Crawler

Crawler
Stats
Health 50	Sight: 0.5
	Hearing: 1
Armor None	Weakpoints All
Immunities N/A	Vulnerabilities N/A
Behavior
Walk speed 2 (5 if running)	Swim speed 2 (7.5 if sprinting)
Aggressive? Always	Can Enter Submarine? Yes
Drops only 1 of the items marked with an asterisk * may drop at a time
Items	Chance
N/A	N/A

The Crawler is a creature somewhat resembling human-sized mermen. They are one of the most common creatures around the ocean in Barotrauma.

Description

Crawlers are relatively small and agile, and are one of the few creatures capable of entering the Submarine. They possess three pairs of red eyes, ochre skin, teal pseudo-hair on their back and multiple hand-like appendages, albeit only the frontal ones are functional.

Crawlers have a segmented shell covering them from head to tail, making hitting them from above an inefficient way of dealing with them.

Crawlers normally appear in small groups of 1-4 individuals (upper/lower limit depending on the local difficulty), compensating their individual frailty, but they can be seen in swarms of 10 or 18 individuals in specific [Terminate a Swarm] missions.

In-game

Due to their size, Crawlers can not do much damage to the hull of the submarine, but their size allows them to easily fit inside and crawl around the ship. Should they find a way in; then can become a danger to the crew.

Unlike in Legacy, Crawlers can now claw their way through doors (albeit they take a long time to do so). Since Crawlers can only board the Submarine through hull breaches, it's recommended to wear a Diving Suit to protect oneself against the Pressure.

Crawlers have the least Healthpoints out of any Creature, totaling at 50 (Half of a Human's), plus they are vulnerable to Bleeding damage, they also no longer have any armor, unlike their Legacy counterpart.

Crawlers are not picky eaters, and they tend to rapidly crowd around and consume any corpse (including the corpses of other Crawlers, which makes them opportunistic Cannibals) over attacking the Submarine. This can be used to one's advantage if dispatching them from the safety of a Railgun or a Coilgun, but it does not apply to Divers, as Crawlers prioritize attacking players over eating (and the Diving Suit features an integrated Flashlight).

They will also flee at very low (<10) health, forcing the Submarine to chase them if part of a Mission, fortunately, most weapons will outright kill them before reaching this point, if not Bleed them to death.

Killing a Crawler allows the Crew to extract one unit of Alien Blood from it's carcass (simply [G]rab it's body, and take the item from their inventory). Alien Blood is a medical reagent necessary to manufacture Blood Bags

Damage Values

Item	Attack Damage	Bleeding Damage	Structure Damage	Stun Duration	Damage Type	Attack Duration	Cooldown
Claw	10	30 (Affliction)	3	0.3	[DEPRECATED]	0.25 Seconds	5 Seconds

Trivia

• The crawler is by far the most common creature in the game, as while as one of the least damaging.
• Their unavoidable nature and low damage often leads submarines to ram into groups of crawlers and "scrape" them off of the sub via vertical movement, before they cause a breach.
• Groups of crawlers tend to gather in ruts and narrow spaces in submarines' hulls, causing significant collective damage to exterior walls in a small area.
• Crawlers went through a complete redesign, compared to their Legacy counterpart, which resembled a giant Shrimp
• Their Brain is so big that they are capable of high-IQ plays, such as latching onto the Submarine outside the firing range of the Guns

Gallery

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  A Crawler pursuing a Captain.

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  A Legacy Crawler attacking a crew member.

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  Legacy Crawler

Audio

• Idle 1

• Idle 2

• When attacking 1

• When attacking 2