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# Traps (Crab Pots)
A fully passive trap system. Place a baited pot in deep enough water, walk away, and return later to a pot full of fish.
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## Placing
Use a trap item, drop it overboard or off a dock, and a **surface buoy** appears at the placement point.
A trap ready to drop in deep enough water.
The buoy bobs naturally with the waves so it looks part of the sea.
The buoy is a real GTA dynamic object — wave physics drive the bobbing motion automatically.
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## Pulling
Approach your buoy and trigger **Pull In Trap**. The pull is a rope-pull minigame that hauls the trap to the surface.
Drag the rope to bring the pot up.
A cinematic camera pans up with the pot as it surfaces.
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## Inspecting the Haul
Once on deck, hover catches to identify them, then **keep or release** individually. Bait can be swapped without pulling up an empty trap.
Pick which fish to keep and which to release.
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## Stale Traps
Abandoned traps don't litter the map forever — they auto-expire on a configurable timer (default 48 hours). The stale time is set under **Basic → General** in the configurator.
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## Behind the Scenes
* Catches accumulate on a per-trap **tick** (default 90 seconds, configurable).
* On open, missed ticks are caught up server-side — capped at 2 hours so a trap left for a week doesn't dump the entire ocean at once.
* Bait preference scales catch chance per species: `biteChance × abundance × trapCatchRate × baitWeight`.
* Trap state survives server restarts — pots persist in the `dirk_traps` table.