Hermit Crab

Hermit Crab

Details
Speed	100% (50% if wearing a shell)
Walking speed	110%
Health	2.5 (total: 250)
Damage	2.5 (total: 50)
Armor	0% (changes depending on shell)
Boosts	2
Size scale	1.1x
Biome statistics
Oxygen time	30 seconds (without changes)
Temperature time	10 seconds
Pressure time	Unaffected
Salinity time	30 seconds
Credits

The hermit crab is a tier 4 animal. It is based on its real life counterpart, the Halloween Hermit Crab, Ciliopagurus strigatus. It is designed by u/ManManBoii.

Mechanics[]

All tier 3 animals evolve into hermit crab.
- Because of this, the hermit crab also evolves into every tier 5 animal.
Hermit crabs drop meat upon death.
As you are a hermit crab You cannot be harmed by Coconut Crabs and Japanese Spider Crabs.

Abilities[]

Passive Abilities[]

You can walk on terrain and islands at 10% faster speed.
You can wear shells.
- This, consequentially causes your speed to fall to 50% and you start to sink.
  - This does not apply when you are walking on terrain.
You can climb all types of trees except for the Broken Tree, however you cannot hide in trees.
Is not slowed down by coral fans or table corals.

Active Abilities[]

Boosting normally causes you to dash forward and deal 25% more damage to animals you hit.
Charge boosting does nothing unless you are at a shell. There are 3 different types of shells, they are:
- Low Armor: Gives you 50% armor. Low Armor shells can be found in Brown, Pink, and Beige colors.
- Medium Armor: Gives you 60% armor. Medium Armor shells are found in Red Blue, and Purple colors.
- High Armor: Gives you 70% armor. High Armor shells are found in Yellow, Blue-ish Gray, and White colors.
Charge boosting with a shell on you while walking causes you to be invincible.
- You can hide in the shell for as long as it has health. Health is taken from the shell when it is attacked or when the hermit is dealt damage from biome afflictions (The shell will take the damage instead).
Charge boosting with a shell on you while swimming causes you to drop the shell.

Type 1 = Low Armor, type 2 = Medium Armor, and type 3 = High Armor.

Suitable Biomes[]

The hermit crab's suitable biomes are the Ocean and the Deeeep.
- If a hermit crab attempts to enter the ocean surface, it will lose oxygen. Thankfully its oxygen lasts long enough so this doesn't matter.
- If a hermit crab attempts to enter the arctic, it will lose temperature.
  - If a hermit crab attempts to enter the arctic surface, it will lose oxygen and temperature.
- If a hermit crab attempts to enter the swamp, it will lose salinity.
  - If a hermit crab attempts to enter the swamp surface, it will lose oxygen and salinity.

Diet[]


Name	Can be eaten by	XP	Description
Barb	All except for the stonefish who spawned it	0	Spawns behind a stonefish using their active ability. Deals damage upon eating it (7% of max life). Poisons anyone who eats it with a base DPS of 10% that lasts 5 seconds (except poison-immune animals). Despawns after 4 seconds.
Bird Poop	All except for lamprey and seagull	10	Affected by gravity. Automatically spawns below any seagull every 10 seconds.
Plankton	All	250	Spawns in the ocean.
Dam Food	Tier 1 to tier 7	35	Spawns underneath beaver dams.
Ice	All	250	Spawns in the arctic and deeeep.
Algae	Oarfish, penguin, tier 1 to tier 6 except lamprey	50	Spawns on the ocean floor.
Yellow Algae	Oarfish, penguin, tier 1 to tier 6 except lamprey	50	Spawns on the floors of the arctic and deeeep.
Apple	Tier 1 to tier 8 except lamprey and pelican	50	Spawns in trees.
Berry	Tier 1 to tier 8 except lamprey and pelican	50	Spawns in bushes.
Volcano Food	All except lamprey	125	Affected by gravity, floats upwards. Spawns out of volcanoes, which can be hidden in and are located in the arctic and the deeeep. When eaten as an animal that is not suited to the arctic, it will replenish some of your temperature.
Sushi	All	1000	Spawns where an animal dies (tier 2 to tier 10 animals only). The amount of meat that spawns depends on what animal it was.
Anglerfish Bait	All Animals except for the Anglerfish who spawned it	0	Spawns infront of an Anglerfish when it is stationary (as its passive ability). No fixed look, resembles the last food the Anglerfish eats. It does nothing too, but the Anglerfish will deal twice as much damage (100x2, therefore 200) to the animal that ate it

