Crayfish

This article is about the cooked version. For the raw version, see Raw crayfish.

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Crayfish
Release																				14 July 2008 (Update)
Members																				No
Quest item																				No
Properties
Tradeable																				Yes
Equipable																				No
Stackable																				No
Disassembly																				Yes
Noteable																				Yes
Edible																				Yes
Destroy																				Drop
Examine																				Some cooked crayfish. Eat it to heal.
Options
Backpack																				Eat
Values
Value																				5 coins
High alch																				3 coins
Low alch																				2 coins
On death																				Reclaimable Value: 121 Reclaim: 100
Weight																				0.1 kg
Grand Exchange
Exchange																				121 coins (info)
Buy limit																				10,000
Volume																				3,846
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Advanced data
Item ID																				13433
Links																				MRID • recipe

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Crayfish detailed

Crayfish is a low-level food available to players. Eating crayfish heals 200 life points. Players need level 1 Cooking to cook a raw crayfish, and doing so gives 30 Cooking experience. Assuming no burning, each raw crayfish cooked would yield a loss of 409 coins.

Creation

Requirements
Members			No
Ticks			4 (2.4s)
Facility			Range, Fire
Skill			Level	Experience
Cooking			1	30
Level to stop burning			34	N/A
Material			Quantity	Cost
	Raw crayfish		1	530
Total cost				530
Output			Quantity	Cost
	Crayfish		1	121
Profit				−409

Products

This is an auto-generated list (update now), and shows the first 100 items alphabetically. For all items, click here.

Product		Members	Skills	Experience	Materials	GE price
	1 × Attuned portent of restoration I		5 10	1.5 0	30 × Pale energy 1 × Crayfish	N/A
	1 × Portent of restoration I		2	1	30 × Pale energy 1 × Crayfish	4,228

Location

Crayfish are mostly caught at fishing spots wherever a "cage/net" option is available. However, they are exclusively caught in the section of the River Lum found east of the church in Lumbridge, or in Taverley, a bit south-east of the farming patch, where the Taverley River extends.

There is a relatively short distance between the fishing spot and the Cook's range in Lumbridge Castle. Once a player has completed the Cook's Assistant quest, they are able to use the Cook's range which reduces the rate at which food burns when cooking on this special range.

History

Crayfish were introduced to the game with the Lumbridge and Draynor Tasks on 14 July 2008. Although they were not originally featured in the tasks, they were included in the non-set tasks with the Tasks update on 24 November 2010.

Before the introduction of crayfish, the closest low-level fishing spot near Lumbridge was in the Lumbridge Swamps. This spot, however, was far away from a fishing shop, a general store, or monsters good for training. The crayfish fishing spot is conveniently located in an area close to many other low-level features.

There is a tutorial message that states using a crayfish on a range or open flame will give Firemaking experience.

Before the Battle of Lumbridge, they could also be caught in a small pond near Fred the Farmer's house.

Drop sources

Crayfish is not dropped by any sources. It was formerly dropped by the following monsters:

• Gelatinous abomination
• Troll brute
• Troll chucker
• Troll commando
• Troll mage commando
• Troll ranger commando
• Troll shaman
• White wolf (Burthorpe)

Disassembly

Crayfish
Disassembly category	Food and herbs
Disassembly XP	0.1
Item quantity required	1
Material count	1
Base junk chance	?  98.9% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 98.9% 1 34 98.0 2 49 96.0 3 64 94.0 4 69 92.0 5 78 90.0 6 83 87.1 7 91 85.1 8 95 82.1 9 105 79.2
Common materials
Organic parts	89/100
Uncommon materials
Crafted parts	8/100
Rare materials
Living components	1/100
Healthy components	1/100
Enhancing components	1/100

Achievement

• Fishy Dishes ( 30) – Sample all of the listed fish dishes.

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included – see here for how to help out!

• hotfix 27 August 2024 (Update):
  • Fixed an issue that blocked players from creating Portent of restoration I and Attuned portent of restoration I using Divination.

• patch 11 April 2022 (Update):
  • Reinstated site-specific worldmap icon at the Taverley Lake's crayfish spot.

• update 14 July 2008 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• The image of this fish has changed repeatedly. Between September–October 2009, it changed two times. They started as three small crayfish, were changed to a single small crayfish for about three weeks, then changed to a large one, similar to an upside-down lobster. It also once had a detailed icon of 3 detailed crayfish in the Grand Exchange database.
• Despite requiring only level 1 Fishing to fish crayfish, it heals the same amount as anchovies, which require level 15 Fishing to fish. This is probably because the latter is supposed to be used as an ingredient in anchovy pizzas.
• The crayfish used as bait in the Fish Flingers Distraction and Diversion are grey instead of brown.