Talk:Crab Pot

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Quality

While the silver and gold star prices are theoretically correct, I have never seen anything other than the base item come from a Crab Pot. Should theoretical prices be added when they are unobtainable?--Fluxxdog (talk) 22:05, 24 August 2018 (BST)

Absolutely not, if quality fish are not obtainable, they shouldn't be on the page. The question is, has anyone ever got quality fish from a crab pot? margotbean (talk) 14:40, 25 August 2018 (BST)

I'm going to remove quality from the page, because it seems impossible to obtain. The infoboxes on the individual pages are going to be more difficult, but I'll work on that. margotbean (talk) 22:02, 30 August 2018 (BST)

Percentages

The percentage chances do not add up. The non-Mariner numbers for saltwater catches add up to a total of 120.1514%, which cannot be explained by including the chance to catch trash. Meanwhile, the sum of the percentages for the freshwater fish is 62.45%. Can someone review these chances? --R M Zing (talk) 02:44, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

You slipped a decimal place when adding 6.46, and added 64.6. The ocean percentage adds to 62.0114BlaDe (talk) 03:00, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

RNG behavior

If you lay a vertical column of crab pots (such as along the edge of the beach) and check the catches over a few days, it quickly becomes clear that you get the same set of results shifted up by one each day. I checked the decompiled code (check CrabPot.cs#L15), and indeed it's using an RNG seed based linearly on both days played as well as the y-coordinate of the tile. This can be pretty useful for trying to catch e.g. a lobster, since if you don't see it one day, you know to shift your column somewhere else on the beach. --Starwed (talk) 17:40, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

That would be Objects\CrabPot::DayUpdate, where the seed is Game1.stats.DaysPlayed + (int) Game1.uniqueIDForThisGame / 2 + (int) this.tileLocation.X * 1000 + (int) this.tileLocation.Y); margotbean (talk) 18:20, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Mine Lake

Maybe it should be mentioned somewhere that it is pointless to place crab pots in the lake in the mines? I just lost 15 crab pots in the lake on level 20 of the mines because i didn't know. Or was this a fluke on my part? JayR (talk) 05:17, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

It's already on the page, under Freshwater, 2nd paragraph. margotbean (talk) 14:28, 30 November 2020 (UTC)