Spiderweb feathers trigger.
I think I found the trigger for the spiderwebs in the telegraph poles. It's interesting they are all next to the train tracks, so I thought maybe the train had something to do with it. I tested it with the pole north of Emerald Ranch as that seemed the first for me because of the timeslot.
I thought, maybe you have to shoot the feather from a train. But it's going to be hard to get a train to be there at the right time, unless... So I fast travelled to ER, stole a wagon, evaded the bounty and put the wagon on the track just past the split. Took out my pocket watch to watch the time (and put the camera in a direction to allow off screen spawning). And what do you know, a train spawns consistently around 12 o'clock (just a little before) and it stops for the wagon. Guy gets upset and gets his guards to attack you around 1 o'clock. I finish them off just before 2 and the spiderweb spawns. I shoot the feather, it falls down and A CROW SPAWNS AND FLIES AWAY.
I tried it without a train and there is no crow. I tried it three times, and every time there is a crow. To be fair, two times I had to shoot the web twice to get the crow to spawn so I don't know what I did differently or wrong. The first time there was still a guard harassing me, so maybe something to do with them.
I don't have time to do this for all the webs at the moment so maybe others can check:
- does this happen for others consistently?
- does this happen with all the webs or only for the 'right' one?
- if it only happens for the right one, what is the one after this one? My guess would be the one NW of Rhodes as that one is on the same timeslot, but maybe the birds on the mural tell the order.
Posted Jan 27, 2026, 1:43 PM UTC