Hunter¶

The Hunter catches the islands' small creatures (beetles, butterflies, frogs, lizards, fireflies, even a phoenix) with a bug net or a trap, keeps them as items along with whatever they carry, and turns them into leather, bait, lures and trophies at the Tannery.


Workstation	Tannery
Tools	Bug Catcher Net (anyone crafts it); the Enhanced Bug Catcher Net and the traps are made by the Inventor
Levels	1 to 100; new creatures up to level 40, Tannery recipes up to level 46

Hunter XP comes from every creature caught, a bonus for the first of each species, the Tannery's recipes and the Bestiary (see Bestiary and Log Book).

Your first net¶

The Bug Catcher Net is made at a crafting table from three String and two Sticks, laid out like an axe with the string where the head would be. The Hunting Merchant also sells them (see Merchants and contracts).

Anyone can craft and use a net. Hold it and right-click a small creature to catch it. Each catch uses up one of the net's 64 uses.

The creature goes into your inventory as an item, along with anything it carries: Sweet Sap from a beetle, Nectar from a hornet, sometimes a Mystery Egg. Now and then that egg is a Golden Egg.

Sneak¶

A creature reacts to any player who comes close without sneaking (players in creative or spectator mode don't scare them). What it does depends on the species:

Flee. It keeps its distance and calms down once you leave. Lizards, frogs, the Mole, the Clawed Scorpion, the Tempest Mouse and the Antlion Lacewing flee on foot. The flyers that flee (the Seagull, the Flying Penguin and the Swallowtail Butterfly) fly up into the air instead. A creature notices you at 6 blocks; the Tempest Mouse at 8, the Seagull and the Flying Penguin at 10.
Take off. It runs off fast for 2 to 3 seconds, then takes off and vanishes for good. If you miss, it is gone. The beetles, the Doctor Hornet, the moths and butterflies of the swamps and caves, the fireflies and the Rainbow Phoenix do this. The Rainbow Phoenix takes fright from 12 blocks away.
Attack. It comes at you and strikes, then escapes like a take-off creature. Only two do this:
- the Hidden Forest Bee stings twice, each sting giving a short Poison;
- the Thunder Spider bites twice for a heart each, with a shock that slows you down.

Some creatures have a nasty surprise even when you do manage to get close:

The Giant Devil Hand Moth shakes its scales over everyone within 4 blocks as it takes off: 3 seconds of Blindness.
The Doze Evil Eye Butterfly does the same: 6 seconds of Slowness II and 3 seconds of Nausea.
Touching a Purple Poison Frog poisons you.
Touching a Spirit Firefly drains you (Hunger II).

Perches¶

Many creatures sit still on a perch and wait there until you disturb them:

beetles cling to tree trunks;
the Doctor Hornet and the Hidden Forest Bee sit on flowers and grass;
lizards bask on rocks, snow or jungle leaves;
swamp butterflies rest on flowers, lily pads and ferns;
the Fire Hercules sits on dead bushes.

Breaking a creature's perch scares it off, even if you are sneaking.

Harder creatures¶

Every creature has a Hunter level. If yours is too low, it slips out of the net: "It slips away: catching it takes a Hunter of level N." Six creatures can be caught at level 1, even by a player who isn't a Hunter: the Hercules Beetle, the Doctor Hornet, the Mole, the Seagull, the Swallowtail Butterfly and the Tempest Mouse.

Three creatures only go into the Enhanced Bug Catcher Net; any other net lets them slip through: the Lightning Beetle, the Thunder Spider and the Spirit Firefly.

The Enhanced Bug Catcher Net is made by the Inventor at the Workshop (level 28) from 3 Raw Iron, 5 Mysterious Parts and 1 Bamboo. It has 256 uses, four times the plain net, and reaches 1.5 blocks further when held in your main hand.

Hunter XP and first captures¶

Only a Hunter earns Hunter XP (in Solo mode, that is everyone). Each species pays a fixed amount of XP per catch, and the first time you catch a species you get a bonus of four times its XP. A first Hercules Beetle gives 14 + 56 XP; after that, 14 per catch.

In Crew mode, a player of another trade can still catch the level-1 creatures. They earn no XP, and their first-capture bonus is kept for the day they take up the trade. Their catches still fill the Bestiary.

