Box traps are items used in the Hunter skill. Similar to bird snaring, box trapping involves laying the box, waiting for animals to be trapped. Box trapping can be started at level 27 Hunter.

After a player sets up a box trap, they will automatically walk one square west to stand next to the trap. However, one may counter this by moving an item in the inventory while setting up the trap. If done correctly, the player will not walk west after setting up the trap. There is also another method to counter this. A player may click at the right time the grid they wish to stand on. This time seems to be right after the box "springs" open, or right before.

In order to obtain a box trap, you can buy them from Aleck (for 38 coins) located in the Hunter shop in Yanille, west of the Pet Shop.

Up to 5 box traps may be taken from Nyriki's crate or the Ruined boat for free.

Laying traps

• After a certain amount of time, a box trap will collapse, requiring the player to pick it back up, or lay it again.
  • The box trap that you laid has collapsed.
• Sometimes, the box trap may be triggered, but the animal is not trapped.
  • This trap has been triggered by something.
• If the trap is successful, the box trap becomes a Shaking box.
  • It looks like there is something caught inside.
• Experience is only gained after the player retrieves the trapped animal, NOT after it gets trapped in the box.
• It takes an average of 1.63 seconds to lay a box trap.

In addition, if a player leaves a shaking box alone for a while, it will collapse. The captured creature will be lost if this happens.

• If a player has an extra box trap with them, when they click to pick up the trap rapidly click on your extra trap and it will be set up faster.
• When setting multiple traps, since the animation takes a while and the character moves, right-clicking will avoid a lot of hunter-clicking annoyances. For example, while re-setting traps, right-click on the next one you want to fix and keep the cursor on "Dismantle Box Trap" or "Check Shaking Box" - then when the animation finishes and your character moves you can simply click on the choice. This avoids having to find the trap with the cursor, and avoids clicking on other things that might be on top of the trap—your familiar , a butterfly , or your prey, or other unwanted actions.
• Also right-clicking on a fallen trap yields the choice "Lay Box Trap" which has the character set the trap right on the space it was.
• Note that just because the animal walks under the trap, doesn't mean it has been caught. It must go through the animation of entering the trap first.

Multiple traps

Box-trapping can be done with multiple traps, the highest being 5 box traps at level 80 Hunter, or 6 with the Volcanic trapper outfit.

Level	Box traps
20	2
40	3
60	4
80	5

It is recommended that players bring multiple box traps with them (perhaps 10-15) while hunting. This is because it is easily possible that they may neglect a trap they set up and another player may steal their box trap.

Baiting or Smoking

Box traps can be baited or smoked, both of which increases the rates of success for catching animals. The bait disappears after each successful trap. Many hunters find this to be too much effort or inconvenience, for the small increase in capture rate.

Smoking a trap requires level 39 Hunter. To smoke a trap, you use a Lit torch with the already set up trap.

Animals

Certain trapped animals appear in the inventory. Left-clicking the animal will release the trapped animal. Trapped chinchompas are stackable, and can be used as a multi-target ranged weapon.

With the release of the Summoning skill, more animals were made available for box-trapping. Note that only the baby versions of the animals can be caught using box traps.

Image	Creature	Hunter level	Summoning level	Preferred bait	Bait required?	Location	Experience	Reward
	Ferret	27	-	Raw meat	No	Woodland	115.2	Ferret
	Gecko	27	10	-	N/A	Karamja	100	Gecko
	Raccoon	27	80	-	N/A	Gunnarsgrunn	100	Raccoon
	Baby monkey	27	95	Bananas	Yes	Shilo Village	100	Monkey
	Cobalt skillchompa	27	-	Spicy tomatoes	No	Tree gnome stronghold	80.7	Cobalt skillchompa
	Viridian skillchompa	46	-	Spicy tomatoes	No	South of Port Phasmatys	119	Viridian skillchompa
	Platypus	48	10	Smouldering lavender	Yes (must be equipped)	Jungle	-	Platypus
	Chinchompa	53	-	Spicy tomatoes	No	Woodland	198	Chinchompa
	Carnivorous Chinchompa	63	-	Spicy minced meat	No	Jungle	265	Red Chinchompa
	Pawya	66	-	Papaya fruit	Yes	Isafdar	400	Raw pawya meat
	Azure skillchompa	68	-	Spicy tomatoes	No	Snowy hunter area	178	Azure skillchompa
	Grenwall	77	-	Raw pawya meat	Yes (unless Medium Tirannwn Tasks have been completed)	Isafdar	1100	Grenwall spikes
	Crimson skillchompa	89	-	Spicy tomatoes	No	Desert	382	Crimson skillchompa
	Crystal skillchompa	97	-	Spicy tomatoes	No	Tyras Camp	476	Crystal skillchompa

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Disassembly

Disassembly XP	0.1
Item quantity required	1
Material count	1
Base junk chance	?  98.9% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 98.9% 1 34 98.0% 2 49 96.0% 3 64 94.0% 4 69 92.0% 5 78 90.0% 6 83 87.1% 7 91 85.1% 8 95 82.1% 9 105 79.2%
Possible materials
Often
Simple parts	99%
Rarely
Variable components	1%

Defined properties:

All Junk chance: 98.9 Junk chance: 98.9

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