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. The flesh crawlers have a aggressive time of about 10 minutes, and then become tolerant.

Their drops such as herbs, runes, and iron ores can be sold for a good quantity of money. Alternatively, 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. 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, as well as 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 could bring between 1-3 lobsters or bass for slightly quicker healing.

For members, flesh crawlers often drop valuable herbs. Strategically, players may teleport to Varrock to sell these herbs at the Grand Exchange for profit.

Flesh crawlers are aggressive against players of any level, but only for a 10 minute period after the player enters their area. After this period, they stop attacking the player. To return flesh crawlers to their aggressive state, the player must leave the area, either by walking away from the area until it's out of range on the map and returning, by leaving the floor altogether and returning, or after returning from a random event. However, logging off and on will not reset their aggressiveness.

Players between the combat levels of 40 to 60 may find flesh crawlers a solid source of experience, due to their low max hit and Aggressiveness. The level 28, 35, and 41 flesh crawlers hit a maximum of 16 damage; the accuracy of each hit increases in correspondence with the flesh crawlers' increased combat levels.

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; one can simply bring food and turn auto retaliate on. Usually, players start training at level 35 flesh crawlers. In view of this, 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. In contrast a high-levelled player, if alone, may determine it beneficial to simply stand in the interior of the room, as flesh crawlers will automatically and constantly produce attacks.

A dedicated player can receive the "bottom half of sceptre" as a drop, one of four parts that make up the sought-out Skull sceptre.

Dedicated members can make as much as 350k per hour depending on stats, selling the drops on the Grand Exchange. Rings of Wealth can help in this area.

An update made it possible for flesh crawlers to drop black full helms, resulting in a price drop for that particular item.

Weapons and armour

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

Runes and Talismans

 * 3-12 Body runes (common)
 * 2-23 Dust runes (m) (common)
 * 42-150 Fire runes (m) (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 (rare, sometimes dropped with Bottom of Sceptre)
 * Uncut Diamond (very rare, sometimes dropped with Bottom of Sceptre)

Herbs (Members only)

 * Grimy guam (common)
 * Grimy marrentill (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 (rare)
 * Grimy snapdragon (very rare)

Other drops

 * 1-101 Coins (common)
 * Iron ore (common)
 * Ashes (common)
 * Bottom of Sceptre (rare) (can obtain more than one)
 * Silver bar (common) (m)
 * Shield left half (very rare) (m)
 * Tooth half of a key (very rare) (m)
 * Loop half of a key (very rare) (m)
 * Starved ancient effigy (m)

Trivia

 * Interestingly, flesh crawlers 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 he or she sold the single ore one at a time. It is unknown if this glitch occurred with other items. This has since been fixed.
 * 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 equivalent to 10, after the update. However, their max hit to 16 as a result of the update, making flesh crawlers slightly stronger than before.
 * For members, flesh crawlers are often fought against because of their high drop rate of many fire runes, as well as their herbs.