Thorny snail



The Thorny snail is a level 13 Summoning familiar. It is summoned using a Thorny snail pouch. It can be used for Ranged experience. The thorny snail is a level 26 familiar and can hit up to 40. Additionally, its Slime Spray scroll can deal a max of 80 damage, which is a big jump from the lower levelled familiars. Finally, the Thorny snail is immune to all types of poison.

The snail can also serve as a Beast of Burden, however it is the lowest levelled one apart from the level 25 Clay being class one, with a combat level of 25 and only one beast of burden slot. The Thorny Snail can only carry 3 items for a player. As a result, it is seldom used, even by low levelled players.

Thorny snail pouch
Thorny snail pouch is made by using a Summoning pouch on a Summoning obelisk with 9 spirit shards, a gold charm and a thin snail in the inventory. Making the pouch earns 12.6 experience points. Using the pouch to summon a Thorny snail gains 0.2 experience points, and costs 2 Summoning points. If players exchange their Thorny Snail pouches at Bogrog, they will receive 7 shards per pouch.

Slime spray scroll
Slime spray scroll enables the use of the slime spray special move for a Thorny snail. Using the pouch on a Summoning obelisk creates 10 scrolls and provides 0.2 experience.

Slime spray
Slime spray is the special move for Thorny snails, which makes them attack the player's opponent, inflicting up to 80 lifepoints damage. Doing so will cost the player 3 special move points and provide 0.2 experience.

Trivia

 * A hermit crab is a crab with a somewhat thorny shell. The examine info implies that the thorny snail is like a hermit crab in that it also has a decidedly thorny shell.
 * If you are wearing a Snelm of any kind, you can have an amusuing conversation with your Thorny Snail, saying that your wearing the spine of his dead relitives as a hat.