List of worms and gastropods
Template:Version028 Crawl's worms and gastropods are an assortment of enemies whose defining traits are moderately powerful attacks and mindless hunger. That said, they are generally quite slow and often have virtually no defenses to speak of, so most characters will not find them terribly difficult to handle. Much like Crawl's arthropods, they are largely weak to poison and lack endoskeletons, meaning they cannot be raised as skeletons.
Most of them have been removed over time, as they presented few challenges to competent players. Those that remain are known for having dangerous abilities that compensate for their slow speed.
Worm types
Template:Monsterlink - These enormous pests can mangle inexperienced adventurers. They recover swiftly from injuries.
Template:Monsterlink - Fast, armored worms whose bites leave painful barbs in their prey.
Template:Monsterlink - Exceptionally swift worms with painful bites that can pull passersby into the murk of the Swamp.
Template:Monsterlink - Loathsome swamp-dwellers that gorge themselves on blood as they tear prey limb from limb.
Gastropod types
Template:Monsterlink - A small slug that can launch chitinous darts with remarkable range & power.
Template:Monsterlink - An enormous snail sacred to Cheibriados whose very presence slows its prey.
Unique gastropod
Template:Monsterlink - A particularly massive and powerful slug wearing a fancy hat. He's slow, but he has various spells to get around that.
Retired worms and gastropods
Template:Monsterlink - Unnatural creatures that fed on the minds of sentient beings.
Template:Monsterlink - Easily avoidable lava-dwelling annelids with fiery bites.
Template:Monsterlink - Beefy and fairly strong, but extremely slow and with no defense to speak of.
Template:Monsterlink - A slug the size of an elephant. Basically just an even bigger giant slug.
Template:Monsterlink - Cautious predators which could swim through rock and stone as though it were water.
Template:Monsterlink - Aggravating acidic worms that corroded your equipment with toxic stings.
Template:Monsterlink - A variety of snail that would withdraw into its shell when injured, gaining extra defense and regeneration.
History
- 0.28 added steelbarb worms.
- In 0.18, brain worms were removed and dart slugs were added.
- In 0.15, lava worms, giant slugs, and elephant slugs were removed while torpor snails were added. Additionally, gastropods had their glyph changed from 'j' to 'w', lumping them in with worms.
- In 0.14, rock worms, spiny worms, and agate snails were removed.