Critter Trap

Not to be confused with Saturn Critter Trap.

Critter Trap

Captures a living Critter for transport.
Only Duplicants with the Critter Ranching I skill can arm this trap. It's reusable!

It's designed for land critters, but flopping fish sometimes find their way in too.

Research

Animal Control

Dimensions

2×2 tiles

Category

Food

Overheat at

75 °C / 167 °F

Decor

-15 (Radius: 3 tiles)

Auto In

Green: Set trap
Red: Disarm and empty trap

Auto Out

Green: Critter has been trapped
Red: No critter in trap

Materials

Metal Ore

200 kg

Critter Trap is a building that will catch non-flying critters that walk into the trap. Duplicants can then take the bagged creature to a nearby Critter Drop-Off.

A critter is captured only when it enters the bottom left tile of Critter Trap.

Gold Amalgam, Steel or better should be used if one aims to capture Slicksters since their natural habitat may be well over the overheat temperature of Critter Traps made from lesser materials. Alternatively, collecting their eggs or building a stable downside might be a simpler option.

Critter traps are capable of catching flopping Pacu.

Tips

• Critter Traps are reusable and can be deconstructed to refund their material cost, like most other buildings.
  • The older version of this building, created in versions of the game prior to the Song of the Moo Update, was single-use only and did not refund its material cost; it was also constructed from 200 kg of Plastics, which presented difficulties when used in hot environments.

See also

• Fish Trap
• Airborne Critter Trap

History

• OI-235856: Introduced.
• LU-356355: Critter trap is no longer flooded underwater.
• U48-567980:
  • Newly constructed Critter Traps, Fish Traps, and Airborne Critter Traps are now rearmable and have new artwork.
  • Existing traps in saves have been deprecated but still function.
  • Critter Trap can now also catch Pacus flopping on the ground.
  • Critter Trap is now 2 tiles tall.

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