Blood Crawler

Blood Crawler

On wall

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 Expert

 Master

Statistics

Type	Enemy
Environment	The Crimson
AI Type	Fighter AI (ground) Spider AI (on wall)
Damage	30/60›54/90›81
Max Life	60/120›132/180›198
Defense	8
KB Resist	50%/55%/60%
Banner	Blood Crawler Banner
Immune to

Drops

Coins	130Pre-Hardmode: 325Hardmode: 260

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• Vertebra
  33.33%
• Tentacle Spike
  0.19%
• Monster Meat
  0.07%

Sounds

Hurt
Killed
Idle

• Internal NPC ID: 239 (ground), 240 (on wall)

Blood Crawler displayed on the Official Terraria Forums (Crimson style).

The Blood Crawler is an enemy commonly found in the Crimson. In addition to walking, it can also crawl on background walls.

Notes

• Blood Crawlers spawn six times more often on tiles that are in front of background walls, hence they are more likely to be encountered in the chasms of the Crimson than on the surface.
• Like all spiders, Blood Crawlers cannot travel through a vertical 2-tile wide shaft.

Trivia

• Blood Crawlers differ significantly from real-life spiders:
  • They are able to drop Vertebrae, despite real spiders being invertebrates.
  • They seem to have two eyes, but real spiders have eight eyes.
    • On the Official Terraria Forums artwork seen below, however, they appear to have two large eyes (seen on the in-game sprite) and six small ones, which complete the eight eyes.
• Like the Face Monster, it lacks a direct Corruption variant.

The Bestiary entry for the Blood Crawler: "Most spiders operate independently, but ones touched by the Crimson hive coordinate together to consume life."

• Despite this statement, such a particularly coordinated behavior is not present in the AI of Blood Crawlers, in comparison to that of the other spiders.

History

 PC version

• Desktop 1.4.4: Drop rate of Monster Meat have been decreased from 0.1*1/1000 (0.1%) to 0.07*1/1500 (0.07%) (from 0.5*1/200 (0.5%) to 0.2*1/500 (0.2%) in worlds with The Constant seed).

• Desktop 1.4.3: Now drops the Tentacle Spike and the Monster Meat.

• Desktop 1.4.0.3: Sprites updated.

• Desktop 1.2.0.3: Can now drop its own respective banner.

• Desktop 1.2: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.02: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.2.6508: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.