Trapping

Trapping is a skill Hunters specialize in wherein the player places traps in different maps to catch a variety of critters to be captured. These critters will only be visible upon unlocking them.

In order to start trapping, you first need to acquire a Trap Box Set. You can get one from the Lord of The Hunt quest Pelt for the Pelt God, but you should also buy traps from the vendor in Frostbite Towndra. Once you have equipped the trap, you can start trapping critters.

At first, you will only be able to trap Froges but once you have found your first Poison Froge you can turn it in to Lord of the Hunt in order to unlock the next trapping area. However, it's recommended to first craft the Silkskin Traps, which allows you to trap Shiny critters much easier and also allow you to set two traps at once. Better traps allow you to set more traps as well as provide you to additional options for what to set. The questline is account wide, so you only need to unlock the critter areas on on one character.

Using the Hunter talent Eagle Eye, you are able to collect and reset all traps for all characters remotely, though this only gives partial trapping xp and critter quantity for each character. It also doesn't remove the traps when they're collected, which means that you can use the alchemy bubble Call Me Ash to place an extra trap on each player and not need to re-equip the bubble each time you collect the traps.

Longer traps generally give less efficient XP and less critters per hour. For the purpose of catching shinies however it's generally better to use a longer trap with a xShiny bonus. See Traps to find the most efficient option for what you are after. While 20 minute traps are the best for both XP and Qty, but unless you are willing to claim all the traps every 20 minutes, you might find yourself wanting to use other traps.

Base XP is for the minimum amount of 10 critters and does not go up with bonus critters. Aside from other trapping/skill xp bonuses, the only other thing that gives you more trapping xp is if a trap has an xp multiplier.

Trap Box Sets

Name	Image	Level	Speed	Skillpower	Str	Agi	Wis	Luk	Misc	Slots	Sell Price	Source

Trap Efficiency

Image	Name	Time	Qty Multi	XP Multi	Shiny Multi	Qty Eff	XP Eff	Shiny Eff
	Cardboard Traps	20 Minutes	1x	1x		3x/h	3x/h	3x/h
		1 Hours	2x	2x		2x/h	2x/h	1x/h
		8 Hours	10x	8x		1.25x/h	1x/h	0.13x/h
		20 Hours	20x	15x		1x/h	0.75x/h	0.05x/h
	Silkskin Traps	20 Minutes	1x		2x	3x/h	3x/h	6x/h
		1 Hours	2x		4x	2x/h	1x/h	4x/h
		8 Hours	10x		16x	1.25x/h	0.13x/h	2x/h
		20 Hours	20x		30x	1x/h	0.05x/h	1.5x/h
		40 Hours	35x		50x	0.88x/h	0.03x/h	1.25x/h
	Wooden Traps	3 Hours	5x	5x		1.67x/h	1.67x/h	0.33x/h
		60 Hours	50x	40x		0.83x/h	0.67x/h	0.02x/h
		5 Days	100x	80x		0.83x/h	0.67x/h	0.01x/h
		5 Days	200x	0x		1.67x/h	0x/h	0.01x/h
	Natural Traps	3 Hours	5x		5x	1.67x/h	0.33x/h	1.67x/h
		60 Hours	50x		80x	0.83x/h	0.02x/h	1.33x/h
		5 Days	100x		160x	0.83x/h	0.01x/h	1.33x/h
		20 Hours	1x		60x	0.05x/h	0.05x/h	3x/h
	Steel Traps	10 Hours	15x	12x		1.5x/h	1.2x/h	0.1x/h
		30 Hours	40x	30x		1.33x/h	1x/h	0.03x/h
		200 Hours	250x	200x		1.25x/h	1x/h	0.01x/h