Change/remove crab caressed

[SacreDoom]

Crabs currently provide a few interesting foods and gildings that would be nice to add to some sort of active repertoire of items. However, it feels unfairly punishing (and just plain illogical when wearing steel gauntlets) to get pelted with numerous wounds for picking up a crab. I can appreciate gathering them incorporating some risk, but them adding rather big wounds that nerf your DEX stat, are untreatable and entirely unpreventable outside praying the RNG doesn't fuck you over just means crabs are largely overlooked or gathered with expendable alts. I propose either nerfing the damage taken to be SHP only, make them much rarer, or have them be treatable with yarrow, or giving us some sort of tool to pick them up with less of a risk.

[Audiosmurf]

I've always thought we should be able to smash them with a rock, like it was in Salem, to avoid taking damage from butchering them.

I dunno if it should be as easy as jamming some yarrow into it to heal, but maybe waybroad or something. Yarrow just trivialized all related wounds. Perhaps they could stack higher instead of inflicting a whole ton of wounds. Or, make them less common as you say, but slightly more severe. 1 in 10 crabs but damage of maybe 10-15?

It does suck to wind up with like 3, 5, 8, 24, 3, 2, 5, 12, after picking and smashing a clump of crabs.

[AntiBlitz]

Having done professional crabbing along the east coast in my younger years, I can say we used "crab tongs" to pick up the little fellers, as they were rather quick to pinch and quite agile. Would be a neat tool, if that was the preferred method. Or allow crab traps you place in the water or shoreline which allows you to gather crabs very slowly and inefficiently vs picking them up quickly for wounds.

[Gigglepuddy]

is it possible to find crabs above q10? i never have. if its not, i dont think the debuff needs to be altered at all, as crabs would remain worthless forever.

plus, you know. just wear a pair of gloves and just like hedgehogs, the crabs magically lose the ability to hurt you.

[Cajoes]

I just made my hunter buddy do the actual hunting and processing of crabs. Since he does not use dex in his art. (Of maiming meat that walks)

[Audiosmurf]

is it possible to find crabs above q10? i never have. if its not, i dont think the debuff needs to be altered at all, as crabs would remain worthless forever.

Yes, they have quality nodes like anything else.

plus, you know. just wear a pair of gloves and just like hedgehogs, the crabs magically lose the ability to hurt you.

Not even close to true. Gloves give a %chance to ignore the damage, but when processing large or even medium (10-20) amounts of crabs you still inevitably take a ton.

[Gigglepuddy]

huh. thought it just negated it as ive not been pricked nor carressed since i first discovered the seemingly worthless glove slot. even so, is there anything actually good you can even get from crab parts? the chitin helm loks apatizing if im low on iron, and obviously easier to get than the boar helm, or maybe for fishing hooks, but i dont think a hook effects fish quality.

[Audiosmurf]

huh. thought it just negated it as ive not been pricked nor carressed since i first discovered the seemingly worthless glove slot. even so, is there anything actually good you can even get from crab parts? the chitin helm loks apatizing if im low on iron, and obviously easier to get than the boar helm, or maybe for fishing hooks, but i dont think a hook effects fish quality.

Chitin hooks actually make a meaningful difference when lure fishing. Each part of your gear (line, hook, lure,) will cause % changes for all the different fish. As well, fishing tackle caps your fish. Chitin sequins or whatever it's called are also important for making an optimal cooking set.

[Gigglepuddy]

huh. thought it just negated it as ive not been pricked nor carressed since i first discovered the seemingly worthless glove slot. even so, is there anything actually good you can even get from crab parts? the chitin helm loks apatizing if im low on iron, and obviously easier to get than the boar helm, or maybe for fishing hooks, but i dont think a hook effects fish quality.

Chitin hooks actually make a meaningful difference when lure fishing. Each part of your gear (line, hook, lure,) will cause % changes for all the different fish. As well, fishing tackle caps your fish. Chitin sequins or whatever it's called are also important for making an optimal cooking set.

hmm. guess id better stop dropping those shit tier worms and leaches on then. ive just been using whatever ive got since the q of the pole is dependent on the line.