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For the creature in Daemonheim, see Cave crawler (Daemonheim).

Cave crawlers are Slayer monsters that require level 10 slayer to kill. They drop a variety of Herblore related items and a few seeds. They are, however, poisonous, and have an extremely fast healing rate (approximately 10 life points per second) making them somewhat more dangerous than their combat level suggests.

When fighting the level 23 crawlers, a player shouldn't need much food; about 4-6 cakes (480 health-720 health healed) should do for a player with a decent defence level if an antipoison is consumed immediately upon being poisoned. The level 138 crawlers are a tougher challenge and require good healing abilities.

Cave crawlers are a great way to train herblore, dropping various herbs, vials of water, and some secondary herblore ingredients. Cave crawlers drop all the ingredients needed to make antipoison and Super antipoison potions (Unicorn horn dust, Grimy marrentill/Grimy irit which must be cleaned, and a vial of water) in case you didn't bring any. The unicorn horn dust, however, is not a common drop.

Cave crawlers are a popular delicacy amongst the Dorgeshuun cave goblins, who cut them into filets and serve them on a large platter. The poisonous parts of them are presumably removed. Consequently, they are weak to all bone weapons, including Zanik's crossbow, which makes short work of most assignments.

In the quest Fur 'n' Seek, a cave crawler hide must be collected and cleaned for the Odd Old Man.

Level 138 Cave crawlers are also a great source of ancient effigies. Ideally the Pollnivneach Slayer Dungeon is the best place to obtain these.

Contents 1 Locations 2 Strengths and weaknesses 3 Drops (level 23) 3.1 Runes 3.2 Seeds 3.3 Herbs 3.4 Herblore ingredients 3.5 Charms 3.6 Other 3.7 Rare drop table drops 4 Drops (level 138) 4.1 Runes 4.2 Seeds 4.3 Herbs 4.4 Herblore ingredients 4.5 Charms 4.6 Other 4.7 Rare drop table drops

Locations

• Fremennik Slayer Dungeon (level 23) - Recommended for slayer tasks and slaying in general. Many in one open space. (Fairy ring A-J-R)
• Lumbridge Swamp Caves (level 23) - Recommended for slayer tasks for the nearness of a bank and for the fact that they drop White berries and rare herbs quite frequently. You need a light source, and a tinderbox and spiny helmet (or slayer helmet) are recommended. There are four cave crawlers at this location, also they respawn very quickly. Note: A rope is required for first-time entry, unless you've started The Lost Tribe quest, in which case these caves can be accessed from the Lumbridge cellar. (The entry must be opened with a pickaxe the first time, but is just to the south after you enter the cave goblin tunnels.)
• Dorgesh-Kaan South Dungeon (level 23)
• Pollnivneach Slayer Dungeon (level 138), after fighting the Monstrous cave crawler

Strengths and weaknesses

Cave crawlers poison fairly often so it is advised to use anti-poison potion when fighting them. Their poison is fairly powerful and will initially cause 80 damage. Drinking a super antipoison prior to engaging in combat with them will prevent being poisoned for a good amount of time. Even high level players are suggested to bring at least one antipoison, as the poison can kill you if you're not careful.

Note: If fighting cave crawlers in the Fremennik Slayer Dungeon, you can easily make antipoisons by obtaining the marrentill and vials of water as drops and killing a unicorn located near the entrance and using a pestle and mortar to grind the horn into unicorn dust.

The level 138 cave crawlers are in a multi-combat zone, and it is recommended that you use a dwarf multicannon and protect from melee to slay. However, a slayer task may use up to around 1500 cannonballs to complete using this method, and the prayer will not prevent poisoning. Level 138 Cave Crawlers are also considered large creatures, therefore using the Dragon halberd from various safespots between rocks in the Desert Slayer Dungeon is a good trick of killing them, without having to bank often.

