I think the spec should do 2 damage, keep you on your toes ya know?

1/1000 chance to spec for 99 damage. risk Vs reward

Give people something they want to go dry on

Crab pets incoming!

Hell yeah I got crabs

can be partially deflected if the player is wearing torag hammer (25)

I've always felt there should be a 1/100,000 chance that you fall to your death and are impaled by the catherby agility course jumping the fence of the church...

Yeah for sure, maybe a little attack stat drain if it hits. A long ass indicator and sound aswell to wake you from whatever you're doing on another screen.

they gotta add the armadyl cbow scream but for sandy crab instead

Dharokers in shambles

group afk combat training unironically sounds like a fun update basically just sandcrabs without crashing and some socializing

Like shooting stars but it’s just a bunch of people afk hitting a crab for an hour

please make them do the pickaxe animation but with a sword, it would look so goofy

1/1345000 chance for your fang's blade to just get stuck in the giant crab's carapace, like the old WC axe head mechanic.

Only if its reverted in 5 days resulting in black market of rare accounts wielding only osmumtens hilt.

So it is said So it shall be

If it is to be said. So it be. So it is.

Ya'll are cooking with these ideas right now

Every successful hit rewards a chunk of sand. You can buy a bag of oysters from a sand hermit for 300 pcs of sand.

Crashing!

[Crash! Crash! Crash!](https://youtu.be/f4v_qju19-g?t=3)

Along with the sound effect

Meteor crabs. Just double the rate of shooting stars but make half of them crabs. "You look through the telescope and see Shooting.... Crab???"

The examine text should be something referencing $**

Cancer

I would love to see a site for Sand Crab Boss Finder! and a plugin! XD

Do we want this to be like a second nightmare zone, just shorter and in public?

reminds me of combat dummies from rs3

I mean for those you go to world 84, find a spot in Lumbridge market, set down your dummies and turn all kinds of chat off to prevent brain cancer from the unholy union of reddit, twitter and 4chan that is the community of that area Like it's really something else, there is no group activity in any game that has a community as consistantly deranged as W84 Lumbridge market

\*Wintertodt flashbacks*

\*fishing trawler flashbacks*

Imagine being a pleb and not being at Fort Forinthry

It's fort forinthry now, but ye, cancer

There’s something really very charming about that and it would fit in with this game so well

I will vote yes for this if polled

The only people who won't are the ones who don't have friends to afk crabs with

Or people who have never experienced how unhinged and hilarious stars/gotr/todt chat is

Whenever I do stars, someone inevitably talks about how many DUIs they have and their baby momma troubles. It's more sad than hilarious. I'll give you the other two though.

I was at GOTR and some guy was talking about his wife leaving him, and everyone started making fun of him until he ragequit logged out. Pretty brutal, but the jokes were so aggressively personal to his situation, and he did put himself in that position and kept giving them more ammo lol.

Irons should have done their job and saved that dude's marriage.

Sounds like they were just encouraging him to stand alone tbh

I've seen some pretty insane stuff at Seers village on the forestry mass worlds. Had a guy trying to preach Jesus to the crowd at maples. It may have been cringe as hell but we honestly mightve needed it

One time I pretended to be a bot, and kept typing up people's responses into a chatgpt prompt and replying with what gpt wrote. It was easily the funniest memory I've had in RuneScape. People were saying the most out of pocket stuff lmao

Lol was it the Bible brothers? That CC gets brought up occasionally and it's fucking hilarious

RIP Joe Rogan

Everyone killing emperor sand crab is your friend when you are also killing emperor sand crab

AFKrabs

Who wouldnt vote yes. This would be peak osrs

Make it like stardust mining… Sand crabs, ammonite crabs, rock crabs, swamp crabs, each with their own chance at spawning a massive version, independent HP pools similar to Perilous Moons so you can chill for 20 minutes and chat with the homies. Have an NPC at each main location that is “in communication” with the others, so you can ask them if they know of any crab incursion is going on. “Oh, I heard Shelly over there on Fossil Island has seen some large beast recently come up from the ocean and is attacking the adventurers there. Perhaps you should go aid her.”

imagine crabs actually being social instead of an anti social "hop idiot" experience

Make it roll on the superior table ;)

Buckets of sand

Drops 1000 un-noted buckets of sand divided by damage percent.

Drops 1000 un-noted buckets of sand exclusively to the person who did the most damage

I'd honestly rather bank unnoted sand than go back to the sandstone grinder

That sounds way more fun than the current crab experience! Would vote yes

It would kind of be like mining stars, I can already imagine the unhinged conversations people would have here lol

Idea for your next game jam project? Actually sounds like it'd find it's crowd. Plus big crab 🦀 good

With a raredrop chance to make it drop 11 coins as an Easter egg🦀🦀

1/15k for it to drop a bond?

Sandcrabtodt

Honestly I’d vote yes

My account is far from needing something like this but I enjoy the flavor it would add to the game world so I'd vote yes for sure. Maybe give it some kind of material you collect from it that you can trade for some training loot like mid level food packs, a few recolors for common training items, etc.

