Flesh Crawler

Flesh crawlers are medium level monsters found on level 2 of the Stronghold of Security. They are considered good training for players with combat levels of 35-60+. The level 28s have a maximum hit of 16, and are quite inaccurate when Mithril or higher is equipped, but when Steel or lower is equipped, could be a bit hard as they hit at a fast rate. They are considered a good way of making money in pay-to-play worlds because they drop large numbers of Herbs, including many high level ones. For medium-level players, flesh crawlers offer an alternative to chaos druids, who also drop many herbs.

Their drops such as herbs, runes, and iron ores can be sold for a good quantity of money. alternativly, members can save the iron ore to smith into steel bars (and then if they choose cannonballs) to make a higher profit.





Strategies
Due to the high accuracy and speed of the flesh crawlers' attacks, food is a necessity for weak players if they wish to stay for an extended period of time. These monsters can also unnerve players due to their repulsive appearance. Conveniently, there is a fishing area located just outside of the Barbarian Village, close to the entrance of the Stronghold of Security. Salmon and trout can be caught and cooked here if a player does not wish to bring his/her own food from the bank. Players can cook their fish on the perpetual fire located in Peska's helmet shop, and also the two perpetual fires in the Barbarian Longhall. There is also a cooked meat spawn in the Barbarian Longhall. People up to level 60 in combat should bring between 1-3 lobsters or bass to heal quickly.

For members, a good strategy is to teleport to Varrock to sell your herbs at the Grand Exchange. Ranarr, lantadyme, and dwarf weed are worth the most coins. Players often clean guam, marrentill, tarromin for Herblore experience and then drop them, as they are all currently (as of 1/31/10) less than 1,000 coins. One strategy for cash-strapped players is to pick up any guam or harralander that players drop, as they typically sell for about 690 (guam) to 1200 (harralander) coins.

Flesh crawlers are aggressive against players of any level, but only for a 10-20 minute period after the player enters their area. After that time they stop attacking the player. In areas crowded with players, this can make it hard to acquire new targets, as the flesh crawlers will now attack other players. To make the flesh crawlers aggressive again, simply leave the area and return. Just exiting one door may not count as leaving the area. If so, exit through two doors and then return.

Flesh crawlers have a low combat level. If you are between the combat levels of 40 to 60, Flesh crawlers are a perfect source of exp due to their low max hit and their Aggressiveness. There is a small room with eight level 35 flesh crawlers in the Stronghold of Security, which makes them great for training at low levels. The level 28, 35, and 41 flesh crawlers can only hit a maximum of 16 damage, with the level 41 flesh crawlers hitting the most accurately out of the three and the level 28 ones being the least accurate.

These creatures are also popular for high levelled F2P players as well. Due to the fact they are aggressive and hit low, they are perfect for training without having to do much.

Also, a truly dedicated player can get the "bottom half of sceptre", one of four parts of the Skull sceptre.

Dedicated members can make 50k to 100k per hour, selling the drops on the Grand Exchange. Rings of Wealth can help in this area.

Weapons and armour (Members only)

 * 1-20 Rune javelins (very rare) (m)
 * Dragon med helm (extremely rare) (m)
 * Battlestaff (rare) (m)
 * Dragon spear (extremely rare) (m)
 * Mithril knife (common) (m)
 * Steel dart (rare) (m)

Runes and Talismans

 * 3-12 Body runes 70% (common)
 * 2-23 Dust runes (m) (common)
 * 42-150 Fire runes (m) (very common)
 * 5-10 Nature runes (rare)
 * Nature talisman (m) (very rare)

Gems

 * Uncut Sapphire (rare, sometimes dropped with Bottom of Sceptre)
 * Uncut Emerald (rare, sometimes dropped with Bottom of Sceptre)
 * Uncut Ruby (very rare, sometimes dropped with Bottom of Sceptre)
 * Uncut Diamond (very rare, sometimes dropped with Bottom of Sceptre)

Herbs (Members only)

 * Grimy guam (very common)
 * Grimy marrentill (very common)
 * Grimy tarromin (common)
 * Grimy harralander (common)


 * Grimy ranarr (rare)
 * Grimy irit (rare)
 * Grimy kwuarm (rare)
 * Grimy avantoe (rare)
 * Grimy cadantine (rare)
 * Grimy lantadyme (rare)
 * Grimy dwarf weed (very rare)

Other drops

 * 1-101 Coins (common)
 * 3-7 Iron ore (noted) (common)
 * Iron ore (common)
 * Ashes (common)
 * Bottom of Sceptre (uncommon) (can obtain more than one)
 * Silver bar (common)
 * Shield left half (extremely rare) (m)
 * Tooth half of a key (very rare) (m)
 * Loop half of a key (very rare) (m)
 * None (rare)
 * Uncut diamond (very rare)

Trivia

 * Interestingly, they have the same examine text as all of the Kalphite monsters.
 * There was a Glitch that would occasionally happen to players who obtained one Un-noted Iron Ore from a Flesh Crawler, in which a player could sell it in the Grand Exchange an Infinite amount of times, but only if they sold the Single Ore one at a time. This has since been fixed.
 * Most times than none when they drop fire runes, they also drop varying herbs (members)
 * In 2008, there was a glitch that gave a player a random event whenever they buried bones in the centre of the northern flesh crawler cave, many players would shout "I summon the random!" before they bury their bones. This glitch has now been fixed. Players could use Saradomin Sword special attack and keep repeating it infinite times. The glitch has not been fixed yet.
 * Flesh crawlers have the fastest attack speed for any f2p monster.
 * Before the Hitpoints/Constitution update, Flesh Crawlers had a max hit of 1, which would be equivlant to 10 after the update, however, the update changed their max hit to 16, which made them stronger than before.
 * All herbs are dropped with Fire runes