Flesh Crawler

Flesh crawlers are medium level monsters that are considered good for training levels 35 to 60+. The level 28s only hit 1, but are quite accurate and 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 a good alternative to chaos druids, who also drop many herbs. (For higher level players with sufficient Slayer ability, some higher-level slayer monsters drop many herbs, such as Aberrant spectres.)

Strategies
Due to the high accuracy and speed of the flesh crawlers, food is a necessity for any extended stay for weaker players with a low defence and/or poor armour. 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.

If you are P2P, a good strategy is strap on all the armour you can (as you won't need to run) and teleport to Varrock to sell your herbs at the Grand Exchange. Ranarr, Kwuarm and Dwarf weed's are worth the most coins. Players often clean guam, marrentill, tarromin, and harralander for Herblore experience and then drop them, as they are all currently (as of 11/8/08) less than 1k. Player are recommended to pick up all the runes and noted iron ore as well, they will add up over time. Players might also like to note that fire rune's rarely sell nowadays, so it is recomended that they are sold in the TzHarr caves, and the tokkul is used to buy onyx bolt tips, thus makeing money from the fire runes.

Flesh crawlers are only aggressive for a 10 minute duration after a player of any level enters their area. After that time they stop attacking the player. A player has 2 options, either:
 * Leave that area and return, they will attack the player again.
 * Kill a rat and bury its bone's, this will trigger a random event. NOTE: If the event fails to trigger, leave the area as said above. *Note: Logging out, does not make them aggresive again.

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 8 level 35 Flesh Crawlers in the Stronghold of Security, which makes them great for training at low levels. The level 28's, 35's, and 41's all hit 1's, with the level 41's hitting most accurate out of the 3 and the level 28's being the least accurate.

These creatures are also popular for high leveled F2P players as well. Due to the fact they are aggressive and hit low, it is perfect for training without having to do much, and, if they stop attacking you, in the corner mentioned with 8 flesh crawlers there are rats which you can receive bones from, bury, and be visited by numerous random events.

Also, for the truly dedicated player, you can get one of four parts of the Skull sceptre

Locations

 * Level 2 of the Stronghold of Security

Drops

 * Ashes

Other Drops (free-to-play)
 * 1-85 Coins
 * 3-12 Body runes
 * 1 iron ore
 * 1 Ashes
 * 1 Bottom of Sceptre (One of the 4 parts of the Skull sceptre)
 * 1 Uncut gem (up to diamond)

Other Drops (pay-to-play)
 * 1-20 Rune javelins (very rare)
 * 2-10 Dust runes (common)
 * 5 Nature runes (common)
 * 42 Fire runes (very common)
 * Herb (listed below)
 * 1-8 noted iron ore (common)
 * 1 Silver bar (common)
 * Half of a key (very rare)
 * Nature talisman (Very rare )
 * Green charm (1) (common)
 * Gold charm (1) (uncommon)
 * Crimson charm (1) (uncommon)
 * Blue charm (1) (rare)
 * Grimy Kwuarm (uncommon)
 * Grimy Ranarr (somewhat rare)
 * Grimy Guam (common)
 * Grimy Marrentill (common)
 * Grimy Harralander (common)
 * Grimy Tarromin (common)
 * Grimy Irit (somewhat common)
 * Grimy Lantadyme (uncommon)
 * Grimy Dwarf Weed (rare)
 * Grimy Cadantine (somewhat common)
 * Grimy Avantoe (somewhat common)