Beginner Guide
Start with food safety, one movement answer, and a coherent affinity direction; this is the practical tips, tutorial, and strategy route for first clears.
Read guideMechanics
Everything is Crab Mechanics: Pressure and Stats
Mechanics pages answer pressure, challenge, endless, stats, and platform-safety questions.
How to use mechanics
- Mechanics pages are decision pages, not glossary stubs: each one should help the player choose a safer next build.
- For pressure, challenge, or endless pages, identify whether the failure is food, movement, damage, or boss timing.
- For platform and mod searches, the site gives safety guidance and does not distribute unofficial files.
Pressure 10 Guide
Pressure 10 is where builds need both a win condition and a mistake budget.
Read guidePressure Stacking and Endless Unlock
Pressure stacking and Endless unlock are current public progression questions: a May 14, 2026 Steam discussion says higher pressures stack rather than replacing earlier modifiers, and a July 29, 2026 follow-up in that same thread shows players still using it to compare how far live Pressure 20 runs can continue into Extinction.
Read guideGenetics Skull Number and Pressure Record
The skull number beside a starting Genetic is a progress record, not an extra difficulty modifier: current public Steam explanations identify it as the highest Pressure cleared with that Genetic.
Read guideAchievement Trigger Modes
Some achievements are not universal single-run checks. The Codex tag decides whether the credit must happen in Pressure runs, Extinction, or Challenges, so this page separates mode rules from total-damage, single-hit, and boss conditions.
Read guideEndless and Extinction Levels
Endless unlocks at Pressure 10 and currently runs only on Pressure 10-20; this guide explains the entry gate, lower-pressure limit, Extinction scaling, and Version 1.2 saves.
Read guideMutagen, Rerolls, and Late-Game Value
Mutagen questions are really pacing questions: when to reroll early, when to hold upgrades for rarity, and why Endless runs can end up with spare mutagen after the build is already solved.
Read guideFood Progress and Fast Leveling
Food routing decides how quickly a run reaches its real build. This page separates visible food progress, rarity, Cheek Pouch, Feeding Speed, Feeding Distance, diet bonuses, mushrooms, Boss Fruit, and non-food progress so players can fix the leveling bottleneck instead of only chasing damage.
Read guideMap, POIs, and Mushrooms
Everything is Crab map routing is mostly about Points of Interest, mushroom effects, biome pressure, and deciding when a detour repairs food, movement, terrain adaptation, or high-pressure survival.
Read guideStats Explained
Stats questions are usually draft questions: which damage family the run is really using, why Speed alone may still feel weak, what Size actually changes, which community-reported stat caps are worth knowing, and why Carcinisation stops being free once armor lags behind.
Read guidePurple Hearts and Charmed Enemies
Purple hearts over enemies are a live readability question: current public Steam discussion says they mark creatures that have already been charmed, so this page turns that icon into a clear social-route answer instead of leaving it buried in forum replies.
Read guideEvolution Rarity and Legendary Upgrades
Evolution rarity questions are really draft-timing questions: when to take a useful card now, when to hold mutagen for a later rarity jump, and how Patient or Grandiose change the odds.
Read guideStat Penalties, Allies, and Social Upkeep
Yellow stat-pop-up questions usually come from social or charm runs where the game is adding and removing temporary ally-linked effects faster than the player can read them, and the public July 15, 2026 ally-friendly-fire complaint shows the same readability problem from another angle.
Read guideHow to Change Attacks
Current player reports describe two equipped attack slots: gain attacks through evolution picks, then use the bottom-left loadout area on the level-up screen to swap or reorder them instead of trying to edit attacks during normal movement.
Read guideHotbar and Attack Slots
Hotbar searches usually come from failed no-damage, Zen, Dove, or Harmless attempts where an accidental attack breaks the route.
Read guideTrainer, Patcher, Mods, and APK Safety
Search results for trainers, patchers, unofficial APKs, and cheat tools are safety questions first; this guide points players back to official storefronts and avoids distributing files.
Read guideSave File and Progress
Everything is Crab Version 1.2 has mid-run saves, and Version 1.2.1 now handles a corrupted resume slot at startup instead of trapping the game on a black screen.
Read guideSplicing, Fusion, and Restore Options
Splicing and fusion questions are usually progress-control questions: whether a skipped fusion can be reopened, when Splicing unlocks, and what the live 1.1 build actually changed.
Read guideChallenge Mode
Challenges change constraints and rewards; Wild Wild World and Wounded come up often in community difficulty talk.
Read guideMobile, Switch, Mods, and Trainers
Players ask about mobile, Switch, mod, and trainer options, but official storefronts currently point to PC releases.
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