Flesh Crawler

Flesh Crawler

Release date	4 July 2006 (Update)
Members?	No
Combat level	28, 35, 41
Life points	250
Experience for killing	100 (33 Constitution experience)
Slayer level	Level 1
Slayer XP	25
Assigned by	Mazchna or Achtryn
Aggressive?	Yes- to all levels for 10 minutes
Poisonous?	No
Immune to poison?	No
Attack style	Melee
Attack speed	SlowInterval: 4.2 seconds
Max hit	16
Weakness	or meleemagic or meleemagic or meleemagic or meleemagic or meleemagic or meleemagic or meleemagic ormagic or meleemagic or meleemagic or meleemagic or meleeMagic or Melee
Always drops	None
Examine text	I don't think insect repellent will work...

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Flesh Crawlers are medium level monsters found on level 2 of the Stronghold of Security. They are considered good training for players with combat levels of 60+. The level 28s have a maximum hit of 16, and are quite inaccurate when Mithril armour or higher is equipped, but when Steel armour or lower is equipped, they can be a bit hard as they hit at a fast rate. They are considered a good way of making money in members' worlds because they drop large numbers of Herbs, including many high level ones. They also drop mostly green and gold charms but rarely crimsons. For medium-level players, flesh crawlers offer an alternative to chaos druids, who also drop many herbs.

Their drops such as herbs, runes, and noted iron ores can be sold for a good quantity of money. They also drop Fire Runes which can also be sold for a decent quantity of money.

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A safe spot to range level 35 Flesh Crawlers

Strategies

Due to the high accuracy and speed of the flesh crawlers' attacks, food is a necessity for weak players if they wish to stay for an extended period of time; conveniently, there is a fishing area located just outside of Gunnarsgrunn, close to the entrance of the Stronghold of Security. Salmon and trout can be caught and cooked here if a player does not wish to bring their own food from the bank. Players can cook their fish on the perpetual fire located in Peksa's helmet shop, as well as the two perpetual fires in Gunnarsgrunn Longhall. There is also a cooked meat spawn. People up to level 60 in combat could bring between 1-3 lobsters or bass for slightly quicker healing.

Players using Ranged or Magic can safe spot the 2 flesh crawlers in the maze-like section just south of the entrance to level 2 of the Stronghold of Security, as their patrol radius is very limited.

Flesh crawlers are aggressive against players of any level, but only for a 10 minute period after the player enters their area. After this period, they stop attacking the player. To return flesh crawlers to their aggressive state, the player must leave the area, either by walking away from the area until it's out of range on the map and returning, by leaving the floor altogether and returning, or after returning from a random event. However, logging off and on will not reset their aggressiveness.

Players between the combat levels of 40 to 55 may find flesh crawlers a solid source of experience, due to their low max hit and Aggressiveness. The level 28, 35, and 41 flesh crawlers hit a maximum of 16 damage; the accuracy of each hit increases in correspondence with the flesh crawlers' increased combat levels.

These creatures are also popular for high-levelled f2p players as well. Due to the fact they are aggressive and hit low, they are perfect for training without having to do much; one can simply bring food and turn auto retaliate on. Usually, players start training at level 35 flesh crawlers. In view of this, there is a small room with eight level 35 flesh crawlers in the Stronghold of Security, which makes them great for training at low levels. In contrast a high-levelled player, if alone, may find it beneficial to simply stand in the middle of the room, as flesh crawlers will automatically and constantly produce attacks.

A player has a chance of receiving the "bottom half of sceptre" as a drop, one of four parts that make up the sought-out Skull sceptre. For free to play, flesh crawlers will usually drop a gem with the "bottom half of sceptre". For members, flesh crawlers often drop valuable herbs

Members can make as much as 750k per hour depending on stats, selling the drops on the Grand Exchange. A Ring of Wealth used in tandem with a Gem bag can help in this area. A Dwarf cannon can be used, though this is unrecommended due to the large cost of a cannonball and their common drops of items that usually dont account for one cannonball though this is offset by their low health.

An update made it possible for flesh crawlers to drop black full helms, resulting in a price drop for that particular item.

Drops

Runes

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Body rune	3–12	2 Common	15–60
	Dust rune (m)	2–23	2 Common	16–184
	Fire rune (m)	42	2 Common	588
Template:ExchangeItemNat	Nature rune (m)	5	3 Uncommon

Herbs (m)

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Grimy guam	1	2 Common	521
	Grimy marrentill	1	2 Common	41
	Grimy tarromin	1	2 Common	56
	Grimy harralander	1	2 Common	385
	Grimy irit	1	3 Uncommon	1,496
	Grimy ranarr	1	3 Uncommon	3,508
	Grimy avantoe	1	3 Uncommon	2,877
	Grimy kwuarm	1	4 Rare	2,902
	Grimy cadantine	1	4 Rare	1,336
	Grimy lantadyme	1	4 Rare	6,002
	Grimy dwarf weed	1	5 Very rare	7,525

Other drops

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	1–476	2 Common	Not sold
	Iron ore	1	2 Common	216
	Iron ore (m)	1–10 (noted)	2 Common	216–2,160
	Ashes	1	2 Common	276
	Silver bar (m)	1	3 Uncommon	126
	Bottom of sceptre	1	3 Uncommon	Not sold
	Black full helm (m)	1	3 Uncommon	685
	Uncut sapphire	1	3 Uncommon *	810
	Uncut emerald	1	3 Uncommon *	1,295
	Uncut ruby	1	4 Rare *	2,613
	Uncut diamond	1	4 Rare *	9,520
	Spin Ticket	1	4 Rare	Not sold
	Starved ancient effigy (m)	1	5 Very rare	Not sold

* always dropped with Bottom of spectre

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 – 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

Trivia

• Interestingly, flesh crawlers have the same examine text as all of the Kalphite monsters.
• There was a glitch that would occasionally happen to players who obtained one un-noted iron ore from a flesh crawler, in which a player could sell it in the Grand Exchange an infinite amount of times, but only if he or she sold the single ore one at a time. It is unknown if this glitch occurred with other items. This has since been fixed.
• Flesh crawlers have the second fastest attack speed for any f2p monster, tied with Shadow-Forger Ihlakhizan and ranged skeletons in Daemonheim, and behind only Bal'lak the Pummeller.
• Before the Hitpoints/Constitution update, flesh crawlers had a max hit of 1, which would be equivalent to 10 after the update.
• For members, flesh crawlers are often fought because of their high drop rate of many fire runes, as well as their herbs, although they don't drop as many fire runes as before.
• When you have the flesh crawlers as a slayer task, and say in quick chat your current slayer task, it will say: My current Slayer assignment is: Fleshcrawlers.
• When a flesh crawler drops bottom of sceptre, they usually also drop an item from the rare drop table