Level 23 and 138 cave crawlers drop all of the required components for many potions such as Prayer potion (Vial of water, ranarr and snape grass) at a fairly regular rate, allowing players to stay in the area for longer. They also drop all the ingredients for both antipoison and super antipoison which is very handy considering the accuracy of their attacks, and therefore the frequency at which they cause poison. Some other useful potions made from their drops are Restore potion, Strength potion, Super strength potion, Super attack potion, Prayer potion and Super defence potion.

There are several safe spots. Simply hiding behind any rock works.

Drops (level 23)

Runes

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Earth rune	9–10	2 Common	81–90
	Fire rune	12	2 Common	120
	Nature rune	3	2 Common	333

Seeds

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Potato seed	1–4	2 Common	2–8
	Onion seed	1–3	2 Common	2–6
	Cabbage seed	1–3	2 Common	3–9
	Tomato seed	1–3	2 Common	1–3
	Sweetcorn seed	1–2	2 Common	1–2
	Strawberry seed	1	2 Common	359
	Watermelon seed	1	3 Uncommon	2,010
	Evil turnip seed	1–4	3 Uncommon	149–596

Herbs

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Grimy guam	1–2	2 Common	539–1,078
	Grimy marrentill	1–2	2 Common	44–88
	Grimy tarromin	1–2	2 Common	249–498
	Grimy harralander	1–2	2 Common	652–1,304
	Grimy ranarr	1–2	3 Uncommon	2,160–4,320
	Grimy irit	1–2	3 Uncommon	1,743–3,486
	Grimy avantoe	1–2	3 Uncommon	4,128–8,256
	Grimy kwuarm	1–2	3 Uncommon	2,471–4,942
	Grimy cadantine	1–2	4 Rare	2,507–5,014
	Grimy lantadyme	1–2	4 Rare	7,850–15,700
	Grimy dwarf weed	1–2	4 Rare	8,195–16,390

Herblore ingredients

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Eye of newt	1	2 Common	8
	Limpwurt root	1	2 Common	1,128
	White berries	1	2 Common	872
	Vial of water	1	2 Common	20
	Snape grass	1	4 Rare	337
	Red spiders' eggs	1	3 Uncommon	679
	Unicorn horn dust	1	3 Uncommon	1,942

Charms

Remember, this charm log is for the level 23 Cave crawlers.

Charm drop percentages

No charms
87%	9%	2–3%	0.9–1%	0.4–0.5%

Represents 90% confidence range, based on a sample of 38,321 kills.
1 charm is dropped at a time.

Please add to the log (only if 50 or more creatures killed).

Other

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	3, 8, 11, 29	2 Common	Not sold
	Bronze boots	1	3 Uncommon	1,274
	Weapon poison	1	3 Uncommon	85
	Starved ancient effigy	1	5 Very rare	Not sold

Rare drop table drops

This monster drops items from the rare drop table.
The ring of wealth improves the chances if equipped but is not required to access the table.