Hiding Places[]

This is a complete list of terrain that hermit crabs can hide in.
Name	Summary	Image
Barrel Sponge	Generates in the reef or deeeep. Tier 1 to tier 6 can hide here.
Pineapple Home	Spawns sometimes in the deep. Every animal Tier 9 and below can hide here.
Shipwreck	One shipwreck always appears on one of the dirt islands that border the ocean and deeeep. Tier 1 to tier 7 animals (and hammerhead) can hide here. Produces bubbles that can be eaten.
Shipwreck	One shipwreck always appears on one of the dirt islands that border the ocean and deeeep. Tier 1 to tier 9 animals can hide here. Produces bubbles that can be eaten. Distinguishable from the shipwreck above by comparing the shape of the windows.
Giant Shipwreck	Generates in any biome. All animals can hide here. Hiding places are ship windows and the crack.

Skins[]

Skins are cosmetics used to change an animal's looks, or sometimes, an animal’s biome or size statistics slightly. The table below shows the list of approved skins that can be used for the Hermit Crab.

Realistic skins can be used in every time of the year. They are mostly based on real-life species, or adjectives such as 'Battle-Scarred' or 'Dark'.

Realistic Skins
Name	ID	Price	Creator	Creation Date	Stat Change	Description	Image
White Speckled Hermit Crab	930	30	Tacoco	22nd September, 2024	None	Dardanus megistos, also known as the white-spotted hermit crab or spotted hermit crab. These large crabs have a bright red body with small white eyespots surrounded by black.
Spoon-Clawed Hermit Crab	931	30	Tacoco	22nd September, 2024	None	Pylopaguropsis speciosa. The spoon-clawed hermit crab also known as Purple claw orange hermit is a beautiful small algae-eating hermit crab of bright orange coloration.
Splendid Hermit Crab	12909	25	Tacoco	22nd September, 2024	None	Labidochirus splendescens, commonly known as the splendid hermit crab, is a species of hermit crab found in the northeastern Pacific Ocean off the coast of North America. It is more heavily calcified and inhabits smaller mollusc shells than most hermit crabs, representing a form of carcinization.
Electric Blue Hermit Crab	927	35	Tacoco	23rd August, 2024	None	Calcinus elegans, also known as the Electric blue or Blue line hermit crab, is a small, tropical hermit crab. The Electric Blue crab consumes mainly algae including some hair algae and cyanobacteria. It lives in abandoned snail or triton shells, or it may resort to attacking and eating a snail so it can use the shell for its home.
European Hermit Crab	12743	45	monsieur_stuff	10th August, 2024	Habitat: Warm, Shallow/Deep, Salt, Reef -> Cold/Warm, Shallow, Salt	Based on Pagurus bernhardus, a hermit crab that can only be found as deep as 140 m, but lives as north as Svalbard, Iceland, and Russia.
Leela Hermit Crab	8872	40	Nuricindeyatsin	9th August, 2024	None	The leela hermit crab was declared a different species from the Japanese purple land hermit crab in June 2016.
Tropical hermit crab	25047	35	KOᗰOᗪOᗪOᖇᗩGOᑎᑎ_W	16th July, 2024	None	None
Juvenile Coconut Crab	25014	45	Megalon	2nd July, 2024	None	Juvenile coconut crabs act exactly like hermit crabs where they both use shells to protect themselves until a certain age.
Tusk Shell Hermit Crab	24928	50	MEGAmew	25th June, 2024	None	The Tusk Shell Hermit Crab or Right Handed Hermit Crab (Pylopagurus discoidalis) is a hermit crab with an elongated body. They inhabit abandoned tusk shells, using thier large claw to completely seal off the entrance if they are threatened.
Anemone Hermit Crab	24927	40	MEGAmew	25th June, 2024	None	The Parapaguridae are a family of marine hermit crabs from deep waters. Instead of carrying empty gastropod shells like other hermit crabs, they carry colonies of dozen or more sea anemones or zoanthids.
Coconut Octopus	24819	80	Random_Rhincodontid	18th June, 2024	None	The coconut octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus) is a species of octopus found in the tropical waters of the western Pacific Ocean. This small octopus grows to a length of 6 inches, including the arms. It is named for its habit of using coconut shells or seashells for shelter, and has also been observed using its arms to walk along the seafloor.
Hermit Tanaid	926	50	Myhailot	4th April, 2023	Size scale: -0.1x	Macrolabrum maui is a small crustacean in the family Pagurapseudidae known for their ability to use snail shells. They also have evolved twisted abdomens, just like the hermit crabs for better fixation inside the shell.
Dwarf Zebra Hermit Crab	11475	40	Fdthhujnvfyjiyfdghn72737	9th June, 2022	None	None
Bumblebee Hermit Crab	2145	30	Myhailot	22nd February, 2022	None	Based on species Clibanarius humilis
Freshwater Hermit Crab	1444	45	Tacoco	10th August, 2022	Habitat: Warm, Shallow/Deep, Salt, Reef -> Cold/Warm, Shallow/Deep, Fresh, Reef	Based on the real hermit crab species Clibanarius fonticola. It is the only hermit crab in the word that lives on freshwater
Maroon Hermit Crab	912	40	wHZIv6lTNqfbCLpv	28th December, 2020	None	A reskinned version of my original one.
Blueberry Hermit Crab	1460	45	GrAnD_GuArD_GaMeS	12th December, 2020	None	None