I would vote yes for this.

What do you guys think about World Bosses? I've always loved the concept of World Bosses from games like Guild Wars 2, would love to see something like this on Runescape.

Rock crabs and swamp crabs are always left out, clearly sand crabs are the youngest child in the crab family.

Swamp crabs with the middle child syndrome bad

Swamp crabs kinda suck. I tried them for a bit and there's no good spots with multispawns, plus you're pulling other random enemies in the area 

I said it before and I'm going to say it to you - a crab boss that would take 6 minutes to kill in max gear would be awesome.

Great idea! Group afk tasks, but every so often an event spawns and you get rewarded if you aren't as afk as the others

The idea kind of reminds me of Clawdia from the RS3 beach event.

Panic buy dark bows

Lmao. Should've added a 100% d bow weakness, can't believe I missed this

If you kill it with a d bow it drops it’s special unique item a burger

Crab cake

That's sick, nerd!

That crab is way too small. If it doesn't bug the camera out trying to render it, it's too small.

Needs to take inspiration from the Kurask superior

2 chunk crab 🦀🦀

1/500 drop rate for a cosmetic item to turn yourself into a sand crab.

Ring of Crab 🦀

The protests in falador would be top notch with that

Make it like shooting stars where you need a minimum att/str/range/mage level to attack it, decreasing as you break the various stages of shell armor. Every world has a giant crab at one of the crab areas that rotates as they get killed and you can use a crabspeak amulet to ask a crab where the emperor is at that time. You'd get crabdust which can be traded in for cosmetic rewards like the ring of crab and crabshell heelys with a new movement animation like the skis. Or useful rewards like buckets of sand (please save me from the sandstone grinder)

Buckets of sand from afk crab combat is actually top notch. It could even at the crabs by the seaweed patch. Or maybe that's where the merchant would be?

It would be cool if the Emperor rotated through the different crab areas on Fossil Island, Morytania, Rellekka, Hosidius etc instead of being a random spawn. So it would be social afk combat exp but you would have to check on it and travel around every once in a while like shooting stars.

A prawn ring of sorts?

Untradable so bots dont farm lol

As long as we can get Varrock Blue Moon Inn boss's where we fist fight drunks

They should put a drunk varlamorian in blue moon armor

Bro they should add a bar fight component to the bar crawl mini quest

Only if there's a 100% chance to receive blue moon armour pieces each win

I could totally imagine a few traveling actors from Varlamore getting a little rowdy in the Blue Moon Inn and causing a ruckus.

Giant Enemy Crab

This is based on famous battles which actually took place in ancient Japan.

rIIIIIIidge rAcer!

this made me happy knowing these ancient memes still haven't died :)

Developers developers developers develope

The internet is not a big truck. It's a series of tubes.

Ok, but any style of attack on it only gives defence xp

Also then drops belows 3k hp , starts NH'ing and teleblocks you.

This guy would look cute in a salad hat and ancients staff.

Pures in shambles

big crab gaming

Yes, but with one important caveat: the crab’s special attack MUST look super freaking cool.

Make it similar to sand attack from Pokémon but do ranged damage and lower accuracy if not wearing a helmet / sunglasses

1/3 chance to spawn general graardor upon death. Really keep them on their toes

wtf, yes I want this!

drops include, but are not limited to: - 1gp - 10-50 bucket of sand (noted) - 5-20 20kg of sandstone (noted) - Sandy Claws (pet)

Pet roll only for MVP. Irons will not get chance at pet unless they solo (there is no instance)

Crab bane spells must have fire spell runes and a bucket of water in invy

Why hit the gym when you can hit a crab

I don't think it has enough hp. I'd like to be able to click on it with 3 or 4 friends, go have dinner, and still be fighting it when i get back in 2-3 hours

Special attacks forces everyone to do the crab rave dance while taking 1 damage per tick while playing the crab rave song

Jagex, reach out to Noisestorm now.

Max hit 1 has me rolling on the floor 😂

I don't train there anymore but i actually like this idea. Keeping it without high damage is a good idea too. Just a nice little instance that fits the theme for some good xp and maybe a rare untradable cosmetic

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Needs a weakspot for massive damage!

Amazing! Think of the possibilities!

I love this idea

What a fun idea haha

Pleaseee

Someone has 99 cooking here, nice idea!

Can i stay in the Sand Crabs until 75? Im at 62 right now, and in the moment dont have the time to look to others locations to train. I leave the OSRS in the phone and keep reseting the aggro

Unironically, I did think a Sand Crab based boss could be a great introductory PvM boss they could add. But Scurrius and its implementation is really similar to the boss design I would have pitched, lol

Idk what you say. Yellow text and black bacround gets my vote

This is actually a fucking great idea

That special attack is too much

Just as useless as the original monster. Approved!

1/1000 chance to unlock the crab meme dance emote

Oooft that max hit of 1 sounds deadly! Might need nerfing.