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Item Quantity Rarity GE Market Price Coins 250; 381; 450; 3,000; 9,000; 12,000 2 Common Not sold Uncut sapphire 1 2 Common 1,142 Uncut emerald 1 2 Common 1,792 Uncut ruby 1 2 Common 3,576 Loop half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 8,548 Tooth half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 12,668 Uncut diamond 1 3 Uncommon 7,160 Uncut dragonstone 1 4 Rare 14,935 Dragonstone 1 4 Rare 9,966 Dragon dagger 1 3 Uncommon 17,221 Rune battleaxe 1 4 Rare 24,627 Rune javelin 5 4 Rare 1,270 Adamant javelin 20 5 Very rare 920 Rune spear 1 5 Very rare 12,048 Dragon spear 1 5 Very rare 36,856 Dragon dagger 50 (noted) 5 Very rare 861,050 Rune kiteshield 1 5 Very rare 32,145 Shield left half 1 5 Very rare 65,188 Dragon helm 1 5 Very rare 59,636 Adamant bolts 200 3 Uncommon 17,400 Rune arrow 150–200; 500 4 Rare 29,850–199 Onyx bolts 150 4 Rare 1,303,050 Battlestaff 200 (noted) 4 Rare 1,665,400 Air orb 1,000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,418,000 Fire orb 1,000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,612,000 Vecna skull 1 5 Very rare 138,745 Water talisman 1 3 Uncommon 4,721 Earth talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 19,825–27,755 Fire talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 50,450–70,630 Chaos talisman 1 3 Uncommon 227 Nature talisman 1 3 Uncommon 270 Pure essence 500–15,000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 42,500–1,275,000 Nature rune 47–77 4 Rare 5,217–8,547 Soul rune 20 4 Rare 2,420 Death rune 50; 121 4 Rare 93 Blood rune 50 4 Rare 8,150 Raw swordfish 125 – 250; 1,000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 37,750–302 Raw shark 250–500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 246,500–493,000 Big bones 150 – 500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 67,350–224,500 Coal 150–7,500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 41,700–2,085,000 Adamantite ore 150–800 (noted) 3 Uncommon 227,700–1,214,400 Silver ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 10,500 Adamant bar 1,000–7,000 (noted) 4 Rare 3,168,000–22,176,000 Runite ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 1,038,500 Rune bar 1,50,150 (noted) 4 Rare 13,002–1,950,300 Clean ranarr 33 (noted) 3 Uncommon 74,448 Clean toadflax 25–250 (noted) 3 Uncommon 95,050–950,500 Clean snapdragon 30–120 (noted) 3 Uncommon 106,530–426,120 Clean torstol 10–100 (noted) 3 Uncommon 118,420–1,184,200 Saradomin brew (4) 250 (noted) 5 Very rare 172,000 Watermelon seed 3 3 Uncommon 6,030 Yew seed 1–50 4 Rare 71,385–3,569,250 Magic seed 1–6 4 Rare 160,602–963,612 Palm tree seed 10 4 Rare 1,064,590 Snapdragon seed 1 4 Rare 2,196 Torstol seed 1–31 4 Rare 78,509–2,433,779 Fellstalk seed 2 4 Rare 932 Yew logs 100–20,000 (noted) 4 Rare 56,100–11,220,000

Drops (level 138)

Runes

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Earth rune	9	2 Common	81
	Fire rune	12	2 Common	120
	Nature rune	1, 3	3 Uncommon	111–333

Seeds

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Potato seed	1–5	2 Common	2–10
	Onion seed	1, 3 , 5	2 Common	2–10
	Cabbage seed	1–3	2 Common	3–9
	Tomato seed	1–3	2 Common	1–3
	Sweetcorn seed	1–2	2 Common	1–2
	Strawberry seed	1	2 Common	359
	Watermelon seed	1	3 Uncommon	2,010
	Evil turnip seed	1–4	3 Uncommon	149–596

Herbs

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Grimy guam	1–3	2 Common	539–1,617
	Grimy marrentill	1–3	2 Common	44–132
	Grimy tarromin	1–3	2 Common	249–747
	Grimy harralander	1–3	2 Common	652–1,956
	Grimy ranarr	1–3	3 Uncommon	2,160–6,480
	Grimy irit	1–3	3 Uncommon	1,743–5,229
	Grimy avantoe	1–3	3 Uncommon	4,128–12,384
	Grimy kwuarm	1–3	3 Uncommon	2,471–7,413
	Grimy cadantine	1–3	4 Rare	2,507–7,521
	Grimy lantadyme	1–3	4 Rare	7,850–23,550
	Grimy dwarf weed	1–3	4 Rare	8,195–24,585

Herblore ingredients

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Eye of newt	1	2 Common	8
	Limpwurt root	1–2	2 Common	1,128–2,256
	Snape grass	1–2	2 Common	337–674
	Red spiders' eggs	1–3	2 Common	679–2,037
	Unicorn horn dust	1–3	2 Common	1,942–5,826
	White berries	1–2	2 Common	872–1,744
	Vial of water	1	2 Common	20

Charms

Remember, this Charm log is for the level 138 Cave crawlers.

