Shield crab (monster type)

Shield Crab is a type of beast that can be found from Act 1 onwards.

Abilities

All varieties:

• Resists Fire (75%)
• Becomes Spitter upon death

Note: When Shield Crabs are spawned by strongboxes, the emerging Spitter does not count as one of the Strongbox monsters and will not prevent the box from opening. In Immolation modifier races or maps, the death explosion occurs on the death of the both the Shield Crab and the Spitter

Variations

Name	Colour	Location	Special Attributes
Cave Crustacean	Cyan	The Submerged Passage	Becomes Crustacean Sniper
Cave Crustacean	Cyan	The Flooded Depths	Cold Damage, becomes Crustacean Sniper
Deep Crustacean
Scrabbling Menace	Brown	The Cavern of Wrath	Vulnerability on Hit, becomes Scrabbling Spitter
Craicic Shield Crab	Pink	Einhar mission

Uniques

• First form of The Deep Dweller in The Flooded Depths
• First form of Shivershell, Invasion Boss

Version history

Version	Changes
2.2.2	Shield Crabs should now always drop items when exploded, regardless of the source of the explosion.
0.9.3	Shield crabs now throw their shells off a lot faster.
0.7.2	Decreased Shield Crab life.
0.7.1	Disabled corpse consumption of Shield Crab shells.
0.6.10	Sand spitters now escape from slain Shield Crabs to attack you.