exile_fishtrap

Adds a primitive fish trap for passive fish collection.

How it works

• Craft a fish trap and place it in sea water.
• A valid setup requires sea water above the trap and on all four horizontal sides.
• Every timer cycle (60s), it has a 10% chance to catch 1 small fish.
• Once per cycle, if at least one fish is trapped, there is a 1% chance that one fish rots.
• While operational, there is also a configurable chance each cycle that the trap becomes damaged (Faulty).
• Caught and rotten fish are stored internally and shown in infotext with a vague hint (Contents).
• The trap continuously re-validates setup conditions while running.

Contents limit

• Maximum total contents are limited by max_catched_fishes (default: 24).
• The limit applies to fish + rotten fish together.

Statuses (shown when pointing at the node)

• Internal state proper: Status: Still waters / Note: Waiting
• Internal state loaded: Status: Something stirs within / Note: Patience
• Internal state full: Status: Bulging at the seams / Note: Best not to leave it much longer
• Internal state misplaced: Status: Feels wrong here / Note: The currents don't seem right
• Internal state faulty: Status: Looks worse for wear / Note: Probably not worth tending to
• Internal state deteriorated: Status: Something smells off / Note: Whatever was here has seen better days

Contents Hint (shown when pointing at the node)

• Contents: nothing visible when total stored is 0
• Contents: some movement inside when total stored is below half capacity
• Contents: quite active when total stored is at least half capacity

Break behavior

• Faulty: drops only 24-36 sticks.
• Too old and deteriorated: drops only rotten fish (exile_fishtrap:rotten_fish).
• Any non-faulty/non-deteriorated state: drops stored fish and rotten fish.

Full aging rule

• When the trap becomes Full, a single 30 minute timer is armed.
• If the timer completes, trapped contents are replaced by rotten fish only.
• Rotten amount is randomized between 5 and max_catched_fishes.

Recipe

• Craft type: crafting_spot
• Output: exile_fishtrap:fishtrap
• Ingredients: tech:stick 36

Current limits

• The trap only catches fish from sea-water setup (nodes_nature:salt_water_source).