Cottonwood Creek American Small Game And Waterfowl Park (A Duck Hunters Paradise)

[terse skiff]

This will be a small game duck hunting park meaning it’s 1/3 the size of a normal map set in Arkansas this map will be setup like a duck hunters dream and will finish off something we have been wanting for a while. This will feature flooded timber to flooded rice fields and plenty of dry land hunting also. Much like the already existing buildable blinds in the game this map with feature buildable duck blinds that will resemble pit blinds.

Species:

Mallard

Wood duck (backfilled to Mississippi)

Pintail

Gadwall

Green/blue wing teal

Mergansers

Canada goose

Red head

Bobwhite quail

Ring neck pheasant

Chukar

Opossum

Common raccoon

Gray fox

American beaver

For the weapon this map should include a 12 gauge semi automatic resembling a Beneli m2 or sbe3 that comes stock with a duck camo pattern

All of the new duck species will receive the appropriate callers and decoys.

Beaver dams will work quite like the rabbit burrows do now.

Great one: this map will feature our first waterfowl great one and that being the mallard duck. All great one mallards will be banded along with cool plumage types. Also the spawns for ducks should be reworked so you don’t have to kill the whole flock making ducks grindable.

Another thing would be banded ducks this would be either rare or uncommon. The name kinda explains itself and there is just a metal band for tracking around some ducks legs for the non hunters.

One mechanic I would like it implement would be waders it would be an outfit you can select in the outfit menu and it helps you reach deeper water to hunt. However this slows your speed to only walking speed but if you’re using them for their intended use you shouldn’t be running to get ducks. The speed limitation is to prevent grinders figuring out a way to help claim their water kills faster or just in general to be realistic no one runs around in waders.

Constructive criticism is greatly appreciated and please suggest if you would like anything added or removed

[worn crescent]

An Arkansas duck map would be sick!

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[broken spade]

Would the mallard duck be banded?

@wispy moss

[terse skiff]

That could be very cool I’m gonna add that as a rare tomorrow in my post

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[last verge]

they could also backfill pintail to mississippi and they could name them Norther Pintail

[last verge]

they couldnt really do that because bands are only for migration really and how would the animal even get banded cool idea though.

[jaunty violet]

What? Banded birds are a highly held trophy in North America irl, generally they’re banded as hatchlings/fledgelings and grow into the band. Just saw a video of someone who shot a banded goose that ended up being 15 years old not too long ago.

[last verge]

im all for bands being in the game it is just a concept that will be hard to do, the band is only for tracking migration, when you kill one you go to the website and type the number of your band in the date it was killed and where it was killed to see how far it has traveld from where it was banded at

[jaunty violet]

Why? Just make it a new rare, wouldn’t be too tough to add a band to a common plumage type and call it a day.

[last verge]

when they are killed in game how would a new band respawn?

[jaunty violet]

Same way any rare respawns? It has a set chance of spawning from any killed animal (of that species) tho it should be a very low chance.

[last verge]

why would cotw need a migratory aspect in the game?

[jaunty violet]

It doesn’t just add the bands you don’t need to be able to look up the info, and the migratory aspect is implied with the addition of bands, and even without it, birds migrate but each map is just always at one time of year so you’re not gonna see that in action anyhow

[last verge]

would that mean that we would get a deer hunting season too and if you shoot one out of season you get a fine.

[jaunty violet]

What are you on about? It’s just a new rare option idk why you’re thinking so hard about this or why you’re so opposed?

[last verge]

im not opposed as a waterfowl hunter i would really like this added to the game but it would just be hard to do

[jaunty violet]

Again overthinking it, how would it be hard?

[last verge]

again bands are only for migration and migration only why would cotw need migration

[jaunty violet]

Why do you need an actual migration system to implement bands? Heck there’s always a chance you shoot a banded bird in the state it was originally banded in.

[last verge]

why would could they add bands without a migration system bands are ONLY for migration

[terse skiff]

I like that Mississippi needs more ducks it’s perfect for it

[terse skiff]

It would be hard to do realistically but it fine as a rare

[jaunty violet]

They’re for discovering/learning migration routes, doesn’t mean the bird always migrates and the addition of bands once again can IMPLY migration, the seasons on a single map NEVER change so why would they add actual migration when the the game doesn’t change seasons, I suppose one way you could implement it is to say if you shoot a mallard from Layton the band could be stamped with the logo from New England and vice versa, but it’s really not necessary.

[last verge]

this is my exact point

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you even said that they are for learning migration routes

[jaunty violet]

Bruh that’s why they band the bird but you can’t force a bird to migrate, its also how we know of year round populations

[last verge]

it is almost certain a bird will migrate exept if its in a certain place like mexico

[last verge]

what?

[jaunty violet]

Can you not read? Purple is year round, resident means it doesn’t migrate.

[last verge]

i did not read it my bad but some places birds dont migrate if the area is warm and lots of food,

[jaunty violet]

Yeah the thing is waterfowl are built for cold, in my area (MT) we have Canada geese that never leave and then we have some that come in from Alaska and Canada

[last verge]

true some birds but also some are not built for that

[jaunty violet]

Harlequin are wild cause they don’t care about cold they live at sea and move inland only to breed

[last verge]

i have to go i would love to see bands in the game it is just a hard concept to do

[jaunty violet]

As a rare no, with realistic implementations not needed or expected in a video game with albino lions and trophy’s with a skull pattern on its face (tahr), sure it would be hard.

[worn crescent]

Hear me out...maybe they migrated in?? 🤦‍♂️

[terse skiff]

The maps are like they are stuck in time anyways so this makes total sense

[jaunty violet]

That’s what I was saying!

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[fickle salmon]

I love the idea of this👍

Also maybe super rare neck bands on Canada geese

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[short needle]

Would be cool to get the kings of ducks, Canvasbacks. Also I hope if they add blue-wing teal they are in mating colors not migrating colors.

[hazy raft]

Would this map have "broken bale blinds"

[narrow comet]

The King of Diving ducks in the Canvasback, and then hopefully the King of Dabbling ducks in the American Black Duck as well.

[short needle]

Never heard that, everyone around here, Central/Southern Missouri, refers to Canvasbacks as King

[narrow comet]

Well Canvasbacks are the largest native Diving Duck in North America (the Muscovy Duck is larger but non-native) and the American Black Duck is the largest Dabbling Duck in North America on average (mallards are occasionally larger but not usually).

In the grand scheme of things, Canvasbacks are king, as they are longer and heavier.

[short needle]

Nah I get what you were saying I was just stating that black duck wouldn’t make sense for this region of America to call them Kings

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[desert ember]

Love this idea but I think not having eastern wild turkey is a bit of a miss

[terse skiff]

Yea I could see eastern