Crabsnake

Template:Infobox:Fauna Flora The Crabsnake is a life form belonging to the fauna category found exclusively inside the Jelly Shroom Caves, where it resides in the Snake Mushrooms.

As an aggressive creature, it will attack the player on approach and deals about 25-30% damage to their healthbar.

It will die after taking 2-3 hits from the Seamoth Perimeter Defense System.

Appearance

The Crabsnake has a long, serpentine body. It also has two long, translucent fins along the sides of its body, which undulate as it moves. The fins also emit a violet bioluminescent glow.

The top of the its body is pink, with horizontal reddish-brown stripes every few feet along its entire length, along with many bright purple dorsal spots. Its underside is pale gray in color.

The Crabsnake's head sports a pair of small fangs in its mouth, along with a much larger pair of black-tipped claws around it. It has no visible eyes.

Behavior

The Crabsnake waits inside a Snake Mushroom in an upright position until the player gets too close. At that point it will spring out and grab them as a surprise attack. While being attacked by the Crabsnake the player is trapped in the same way they would be while being attacked by the Reaper Leviathan. Sometimes, after having finished its attacks, the Crabsnake falls back into the mushroom; other times it will leave and swims around the area. Unless agitated again by the player, it will eventually return to the Snake Mushroom and wait again.

It will also leave its mushroom on its own so it can patrol the surrounding area, or seek out another mushroom to reside in. The Crabsnake will attack the Seamoth for minor damage, but will ignore the Cyclops.

Crabsnakes can be observed peeking out of Snake Mushrooms if the player approaches one in their submersible. They will not attack, however, and instead will let out hissing noises before going back into their mushroom.

Audio

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Data Entry

This lifeform appears to live in symbiosis with the jellyshroom. All encountered specimens have been located within 50m of the jellyshroom flora, frequently within the plants themselves

-Capable of rapid movement when striking its prey

-Large twin claws mounted around the oral cavity penetrate or latch onto prey

-Displays territoral behaviour, patrolling the cave systems in which they reside

-Presence of crabsnakes may deter herbivores from feeding on the jellyshroom itself

Assessment: Avoid

Gallery

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  Front view, close up

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  Side profile

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  A Crabsnake guarding its mushroom

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  A Crabsnake Springing out of the mushroom

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  A Crabsnake latching on to the player

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  Concept Art

For a more complete gallery, visit Crabsnake/Gallery.

Trivia

• The Crabsnake will not re-enter its home mushroom if a player is currently inside of it.
• The Crabsnake will attempt to reach its spawn point to "hide in" if spawned, even without a Snake Mushroom.