Cavero Hunter

Overview

Cavero Hunter fully automates seven Hunter methods: Bird Snares, Box Traps (chinchompas), Net Traps (salamanders), Butterfly Net, Falconry, Aerial Fishing and Wilderness black chinchompas. You pick a method, mark the tiles you want trapped, press start, and it handles placement, resetting, inventory management, banking and — for the Wilderness — PvP safety.

Quick start

1. Open the side panel and pick your method from the dropdown.
2. Mark your trap tiles — see Placing trap tiles. Butterfly Net uses a different "Set Butterfly Center" tile when radius mode is on.
3. Tune the method-specific options — 3-tick, progressive Falconry, banking, radius, etc. (see Configuration reference).
4. Set your drop list & free slots — defaults cover junk furs, bones, raw meat; you can add whatever you want to auto-drop.
5. Hit ▶ START.

Wilderness chins need your combat loadout configured before starting — that's what the plugin re-equips after every bank trip.

Supported methods

Bird Snares

Crimson Swift, Golden Warbler, Copper Longtail, Cerulean Twitch and Tropical Wagtail. Extra toggles: catch butterflies while traps reload and auto-bury bones.

Box Traps — chinchompas

Grey, Red and Black chinchompas. Supports 3-tick manipulation for top XP rates.

Net Traps — salamanders

Green, Orange, Red, Black and Tecu salamanders. Uses the player's configured loadout for the salamander area.

Butterfly Net

Ruby Harvest (15), Sapphire Glacialis (25), Snowy Knight (35), Black Warlock (45), Sunlight Moth (65) and Moonlight Moth (75). Optional butterfly-jar auto-catch, optional radius mode so the plugin stays near a tile you pick.

Falconry

Spotted (43), Dark (57) and Dashing (69) Kebbit. Progressive mode auto-selects the best kebbit for your Hunter level. Optional banking pays the quick-hire NPC (coins withdrawn from bank when you drop below 500 gp).

Aerial Fishing

Cormorant fishing with optional pre-cut fish (3-tick speed) or quick-cut fish (multiple per tick). The two options are mutually exclusive.

Wilderness black chinchompas

PvP-aware hunting at the Wilderness chin location. See Wilderness safety for the full list of defensive features. The plugin banks at Edgeville when you hit the configured chin cap.

Placing trap tiles

Trap positions aren't preset — you pick them. For every trap-based method the plugin adds a right-click menu entry to the ground:

• [CAVERO] Add Tile — mark a tile for this method
• [CAVERO] Remove Tile — clear a previously-marked tile
• [CAVERO] Set Butterfly Center — only for Butterfly Net in radius mode

Tiles are saved per method: switching from Bird Snares to Chinchompas loads that method's own set of tiles. They persist across sessions. Use Clear Saved Tiles in the panel to reset the current method's tiles.

3-tick manipulation

Toggle Enable 3-tick in the method panel and stock one of three item combinations in your inventory. The plugin auto-detects which is available and uses it on every trap reset:

• Knife + Teak logs — makes teak stocks as a byproduct (auto-dropped)
• Knife + Mahogany logs — makes mahogany stocks as a byproduct
• Pestle & Mortar + Swamp tar + clean herb (Guam, Marrentill, Tarromin or Harralander) — makes herb tar; needs at least 15 swamp tar

The knife-log combos drop the crafted stocks automatically. Grimy herbs work too — the plugin cleans them on the fly. If items run out mid-session the plugin logs a warning and keeps trapping at the normal cadence.

Aerial Fishing has its own 3-tick: Pre-cut Fish cuts fish one tick ahead so the catch lands on the 3-tick cycle.

Wilderness safety

Wilderness chins is the one method that can actually lose you gear, so it gets its own defence layer. All of this is on by default; tune the thresholds in the Wildy section of the config.

Auto-hop

The plugin watches for attackable players entering your combat-level range. When one spawns, auto-hop kicks in instantly — before you're in PJ range — and moves you to a fresh world.

Teleblock detection

If you catch a teleblock the plugin stops trying to teleport and walks to Edgeville bank instead. The escape is robust to short walks but you can still die if the PKer chases with enough gear — treat it as a last-ditch safety net, not immunity.

Auto-eat

Configurable HP threshold (default 50). When your HP drops below it during the escape route, the plugin eats the first food item with an Eat action from your inventory. Set it to 0 to disable eating entirely.

Chin cap & banking

Max chins (default 100) caps how many chins you collect before the plugin teleports or walks to Edgeville bank. After banking it re-validates your loadout — notably that a charged Amulet of Glory is equipped — deposits junk, and heads back into the hunting spot.

Side panel

The plugin's side panel gives you:

• Status row — running/paused dot, runtime clock
• Method picker + Clear Saved Tiles
• Stats cards — Hunter level, XP gained, XP/hr, Caught, Caught/hr. Trap methods also show active/saved trap counts
• Method-specific section — the options relevant to the active method (3-tick, progressive, radius, Wildy safety, etc.)
• Inventory card — minimum free slots and drop list
• System card — heap memory, threads, Java version (diagnostic)

Everything refreshes roughly every 200 ms while the plugin is running.

Configuration reference

General

• Hunting method — picks the active method
• Clear saved tiles — wipes the current method's tile list
• Debug console — log viewer + crash reporter

Aerial Fishing

• Pre-cut fish (default on) — 3-tick style pre-cut
• Quick-cut fish — multi-cut per tick; mutually exclusive with pre-cut

Butterfly Net

• Butterfly — target species
• Using butterfly jar — auto-jar caught butterflies
• Use radius + radius (1–25) — stay within N tiles of the center tile
• Min / Max tick delay (0–10) — random delay between catches

Birds

• Catch butterflies while traps reload
• Bury bones

Falconry

• Kebbit — target species
• Progressive — auto-picks the best kebbit for your level
• Enable banking — bank when inventory is full or coins drop below 500 gp

Chinchompas & Wilderness

• Enable 3-tick
• Auto-hop — Wildy only; hop on attackable-player detection
• Min HP to eat (0–99) — 0 disables eating
• Max black chins (1–10000) — bank after this many
• Wilderness loadout — re-equipped after each bank trip

Inventory

• Min inventory space (1–25) — free slots to maintain
• Drop list — comma-separated names of items to auto-drop. Default covers bones, raw bird meat, swamp lizard, salamander variants and kebbit furs.

Tips & gotchas

• Quests come first — Falconry/Aerial need Eagles' Peak; Swamp salamanders need Druidic Ritual. The plugin won't progress you through them.
• 3-tick is graceful — if it runs out of items it just drops back to normal cadence; you don't lose the session.
• Tile count should match your Hunter level — see the tip in Placing trap tiles.
• Wildy glory must be charged — an uncharged Glory will fail the escape-teleport; the plugin expects at least 1 charge in the ring/amulet.
• Black chins take real risk — auto-hop is fast but not instant; keep your risk to what you can afford to lose.
• Pre-cut vs quick-cut on Aerial — pre-cut is best for XP/hr; quick-cut is easier on input but caps lower.
• Butterfly radius — set the center tile before enabling radius; without one the plugin wanders.

Troubleshooting

Support

Bug reports and feature requests are most useful on Discord — include the method you were running and a copy-paste from the debug console if something misbehaved.