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 seeds. They are, however, poisonous, and have a fast healing rate (approximately 10 life points per second). Level 112 cave crawlers have a much higher chance of dropping herbs and seeds than the level 76.

Cave crawlers are a popular delicacy amongst the Dorgeshuun cave goblins, who cut them into fillets and serve them on a large platter. 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.

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.

Level 112 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 76) 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 112) 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

LocationsEdit

• Fremennik Slayer Dungeon (level 76 & 106) - Recommended for Slayer tasks and slaying in general. Many in one open space. (Fairy ring AJR)
• Lumbridge Swamp Caves (level 76) - Recommended for Slayer tasks for the close proximity to 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, and 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 76)
• Pollnivneach Slayer Dungeon (level 112), after fighting the monstrous cave crawler

Strengths and weaknessesEdit

When fighting the level 76 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 112 crawlers are a tougher challenge and require good healing abilities. 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. Conserve potions by equipping one's best defensive melee gear to minimise the poisonous hits taken. Super defence potions can also help with this.

Cave crawlers are great temporary training for mid-high level melee players. With heavy armor, a 2h sword and Momentum activated, they are easy kills.

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, killing a unicorn located near the entrance, and using a pestle and mortar to grind the horn into unicorn dust.

The level 112 cave crawlers are in a good spot to use a dwarf multicannon, it is recommended to use Protect from Ranged with this strategy because you will be attacked by many of them at once. However, a Slayer task may use up to around 1500 cannonballs to complete using this method, and the prayer will not prevent poisoning.

Level 76 and 112 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.

Drops (level 76)Edit

RunesEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Earth rune	9–10	2 Common	90–100
	Fire rune	12	2 Common	120
	Nature rune	3	2 Common	333

SeedsEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Potato seed	1–4	2 Common	2–8
	Onion seed	1–3	2 Common	1–3
	Cabbage seed	1–3	2 Common	2–6
	Tomato seed	1–3	2 Common	1–3
	Sweetcorn seed	1–2	2 Common	2–4
	Strawberry seed	1	2 Common	328
	Watermelon seed	1	3 Uncommon	2,008
	Evil turnip seed	1–4	3 Uncommon	155–620

HerbsEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Grimy guam	1–2	2 Common	489–978
	Grimy marrentill	1–2	2 Common	46–92
	Grimy tarromin	1–2	2 Common	228–456
	Grimy harralander	1–2	2 Common	568–1,136
	Grimy ranarr	1–2	3 Uncommon	2,130–4,260
	Grimy irit	1–2	3 Uncommon	1,816–3,632
	Grimy avantoe	1–2	3 Uncommon	4,039–8,078
	Grimy kwuarm	1–2	3 Uncommon	2,478–4,956
	Grimy cadantine	1–2	4 Rare	2,498–4,996
	Grimy lantadyme	1–2	4 Rare	7,843–15,686
	Grimy dwarf weed	1–2	4 Rare	8,203–16,406

Herblore ingredientsEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Eye of newt	1	2 Common	8
	Limpwurt root	1	2 Common	967
	White berries	1	2 Common	922
	Vial of water	1	2 Common	20
	Red spiders' eggs	1	3 Uncommon	665
	Unicorn horn dust	1	3 Uncommon	2,013
	Snape grass	1	4 Rare	261

CharmsEdit

Remember, this charm log is for the level 76 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).

OtherEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	3, 8, 11, 29	2 Common	Not sold
	Bronze boots	1	3 Uncommon	1,271
	Weapon poison (3)	1	3 Uncommon	100
	Starved ancient effigy	1	5 Very rare	Not sold

