Crab Pot
Crab Pot | |||||||||
Place it in the water, load it with bait, and check the next day to see if you've caught anything. Works in streams, lakes, and the ocean. | |||||||||
Information | |||||||||
Source | Crafting | ||||||||
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Crafting | |||||||||
Recipe Source | Fishing Level 3 | ||||||||
Ingredients | Wood (40) Iron Bar (3) | ||||||||
Trapper Ingredients | Wood (25) Copper Bar (2) |
Crab pots are floated on the shores of bodies of water (lakes, ponds, rivers, or the ocean) and primed with bait in order to catch fish. Any type of bait (standard Bait, Wild Bait, Magnet) can be used in a crab pot, but there is no benefit to using specialized types of bait: crab pots never produce double fish or treasure. Players with the Luremaster profession don't need to add bait.
Harvesting a crab pot gives 5 Fishing experience points, even if trash is caught or the item is normally a Beach forage item. Fish caught with crab pots also count towards the four fishing achievements (Fisherman, Ol' Mariner, Master Angler, and Mother Catch).
Crab pots can be crafted, purchased for 1,500g at Willy's Fish Shop once you've reached fishing skill level 3, and three are rewarded for completing the Crab Pot Bundle in the Fish Tank.
Stages
Crab pots have three stages, which can be distinguished visually:
Image | Description |
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The crab pot is empty. If you don't have the Luremaster profession, you need to add bait before it will catch anything. | |
The crab pot contains bait, and will catch something the next morning. (If you have the Luremaster profession, you'll see the 'empty' image instead.) | |
The crab pot caught something and can be harvested. An icon of what it contains will appear above the crab pot. |
Catch
The day after placing a crab pot, the following items can be found in it:
Anywhere
Unless you have the Mariner profession, the following trash items can be obtained by putting a crab pot in any type of water, which includes the river, the lake and the ocean. The chance of trash appearing is 38%,[1] regardless of luck or fishing skill; all trash items are equally likely to appear. Trash can be recycled into useful items.
Image | Name | Description | Produced from Recycling |
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Trash | It's junk. | Stone (1-3) 49% | |
Coal (1-3) 30% | |||
Iron Ore (1-3) 21% | |||
Driftwood | A piece of wood from the sea. | Wood (1-3) 75% | |
Coal (1-3) 25% | |||
Soggy Newspaper | This is trash. | Torch (3) 90% | |
Cloth (1) 10% | |||
Broken CD | It's a JojaNet 2.0 trial CD. They must've made a billion of these things. | Refined Quartz (1) | |
Broken Glasses | It looks like someone lost their glasses. They're busted. | Refined Quartz (1) |
Ocean
The following creatures can be caught by putting a crab pot in the waters of The Beach.[1] Note that only normal quality fish or items can be caught with a crab pot.
Image | Name | Description | Sell Price | Trap Chance | Used In | |
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Mariner | Non-Mariner | |||||
Lobster | A large ocean-dwelling crustacean with a strong tail. | 120g | 14% | 3% | Lobster Bisque Crab Pot Bundle "Wanted Lobster" Quest Elliott (Loved Gift) | |
Clam[2] | There's a chewy little guy in there... | 50g | 14% | 12% | Chowder Speed-Gro | |
Crab | A marine crustacean with two powerful pincers. | 100g | 14% | 6% | Crab Cakes Crab Pot Bundle | |
Cockle | A common saltwater clam. | 50g | 14% | 17% | Crab Pot Bundle | |
Mussel | A common bivalve that often lives in clusters. | 30g | 14% | 14% | Fish Stew Crab Pot Bundle | |
Shrimp | A scavenger that feeds off the ocean floor. Widely prized for its meat. | 60g | 14% | 5% | Tom Kha Soup Crab Pot Bundle | |
Oyster | Constantly filters water to find food. In the process, it removes dangerous toxins from the environment. | 40g | 14% | 3% | Crab Pot Bundle |
Freshwater
The following creatures can be caught by putting a crab pot in the waters of The Farm's ponds, The Mountain lake, or the Pelican Town and Cindersap Forest river.[1] Note that only normal quality fish can be caught with a crab pot.
Image | Name | Description | Sell Price | Trap Chance | Used In | |
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Mariner | Non-Mariner | |||||
Crayfish | A small freshwater relative of the lobster. | 75g | 33% | 28% | Fish Stew Crab Pot Bundle | |
Snail | A wide-ranging mollusc that lives in a spiral shell. | 65g | 33% | 13% | Escargot Crab Pot Bundle Vincent (loved Gift) | |
Periwinkle | A tiny freshwater snail that lives in a blue shell. | 20g | 33% | 21% | Strange Bun Fish Stew Crab Pot Bundle |
Gifting
Villager Reactions
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Hate | Abigail • Alex • Caroline • Clint • Demetrius • Dwarf • Elliott • Emily • Evelyn • George • Gus • Haley • Harvey • Jas • Jodi • Kent • Krobus • Leah • Lewis • Linus • Marnie • Maru • Pam • Penny • Pierre • Robin • Sam • Sandy • Sebastian • Shane • Vincent • Willy • Wizard |
Tips
- Because the freshwater catches sell for a low value and can be easily caught in large quantities, they're ideal choices for turning into Quality Fertilizer. During the early game you may want to put a handful of crab pots in your farm's ponds (where they're easily accessible to harvest daily) so that you can make fertilizer out of their catches and net a bit of fishing experience.
- The Crab Pot may be used to catch a lobster for the Wanted: Lobster Quest.
- When the Luremaster Profession is taken, it becomes very easy to accidentally pick up your crab pots immediately after harvesting them. In order to prevent this from happening, a simple set of steps must be followed; First, clear your entire inventory bar. Secondly, select the furthest right empty inventory space. Finally, only harvest the crab pots via left-clicking. So long as you do not right click, and the selected inventory slot is not filled by harvested trash or fish, your character will not pick up the crab pots!
- Without the profession, the easiest way is to have the bait selected as you empty the crab pots, easily baiting the pot right away. Baited Crab Pots cannot be picked up.
- It is possible to place crab pots in the pond floors of The Mines (floors 20, 60 and 100). However, while the game allows the player to place crab pots there, these will disappear by the next day and be irrevocably lost.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Crab pot contents are determined by CrabPot::DayUpdate. For mariners, there is no chance of junk, and all creatures are equally likely. For non-mariners, there is a 20% chance of junk, then each creature is checked sequentially using the chances specified in Fish.xnb. One result of this algorithm is that the actual chance of finding a given creature is smaller than the value in the input file, because it can only be found if junk items and all previous creatures failed their tests. If no creature is found, the code falls back to trash; this adds 18% more chance of trash (for both ocean and freshwater crab pots).
- ↑ Clams are not categorized as Fish by the game. Therefore they cannot be used in Fish recipes and do not benefit from Fishing price bonuses.
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