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Expert Wrangler! Made Easy!
By Gaming Has Begun
How to get the Expert Wrangler! (Capture 50 Animal) Achievement Easier.
   
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Disclaimer.
This guide was written and tested on Raft in January 2022.
Thus was correct as of Build ID: 6925537.
If this no longer works please post in the comments to help others. and an update will be posted on this guide for everyone.
Thank You in advance.
(FalopayPastaBase Tested around Dec 2022, DRXDD in July 2023 and further tested by Fridge1990 in June 2024 and both have said it still works. If this changes or others inform of its continual availability will post updates)
Pre-Requisites
The achievements can't be obtained in Creative mode of the game and must be done in a regular game.
This has been tested using an alt account.
This rule also applies to the Foundation achievements too.

What you need before you can do this Achievement is the following:
A Raft with an area for the animals to be housed in.
























The ability to make the Net Launcher and have one.
To make it you will need:

2 Scrap Metal
4 Plastic
1 Metal Ingot
2 Bolts

Please Note: You will need to make more Net Launchers as this item does wear out after a number of shots. (On Easy it is around 22 shots)











Ammo is another issue you will need to solve. This will mean killing a good number of Puffer Fish (1 Fish 1 Goo/Powder) to obtain the Explosive Goo and then refine it in the smelter to make the required amount of Explosive Powder. The plus side is you do get the 3 achievements Puffer Fish achievements if you don't have them already.
So in short you will need to make a minimum of 50 Net Canisters and this will require:
200 Rope
200 Scrap Metal
50 Explosive Powder
Stage 1: Capture some Animals
To make your life easier when trying to get the achievement you will first need to capture a few animals. Now normally you will find between 1 and 3 animals on bigger island. But this will mean finding Boars and Skreacher's too.
After finding an animal catch it and take it back to your raft and place it in your pre-made pen.
(Don't forget to have grass and tools to harvest milk and wool from the animals. No Food, No Stuff)

Stage 2: Re-Capture the Animals in the Pen
Now that you have a good number of animals (Suggest 5 to 6) on your raft, you need to start re-capturing them again.
I would suggest not capturing the same animal twice in a row and after a round of captures go and do something (Water plants, start cooking, smelting, etc) and then come back for another round.
I have found sometimes it will not count a capture so this should lower the chances of this happening.

And it's Done.
And after 50 captures you are done with a new shiny Achievement on your profile.

Hope the guide helped have a great one.

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14 Comments
AdNauseam 30 Jul @ 12:12am 
Still works, july 2025.
And yes, you need to make a pause between capturing the same animal, otherwise it won't count
Sandwich_Enjoyer1 16 Sep, 2023 @ 4:51pm 
hello, im doing this at september 2023, and i can say that i have found an improvement to this "explot". You just have to save the game before catching the animals, and then exit the world WITHOUT saving, and you can do it infinitely until you reach the achievement. Besides, that work for the kills achievements too, so you can left the enemie (bird, bear, angler fish, rat or shark and one hit, save the game, kill it and exit. I hope i can help someone with this information. Have a day rafters!!.
DRXDD 26 Jul, 2023 @ 9:07am 
I can confirm that this still works as of July 2023. I'd suggest for Stage 2 though to capture one and check your achievement progress if it adds a count to it. Then proceed to repeating until you get it.
Gaming Has Begun  [author] 17 Dec, 2022 @ 11:24am 
Thanks FalopayPastaBase :dentures:
FalopayPastaBase 16 Dec, 2022 @ 5:06pm 
Hey, just checked and its working! Thanks!
Gaming Has Begun  [author] 16 Dec, 2022 @ 11:24am 
Hi Blue Ranger
I will look into it. Thanks for the update.
If anyone else has the same experience drop a comment here.
Zer0Decay 16 Dec, 2022 @ 5:15am 
I just tried on my world as of December 2022 and it did not work for me
FierceLeopard9 18 Feb, 2022 @ 3:56pm 
smart
The Living Glitch 21 Jan, 2022 @ 12:47pm 
Thanks for that. At least I know now.
Gaming Has Begun  [author] 21 Jan, 2022 @ 9:13am 
Hi The Living Glitch.
I have done a test using my little boys account and found that using Creative Mode does not count towards both the capture of animals nor the Foundation Achievements and will assume the zipline one will be the same. I will add to my guide to above to let others know. Thank You for your question.