Fix Crabs

[MagicManICT]

just let me make some thick cloth/wool gloves that apply a penalty to whatever (or hell, has to be held in hand) and lets me avoid quill/crab/etc damage

Poor Man's Gloves--They're not highly effective, but you will see a decrease in damage chances and amount.

[Liss12]

I agree crabs are comically overpowered consider how little their products actually worth, there is absolutely no reason to bother picking crabs other than stupid credo quest. And even if you have such quest, real MVP move will be just abandon it and hope for the best, rather that searching for crabs and recieving debilitating injuries.

[Archiplex]

just let me make some thick cloth/wool gloves that apply a penalty to whatever (or hell, has to be held in hand) and lets me avoid quill/crab/etc damage

Poor Man's Gloves--They're not highly effective, but you will see a decrease in damage chances and amount.

i'm aware of poor man's, i'm saying a "100% i won't take damage" precautionary measure. or hell, make it as a benefit of the hunter credo or something

this needs to stop

[allahthevenerable]

[VDZ]

That guy is absolutely dead.

[banok]

Yeah I wanna +1 that I don't think crabs could possibly worth the pain even with gloves and meds in the current implementation. new glove type or nerf pls

[ZantetsukenX]

Crabs suck, I haven't picked up more than one since world start. I too would like something to be done about crab caress.

[ZantetsukenX]

Reviving this topic a bit because after discussing in discord with some people we think a good alternative to having you get crab caressed through the gloves. Instead of it just being a lowered chance of it happening while wearing gloves, instead make it a low chance to break the gloves entirely. But as an offset, you can't get crab caressed while wearing them. Essentially it would add in a material sink, deal with the annoyance of the wound, still punish you if you are lazy and want to pick up the crabs anyways, and make it so people who want/need to farm them will have to make multiple pairs of gloves to bring with them, in their hunt for crab roe.

[Barbamaus]

Reviving this topic a bit because after discussing in discord with some people we think a good alternative to having you get crab caressed through the gloves. Instead of it just being a lowered chance of it happening while wearing gloves, instead make it a low chance to break the gloves entirely. But as an offset, you can't get crab caressed while wearing them. Essentially it would add in a material sink, deal with the annoyance of the wound, still punish you if you are lazy and want to pick up the crabs anyways, and make it so people who want/need to farm them will have to make multiple pairs of gloves to bring with them, in their hunt for crab roe.

This might work, as a small fix, but considering how cheap gloves are it would just mean people will bring 10 pairs of gloves with them if they want to hunt for crabs.
I still think we should either get a crab spear thingy, or some kind of metal glove to pick them up safely.
MAYBE, a hardened leather glove, although I hate the idea of wasting more hard leather...