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Silt Crab — in-engine bestiary render

BESTIARY · THE VALE

Silt Crab

A salt-flat crustacean the size of a dog, common at Tidewrack Cove, bad-tempered and inedible.

The Silt Hands use their shed shells as bowls and their claws as wedges. The crabs are too stupid to be afraid of anything and big enough to mean it.

KIND

animal

DANGER

Tier I

HAUNT

Tidewrack Cove

TEMPER

Hostile

Connected

Voices & Sounds

In-Game Render

The real files this entity resolves to in-game (ItemModels / IconKit / EnemyRig), read live — not a copy.

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model — scorpion.glbenemies.json `model` · file missing on disk
Game Data (1)

Read live off disk from data/content/*.json — the game data itself, not a copy.

data/content/enemies.json

idsilt_crab
nameSilt Crab
meshbeast
tint0.45, 0.42, 0.36
health26
damage5
speed3.2
detect_range12
resist{"poison":0.3,"frost":0.2}
spawns{"x":-150,"z":22}, {"x":-118,"z":-58}, {"x":-716,"z":1898,"gen":true}, {"x":-816,"z":2724,"gen":true}, {"x":-789,"z":2709,"gen":true}
loot{"id":"crab_meat","name":"Silt-Crab Meat","type":"ingredient","rarity":"common","value":4,"weight":0.4,"effects":["restore_health","restore_fatigue"],"lore":"Tough grey meat that the cove-folk boil twice and eat without joy."}
difficulty1
ranktrash
familymirrenmere
kindbeast
modelres://assets/models/enemies/scorpion.glb
model_height1.05
model_yaw0
actions{"id":"bite","damage":4,"attack_range":2,"attack_windup":0.18,"weight":3,"cooldown":700,"postDelay":{"time":100}}, {"id":"claw","damage":4.5,"attack_range":2,"attack_windup":0.22,"weight":2,"cooldown":900,"postDelay":{"time":120}}, {"id":"pounce","damage":7,"attack_range":3.4,"attack_windup":0.45,"weight":1,"cooldown":3500,"postDelay":{"time":350},"min_range":2.2,"type":"jump_attack","jump_height":1.6,"splash_radius":1.8,"splash_damage":2.5,"criteriaGroups":[{"clause":"AND","criteria":[{"type":"JUMP_PATH_CLEAR"},{"type":"SAFE_LANDING"}]}]}
canon_refcreature.silt-crab
Type Fields
kindanimal
habitatplace.tidewrack-cove
danger_tier1
hostileyes
spawn_stats_refsilt_crab
ranktrash
All Relationships (7)

located_in

  • Tidewrack CoveThey colonize the rocks at the cove's tideline.
  • The DriftmarketThey scuttle the pilings — and end up fried at the stalls.
  • The Drover's Cache-DelveSilt crabs work the damp lower levels of the cache-delve near the brine seepage.
  • The Gull-Throat CavesSilt-crab colonies nest at the cave entrance and in the lower flooded galleries.

ally_of

  • The Silt HandsThe Hands use their shells as bowls and their claws as pry-tools. The crabs are incidental about it.

references

  • Sresha of the Silt HandsSresha named her second-in-command 'Shell' for the same reasons she calls the crabs useful.

rival_of

  • MudreavearMudreavers and silt crabs compete for the same tide-line scavenge; mudreavers displace crab colonies when they move in.

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