Thorny snail

Thorny snail

Level	13
Duration (min)	16
Points cost	2
Abilities	Beast of Burden (3)
Special moves	Slime Spray
Race	Snail
Combat level	26
Life Points	280
Immune to poison?	Yes
Attack Style	Ranged
Maximum hit	40 (80 with special)
Examine text	A hermit slug.

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The Thorny snail is a level 13 Summoning familiar. It is summoned using a Thorny snail pouch. It can be used for Ranged experience. The thorny snail is a level 26 familiar and can hit up to 40. Additionally, its Slime Spray scroll can deal a max of 80 damage, which is a big jump from the lower levelled familiars. Finally, the Thorny snail is immune to all types of poison.

The snail can also serve as a Beast of Burden, however it is the lowest levelled one apart from the class one Clay being, the Cub worldbearer and the Little worldbearer. The Thorny snail can only carry 3 items for a player. As a result, it is seldom used, even by low levelled players.

One advantage of training with Thorny snails or creating the pouches is that once the quest Nature Spirit is completed, all ingredients needed are all in the same area, providing you bring enough gold charms. Spirit shards and pouches may be bought from the Nature Grotto's wishing well, thin snail may be obtained from killing Myre blamish snail and Ochre blamish snail south of the Grotto.

Thorny snail pouch

Thorny snail pouch

	Shards	Shard cost	Charm	Tertiary
	9	225 coins	Gold	Thin snail
	Create XP	Use XP	Low Alch	Hi Alch	GE Price
	12.6	0.2	259 coins	389 coins	coins (info)
	GE Database	Cost to make	Bogrog shard return		Shard return level
	Look up price	1,301 coins	7 (  175)		23
	Examine text
	I can summon a thorny snail familiar with this.

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Thorny snail pouch is made by using a Summoning pouch on a Summoning obelisk with 9 spirit shards, a gold charm and a thin snail in the inventory. Making the pouch earns 12.6 experience points. Using the pouch to summon a Thorny snail gains 0.2 experience points, and costs 2 Summoning points. If players exchange their Thorny Snail pouches at Bogrog, they will receive 7 shards per pouch.

Slime spray scroll

Slime spray scroll

Slime spray scroll	Create XP	Use XP	Special move points
	0.2	0.2	3
	Low Alch	High Alch	GE Price
	25 coins	38 coins	coins (info)
	GE Database	Bogrog shard return	Shard return level
	Look up price	1/2 (  13)	23
	Examine text
	A scroll for a thorny snail familiar.

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A player activating the scroll.

Slime spray scroll enables the use of the slime spray special move for a Thorny snail. Using the pouch on a Summoning obelisk creates 10 scrolls and provides 0.2 experience.

Slime spray

Slime spray is the special move for Thorny snails, which makes them attack the player's opponent, inflicting up to 80 lifepoints damage. Doing so will cost the player 3 special move points and provide 0.2 experience.

Dialogue

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Trivia

• A hermit crab is a crab which lives in the cast-off shells of snails or other shellfish. The examine info therefore implies that the thorny snail is actually a slug residing in a snail's shell. This may also be a refence to the summoning ingredient being a shell-less snail body, and when it is summoned it has a new shell.
• Bot killers sometimes use the thorny snail to get green dragon botters skulled, as their colour is similar to the rift entrance of the Chaos Tunnels, and the botter might attack it.
• If you are wearing a Snelm of any kind, you can have an amusing conversation with your Thorny Snail, saying that you are wearing the spine of his dead relatives as a hat.