Segmented Crawbster
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Scientific name | Parastacoidea reptantia | ||
Family | Creep-crab | ||
Carry weight | 20 | ||
Max. carriers | 30 | ||
Seed worth | 30 | ||
Attacks | Crushes Pikmin, deflowers Pikmin, causes boulders to fall |
The Segmented Crawbster is a crab-like creature that has one large arm and an exceedingly smaller left arm. It also has a rather thick shell protecting it. This creature rolls after the active leader, occasionally crushing Pikmin with its hard shell. If it crashes into a wall, it can cause boulders to fall. It will then struggle to get back up in an upright position, and while doing so will expose its weak spot: its flashing underbelly. Eventually, it will then get back up and swing its large arm around back and forth two or so times and continue its assault. Once defeated, the Segmented Crawbster will groan and squeal as it is underbelly explodes violently, spewing goo particles all over the immediate vicinity.
Notes
Olimar's notes
- "This gigantic beast is wrapped in a hard shell. In an atypical evolution, the right front leg of this creature is hypertrophic, taking on the function of an arm, rather than a leg. Its asymmetric physical development is unique in the natural world. One unlucky explorer's incorrect conclusion that this creature adheres to a pattern of peaceful, quiet behavior led to an unfortunate incident. In fact, this beast exhibits intensely hostile, aggressive tendencies, aiming at prey and ramming them at full speed."
Louie's notes
- "Dessert meats are all the rage on Hocotate. When the planet's finest chefs hear about the kind of sorbets, pies, and parfaits you can make with the claw meat on this sweet beast, they'll clamor for every morsel we bring home!"
In fanon games
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In Pikmin Eco
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Pikmin Eco This article or section relates to Pikmin Eco, a non-canon game created by Sapphire7. |
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Scientific name | Parastacoidea reptantia | ||
Family | Creep-crab | ||
Areas | N/A | ||
Caves | Bone Cove | ||
Carry weight | 20 | ||
Max. carriers | 30 | ||
Poko value | ![]() | ||
Attacks | Crushes Pikmin, causes boulders to fall |
The Segmented Crawbster is the boss of Bone Cove, a cave in Shimmering Seaside, and is the only Pikmin 2-exclusive boss to make a return in Pikmin Eco. While it physically is the same as its previous appearance, its behavior differs greatly. In addition, the water level in where it is fought has an impact on its behavior. It is fought inside a hollowed-out coral shell, where water can splash inside the arena during the battle to flood it, and then drain sometime later. When no water is present, it crawls slowly on the ground. If leaders or Pikmin get too close, it will swing its larger claw to knock them back. On occasion it will slam the ground with its huge claw, crushing any Pikmin underneath it and causing boulders to fall from above. When the arena becomes flooded, the Segmented Crawbster will float along the surface of the water and swim around. It will also try to swing its huge claw around, but since it's swimming the swings are much more ranged. While it is swimming, Winged Pikmin are needed to push the crawbster so it is upside down so when the arena drains, it will be stuck on its back, exposing its vulnerable underbelly to attack. Eventually, it will swing itself back onto its stomach so it cannot be killed in one cycle.
Notes
In-game notes
- "This specimen has evolved more one-sidedly: a highly developed muscular arm on one side with a much smaller arm on the other. While this does enable it to joust against competing rivals, it does also make its locomotion very limited when on land. It's notable that the inland segmented crawbster specimen behaved differently than those along the coastal region. Studies jot this up to minute variance between both types from different habitats."
In Pikmin Galaxy Adventure
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Scientific name | Unknown | ||
Family | Creep-crab | ||
Attacks | Crushes Pikmin |
In Pikmin Galaxy Adventure, the Segmented Crawbster is much easier to fight. It doesn't appear simply as a one-time boss but appears multiple times. It has several subspecies, one of them being the Jungle Crawbster.
In Pikmin: The After Years
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Scientific name | Unknown | ||
Family | Creep-crab | ||
Caves | Cave of Screams, Remembrance Ravine | ||
Attacks | Crushes Pikmin, causes boulders to fall |
The Segmented Crawbster appears twice in Pikmin: The After Years, once in the Cave of Screams and again in Remembrance Ravine. A related subspecies, the Clambering Crawbster, appears on the final sublevel of Crawbster Cave.
