Great magma crab

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great magma crab
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Character

C

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Great Magma Crab

Faction

crabs (Loved100 Reputation)

Demeanor

neutral

Gender

neuter

Inventory
Inventory
Skills
Skills
Mutations
Mutations
Corpse Dropped

great magma crab corpse (90%)

Experience?The XP granted when killed. Click
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a level-based breakdown.

1000 XP

XP Tier

8

Role

Tank


Extra info:
  • Weighs 200 lbs
great magma crab

In its infancy, rock streamed through the planet in plumes of magma, spilled into hushed caverns, and quickened pools of protoplasm out of its stilled inertia. Plates slipped and matter was crushed, pressurized. Later, as entropy bore cracks into the crust, sticky lifethings fused to the rock and scuttled forth. In geological terms they are tiny things, but you insist that scale is the wrong one.

Perfect

A great magma crab is a creature belonging to the crabs faction. Great magma crabs can be found underground in tier 8 zones, as well as in the lower levels of the Asphalt Mines.[1][2]

Great magma crabs attack in melee with their \red-hot claws, natural cudgel weapons that each deal ♥3d63-18 (Avg: 10.5) damage.[3] To supplement their claws, great magma crabs possess the Cudgel Proficiency, Offhand Strikes, and Flurry skills, as well as a special NPC only skill, Shattering Blows.[4]

Great magma crabs are completely immune to heat damage of any kind, as they possess a heat resistance of 100. They also possess extremely high burning and vaporization temperatures, equal to 99,999,999° T each.[4]

Finally, great magma crabs possess two mutations, Enhanced Skeleton and Kinetic Dampening, each at mutation level 12. However, neither of them have any function.[4]

Shattering Blows

This section is an excerpt from Shattering Blows#Mechanics.

Shattering Blows grants the attacker a 10% chance to inflict one of the following effects with each cudgel attack:[5]

  • If the target is the player, a longer-duration version of the cracked effect on one random piece of the player's equipment.
  • If the target is not the player, or if the player has AV greater than 0, a longer-duration version of the cleaved effect.
    • The player typically only has AV greater than 0 if they have intrinsic AV, such as AV granted from the Calloused skill.

Both effects last for 2000 turns[6], which is longer than a full day in game. Both effects can also stack, leading either to cracked pieces of equipment with a greater than -1 AV penalty, and/or to a cleaved effect on the player/creature with a greater than -1 AV penalty.

In extreme cases, such as a historic site filled with rustaceans, it is completely plausible for a player to get reduced to 0 AV for a long period of time due to this effect. For example, a player with the Calloused skill might have all of their equipment cracked down to 0 AV, as well as a -3 or -4 penalty from a cleaved effect directly applied to themselves.

Animated Effect

In-game, the great magma crab has a unique "flaming" animated effect:

References

This information is reliable as of patch 2.0.201.54.
  1. PopulationTables.xml, population name Tier8CavePopulation
  2. EncounterTables.xml, encountertable name Asphalt Mines 8
  3. ObjectBlueprints.xml, object name Great Magma Crab Claw
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 ObjectBlueprints.xml, object name Great Magma Crab
  5. XRL.World.Effects.ShatterArmor
  6. XRL.World.Parts.Skill.Cudgel_ShatteringBlows