v0.34:Magma crab

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Magma crab

C
Urist likes magma crabs for their chittering.
Biome
Underground Depth: 3-5
Attributes
· Fire immune
Cannot be tamed
Size
Birth:	1,000 cm3
Mid:	2,000 cm3
Max:	30,000 cm3
Age
Adult at:	Birth
Max age:	50-70
Cannot be butchered (Value multiplier ×2)

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A small rock-eating creature that lives in molten rock. It scurries on little feet and swims through liquid rock with sharp wings. It uses magma to digest rock and spits out burning globs.

A Magma Crab is a small creature that has the unique ability to spit molten globs of basalt. It does so at a very fast rate whenever able to but resorts to wrestling in close quarters. Said basalt acts as a sort of very blunt arrow, and missed rounds will tellingly litter the ground.

Due to living only in magma and having few organs, magma crabs are quite resilient, though enough marksdwarves should kill one.

Due to a bug, a magma crab does not shoot liquid basalt, but in fact shoots solid basalt, and that is enough to easily cripple kill an unarmored dwarf. Not only they have infinite ammo, but they absolutely spam their basalt shooting attack, tending to get a few dwarf or animal kills if you have an open volcano. Yes, they will even attack some random flier above the volcano.

Overall, magma crabs are quite annoying if your dwarves are exposed to the volcano, but they can be killed relatively easily by dropping constructed floors on them. Unlike fire men or fire imps however, magma crabs seem to never leave the safety of magma, and they can be rendered harmless if you wall your volcano.

One intriguing thing about is that dwarves tend to pick up the fallen basalt and put it into your food stockpile. (possibly due to it being a glob ?)

Raws

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