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Thorn Fiddler is a crab creature in Windrose. Spawns in groups of 1-2. Appears during the night portion of the day-night cycle.

Crabs are coastal-wildlife encounters commonly clustered on Coastal Jungle beaches and inside coastal caves. They drop Crab Meat and crafting materials.

Current Stats and Drops

The tables below summarize combat stats, traits, and drops for the current launch build. Values can change when balance patches adjust creature health, defenses, or loot.

Combat Stats

Traits

Gameplay traits for this creature: Animal, Undead.

Attacks

Drops

The drop table shows the stack size awarded when the drop rolls, and Chance shows the probability per kill.

Combat Notes

The thorn fiddler carries zero Armor, so weapon damage type does not need to be matched against it the way it does for armored targets; any weapon connects for full listed damage. Its 120 Defence is a flat mitigation value, and at 1,100 Health it is a sturdier target than the small day-spawn beach crabs. Both of its attacks are Slash melee swings dealing 190 with no armor penetration, so a single piece of body Armor already blunts each hit.

Stagger Defence of 3 is low, which means heavy weapons interrupt its swings reliably. Engaging the larger fiddler at range with a Blunderbuss or Musket before it closes avoids the Slash melee entirely.

Where to Find

This creature spawns during the night portion of the day-night cycle on Coastal Jungle beaches and in coastal caves, in groups of one or two. Other spawn details are not confirmed in the current build. If a Pearl is the goal, the fiddler is one of the few reliable night sources at a 30% per-kill chance, so clearing several across a night beach loop is the practical way to bank a few.

See Also

• Crab

• Creatures

• Enemies

• Pearl

Does Not Drop Crab Shell

The thorn fiddler shares the crab silhouette and drops Crab Meat, so it is easy to assume the species is also the source of Crab Shell. That is not the case in the current build. Crab Shell only drops from the smaller orange beach crabs that appear during the day, and time spent farming thorn fiddlers for the shell produces no progress on the Trophy Crab recipe. The confusion is common because the thorn fiddler is a larger, more imposing target than the beach crabs, but its drop table reads Crab Meat plus Undead Essence plus a Pearl chance, never Crab Shell.

If the goal of a beach loop is the Trophy Crab, target the small orange day-spawn crabs on the shoreline instead. The thorn fiddler is still worth clearing for Undead Essence on the night shift, but not for crab-shell farming.

Details

Drops