Rare variants¶

Two creatures have a rare look, and each comes as its own item:

Golden Hercules: 1 Hercules Beetle in 20 is born golden; near a Hunter of level 25 or more, 1 in 10. It also carries more Sweet Sap (2 to 3 instead of 1 to 2).
Invisible Swallowtail: 1 Swallowtail Butterfly in 20; near a Hunter of level 25 or more, 1 in 10.

A rare variant pays three times its species' XP. It shares the first-capture bonus with its normal form, and has its own page in the Bestiary.

Releasing a creature¶

A caught creature can be put back: right-click the ground with it and it comes out, facing you. A released creature:

is calm (it doesn't flee, take off or attack);
never despawns;
only gives itself if caught again: no XP, no Sweet Sap or Nectar, and no new line in the Bestiary.

You can release a creature bought from the Hunting Merchant, but catching it again earns nothing.

Traps¶

There are two traps, both made by the Inventor at the Workshop:

Trap	Inventor level	Ingredients	Springs after
Traps	1	3 Nectar, 1 Bamboo, 1 log	2 to 5 minutes
Enhanced Traps	22	1 Sweet Sap, 2 Nectar, 3 Iron Scrap	1 to 2.5 minutes

Setting it. Place the trap on solid ground. In Crew mode only a Hunter can set a trap or collect its catch; anyone else is told "Only a Hunter can use this trap." A trap only catches in the Overworld.

The catch. When the wait is over, the trap picks a creature that lives where it stands; if nothing can be caught there, it waits another round. When it closes on something it snaps shut with a wooden clack. Right-click it to collect the creature; before then it says "Nothing in the trap yet."

The catch follows the same rules as the net: if your Hunter level is too low, "It got away from the trap."
Rare variants come out of traps too, at the same odds: a trapped Swallowtail can be an Invisible Swallowtail.

Single use. A trap is spent once you collect its catch, unless something spares it: the Hunter's level-10 perk and a fitted Reinforced Frame each spare it half the time.

Moving a trap. Break it to pick it up again. It comes back as the same item, with any parts still fitted.

What traps catch. Four creatures come from traps, and three of them (the Tempest Mouse, the Swallowtail Butterfly and the Antlion Lacewing) are found nowhere else:

Creature	Where the trap must be	Outside?	Which trap
Tempest Mouse	plains, sunflower plains, meadows, forests, taigas, savannas	no, works indoors too	either
Swallowtail Butterfly (or the Invisible Swallowtail)	plains, sunflower plains, meadows, flower forests, cherry groves, forests, birch forests	yes	either
Seagull	beaches, oceans, rivers, stony shores	yes	either
Antlion Lacewing	desert, badlands	yes	Enhanced Traps only

"Outside" means nothing solid above the trap; leaves don't count. Where several of them can be caught, each is as likely as the others. The Antlion Lacewing needs a Hunter of level 24; the other three are level 1.

Parts for nets and traps¶

The Inventor makes four parts at the Workshop. Anyone fits them at the Upgrade Bench, one of each part per net or trap. A trap keeps its parts once set down.

Part	Inventor level	On a net	On a trap
Extension Pole	24	reaches 2.5 blocks further	springs 35 % sooner
Reinforced Frame	31	wears half as often	survives its catch half the time
Steady Grip	39	holds a creature up to 5 Hunter levels above you	same
Catch Bag	46	1 catch in 4 gives its by-products twice (never the creature itself)	same

The creatures¶

Creatures appear around you, 16 to 48 blocks away. Every 5 seconds each kind rolls its chance to appear, up to a cap on how many of it may be nearby. In the lists below, Hunter levels are in brackets.

Every creature in 3D (drag to turn, scroll or pinch to zoom); the Hercules Beetle and the Swallowtail Butterfly show their rare variant under their buttons:

The sky. Three creatures live on Mine Mine no Mi's sky islands, from height 150 up. Each also has a home on the ground, for worlds without sky islands.

Lightning Beetle (25, Enhanced Bug Catcher Net only). It clings to the quartz trees' trunks and crackles with sparks; rarer on forest trunks. It takes off when disturbed and carries Thunder Powder.
Thunder Spider (22, Enhanced Bug Catcher Net only). It clings to the islands' cliffs and quartz trees, or to mountain rock from height 130. It bites twice with a numbing shock, then scurries off. It gives String.
Rainbow Phoenix (40, the highest). A stained-glass butterfly on the quartz crowns, the flowers and the Golden Fruit leaves; also, very rarely, in meadows and cherry groves. The shyest creature of all. It gives Nectar.

