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Okay, so I finally get to see what baited traps do: they double the output of the trap. And I finally get to see what traps drop!

So now, I can label the trapper (assuming I have 9 traps and check them regularly (trapper can't make bait for 10)):

    Income/10 sec:
    
    Fur:	0.5	
    Meat:	0.25	
    Scales:	0.1	
    Teeth:	0.05	
    Cloth:	0.065	
    Charm:	0.005

Which is surprisingly competitive with the hunter. I think I'd rather have the hunter once I have my charm and better sources of teeth, scales, and cloth.

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What better sources of teeth and scales are you referring to? Harvesting them from wandering beasts seems extraordinarily tedious and time-consuming. Converting to them from fur requires an incredible amount of fur.

I meant manually hunting. I usually wind up with more teeth and scales than I can use without particularly seeking them out. Though I guess I don't buy things with them a lot.

The one time I did buy alien alloy from the store, I didn't have too much trouble farming 750 scales from big lizards, though. I could bring in 30 or 40 scales per trip. I didn't time myself, but the trips themselves couldn't have been more than a minute or so in duration. It was definitely tedious, but not totally unreasonable.

Traps are a poor source by comparison -- 20x to 40x less efficient per time spent. Admittedly, they're passive. Sort of.

2 minutes per trip. 35 scales per trip. 700 scales needed. That works out to 40 minutes per Alien Alloy.

I guess it depends on what you consider unreasonable. I don't usually play games w/ a large amount of grinding.

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