In Pikmin: Redemption
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Scientific name | Unknown | ||
Family | Creep-crab | ||
Attacks | Crushes Pikmin, causes boulders to fall |
In Pikmin: Redemption, the Segmented Crawbster is more common. When on a sublevel above the sublevel on which one is fought, the sound of it pounding on the ground and walls may be heard.
In Pikmin: Sinister Incinerator
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PSI This article relates to the Non-Canon game, Pikmin: Sinister Incinerator, and is made up by the users of this wiki. |
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Scientific name | Unknown | ||
Family | Creep-crab | ||
Attacks | Crushes Pikmin, causes boulders to fall |
Although Segmented Crawbsters in Pikmin: Sinister Incinerator are fought as recurring minibosses in a few caves like a variety of other foes, the one that serves as the boss of the Dark Wetland Cave in the Ancient Wetland and is intentionally much harder to defeat, as it holds one of the dark spores. This crawbster, in particular, is called the Reconstructed Crawbster.
In Pikmin: Wide World
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Family | Creep-crab | ||
Areas | None | ||
Dens | None | ||
Weight | 40 | ||
Max. carriers | 80 | ||
Seed worth | 50 | ||
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Attacks | Crushes Pikmin |
The Segmented Crawbster appears as a vicious, dangerous creep-crab in Pikmin: Wide World, and uses Pikmin 2's boss theme. Crawbster Young are juvenile Segmented Crawbsters. It can not be seen, even with the use of the HocoPad's camera functionality, until it breaks through the cave ceiling above where Pikmin or leaders are treading by pounding on it violently until it crumbles and gives way, the creature itself falling immediately after and crushing anything it lands on top of. While idle, a Segmented Crawbster explores its large territory, dragging itself along using its larger arm. It occasionally stops to either groom its larger arm with its feelers or gently swing its tail from side to side. It curls up and rolls towards nearby leaders, but not Pikmin, that are in its range of sight, homing in on them and crushing anything it rolls over. While rolling, a Segmented Crawbster can turn, although not sharply, by tilting in the direction it wishes to go. It leaning too far left or right, however, forces the creature to return to its normal posture, although depending on its orientation it may either be on its belly or flipped over onto its back. Additionally, a Segmented Crawbster will be forced onto its back upon colliding with a wall, which may also cause boulders to fall from weaker cave ceilings. After righting itself, a Segmented Crawbster will violently swing its larger arm back and forth, flinging Pikmin off of it and away from the creature itself, and skewering Pikmin on the arm's blades. Pikmin and leaders crowding around the tail of a Segmented Crawbster risk their safety, as the creature may either knock them away with a flick of its tail or lift its tail to slam it on top of them.
A Segmented Crawbster is a massive crustacean-like creature. It is rather lengthy and has an indestructible, shiny, spotted, segmented blue shell covering all but its face, arms, and stomach. Its face is wide, red, and leathery, cleft in appearance, and features a relatively beady black eye on either side of it. Its arms are severely misproportioned, as its left arm is small and scrawny compared to its massive, club-like, bulky right arm, which features several curved, blade-like protrusions on its outer side. On the creature's underside is its exposed, pink, fleshy belly.
Emerging victorious from a battle with a Segmented Crawbster requires swift evasion of its attacks and complete control of the Pikmin being used to battle it. Its face and arms are vulnerable to attack, but targeting them does not inflict as much damage as attacking its belly, which may only be attacked when the creature is flipped onto its back. Even Rock Pikmin throws and Purple Pikmin pounds fail to pierce through the shell of a Segmented Crawbster. Rock Pikmin are very useful against a Segmented Crawbster because of their high damage output when thrown and their inability to be crushed. Winged Pikmin are equally as useful as Rock Pikmin because the Segmented Crawbster often has extreme difficulty in crushing them and because Winged Pikmin automatically target the creature's most vulnerable parts when they are charged into it. Pikmin attacking the face of a Segmented Crawbster are likely to be harmlessly wiped off of it by the creature's larger arm. After taking enough damage at once while upright, a Segmented Crawbster may angrily pound its larger arm on the ground several times, knocking away Pikmin and leaders close to it and crushing those under it, and also potentially causing a few boulders to fall from weaker cave ceilings. Upon death, a Segmented Crawbster yields × 45, and will groan and squeal as its belly throbs and gurgles, writhing and curling up onto its side as it bursts open, spewing slime and undigested matter everywhere in its immediate vicinity and releasing a large quantity of harmless steam. Its body can be taken to the Lander Pod to either receive
× 35 or gain fifty seeds of any selected discovered main Pikmin species, but only if the cave is exited using an escape geyser.