Rare drop table dropsEdit

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 1,126 Uncut emerald 1 2 Common 1,743 Uncut ruby 1 2 Common 3,690 Loop half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 8,214 Tooth half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 12,631 Uncut diamond 1 3 Uncommon 7,534 Uncut dragonstone 1 4 Rare 14,963 Dragonstone 1 4 Rare 9,817 Dragon dagger 1 3 Uncommon 17,302 Rune battleaxe 1 4 Rare 24,512 Rune javelin 5 4 Rare 1,245 Adamant javelin 20 5 Very rare 960 Rune spear 1 5 Very rare 11,923 Dragon spear 1 5 Very rare 36,757 Dragon dagger 50 (noted) 5 Very rare 865,100 Rune kiteshield 1 5 Very rare 32,258 Shield left half 1 5 Very rare 65,260 Dragon helm 1 5 Very rare 59,854 Adamant bolts 200 3 Uncommon 16,800 Rune arrow 150–200; 500 4 Rare 29,250–195 Onyx bolts 150 4 Rare 1,296,300 Battlestaff 200 (noted) 4 Rare 1,676,800 Air orb 1,000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,336,000 Fire orb 1,000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,350,000 Vecna skull 1 5 Very rare 126,976 Water talisman 1 3 Uncommon 4,928 Earth talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 20,550–28,770 Fire talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 46,900–65,660 Chaos talisman 1 3 Uncommon 264 Nature talisman 1 3 Uncommon 251 Pure essence 500–15,000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 44,000–1,320,000 Nature rune 47–77 4 Rare 5,217–8,547 Soul rune 20 4 Rare 2,500 Death rune 50; 121 4 Rare 93 Blood rune 50 4 Rare 8,750 Raw swordfish 125 – 250; 1,000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 35,625–285 Raw shark 250–500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 242,000–484,000 Big bones 150 – 500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 64,950–216,500 Coal 150–7,500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 39,600–1,980,000 Adamantite ore 150–800 (noted) 3 Uncommon 230,400–1,228,800 Silver ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 10,800 Adamant bar 1,000–7,000 (noted) 4 Rare 3,429,000–24,003,000 Runite ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 1,043,900 Rune bar 1,50,150 (noted) 4 Rare 13,028–1,954,200 Clean ranarr 33 (noted) 3 Uncommon 75,603 Clean toadflax 25–250 (noted) 3 Uncommon 91,625–916,250 Clean snapdragon 30–120 (noted) 3 Uncommon 109,530–438,120 Clean torstol 10–100 (noted) 3 Uncommon 104,230–1,042,300 Saradomin brew (4) 250 (noted) 5 Very rare 141,750 Watermelon seed 3 3 Uncommon 6,024 Yew seed 1–50 4 Rare 69,680–3,484,000 Magic seed 1–6 4 Rare 162,969–977,814 Palm tree seed 10 4 Rare 1,186,010 Snapdragon seed 1 4 Rare 2,417 Torstol seed 1–31 4 Rare 68,864–2,134,784 Fellstalk seed 2 4 Rare 970 Yew logs 100–20,000 (noted) 4 Rare 54,300–10,860,000

Drops (level 112)Edit

RunesEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Earth rune	9	2 Common	90
	Fire rune	12	2 Common	120
	Nature rune	1, 3	3 Uncommon	111–333

SeedsEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Potato seed	1–5	2 Common	2–10
	Onion seed	1, 3 , 5	2 Common	1–5
	Cabbage seed	1–3	2 Common	2–6
	Tomato seed	1–3	2 Common	1–3
	Sweetcorn seed	1–2	2 Common	2–4
	Strawberry seed	1	2 Common	328
	Watermelon seed	1	3 Uncommon	2,008
	Evil turnip seed	1–4	3 Uncommon	155–620

HerbsEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Grimy guam	1–3	2 Common	489–1,467
	Grimy marrentill	1–3	2 Common	46–138
	Grimy tarromin	1–3	2 Common	228–684
	Grimy harralander	1–3	2 Common	568–1,704
	Grimy ranarr	1–3	3 Uncommon	2,130–6,390
	Grimy irit	1–3	3 Uncommon	1,816–5,448
	Grimy avantoe	1–3	3 Uncommon	4,039–12,117
	Grimy kwuarm	1–3	3 Uncommon	2,478–7,434
	Grimy cadantine	1–3	4 Rare	2,498–7,494
	Grimy lantadyme	1–3	4 Rare	7,843–23,529
	Grimy dwarf weed	1–3	4 Rare	8,203–24,609

Herblore ingredientsEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Eye of newt	1	2 Common	8
	Limpwurt root	1–2	2 Common	967–1,934
	Snape grass	1–2	2 Common	261–522
	Red spiders' eggs	1–3	3 Uncommon	665–1,995
	Unicorn horn dust	1–3	2 Common	2,013–6,039
	White berries	1–2	2 Common	922–1,844
	Vial of water	1	2 Common	20

CharmsEdit

Remember, this Charm log is for the level 112 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).