The swamps (swamps and mangrove swamps):

Red-Eyed Spotted Frog (12). It hops away from you. Half the time it carries a Mystery Egg.
Crossbone Butterfly (18). It waits on the swamp's flowers, lily pads, ferns and grass.
Giant Devil Hand Moth (20). Same perches; its scales blind you as it flees.
Spirit Firefly (30, Enhanced Bug Catcher Net only). It drifts over the swamp at night, 1 to 3 blocks up, and drains you if you touch it.
The Lantern Firefly also comes to the swamps at night.

Forests, plains, deserts and coasts:

The starters, all level 1:
- Hercules Beetle, on jungle and forest trunks;
- Doctor Hornet, on flowers and grass in plains, sunflower plains, meadows, flower forests, cherry groves, forests and birch forests;
- Seagull, flying 6 to 12 blocks over beaches, the sea and stony shores, or landed on the beach;
- the trap-only Tempest Mouse and Swallowtail Butterfly.
Tree Frog (6). Forests and riversides; it croaks more when it rains.
Deserts and badlands:
- Clawed Scorpion (8);
- Rock Lizard (8), basking on sandstone and terracotta. A Miner who breaks an Explosive Rock safely finds one hiding inside 12 % of the time;
- Fire Hercules (15), only near a dead bush, which it sits on. It gives Flame Powder.
Lantern Firefly (10). Over rivers, swamps and forests at night, 1 to 2 blocks up.
Atlas Beetle (16). On forest trunks. It gives Sweet Sap.
Antlion Lacewing (24). Only from Enhanced Traps set outside in the desert or badlands.

The jungles:

Mole (1). Jungles, plus stony shores, stony peaks and the windswept hills. It carries Raw Iron and, 1 time in 10, a Mystery Egg.
Umbrella Frog (8). Jungles and rivers; it wears a leaf hat against the rain.
Jungle Lizard (10). Basks on the jungle's trunks, leaves and moss.
Hidden Forest Bee (14). Waits on a flower and stings twice. It gives Nectar, half the time a Medicinal Herb, and sometimes Sleep Honey.
The Hercules Beetle lives here too.

The caves. These live underground below height 45, out of the sky, in any Overworld biome:

Oil Stain Frog (12). Half the time it gives Gunpowder.
Lightbulb Firefly (14). Half the time it gives Glowstone Dust.
Purple Poison Frog (16). Poisonous to touch.
Doze Evil Eye Butterfly (18). Its scales make you slow and dizzy.

The frozen lands:

Horned Icicle Lizard (14). Snowy biomes, frozen and jagged peaks, snowy slopes; it basks on snow, ice and stone. Half the time it gives Ice.
Ice Miyama Stag Beetle (16). On the trunks of snowy taigas, groves and old-growth pine taigas. Half the time it gives Ice Powder.
Flying Penguin (20). Glides 4 to 10 blocks over frozen and deep frozen oceans, snowy beaches and ice spikes. It gives 1 to 2 Feathers.
A Class Toad (22). Snowy lands and peaks, one at a time. Half the time it carries a Mystery Egg.

How to read the table:

Level: the Hunter level you need to catch it, by net or by trap. The Hunter's page in the professions book lists each creature under "Catch" at that level.
Where: the biome groups it lives in (all swamps, all forests…), with any condition such as outside, at night, underground or a height. For a creature that comes from traps, a "(traps)" part says where the trap must stand.
How: net, trap or both.
XP (first catch): the Hunter XP per catch, and the one-time bonus the first time you catch the species (always four times the XP).

