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Two minor Crab Raider outposts, one in Greenbeach and one in Stobe's Garden. The beds are free, the smithy sells a full set of crab armour, and — you can buy an actual crab here.

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The Crab Villages are two Minor Outposts controlled by the Crab Raiders.

RegionFeature
GreenbeachThe northernmost nail the crab people have driven in
Stobe's GardenBuilt on an elevated plateau next to what looks like an overturned and decayed Flats Lagoon platform
TipA Crab Village is not Crab Town. Crab Town is the Crab Raiders capital in The Pits East, where the Crab Queen lives. The villages are two small outposts.

What is here

The building list is surprisingly industrial — this is not just somewhere people live, it is somewhere things get made:

BuildingCount
Crab Smithy1
Crab Shop1
Iron Refinery III3
Heavy Armour Smithy (outdoors)2
Plate Beating Station (outdoors)2
Small Wind Generator6
Swamp Lookout Tower1
Worker hut6

Three iron refineries, two heavy armour smithies, two plate beating stations — Greenbeach is covered in iron ore, and this village turns it into armour.

The Crab Smithy sells the full crab kit:

Crab Armour, Crab Helmet, Crab Shoes, Crab Trousers, Blackened Chain Shirt, Blackened Chainmail, Rusty Chain Shirt, Rusty Chainmail, Basic First Aid Kit, Standard First Aid Kit, Splint Kit

You can buy a crab here

This is the Crab Village's most practical function: players can purchase Crabs at this location.

NoteA Crab is an animal. The Crab Raiders are people who have remade themselves into crabs. They are not the same thing. What is for sale here is the former.

An adult crab costs roughly 14,000 Cats. Crabs have the slowest movement speed of any purchasable animal in the game and eat a great deal, but their attacks are fast, hit hard, and can strike two enemies at once. Because they cannot keep pace with a squad, they are best used to defend a player base, where slowness stops being a drawback.

TipYou do not need to own crabs for the Crab Raiders to declare a Crab Tournament at your base. Their absence just makes the raiders ask, worriedly, whether your crabs are sick.

Beds

All the beds in the village are free to use. The catch is that the town's population uses them too, so one is not always available.

Loot

The Crab Village's gear artifact value is 90,000 Cats, with an item artifact value of zero. It rolls a substantial batch of weapons and armour through the Artifacts system, but no research artifacts.

World states

Crab Villages have two:

ImportantReavers and Crab Raiders are two different factions. The former are Valamon's slave-soldier outfit based in the Ark; the latter own the Crab Villages and Crab Town. Think it through before killing the Crab Queen — you would not be clearing this ground, you would be opening the door for the Reavers.

What it means for the player

Crab Villages are among the very few places in Greenbeach and Stobe's Garden where you can trade without fighting — assuming you have not crossed the Crab Raiders.

Out in the south-eastern badlands, a free bed, a smithy selling heavy armour and a crab willing to soak hits for you are worth considerably more than the numbers suggest.

See also

Sells

Vendors here stock 11 items in total, grouped by category — every entry links.

Shirts

Blackened Chain Shirt, Blackened Chainmail, Rusty Chain Shirt, Rusty Chainmail

Heavy Armour

Crab Armour, Crab Helmet, Crab Shoes

Items

Basic First Aid Kit, Splint Kit, Standard First Aid Kit

Legwear

Crab Trousers

Vendors and stock here

Compiled automatically from the wiki's vendor data: shops that can appear in this settlement and what they may carry. Actual stock varies with world state and randomisation.

Crab Smithy

Basic First Aid Kit, Blackened Chain Shirt, Blackened Chainmail, Crab Armour, Crab Helmet, Crab Shoes, Crab Trousers, Rusty Chain Shirt, Rusty Chainmail, Splint Kit, Standard First Aid Kit