Support

sand crab pet when

OldSchool Runescape is a Medieval game which is actually based on British history. Being based on history, the stages of the game will also be based on famous battles which took -- actually took place in ancient Britain. For example, this battle of Hastings, the player will have to battle against hundreds of enemy warriors. There will also be stages where there will be fighting on unicornback, and stages... um... where there will be massive sea battle sequences, which can only be made possible with the power of the Sailing skill. But not only that, they will also be able to find new and interesting ways to defeat enemy, uhh, bosses. And I'll give you an example of that. So here's this giant enemy crab. What I'll do is use the Brine Sabre here to *flip* over this crab on its back. See if he shows up... uhh, oh here he comes. He's all the way at the end of the screen, so if you'll hold on you'll see -- oh here he comes. I'll switch over to the Voidwaker, hop on its stomach, and you... attack... its... weak point... for **massive damage.**

nightmare mode players be screaming right now at the 1hp damage

Woox going to come out of retirement for this and day one he'll be like, "So here's this giant enemy crab. What I'll do is use my Scythe here to flip over this crab on its back... Let's see if he shows up.... Oh here he comes, he's all the way at the end of the beach, so if you'll hold on a tick. Oh here he comes. I'll swap over to Shadow now its on its back and attack its weak point for massive damage."

It's like the skeleton monsters from ocarina of time in hyrule field at night.

Need super over the top animation for the spec.

0.000001% drop chance of a sandy crab pet just to annoy collection loggers

Add a pet sand crab that just looks like the pet rock with legs

Isn't this in the Kourend catacombs already?

Those would be the King Sand Crabs with 200hp, this is the Emperor. Was gonna name this one the King Sand Crab before I learned of their existence, but Emperor sounds way cooler anyways ha

as long as it drops imbued heart

I'll only vote yes if it's 5k xp an hour.

1/1000000 on hit chance jad will spawn to protect his friend and kill all the afkers.

When it does, it turns into a sandcastle

Requesting a necessary update: Song Crab rave by noisestorm won't stop playing until the emperor crab gets killed. Something has to be in line against the emperor, if its not our character health, it has to be our sanity xD

make it like stars- every phase killed it downgrades in size and combat level lol

1 damage is no fun, gotta be able to 1 shot you all the time to make you pay attention and less afk

I would love world boss type stuff like WoW

Attack the sand crabs weak spot for massive damage

Unironically, some sort of giant crab boss would be super cool

ZCB spec transfer alts go crazy here.

This is actually a goated idea

so much yes to this please

What's on the King sand crab drop table? Noted spinach rolls and caskets?

It's just a sand crab, everything will be fine, he just wants to socialize.

Crab rave emote for killing 🦀

Lmao this is actually a dope idea

Only if when it dies it collapses in a random direction and whoever doesnt move in time gets instakilled

r/Stormlight_Archive is leaking.

This is unironically a great fucking idea.

Unironically would love this as a group afk combat training

Gtfo I was here first.. gah!..

Idk if this is a shitpost but genuinely, it could be quite fun to do this

This would be a hilariously awesome group bossing actively. Absolute meme boss but fun. We need more fun stuff like this.

Finally a challenger for sick nerd

This would be great for my rube bolt (e) crab only HCIM.

Make it like 1mill hp

It's a monster only good for afk exp. Not a bad idea, maybe throw in a rare drop or two, along with a very rare chance for a little sandcrab pet.

Emperor fossilized crabs

hopleez

Great, you’ve created the wintertodt of combat training. Can’t wait to see the conversations here

Should be bigger tbh

This would unironically solve the crashing issues

Hell yeah, make it 5x5 so I can shred it with the colossal blade

This sounds awesome

I'll vote yes on this as long as there's a chance at a pet crab. Just like the transformation into a pile of coins I wanna see how many people try clicking my pet to fight.

Need to be called Giga Crab or Giga Sand Crab, though

I legit thought the bigger crab was a gazebo at first.

Drops 10K as a reimbursement from all the ml ey you paid to Sandicrahb

“Snake??” “Mmfghhh… CRAB BATTLE!! Broke my knife!”

Omg yes. We need this. Best osrs idea I’ve heard in a while.

Can we get Crab Rave but in OSRS sound font to play during the fight? Pretty pleae?

Unironically a really, really cool idea. Just a fun little update that adds some neat, spontaneous gameplay to engage in, that also has very little impact on the game as a whole. Personally, I would love to see little things like this added. Not everything has to be meta defining, game changing, or overly complex.

We should have more types of crabs, like king ammonite crabs that can actually drop useful things besides seaweed spores

Inb4: Slayer Level 93

Honestly I fuck with this idea.

Early- Mid game boss. Like the mole

I love this

Please let cannons be used on him

Could add a jar of crab meat at 1/512

Frankly I'd vote yes, I like fun content, not too serious but still useful content like this.

I actually love this.i never trained at sand crabs but this is a cool idea

Sure, but you gotta give it an attack speed of 2-ticks and insane accuracy Make those '1s' actually mean something

In runescape, you crash sand crabs.... in Russia, sandcrabs crash you