Creature	Level	Where	How	XP (first catch)
Doctor Hornet	1	flowery biomes	net	14 (56)
Hercules Beetle	1	jungles, forests	net	14 (56)
Mole	1	burrowing grounds	net	14 (56)
Seagull	1	beaches, stony shore (below y 100); beaches, oceans, rivers, stony shore (traps)	net, trap	14 (56)
Swallowtail Butterfly	1	plains, sunflower plains, meadow, flower forest, cherry grove, forest, birch forest (traps)	trap	14 (56)
Tempest Mouse	1	plains, sunflower plains, meadow, forests, taigas, savannas (traps)	trap	14 (56)
Tree Frog	6	forests, rivers	net	24 (96)
Clawed Scorpion	8	desert, badlands	net	28 (112)
Rock Lizard	8	desert, badlands	net	28 (112)
Umbrella Frog	8	jungles, rivers	net	28 (112)
Jungle Lizard	10	jungles	net	32 (128)
Lantern Firefly	10	rivers, swamps, forests (at night)	net	32 (128)
Oil Stain Frog	12	anywhere (underground, below y 45)	net	36 (144)
Red-Eyed Spotted Frog	12	swamps	net	36 (144)
Hidden Forest Bee	14	jungles	net	40 (160)
Horned Icicle Lizard	14	snowy biomes, frozen peaks, jagged peaks, snowy slopes	net	40 (160)
Lightbulb Firefly	14	anywhere (underground, below y 45)	net	40 (160)
Fire Hercules	15	desert, badlands	net	42 (168)
Atlas Beetle	16	forests	net	44 (176)
Ice Miyama Stag Beetle	16	snowy taiga, grove, old growth pine taiga	net	44 (176)
Purple Poison Frog	16	anywhere (underground, below y 45)	net	44 (176)
Crossbone Butterfly	18	swamps	net	48 (192)
Doze Evil Eye Butterfly	18	anywhere (underground, below y 45)	net	48 (192)
Flying Penguin	20	frozen ocean, deep frozen ocean, snowy beach, ice spikes (below y 120)	net	52 (208)
Giant Devil Hand Moth	20	swamps	net	52 (208)
A Class Toad	22	snowy biomes, frozen peaks, jagged peaks, snowy slopes	net	56 (224)
Thunder Spider	22	mountains (above y 130)	Enhanced Bug Catcher Net	56 (224)
Antlion Lacewing	24	desert, badlands (traps)	trap (enhanced)	60 (240)
Lightning Beetle	25	forests	Enhanced Bug Catcher Net	62 (248)
Spirit Firefly	30	swamps (at night)	Enhanced Bug Catcher Net	72 (288)
Rainbow Phoenix	40	meadow, cherry grove	net	92 (368)

The Tannery¶

The Tannery is the Hunter's workstation. It is made at a crafting table: a Crafting Table in the middle, Leather in the other five squares of the top two rows, and three Planks along the bottom row.

Only a Hunter can make its recipes. "Hides" are the lizards, the frogs, the A Class Toad and the Mole; "wings" are the butterflies, the moths and the Flying Penguin. Only four count as frogs for Slime Balls: the Tree Frog, the Umbrella Frog, the Red-Eyed Spotted Frog and the Oil Stain Frog. The Firefly Lantern takes Lantern or Lightbulb Fireflies (the Spirit Firefly doesn't count).

Makes	Level	XP	Ingredients
Leather ×3	5	20	2 × any hides
Firefly Lantern	12	34	3 × any fireflies, Glass, Iron Nugget
Slimeball ×2	16	42	2 × any frogs
Bait ×4	22	54	2 × any wings, any hides, Nectar
Scent Lure ×2	38	86	2 × any hides, 2 × Nectar, any wings, Glass Bottle
Specimen Case	46	102	5 × Glass, 2 × any planks, Iron Nugget, Marble

What the Tannery's own items do:

Firefly Lantern: a jar of fireflies that gives light level 14.
Bait: used (right-click), not eaten. For 2 minutes you are Baited, and Cruise's fish bite 35 % more often (see the Fisher).
Scent Lure: right-click to uncork it. It runs a minute's worth of creature spawning at once, but only brings creatures that would have come to that place anyway (same biome, time of day, height and nearby limits). In the wrong place it says "Nothing here answers it"; when it works, "Something moves nearby." You must wait 10 seconds before opening another.
Specimen Case: a glass trophy case. Right-click it with any caught creature and the creature stands inside, turning slowly. An empty hand takes it back out, and breaking the case drops it. The creature is kept, never used up.

Level perks¶

Level	Perk	What it does
10	"Nets and traps wear half as fast"	each net use has a 50 % chance to cost no durability, and half of all single-use traps survive their catch
25	"Rare variants twice as common around you"	the Golden Hercules and the Invisible Swallowtail come 1 in 10 instead of 1 in 20 near you
40	"20% chance a catch's drops come twice"	20 % of the time, a caught creature's drops come twice (never the creature itself)

Advancements¶

The Hunter tab opens at Hunter level 1 and is the largest in the mod, with 42 advancements: Apprentice Hunter at level 5, and the rest for creatures caught and things made. Its challenges include Golden Hercules and Naturalist, for catching every creature.