Crab Offering

Offering is a feature that allows players to feed crabs to possibly obtain their held item.

Mechanics

Digging

Adult crabs standing atop any valid blocks⁽¹⁾ have a 1⁄1000 chance every tick to dig for an item. After 3 seconds of digging, a random item from the relevant digging loot table is given to them in their main hand. If they already have a held item when digging, they will instead remove the item. If a crab without any held item wanders atop an unsupported block mid-animation, this will cancel the digging. Crabs holding items will not dig if a nearby player is holding a fish.

Eating

Adult Crabs holding an item then can be offered to by picking up dropped fish, or by the player using a fish on them. The crab will hold the fish for 3 seconds, before consuming it, and has a 50% chance to drop the held item. Consuming the fish restores as much of the crab's health as it would restore hunger points when eaten by the player.

If a player uses a fish a crab that has no held item, it will still take and eat the fish.

Digging Loot tables⁽¹⁾

For the loot table prior to 1.1.0, see Crab/Digging

The block an adult crab finishes the digging animation atop determines which loot table they will pull from.

Gravel

Item	Weight	Chance
Tripwire Hook	¹³⁄₅₀	26%
Iron Nugget	¹³⁄₅₀	26%
Flint	⁹⁄₅₀	18%
Prismarine Crystals	⁹⁄₅₀	18%
Emerald	⁵⁄₅₀	10%
Enchanted Leather Boots	¹⁄₅₀	2%

Sand

Item	Weight	Chance
Paper	¹³⁄₅₀	26%
Palm Sapling	¹³⁄₅₀	26%
Stick	⁹⁄₅₀	18%
Iron Nugget	⁹⁄₅₀	18%
Gold Nugget	⁵⁄₅₀	10%
Enchanted Fishing Rod	¹⁄₅₀	2%

Red Sand

Item	Weight	Chance
Rotten Flesh	¹³⁄₅₀	26%
Clay Ball	¹³⁄₅₀	26%
Gold Nugget	⁹⁄₅₀	18%
Gunpowder	⁹⁄₅₀	18%
Dead Bush	⁵⁄₅₀	10%
Enchanted Golden Shovel	¹⁄₅₀	2%

Shelly Sand

Item	Weight	Chance
Barnacle Shells	¹³⁄₅₀	26%
Sea Star	¹³⁄₅₀	26%
Glass Bottle	⁹⁄₅₀	18%
Turtle Scute	⁹⁄₅₀	18%
Conch	⁵⁄₅₀	10%
Enchanted Bow	¹⁄₅₀	2%

Soul Sand

Item	Weight	Chance
Bone	¹³⁄₅₀	26%
String	¹³⁄₅₀	26%
Nether Brick	⁹⁄₅₀	18%
Fire Charge	⁹⁄₅₀	18%
Gold Nugget	⁵⁄₅₀	10%
Enchanted Stone Sword	¹⁄₅₀	2%

History

Version	Changes
1.0.0	Added Crab Offering.
1.1.0	Revamped the crab offering system with separate loot tables depending on the dug block, each with different items, and can be easily configured.

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1. ↑ All valid dig blocks and their loot tables are defined in the config.