Crab Beach

*For general information about co-op mode see Main Article: Co-Op Mode*

*For detailed information on boss attacks and strategy see Main Article: Crab Boss*

## General information

Crab Beach is one of two maps available for co-op mode. The dungeon takes place on a strip of land surrounded by water. To enter, open the Social menu and go to the Co-op tab, then select Crab Beach.

There is one boss, a large Crab, that must be defeated to earn the rewards. The boss will not appear until the leader has entered the chamber. After 2-3 seconds of defeating the Crab, a pop up message will appear showing the rewards obtained and a button to return to the anthill.

## Map

There are two chambers in Crab Beach. Upon entering the co-op, the player will be in an area that looks like a sandy beach surrounded by water. A row of rocks at the bottom blocks the entrance to a strip of land leading to the battle chamber. This first chamber is the lobby where players enter the game and wait for others to join. The second chamber is the battle chamber where the players fight the boss. Players will stay in the lobby chamber until everyone clicks the green **Ready** button and the rocks blocking the battle chamber open.

The lobby chamber and the battle chamber are nearly identical. There is a yellow bubble in the center of the second chamber where player ants can drink a liquid and spit it at the boss to deal damage when all of their soldier ants have died.

It is not possible to return to a previous chamber unless the player is killed. When the player is killed, they will respawn with any living soldiers in the first lobby chamber.

## Boss

Main article: Crab (boss)
The boss in Crab Beach is a large crab which mainly stays along the edges of the map. It has the most health of all the bosses. It will be passive at first but after being attacked once it will turn permanently aggressive and start attacking.

The Crab Boss has a two phase attack with three attacks for each phase.

* Phase 1 is the first half of its health (50-100% of the health bar). Phase 1 attacks are:
	+ Sand blast: its claws expand and it sprays a stream of sand straight out in front of it.
	+ Bubble spit: bubbles appear at its mouth and it spits three clumps of bubbles in front of it.
	+ Claw swipe: it will lift either one or both claws and make a short-range swipe.
* Phase 2 is the second half of its health (0-49% of the health bar). Phase 2 attacks are:
	+ Sand blast 2.0: similar to the sand blast in phase except the spray can go in different directions, about 45 degrees to one side or another.
	+ Bubble spray: it will shoot a long stream of bubbles to the front and wave it to one side.
	+ Spin slide: crab starts spinning and tucks in its legs and claws, then it will spin from its current position to another random point on an edge of the map.

## Tips

When the co-op leader enters the arena, the crab will always spawn along the bottom center of the map. Go there when the battle is about to start to deal more damage at the beginning.

The leader of the co-op lobby should wait for all other players to enter and give enough time for those players to go to the bottom of the arena before entering themselves. This makes it so most players can start attacking immediately when the crab spawns in.

If the player has only 1 or 2 soldiers alive, it’s usually better to spit (the damage is higher). When spitting, it’s not necessary to release all the liquid, the damage will be the same even if only one particle hits Crab. Spitting quickly and returning to the source to recharge will increase damage.

The Crab's health bar can be deceiving. When the red is gone there is still about 2% more health left which can take between 10-30 seconds or longer to complete.

## Rewards

After 2-3 seconds of defeating the Crab, a pop up message will appear showing the rewards obtained. The rewards for defeating the crab are:

* 100 body parts
* 1 point on the co-op activity bar for obtaining the Crab creature
* There is also a very small chance of getting the crab skin

The rewards for winning a Crab Beach clan co-op are the same as the public co-op rewards, but clan co-op rewards include a certain amount of clan points that increases with the clan's level. These points aren't counted on each player's info but instead added to the total clan points.

## Trivia

An area similar to Crab Beach can be seen in the upper left corner of the main game map. It is speculated that the water surrounding the game map is the same water that surrounds the beach areas in Crab Beach.