Landhermit Crab

This crustacean hollows out the rock that serves as its shell, as they grow they use bigger and bigger rocks. These creatures are a nuisance for quarries as they ruin production and can give nasty cuts to workers.
== Description ==
Its most distinguishing feature is its enormous shell, which resembles a cut-away block of sediment with multiple layers and strata visible. The shell of an adult landhermit crab is a precise 1 cubic meter, the younger the crab is, the smaller the shell it will excavate. It possesses a strong straight tail that is concealed underneath its shell that helps keep its shell in place.
== Behavior ==
It is very strong, to the point that it can carry heavy rocks for a long time, even through arid lands where it resides. It fights members of its species over territory in battles which can become very vicious. If its shell breaks during such a fight, it loses. When its shell breaks, it will become weaker and unsure of itself, and will begin excavating a new shell from the local sediment. 
The species is also very endurant, being able to travel long distances with its shell, without the shell the creature is incredibly fast but imbalanced, causing it to easily tip over.
The species, in situations of food availability, will develop solidarity lines where Landhermit crabs will exchange shells until every crab has a fitting shell.However, the crabs also have knowledge of materials, and the higher quality the material, the more crabs will compete to obtain the precious shell. 
The species are bad sand swimmers, as they cannot take their shell beneath the sand, in deserts they sleep inside their shell, and it isn't uncommon to find small colonies of landhermit crabs. 
== Diet ==
Landhermit crabs are geophagic and occasional scavengers in the wild. They will fight competing Landhermits over territory where the sediment is richest. 
== Distribution ==
The Landhermit is a wasteland dwelling crab, but are found in other odd areas in welt and are very unevenly distributed, being found in jungles, mountains, deserts for example. Since their discovery on the realm of the Locker, is is supposed that this odd distribution results of wherever the asteroid they were on originally landed.
Like the Glimmer Crab, it is unknown if the Landhermit crab is indigenous to Welt or should be considered Extra Weltian Fauna. 
== Domestication ==
Domestication of the landhermit crab is a common practice of the other races. The species is appreciated for its abiliot to find sturdy and lightweight materials and to excavate precise blocks of 1 cubic meter. Some other races develop a symbiotic relationship where the landhermit supplies bloocks for food. The blocks are then used for construction.
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