Notes
Olimar's notes
- "The segmented crawbster is an exceedingly dangerous predator. Its unique, and rather dramatic, ambush tactic to catch prey involve it using its brute strength to break through the ceiling above to crush them into a fine paste. The creature is not without its weaknesses, however, as even though its shell is completely impenetrable to attack, its face, legs, and exposed stomach are vulnerable, with damage to its soft stomach inflicting the most harm to the creature. The segmented crawbster's aversion to light is among the strongest held by any creature on the planet, and explains why it so aggressively and relentlessly targets explorers in possession of a light source such as a beacon."
Shacho's notes
- "I always feel insecure whenever I see this creature not because of its size and ferocity but because of Olimar and Louie. There was a time they and I went to the beach, and I had worn blue swim trunks. I had forgotten to wear sunscreen, so by the time we were ready to head home, I was as red as this thing's skin! Every time we encounter this beast they always pick on me about it. I can still feel the stinging pain from that sunburn..."
Marie's notes
- "This creature seems to be entirely passive in dark environments where visibility is at an absolute minimum, but because of its behavioral patterns, as well as its size and preferred habitat, I would strongly suggest not having a segmented crawbster as a pet. I'm willing to believe there would be some kid that would shine a flashlight at its eyes because they think doing that would be funny, not knowing what would happen."
Louie's notes
- "The sweet meat of this creature's right arm perfectly compliments dessert dishes, but may also be used as the primary ingredient in them. Segmented crawbster meat pies are a particular favorite of mine!"
Dolphin Lander's notes
- "Although its vision is very poor, the segmented crawbster is still able to see sources of light surprisingly well. It must have incredibly sharp senses to detect prey through the ground below it, but how does it manage to find itself at a vantage point like that? How does it return to where it fell from? Can it?"
Official bosses |
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Pikmin 1 |
Armored Cannon Beetle • Beady Long Legs • Burrowing Snagret • Emperor Bulblax • Goolix • Mamuta • Puffstool • Smoky Progg |
Pikmin 2 |
Beady Long Legs • Burrowing Snagret • Emperor Bulblax • Empress Bulblax • Giant Breadbug • Man-at-Legs • Pileated Snagret • Raging Long Legs • Ranging Bloyster • Segmented Crawbster • Titan Dweevil • Waterwraith |
Pikmin 3 |
Armored Mawdad • Baldy Long Legs • Bug-Eyed Crawmad • Burrowing Snagret • Plasm Wraith Quaggled Mireclops • Sandbelching Meerslug • Scornet Maestro • Shaggy Long Legs • Vehemoth Phosbat |
Hey! Pikmin |
Armurk • Berserk Leech Hydroe • Electric Cottonade • Emperor Bulblax • Fiery Blowhog • Long Water Dumple • Luring Slurker • Queen Shearwig • Red Bulborb |
Pikmin Adventure |
Emperor Bulbot • Emperor Pinchipede • Greater Bladed Beeb • Greater Bulbot • Greater Studded Beeb • King Beeb • Large-Mouth Wollywog • Monochromatic Pinchipede • Translucent Wollywog |
Pikmin: The After Years bosses (list) |
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Aero Snagret • Beady Long Legs • Bloodbath • Burrowing Snagret • Buzzsaw • Cephalorock • Clambering Crawbster • Clambering Wraith • Dark Matter Warrior • Dark Olimar • Dark Virus • Deranging Bloyster • Emperor Bulblax • Empress Bulblax • Ghastly Emperor Bulblax • Ghastly Empress Bulblax • Giant Breadbug • Man-at-Legs • Mecha Snagret • Pileated Snagret • Raging Long Legs • Ranging Bloyster • Sandworm • Segmented Crawbster • Smoky Progg • Terrordactyl • Toxic Bulblax • Treetle • Waterwraith |
