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Animal Crossing: New Horizons horseshoe crab

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Creature Information

Inactive until July

Activity

9 PM – 4 AM
12 AM
12 PM
12 AM
Jul - Sep
January
December
Animal Crossing bell icon Nook's Price 2,500 Bells
Animal Crossing bell icon Drop Box 2,000 Bells
Shadow Size Medium
Speed Medium
Spawn Rates 3–5
Unlocked After 20 Catches
Furniture Item for horseshoe crab

Furniture Details

Happy Home Academy

Category Pet
Base Points 0
Size 1x1

Phrases

Catchphrases

I got a horseshoe crab! I hope it's lucky!

Blathers Information

Some might say it's good luck to catch a horseshoe crab. But I am NOT among them, eh wot! Though called a "crab," this beast is an arthropod and thus more akin to spiders and scorpions! Its long tail resembles a scorpion stinger, in fact! Though it's quite harmless, they say. A "living fossil," the horseshoe crab has been around since before the dinosaurs. With that tank-like shell, I suppose it WOULD be the one to survive. But here's what truly rattles me to my beak... During breeding season, horseshoe crabs crawl up on the beach and make nests together in the hundreds. HUNDREDS OF HORSESHOE CRABS! And with that I can say no more.