There might be something to the catacombs crab.

[Chewy102]

Spoilers may be inside. Be warned!



Most know about the pig in DS2 that if you lead into another zone and to a pile of shrooms you will get the pickaxe. I think the catacombs crab might be something like that after getting the idea from reddit.

If you have no idea what the catacombs crab (CC) is, it is a mob hidden inside the last bone roller in the catacombs near the end of the area. After you kill the skelly mage the crab spawns where the bone roller crashes and the CC has a MASSIVE leash limit. Almost none that Iv found.

So far Iv taken that little guy all the way to Smoldering Lake and explored near that entire area with him. Yes, the CC is able to fall from the rope bridge and land of that ledge, he takes maybe 5-10% damage. Once in the Smoldering Lake the CC leashes at the large worm, so no going to the Demon area nor the Old Demon boss room, and the path to Horace. The only place in Smoldering Lake I didn't manage to take the CC is to the lone thin burning tree under that balista. Goofed and got killed to the large crabs. No idea of the CCs leash limits to other zones yet.

Plus I learned that one large crab in Smoldering Lake doesn't agro on the player. Does nothing with the CC though, that I found so far. Just a fun fact that might be something.



Leading the CC takes a LONG time and I could use a bit of help. Anyone willing to spend their time seeing if this pans out or not?

[the 0ne and 0nly]

u can find dead corpse of Quelana in Demon Ruins

[ WraithGear]

wich sadly based on lore and everything.... makes no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ seince. like the fact that gravelord nitos coffin is in the first bossfight arena, right next to the lord vessal, where you first start the game.... like wat?

[Some Casul]

This might be the trick to activate DLC when they publish it. Like omg it's a crabland with unique gesture to walk sideways and have a crabfest and something and something.

Crabbly of Crablands which went hollow in a search of its parents.

[Krampus]

Some Casul の投稿を引用：

This might be the trick to activate DLC when they publish it. Like omg it's a crabland with unique gesture to walk sideways and have a crabfest and something and something.

Crabbly of Crablands which went hollow in a search of its parents.

This sounds so horrendously stupid, it might actually be the case xD

[Scrundle]

There's already a "Pretend to be a crab" emote, you get it from Patches.

[sebastiantz]

Hail to the true Lord of Cinders the CC
Ok did some testing.
-Leading it to Anri, Horace (down in lake) and the Mimic Chest.
-All Gestures infront of it
-Throwing Duell-,Undeadtailismans on it
-Droping various items Ember, Siegbräu, Red eyes, Convenat items etc.
So far nothing...
It seems CC stops at the right point of the bridge, to drop excatly on the cliff to the Lake.
CC cant cross the way to Horace normal, you have to kick it alot of the time
Anyone tried to lead it to Londor?

Crab DLC would be awesome, you could crab arround the whole time with the sunbros.

Some Pics----> http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198135721687/home/

[Wraithcal / Wskill on a laptop i]

Diasporator の投稿を引用：

There's already a "Pretend to be a crab" emote, you get it from Patches.

haha i just sent a pic yesteday to a friend doing the patches emote wearing the onion knight set with a shiddy flat small random helmet saying "i am now crab" and here i see this comment xD

[Wraithcal / Wskill on a laptop i]

sebastiantz の投稿を引用：

Hail to the true Lord of Cinders the CC

It seems CC stops at the right point of the bridge, to drop excatly on the cliff to the Lake.

The fact that it stops exactly above that cliff to join you into the lake that also has a giant crab that doesnt aggro can NOT be a coincedence from a developers viewpoint. Has to be something there. Its just something everyone is overlooking up till now. edit: perhaps the little crab has to grow to become the giant crab's spouse or something.. cant it level up by killing skeletons?

[Noun]

Oexy の投稿を引用：

sebastiantz の投稿を引用：

Hail to the true Lord of Cinders the CC

It seems CC stops at the right point of the bridge, to drop excatly on the cliff to the Lake.

The fact that it stops exactly above that cliff to join you into the lake that also has a giant crab that doesnt aggro can NOT be a coincedence from a developers viewpoint. Has to be something there. Its just something everyone is overlooking up till now. edit: perhaps the little crab has to grow to become the giant crab's spouse or something.. cant it level up by killing skeletons?

Maybe you have to take it to Yoel, level it up 5 times at him, then give it the blade of avowal to become the spouse of the big crab to unlock the secret usurp the crab ending.

[Chewy102]

Oexy の投稿を引用：

sebastiantz の投稿を引用：

Hail to the true Lord of Cinders the CC

It seems CC stops at the right point of the bridge, to drop excatly on the cliff to the Lake.

The fact that it stops exactly above that cliff to join you into the lake that also has a giant crab that doesnt aggro can NOT be a coincedence from a developers viewpoint. Has to be something there. Its just something everyone is overlooking up till now. edit: perhaps the little crab has to grow to become the giant crab's spouse or something.. cant it level up by killing skeletons?

Well, I finally got back to the catacombs and didn't find ANYTHING of note in the area. Just a few suorceless shafts of light around the pinwheals that I can recall at the moment. Tried killing CC to the first bone roller as it crashed but with it being NG+, CC survived with 1/3 HP. Need to retest that but see no odds of it panning out.

Starting to run out of ideas here. The only place left is smoldering lake and I already explored most of that area with CC in my first walk with him. Didn't someone say that they got CC where Horace is by way of the bridge? If that doesn't kill CC, and my money is on just that, then maybe taking CC there while Horace is still alive might just snap him out of being hollow? A very long shot but it's something.

As for the non hostile large crab. Don't you get a scripted drop from those crabs like how you got the swamp ring? Could simply be nohting more than that.


The only ideas I got left are.

1-Take CC to Horace
2- Somehow, take CC to Demon Ruins by way of the broken floor while the balista is active. That lava pool, something odd about it in general.
3- Have CC die by the balista while in view of the large crabs Non hostile one?

Outside of those and if no one else can think of anything. CC can just be a crab however odd finding a crab in a place like that might be.

[Andrius227]

Did someone try taking the CC to the big crabs ? Sorry i havent read all the posts here. I just feel like the small crab is a lost (possibly kidnapped) child of the big ones. So it probably has something to do with them. Also is that small crab hostile towards the big crabs ? Could it attack them and kill them or would the big ones fight back ?

[Call Sign: Raven]

Maybe you have to bring it all the way back to Farron Swamp.

[Tempura Knight]

God, it's a sideways walking Pendant, I can see it now... Pendant on legs... /shudder

I don't think you can bring it past the Abyss Watchers boss fog, Mr Saturn. Unfortunately. :(

[Dam Stark]

in my game he stoped near the end of the bridge and wouldnt follow but started attacking. it almost looks like he was signaling me to cut the ropes. So i did and sure enough he falls on the ledge and follows you to smoldering lake. Now im not sure where to take him

[Terroriza]

GrandTickler の投稿を引用：

probably not any help but are you guys aware of this pretty secret shortcut from the lake?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYdathKnG_A&

it might help you in your luring the baby crab experiment, or maybe you can lure a big one down there, i dont know :P

i didnt find this shortcut myself but i was aware of the cracks in the ceiling in the hallway bellow, so i started looking around youtube to see if anyone knew more.
this whole hallway has a weird vibe to me, its mostly empty beside one titanite lizard and 1 enemy.. seems much longer than nessesary

when you first enter the main swamp area or whatever you call it look across to your right some.. you see a low wall, but then an area made of bricks.. do the same thing and make the ballista hit those bricks for a ring. same way as this video, but it hits a wall instead.