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In many parts of the world, lobsters are the rarest and most valuable kinds of shellfish. This includesStardew Valley, whereLobstersarethe most valuable things you can find in a crab pot.
However, lobsters are also the rarest crab-pot fish. Unlike other shellfish, the alternatives to using crab pots are few and far between, and so you’ll need to think of ways to adjust the odds more in your favor. Fortunately, there are a few ways to do so.
Lobsters and Crab Pots
InStardew Valley,you unlock access to the crab pot recipe at Fishing 3. Each one costs 40 wood and 3 iron bars to craft, although someone with the Trapper profession can reduce this cost to 25 wood and 2 copper bars.
Once you have a crab pot, you’re able to place it in any water tile adjacent to a space you can walk on. After that, you must add a piece of bait and wait one day. Special bait types don’t come with special benefits, so only use basic bait. Players with the Luremaster profession don’t have to add bait. The next day, something will be in the crab pot.
Every crab pot has a 38 percent chance of catching trash instead of shellfish, and this includes green algae and seaweed. The type of shellfish you may catch depends on whether you placed the pot in freshwater or saltwater. You can only catch lobsters in saltwater, and they have the lowest odds of any shellfish: four percent.
One way you may deal with this problem is to get the Mariner profession. “Mariner” is one of the Fishing 10 professions, and if you have it you won’t get junk items in your crab pots. On top of that, your odds of getting any type of shellfish are equal. Since there are seven saltwater crab-pot shellfish, you get a one-in-seven chance of catching a lobster, or about 14 percent. If you aren’t a Mariner, you can switch professions byinteracting with the Statue of Uncertainty in the Sewers and spending 10,000g.
Another way to get a lobster is to build enough crab pots to beat the odds. With four percent odds, you can set 25 crab pots and expect to get roughly one lobster per day. Even 10-20 crab pots will give you a decent chance of finding a lobster every day.
There are two other ways of getting a lobster. However, both are expensive and can take a long time.
