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. These monsters can also unnerve players due to their repulsive appearance and lack of hygiene. 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 875 (harralander) coins.

Flesh crawlers are aggressive against players of any level, but only for a 10 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 then attack other players. To make the flesh crawlers aggressive again, simply leave the area and return. In some areas, you can leave their area by simply stepping across the invisible line that marks their area, but in other areas, you may need to go through 2 doors to be out of their area. You do not need to wait any length of time to reset their aggressiveness; it is instant. Logging off and on will not reset their aggressiveness.

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 theirwait 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. Just bring food and turn auto retailate on. Player can start training at level 35 flesh crawlers.

Also, a truly dedicated player can get the "bottom half of sceptre", one of four parts of the 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 fleshcrawlers to drop black full helms, thus dropping the price.

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)
 * Black full helmet (common)

Runes and Talismans

 * 3-12 Body runes 45% (extremely common)
 * 2-23 Dust runes (m) (uncommon)
 * 42-150 Fire runes (m) (extremely 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 (extremely 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 (rare)

Other drops

 * 1-101 Coins (common)
 * Iron ore (common)
 * Ashes (common)
 * Bottom of Sceptre (uncommon) (can obtain more than one)
 * Silver bar (common) (m)
 * Shield left half (extremely rare) (m)
 * Tooth half of a key (very rare) (m)
 * Loop half of a key (very rare) (m)
 * Starved ancient effigy
 * Nothing

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 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, the update changed their max hit to 16, which made them stronger than before.
 * Back then, there was a bug that, if you would bury a bone every 15 minutes, you would get a random event. The bones could be acquired by killing a Rat that are at the same place as the Flesh Crawlers are. This bug has since been fixed.
 * It is quite common that a flesh crawler will dropo nothing when it is killed.