OtherEdit

Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	10–328	2 Common	Not sold
	Bronze boots	1	3 Uncommon	1,271
	Adamant spear	1	4 Rare	861
	Starved ancient effigy	1	4 Rare	Not sold

Rare drop table dropsEdit

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 1,126 Uncut emerald 1 2 Common 1,743 Uncut ruby 1 2 Common 3,690 Loop half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 8,214 Tooth half of a key 1 3 Uncommon 12,631 Uncut diamond 1 3 Uncommon 7,534 Uncut dragonstone 1 4 Rare 14,963 Dragonstone 1 4 Rare 9,817 Dragon dagger 1 3 Uncommon 17,302 Rune battleaxe 1 4 Rare 24,512 Rune javelin 5 4 Rare 1,245 Adamant javelin 20 5 Very rare 960 Rune spear 1 5 Very rare 11,923 Dragon spear 1 5 Very rare 36,757 Dragon dagger 50 (noted) 5 Very rare 865,100 Rune kiteshield 1 5 Very rare 32,258 Shield left half 1 5 Very rare 65,260 Dragon helm 1 5 Very rare 59,854 Adamant bolts 200 3 Uncommon 16,800 Rune arrow 150–200; 500 4 Rare 29,250–195 Onyx bolts 150 4 Rare 1,296,300 Battlestaff 200 (noted) 4 Rare 1,676,800 Air orb 1,000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,336,000 Fire orb 1,000 (noted) 4 Rare 1,350,000 Vecna skull 1 5 Very rare 126,976 Water talisman 1 3 Uncommon 4,928 Earth talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 20,550–28,770 Fire talisman 25–35 (noted) 3 Uncommon 46,900–65,660 Chaos talisman 1 3 Uncommon 264 Nature talisman 1 3 Uncommon 251 Pure essence 500–15,000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 44,000–1,320,000 Nature rune 47–77 4 Rare 5,217–8,547 Soul rune 20 4 Rare 2,500 Death rune 50; 121 4 Rare 93 Blood rune 50 4 Rare 8,750 Raw swordfish 125 – 250; 1,000 (noted) 3 Uncommon 35,625–285 Raw shark 250–500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 242,000–484,000 Big bones 150 – 500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 64,950–216,500 Coal 150–7,500 (noted) 3 Uncommon 39,600–1,980,000 Adamantite ore 150–800 (noted) 3 Uncommon 230,400–1,228,800 Silver ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 10,800 Adamant bar 1,000–7,000 (noted) 4 Rare 3,429,000–24,003,000 Runite ore 100 (noted) 4 Rare 1,043,900 Rune bar 1,50,150 (noted) 4 Rare 13,028–1,954,200 Clean ranarr 33 (noted) 3 Uncommon 75,603 Clean toadflax 25–250 (noted) 3 Uncommon 91,625–916,250 Clean snapdragon 30–120 (noted) 3 Uncommon 109,530–438,120 Clean torstol 10–100 (noted) 3 Uncommon 104,230–1,042,300 Saradomin brew (4) 250 (noted) 5 Very rare 141,750 Watermelon seed 3 3 Uncommon 6,024 Yew seed 1–50 4 Rare 69,680–3,484,000 Magic seed 1–6 4 Rare 162,969–977,814 Palm tree seed 10 4 Rare 1,186,010 Snapdragon seed 1 4 Rare 2,417 Torstol seed 1–31 4 Rare 68,864–2,134,784 Fellstalk seed 2 4 Rare 970 Yew logs 100–20,000 (noted) 4 Rare 54,300–10,860,000

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