone, and the host above all: a game without the mod deletes the pieces when their area loads. Restart after installing or updating them.

A trap's bait, bird and timer are saved on the trap, so everyone sees the same trap, and two players can't both take one bird.

The host decides: catch times, bait, open sky, roosting at night and feathers per bird. While you play on their world their values replace yours (your file isn't changed); a host without the mod leaves everyone their own.

🌍 Languages

English, Русский (Russian), Deutsch (German), 简体中文 (Chinese), Português do Brasil (Portuguese), Español (Spanish), Français (French), Polski (Polish), Türkçe (Turkish). It follows the game's own language setting.

The translations were made with AI, so a few words may be off. To correct one, or to add your language, put a file in BepInEx/config/translations/com.quad.birdtrap/ named after the game's name for the language (German.json, Italian.json, Japanese.json...) with only the lines you change, copied from English.json (it wins over the built-in one). Or tell us the better words and we'll put them in for everyone.

⚙️ Settings

In BepInEx/config/com.quad.birdtrap.cfg, made the first time the game runs with the mod. r2modman and Thunderstore Mod Manager edit it under Config editor.

Building

Setting	Default	What it does
Cost	Wood:8, LeatherScraps:2	What a bird trap costs to build with the hammer (at a workbench). Item prefab names and amounts, separated by commas, like FineWood:12, BronzeNails:30 (Claude Tools' prefabs <text> shows exact names). A cost with a mistake in it keeps the last good one. [Synced with Server]

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.

🤖 Made with AI

Made with the help of Claude (Anthropic), with Claude Code: designed, written and checked together, and tried in the game.

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📜 Recent changes

• 1.2.3 On a server without Bird Trap, the bird trap is gone from the hammer, and a message says why: the server would delete a trap built there. Server owners can change what a bird trap costs ("Building", Cost; today's cost, 8 wood and 2 leather scraps, is the default); in multiplayer the server's cost applies, and a cost with a mistake in it keeps the last good one. Settings: edits to the config file now apply while the game runs (a server owner no longer has to restart), and a server's admins can change the server's settings from their own game with Configuration Manager, where other players see them greyed out. Your config file always keeps your own values while you play on a server (saving it there could write the server's in). Players on an older version still get the server's settings. It's no longer counted as storage in the game's own building records (it was copied from a chest).
• 1.2.2 Fix: after reloading the mod at the main menu (the mod manager's reload, or F6), its old build piece stayed in the hammer's list after it was gone, and every change to your bag threw an error half-way: crafting gave the item without taking the cost, and picking things up could go wrong, until the game was restarted. Its piece now comes off the list it was put on, and destroyed pieces left there by any mod are cleared when it registers.
• 1.2.1 Fix: bait you put in a trap whose owner didn't answer (they left, or the trap went out of range) was lost: it now comes back to your bag after a few seconds. Fix: the bait still in a trap that is broken or removed now drops beside it, as a smelter's ore does (bait put in before this version isn't known by kind and doesn't drop).

Every change is on the Changelog tab.