Charm drop percentages

No charms
79–80%	4–5%	11–12%	4%	0.6–0.9%

Represents 90% confidence range, based on a sample of 10,509 kills.
1 charm is dropped at a time.

Please add to the log (only if 50 or more creatures killed).

Other

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	10–89	2 Common	Not sold
	Bronze boots	1	3 Uncommon	1,274
	Adamant spear	1	4 Rare	880
	Starved ancient effigy	1	4 Rare	Not sold

Rare drop table drops

This monster drops items from the rare drop table.
The ring of wealth improves the chances if equipped but is not required to access the table.

	Show/hide rare drop table
Item Quantity Rarity GE Market Price Coins 250; 381; 450; 3,000; 9,000; 12,000 2 Common Not sold Uncut sapphire 1 2 Common 1,142 Uncut emerald 1 2 Common 1,792 Uncut ruby 1 2 Common 3,576 Loop half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 8,548 Tooth half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 12,668 Uncut diamond 1 3 Uncommon 7,160 Uncut dragonstone 1 4 Rare 14,935 Dragonstone 1 4 Rare 9,966 Dragon dagger 1 3 Uncommon 17,221 Rune battleaxe 1 4 Rare 24,627 Rune javelin 5 4 Rare 1,270 Adamant javelin 20 5 Very rare 920 Rune spear 1 5 Very rare 12,048 Dragon spear 1 5 Very rare 36,856 Dragon dagger 50 (noted) 5 Very rare 861,050 Rune kiteshield 1 5 Very rare 32,145 Shield left half 1 5 Very rare 65,188 Dragon helm 1 5 Very rare 59,636 Adamant bolts 200 3 Uncommon 17,400 Rune arrow 150–200; 500 4 Rare 29,850–199 Onyx bolts 150 4 Rare 1,303,050 Battlestaff 200 (noted) 4 Rare 1,665,400 Air orb 1,000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,418,000 Fire orb 1,000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,612,000 Vecna skull 1 5 Very rare 138,745 Water talisman 1 3 Uncommon 4,721 Earth talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 19,825–27,755 Fire talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 50,450–70,630 Chaos talisman 1 3 Uncommon 227 Nature talisman 1 3 Uncommon 270 Pure essence 500–15,000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 42,500–1,275,000 Nature rune 47–77 4 Rare 5,217–8,547 Soul rune 20 4 Rare 2,420 Death rune 50; 121 4 Rare 93 Blood rune 50 4 Rare 8,150 Raw swordfish 125 – 250; 1,000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 37,750–302 Raw shark 250–500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 246,500–493,000 Big bones 150 – 500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 67,350–224,500 Coal 150–7,500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 41,700–2,085,000 Adamantite ore 150–800 (noted) 3 Uncommon 227,700–1,214,400 Silver ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 10,500 Adamant bar 1,000–7,000 (noted) 4 Rare 3,168,000–22,176,000 Runite ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 1,038,500 Rune bar 1,50,150 (noted) 4 Rare 13,002–1,950,300 Clean ranarr 33 (noted) 3 Uncommon 74,448 Clean toadflax 25–250 (noted) 3 Uncommon 95,050–950,500 Clean snapdragon 30–120 (noted) 3 Uncommon 106,530–426,120 Clean torstol 10–100 (noted) 3 Uncommon 118,420–1,184,200 Saradomin brew (4) 250 (noted) 5 Very rare 172,000 Watermelon seed 3 3 Uncommon 6,030 Yew seed 1–50 4 Rare 71,385–3,569,250 Magic seed 1–6 4 Rare 160,602–963,612 Palm tree seed 10 4 Rare 1,064,590 Snapdragon seed 1 4 Rare 2,196 Torstol seed 1–31 4 Rare 78,509–2,433,779 Fellstalk seed 2 4 Rare 932 Yew logs 100–20,000 (noted) 4 Rare 56,100–11,220,000

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