The Mines in Stardew Valley are filled with weird and wonderful monsters to defeat, each with its own resource drops and method of killing. While most are easy, some may prove problematic, including the Lava Crab.
The Lava Crab is an enemy deep inside the Mines in Stardew Valley. At first glance, you might not even realize that it is hostile, as it looks suspiciously like a rock. These are very small differences between the appearance of a rock and that of a Lava Crab, such as a smoother highlight, but those differences are hard to spot if you’re speedrunning through the floors.
Whether you’re hunting for Lava Crabs to get their worthwhile drops or trying to complete the Monster Eradication Goal at the Adventurer’s Guild (which requires you to kill 60 Rock Crabs of any type), here’s everything you need to know about Lava Crabs.
How to find Lava Crabs in Stardew Valley
To find Lava Crabs in Stardew Valley, you’ll need to reach at least floor 81 of the Mines. They can be found between this point and floor 119, disguised as rocks when you approach. Lava Crabs can be quite skittish and will hide as you get close, becoming invulnerable to any attacks.
To make a Lava Crab come out of its shell, you’ll need to hit it with a Pickaxe. This will knock them back and force them to walk slightly, leaving them vulnerable to attacks with swords or other weapons. If you hit a Lava Crab with a pickaxe too many times, the shell will fall off of its back, and the Crab will flee. The same thing happens when you set off a bomb nearby.
If you want to make the most of Lava Crab drops, you’ll need to kill them with fast weapons as soon as they become mobile, not giving them a chance to run away.
Lava Crab drops in Stardew Valley
What a Lava Crab will drop will depend on whether or not you’ve reached the bottom floor (floor 120) of the Mines. Before that point, any of the following items can drop when a Lava Crab is defeated:
- Bomb (40% chance)
- Crab (25% chance)
- Dwarf Scroll III (0.5% chance)
- Dwarf Scroll IV (0.1% chance)
After reaching floor 120 of the mines, revisiting higher floors and defeating Lava Crabs can still result in getting any of the previously mentioned items, but you also stand a chance of getting the following drops as well:
- Diamond (0.05% chance)
- Prismatic Shard (0.05% chance)