Pikmin: Wide World | |||||||||||||
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Main (Captain Olimar, Shacho, Marie, Louie, Dolphin Lander) • Side (Alph, Brittany, Captain Charlie, Dorris, Granny Marma, Libra, Margot, Sagittarius, S.S. Drake, S.S. Dreamstride) • Mentioned (Freight Voyager, SPERO, Bulbie) | |||||||||||||
Pikmin | |||||||||||||
Onion • Pellet • Yellow Pikmin • Blue Pikmin • Red Pikmin • Purple Pikmin • Green Pikmin • Rock Pikmin • White Pikmin • Winged Pikmin • Captmin (Captain Hunnigan) • Alien Pikmin • Mushroom Pikmin • Wild Pikmin • Parasitic Pikmin (Blue Bulbmin, Breadmin, Burrowing Snagmin, Cannon Beetlemin, Dweevilmin, Groinkmin, Hairy Bulbmin, Orange Bulbmin, Red Bulbmin, Spinermin, Spotty Bulbearmin, Wollymin)
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Vegetation (list) | |||||||||||||
Asphyxiating Moldclump • Bloominous Stemple • Bouncy Mushroom • Bramble • Browncap • Burgeoning Spiderwort • Capstalk • Carnation Candypop • Colossal Glowcap • Common Glowcap • Crimson Candypop • Demantoid Candypop • Flukeweed • Golden Candypop • Hydroe Bramble • Ivory Candypop • Kingcap • Lapis Lazuli Candypop • Lily pad • Monarch Candypop • Mouthy Shootplant • Nectar Grass • Orbular Pollenspout • Pellet Posy • Pellet Vine • Shockcap • Slate Candypop • Sparklium Candypop • Spiny Spiderwort • Spotcap • Springpetal • Sunset Spiderwort • Thorned Posy • Vine • Violet Candypop • Weeping Posy • Wickweed | |||||||||||||
Collectibles | |||||||||||||
Data file (Pikminology, Wildlife Survival, Explorers' Tales) • Fruit (list) • Nugget • Sparklium (seed, stone) • Treasure • Upgrade (unlocks, Exploration Kit, ship part) | |||||||||||||
Nectars and sprays | |||||||||||||
Black nectar • Nectar (Capstalk, egg, Nectar Grass, rubble) • Burgeoning Spiderwort (ultra-bitter spray, ultra-spicy spray) • Spiny Spiderwort (ultra-toxic spray) • Sunset Spiderwort (ultra-hot spray, ultra-minty spray, ultra-sweet spray) | |||||||||||||
Hazards | |||||||||||||
Acid • Adhesive • Blunt force • Bubble • Electricity • Fire • Ice • Lubricant • Mud • Panic • Pit • Poison • Spore • Sunset • Water | |||||||||||||
Obstacles | |||||||||||||
Acid pool • Bamboo gate • Bomb rock (cryogenic bomb rock, dazzling bomb rock, incendiary bomb rock, mine, mine rock, smoke bomb rock) • Boulder • Bramble gate • Brick gate • Burrow-nit nest • Cardboard box • Climbing stick • Clipboard • Clog • Cobblestone block • Conveyor belt • Conveyor switch • Crystal • Crystal gate • Crystal nodule • Crystal stalactite • Electric bulb gate • Electric wire gate • Electrical wire • Electrode • Elevator block • Elevator platform • Escape geyser • Fire bramble gate • Fire geyser • Flame • Flukeweed dam • Fragment bridge (bridge fragment) • Frozen surface • Gas pipe • Glowstem • Hay slope (hay stack) • Ice chunk • Iron ball • Jackwig hive • Liftable elevator • Loose soil block • Metal block • Metal pipe • Mitite bomb • Mud puddle • Nectar pool • Oil slick • Packed soil block • Phosbat Pod • Poison bramble gate • Pully elevator • Rain droplet • Rectangular paper bag • Reinforced gate • Rock • Rusted rod • Sand pit • Sky Dumple cluster • Snowball • Soil gate • Soil mound • Stick bridge • Sweetgum pod • Tin box • Triangular paper bag • Trowel • Tunnel • Water pool • Water geyser • Web • Wooden stake | |||||||||||||
Gameplay | |||||||||||||
Achievements • Caravan • HocoPad • Options • Pikpik carrot • Soul • Squad desertion • Temperature • Weather • Game modes (Story Mode, Battle Mode, Challenge Mode, Bottomless Abyss) | |||||||||||||
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Changes during development • Gallery • Cave units |