Seasonal skins can only be used in certain seasons, such as Christmas, Lunar New Year etc. They will disappear from the Store once the Season is over, but will be back next year, and remain in the player's inventory if they bought them.

Seasonal Skins
Name	ID	Price	Creator	Creation Date	Stat Change	Season	Description	Image
Albert von Hermitus	1168	0	Shin_Godzilla	28th November, 2022	None	Christmas	Albert von Hermitus was once a famous hermit crab who lived in his sandy cave, where he listened to stories from passing travelers. One day, he heard a tale about a thing called winter, which intrigued him. Albert had never known the cold, so on that day he devoted his life to finding the elusive winter. Every year, he emerges from his cave in the sand to search for it, wearing his coat in hopes it would lure the cold. Unfortunately, he's afraid to leave his coral reef, so he can't find it.
Half Shelled Hermit	4687	0	manb_922	20th March, 2021	None	Easter	it exists
Mystic Knot	10080	0	Myhailot	16th January, 2022	None	Lunar New Year	Knots are supposed to keep away the evil spirits and are a symbol of longevity and eternity. Made in collaboration with Poborski (@kacpero_842)
Shell Haunter	8164	0	manb_922	9th September, 2021	None	Halloween	A spirit from the great beyond that likes to haunt shells. That's pretty annoying for other hermits don't you think. Imagine trying to move into a house only to find out a ghost lives there. Like, hello!? I'm pretty sure your chance for home ownership has ended.
Toy crab	1333	0	manb_922	5th December, 2020	Size scale: -0.1x	Christmas	A toy version of a hermit crab. Wind it up and look at it go! WARNING: Do not expose to water

Unrealistic skins are skins only usable on custom servers that allow using them. They are mostly spaced themed, or in some cases absurd in terms of the stat changes they provide.

Unrealistic Skins
Name	ID	Price	Creator	Creation Date	Stat Change	Description	Image
Cyborg Hermit Crab	7434	15	Fdthhujnvfyjiyfdghn72737	11th August, 2022	None	Suggested by Lost Editor The Crab! Edit: Lowered price

Trivia[]

The hermit crab is the only animal that can interact with shells, as all other animals can only eat shells.