Cuniculture

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I had chased the little long-eared rogues from dawn till nigh unto dusk, and never laid so much as two fingers upon one of them.

By my troth, I was made a fool of by hares.

They sprang from tuft to tuft, vanished through grass, slipped ’neath bramble, and mocked me with their white tails flashing like scraps of linen in the wind.  I had set snares badly, crept softly, lunged boldly, and cursed most piteously.  Yet ever they were swifter than my hands, wiser than my feet, and better acquainted with the earth than I.

At last, spent past all pride, I stumbled into a patch of wild growth and fell upon the ground like a sack of turnips. There I lay, panting, sore in every limb, and full of bitter thoughts.

“God’s wounds,” quoth I, “I am beaten by rabbits.”

My belly then made answer louder than my wit, and I fumbled in my poor bag for such berries as I had gathered that morning from a wild bush by the ditch. They were small things, dark and sweet, and I ate them as a beggar eateth: with no ceremony, and much thankfulness.

Then came the marvel.

From the grass before me peered a little leveret, scarce more than a puff of fur with ears. It looked upon me, and I looked upon it. I moved not, for in truth I had no strength left to move. The small creature crept nearer, then halted, then turned aside, then came again, as though fear and hunger did pull at it by contrary strings.

Another came after. Then a third.

They made a shy dance about me, hopping forth and back, sideways and near, as if the very field had grown curious. I held my breath. One bold little thing came so close I could see its whiskers tremble.

Softly, slowly, I took a berry betwixt my fingers and held it forth.

The hare stretched its neck, snatched the berry from my hand, and leapt back as though it had stolen treasure from a king.

I laughed then, but gently, lest I frighten them.

“Well now,” said I, “all day have I chased thee, and thou wouldst none of me. Yet when I sit my weary bones upon the earth and share my poor supper, thou comest like a neighbor to my door.”

One by one they came, timid still, yet trusting by little measures. I gave them berries, and they took them from my hand. Not caught. Not trapped. Not conquered.

Welcomed.

And there, with dirt upon my knees and shame upon my pride, I learned a thing no hunter’s snare had taught me: a hare is not won by haste, nor by hunger, nor by grasping hands.

Thou must sit still.

Thou must be patient.

And thou must have foodstuff.

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Catching a hare with a baited trap follows a binomial distribution.  That is, if X is a random variable representing catching the hare, then X ~ Binomial(n, p) where n is the number of trap triggers and p is the catch chance.  If you set up a large number of baited traps, the chances of catching a hare asymptotes to a Gaussian distribution.  Baits attract hares at 50% effectiveness.  A nice juicy carrot attracts at 70% effectiveness.  Sweet loose berries have effectiveness of 75% and fruit mash, which is basically rabbit catnip, 80% effectiveness.

The binomial distribution has a mean of n*p and standard deviation of sqrt(n * p * (1 - p)), so for 50 trap-trigger events:

• Normal foods should net you 25 catches with a standard deviation of 3.5.
• Carrots should net you 35 catches with a standard deviation of 3.2.
• Berries should net you 37.5 catches with a standard deviation of 3.1.
• Fruit mash should net you 40 catches with a standard deviation of 2.8.

 

This ignores failed trappings where the traps are set off, but bait is consumed anyhow.  Just keep in mind that hare eatTime is 2.3 hours with a min cooldown of 1 hour and max cooldown of 4 hours, so even though fruit mash has an effectiveness of 80% in attracted hares, don't expect a conveybelt of hares!

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Before you report a problem, please clear your cache first.  Here's how to do it but if you need more help, reach out to me on Discord:

 

1. Stop your server completely.
2. Go to ./data/Cache/unpack/
3. Delete any Cuniculture-* folders there.
4. Make sure only one Cuniculture zip is in the server Mods folder.
5. Start the server again.
6. Try to reproduce your problem.

 

If the problem disappeared, congratulations!  If the problem persists, go on to the next step:

1. Make sure your server and client are both running Cuniculture 1.23.0 or newer.
2. Open caffcuniculture.json and set debugDiagnostics to true.
3. Restart the dedicated server, or fully restart the game if playing singleplayer/local-hosted.
4. Reproduce the issue.
5. Send me server-main.log from that same session.
6. If there was a crash or client-side issue, send client-main.log too.

 

I can be reached at caffeineNYC on Discord.

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This mod is based on a content-only mod by Aristine.  The mod had problems (e.g. the cabbage code had a typo and didn't work, so I fixed it.  His mod seemed abandoned, so I forked it, and cut my teeth on mod authoring, teaching myself how to mod Vintage Story with this relatively simple mod.  I've been adding enhancements and complexity ever since.  1.22.0 had major restructuring of assets, so I cut my teeth on spelunkering through game assets on that version.  Finally, in 1.22.3, I added my first "code mod" piece to the mod.  The rest is history...