Cave crawler

**Cave crawler**
Release date	14 March 2005 (Update)
Members?	Yes
Combat level	23 / 138
Life points	220 / 1220
Experience for killing	118 / 488
Slayer level	Level 10
Slayer XP	22 / 122
Assigned by	Mazchna or Achtryn, Chaeldar, Sumona
Aggressive?	Yes
Poisonous?	Yes (80)
Immune; to poison?	No
Attack style	Melee
Attack speed	SlowInterval: 4.2 seconds
Max hit	32 / 139
Weakness	Crush, Slash, Dorgeshuun weapons
Always drops	Nothing
Examine text	A spiky crawling critter. (level 23) ; Not very tasty-looking. (level 138)

For the creature in Daemonheim, see Cave crawler (Daemonheim).

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Cave crawlers are Slayer monsters that require level 10 slayer to kill. They drop a variety of Herblore related items and a few seeds. They are, however, poisonous, and have an extremely fast healing rate (approximately 10 life points per second) making them somewhat more dangerous than their combat level suggests.

When fighting the level 23 crawlers, a player shouldn't need much food; about 4-6 cakes (480 health-720 health healed) should do for a player with a decent defence level if an antipoison is consumed immediately upon being poisoned. The level 138 crawlers are a tougher challenge and require good healing abilities.

Cave crawlers are a great way to train herblore, dropping various herbs, vials of water, and some secondary herblore ingredients. Cave crawlers drop all the ingredients needed to make antipoison and Super antipoison potions (Unicorn horn dust, Grimy marrentill/Grimy irit which must be cleaned, and a vial of water) in case you didn't bring any. The unicorn horn dust, however, is not a common drop.

Cave crawlers are a popular delicacy amongst the Dorgeshuun cave goblins, who cut them into filets and serve them on a large platter. The poisonous parts of them are presumably removed. Consequently, they are weak to all bone weapons, including Zanik's crossbow, which makes short work of most assignments.

In the quest Fur 'n' Seek, a cave crawler hide must be collected and cleaned for the Odd Old Man.

Level 138 Cave crawlers are also a great source of ancient effigies. Ideally the Pollnivneach Slayer Dungeon is the best place to obtain these.

Locations

Fremennik Slayer Dungeon (level 23) - Recommended for slayer tasks and slaying in general. Many in one open space. (Fairy ring A-J-R)
Lumbridge Swamp Caves (level 23) - Recommended for slayer tasks for the nearness of a bank and for the fact that they drop White berries and rare herbs quite frequently. You need a light source, and a tinderbox and spiny helmet (or slayer helmet) are recommended. There are four cave crawlers at this location, also they respawn very quickly. Note: A rope is required for first-time entry, unless you've started The Lost Tribe quest, in which case these caves can be accessed from the Lumbridge cellar. (The entry must be opened with a pickaxe the first time, but is just to the south after you enter the cave goblin tunnels.)
Dorgesh-Kaan South Dungeon (level 23)
Pollnivneach Slayer Dungeon (level 138), after fighting the Monstrous cave crawler

Strengths and weaknesses

Cave crawlers poison fairly often so it is advised to use anti-poison potion when fighting them. Their poison is fairly powerful and will initially cause 80 damage. Drinking a super antipoison prior to engaging in combat with them will prevent being poisoned for a good amount of time. Even high level players are suggested to bring at least one antipoison, as the poison can kill you if you're not careful. Conserve potions by equipping one's best defensive melee gear to minimise the poisonous hits taken. Super defences can also help with this.

Note: If fighting cave crawlers in the Fremennik Slayer Dungeon, you can easily make antipoisons by obtaining the marrentill and vials of water as drops and killing a unicorn located near the entrance and using a pestle and mortar to grind the horn into unicorn dust.

File:Cave crawler safespot.png

A safespot in Pollnivneach dungeon.

The level 138 cave crawlers are in a multi-combat zone, and it is recommended that you use a dwarf multicannon and protect from melee to slay. However, a slayer task may use up to around 1500 cannonballs to complete using this method, and the prayer will not prevent poisoning. Level 138 Cave Crawlers are also considered large creatures, therefore using the Dragon halberd from various safespots between rocks in the Desert Slayer Dungeon is a good trick of killing them, without having to bank often.

Level 23 and 138 cave crawlers drop all of the required components for many potions such as Prayer potion (Vial of water, ranarr and snape grass) at a fairly regular rate, allowing players to stay in the area for longer. They also drop all the ingredients for both antipoison and super antipoison which is very handy considering the accuracy of their attacks, and therefore the frequency at which they cause poison. Some other useful potions made from their drops are Restore potion, Strength potion, Super strength potion, Super attack potion, Prayer potion and Super defence potion.

There are several safe spots. Simply hiding behind any rock works.

Drops (level 23)

Runes

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Earth rune	9–10	2 Common	54–60
	Fire rune	12	2 Common	168
Template:ExchangeItemNat	Nature rune	3	2 Common	Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[".

