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Crawler Strategy Guide
Barotrauma

Crawler Strategy Guide

Learn the best strategies for tackling Barotrauma's Crawler missions, including 'Abandoned Outpost Monsters' and 'Outpost Recovery'. Get tips on targets and rewards.

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Crawler Strategy Guide

Learn the best strategies for tackling Barotrauma's Crawler missions, including 'Abandoned Outpost Monsters' and 'Outpost Recovery'. Get tips on targets and rewards.

This section details various missions available in Barotrauma, focusing on those involving abandoned outposts and hostile creatures. The information is based on version 1.8.8.1, with the latest changelog mention in 1.11.4.1, and the current game version being 1.11.5.0. Note that some mission details might be outdated due to missing NPC pages.

Most missions award Marks, which can be used to purchase items and submarine upgrades in the campaign.

Missions Covered:

  • Abandoned Outpost Assassination
  • Abandoned Outpost Monsters (including destroying eggs or clearing creatures)
  • Abandoned Outpost Rescue
  • Beacon
  • Cargo
  • Clear Alien Ruins
  • Destroy Abandoned Outpost
  • Eliminate Thalamus
  • Enemy Submarine
  • Escort
  • Jailbreak
  • Mining
  • Monster
  • Nest
  • Salvage Cave
  • Salvage Ruin
  • Salvage Wreck
  • Scan Alien Ruins
  • King of the Hull (PvP)
  • Outpost Deathmatch (PvP)
  • Sub vs. Sub (PvP)
  • GoTo
  • Salvage

Abandoned Outpost Assassination

Mission Type: Outpost assassination

Difficulty: 4

Description: Eliminate the leader of an outlaw group that has taken over an abandoned outpost.

Location: Abandoned Outpost

Targets: Group leader (specific NPC not detailed)

Abandoned Outpost Monsters

Mission Type: Outpost recovery

Difficulty: 3

Description: Clear out hostile fauna or specific creatures from an abandoned outpost.

Location: Abandoned Outpost

Targets:

  • 6 Crawler Eggs (for Pest Control achievement)
  • 4–9 Husks, 2–3 Husk Prowlers, and 0–1 Husk Chimera
  • 4–9 Husks, 3–5 extremist cultists, and 1 extremist leader

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