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Due to having few organs, magma crabs are quite resilient, but they can be killed relatively easily by just about any conventional means due to their small size, from [[cave-in]] [[trap]]s and [[Crossbowman|marksdwarves]] to having a [[mace]]- or [[war hammer|hammerdwarf]] bash it enough times to crush its body. Using militia dwarves can potentially result in fatalities as dwarves are easily hit by the basalt spit, though soldiers with enough skill in [[shield]] use may come out unscathed. Overall, if you leave an open path from their home, magma crabs can be quite disrupting and dangerous, but any potential threat can be neutralized if you wall off any magma access before or after they appear, sealing them in and your dwarves out. Magma crabs cannot be [[butcher]]ed, so the only use of their [[corpse]]s is filling your [[refuse]] [[stockpile]].  Magma crabs crawling out of a volcano onto a glacier will cause ice to melt.
 
Due to having few organs, magma crabs are quite resilient, but they can be killed relatively easily by just about any conventional means due to their small size, from [[cave-in]] [[trap]]s and [[Crossbowman|marksdwarves]] to having a [[mace]]- or [[war hammer|hammerdwarf]] bash it enough times to crush its body. Using militia dwarves can potentially result in fatalities as dwarves are easily hit by the basalt spit, though soldiers with enough skill in [[shield]] use may come out unscathed. Overall, if you leave an open path from their home, magma crabs can be quite disrupting and dangerous, but any potential threat can be neutralized if you wall off any magma access before or after they appear, sealing them in and your dwarves out. Magma crabs cannot be [[butcher]]ed, so the only use of their [[corpse]]s is filling your [[refuse]] [[stockpile]].  Magma crabs crawling out of a volcano onto a glacier will cause ice to melt.
  
Despite what their name and sprite indicate, magma crabs are not actually [[crab]]-like in terms of body structure; according to their raws, they are essentially crawling heads with a pair of flightless wings, being devoid of extremities like legs or pincers, making them closer to [[hungry head]]s than crabs.
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Before 0.40, magma crabs used to spit solid basalt rather than liquid (this was a bug), and were therefore much more [[fun]] as they could easily break dwarves into pieces. Magma crabs possess a [[pet]] value of 200, but lack the necessary tokens to be [[Animal trainer|trainable]]. Additionally, they can't be spawned in the [[object testing arena]].
 
 
Magma crabs possess a [[pet]] value of 200, but are not [[Animal trainer|trainable]]. Additionally, they can't be spawned in the [[object testing arena]].
 
  
 
Some dwarves like magma crabs for their ''chittering''.
 
Some dwarves like magma crabs for their ''chittering''.

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