Seeds

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
Potato seed	Potato seed	1–4	2 Common	1–4
Onion seed	Onion seed	1–3	2 Common	1–3
Cabbage seed	Cabbage seed	1–3	2 Common	3–9
Tomato seed	Tomato seed	1–3	2 Common	1–3
Sweetcorn seed	Sweetcorn seed	1–2	2 Common	3–6
Strawberry seed	Strawberry seed	1	2 Common	92
	Watermelon seed	1	3 Uncommon	1,861
	Evil turnip seed	1–4	3 Uncommon	52–208

Herbs

Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
Grimy guam	1–2	2 Common	521–1,042
Grimy marrentill	1–2	2 Common	41–82
Grimy tarromin	1–2	2 Common	56–112
Grimy harralander	1–2	2 Common	385–770
Grimy ranarr	1–2	3 Uncommon	3,508–7,016
Grimy irit	1–2	3 Uncommon	1,496–2,992
Grimy avantoe	1–2	3 Uncommon	2,877–5,754
Grimy kwuarm	1–2	3 Uncommon	2,902–5,804
Grimy cadantine	1–2	4 Rare	1,336–2,672
Grimy lantadyme	1–2	4 Rare	6,002–12,004
Grimy dwarf weed	1–2	4 Rare	7,525–15,050

Herblore ingredients

Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
Eye of newt	1	2 Common	9
Limpwurt root	1	2 Common	844
White berries	1	2 Common	752
Vial of water	1	2 Common	17
Red spiders' eggs	1	3 Uncommon	384
Unicorn horn dust	1	3 Uncommon	1,333
Snape grass	1	4 Rare	270

Charms

Remember, this charm log is for the level 23 Cave crawlers. Template:Charm:Cave crawler (23)

Other

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	3, 8, 11, 29	2 Common	Not sold
	Bronze boots	1	3 Uncommon	985
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	Starved ancient effigy	1	5 Very rare	Not sold

Rare drop table drops

This monster drops items from the rare drop table.
The ring of wealth improves the chances if equipped but is not required to access the table.

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	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	250; 381; 450; 3,000; 9,000; 12,000	2 Common	Not sold
	Uncut sapphire	1	2 Common	810
	Uncut emerald	1	2 Common	1,295
	Uncut ruby	1	2 Common	2,613
	Loop half of a key	1	3 Uncommon	9,402
	Tooth half of a key	1	3 Uncommon	12,758
	Uncut diamond	1	3 Uncommon	9,520
	Uncut dragonstone	1	4 Rare	13,572
	Dragonstone	1	4 Rare	10,393
	Dragon dagger	1	2 Common	17,356
	Rune javelin	5	4 Rare	1,285
	Adamant javelin	20	5 Very rare	800
	Rune spear	1	5 Very rare	12,130
	Dragon spear	1	5 Very rare	40,021
	Dragon dagger	50 (noted)	5 Very rare	867,800
	Rune kiteshield	1	5 Very rare	34,977
	Shield left half	1	5 Very rare	65,553
	Dragon helm	1	5 Very rare	60,107
	Adamant bolts	200	3 Uncommon	31,600
	Rune arrow	150–200, 500	4 Rare	28,500–95,000
	Onyx bolts	150	4 Rare	1,315,350
	Battlestaff	200 (noted)	4 Rare	1,612,200
	Air orb	1000 (noted)	4 Rare	1,216,000
	Fire orb	1000 (noted)	4 Rare	1,406,000
	Vecna skull	1	5 Very rare	457,724
	Water talisman	1	3 Uncommon	4,485
	Earth talisman	25–35 (noted)	3 Uncommon	20,650–28,910
	Fire talisman	25–35 (noted)	3 Uncommon	48,450–67,830
	Chaos talisman	1	3 Uncommon	137
	Nature talisman	1	3 Uncommon	165
	Pure essence	500–15000 (noted)	3 Uncommon	53,500–1,605,000
Template:ExchangeItemNat	Nature rune	47–77	4 Rare	Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[".–Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[".
	Soul rune	20	4 Rare	6,360
	Death rune	50, 121	4 Rare	9,250–22,385
	Blood rune	50	4 Rare	9,750
	Raw swordfish	125 – 250, 1000 (noted)	3 Uncommon	37,875–303,000
	Raw shark	250–500 (noted)	3 Uncommon	129,750–259,500
	Big bones	150 – 500 (noted)	3 Uncommon	52,650–175,500
	Coal	150–7500 (noted)	3 Uncommon	39,450–1,972,500
	Adamantite ore	150–800 (noted)	3 Uncommon	248,250–1,324,000
	Silver ore	100 (noted)	4 Rare	9,200
	Adamant bar	1000–7000 (noted)	4 Rare	2,175,000–15,225,000
	Runite ore	100 (noted)	4 Rare	1,067,100
	Rune bar	1,50,150 (noted)	4 Rare	13,029–1,954,350
	Clean ranarr	33 (noted)	3 Uncommon	115,665
	Clean toadflax	25–250 (noted)	3 Uncommon	69,100–691,000
	Clean snapdragon	30–120 (noted)	3 Uncommon	168,210–672,840
	Clean torstol	10–100 (noted)	3 Uncommon	277,960–2,779,600
	Saradomin brew (4)	250 (noted)	5 Very rare	854,750
	Watermelon seed	3	3 Uncommon	5,583
	Yew seed	1–50	4 Rare	84,903–4,245,150
	Magic seed	1–6	4 Rare	294,483–1,766,898
	Palm tree seed	10	4 Rare	1,219,220
	Snapdragon seed	1	4 Rare	26,078
	Torstol seed	1–31	4 Rare	274,040–8,495,240
	Fellstalk seed	2	4 Rare	2,052
	Yew logs	100–20000 (noted)	4 Rare	49,400–9,880,000

Drops (level 138)