Ok, so I'm just hunting regular chinchompas right now and I was wondering, does it matter how far away you set your boxtraps? Like right now I've got them set a decent ways away from each other (5-7 squares roughly). However, my friend keeps his right next to each other. Is it faster if they're closer or farther apart?

He means that you should put all the cages near a chinchompa respawn point.You should have a bow with cheap arrows(accumulator provides free steel arrows) or something like a bone c'bow with bone bolts.When it respawns, you have 2 chances, the chinchompa enters 1 of the traps or collapses the traps and runs away.If the chinchompa runs away, simply shoot it; this will force the chinchompa to respawn near your crates.

If you set them very far apart you'll spend too much time walking from one trap to the other.

 

If you set them very close to each other they will not cover as much area.

 

 

 

Most hunting guides have some tips on how to set up traps efficiently, I usually set them up in some sort of square formation with about 3-4 squares in between them.

I set them within a radii of 3 squares.

I lay my four traps in a diamond form:

 

 

 

XOX

 

OXO

 

XOX

 

 

 

O means trap.

Assuming 4 traps, and ignoring where the respans are the patern you want is:

 

XXOX

 

OXXX

 

XXXO

 

XOXX

 

 

 

O = trap

 

 

 

Note that the spacing is probably bad, but the pattern provides maximum coverage by preventign the strongest areas of attraction of each trap from overlaping as much. Its basicly a dimond but the top is moved one space left/right and one side is moved one space up/down so that no 2 boxes are in line with each other on a hoizontal/vertical line.

 

 

 

If you know where the respans are, try to get a couple traps within 2 spaces (verticle/horizontal is best but diagnal works). With 4 traps you still wan't at least 3 spawns, so at least one trap needs to cover 2 spawn points, or you need one trap assigned to each spawn. Note that it takes at least 20-30 seconds for a trap to become active, and sometimes a trap will never activate. If you notice one trap has not attracted anythign for an abnormaly long time, just reset it.

 

 

 

Thats alot of what I remember from when I used to train hunter.

Randox is right, that's the way to box normal grey chinchompas. The best way (at least, what I personally found as the best way) to box red chinchompas is detailed in my hunting guide *points to sig*

XOX

 

OXO

 

XOX

 

My strategy to catching chins (If I ever do.. :ohnoes: )

mines is

 

 

 

0X0

 

XXX

 

0X0

 

 

 

when you get to 80 the x in the middle should be a trap