Another Crab’s Treasureis quite a detailed, challenging, and delightful game. Alongside your discoveries and skills acquired, you are rewarded. The greatest example of this is adaptations. Throughout the game, you might have noticed somepurple glowing cubes. These are Umami Cubes. Initially, no matter what you do, you can’t destroy these cubes.

However, when you defeat one of the optional bosses in the game,the Grovekeeper Topoda, and learn the Mantis Punch adaptation, you become able to destroy them. Given this context, it would be a shame not to interact with the X spots you frequently encounter. So, let’s explore together how to interact with these X spots.

Another Crab’s Treasure - Skill tree displays Spearfishing skill

Unlock The Spearfishing Skill

The first thing you need to do to dig up X spots is togo to The Moon Snail’s Domain. You need to go here to progress the main story after you first speak with The Duchess. If you haven’t met Moon Snail, make sure to meet and talk with her.

Then, you need tounlock the Spearfishing skill by talking to her.Before that, don’t forget that you need to unlock Skewer first. To unlock Spearfishing, you need to pay atotal of 20 Umami Crystals.

Another Crab’s Treasure - Junk inventory screen and a barbed hook on the right side

Make Sure You Have Barbed Hooks

The Spearfishing skill has two uses. One of them is todisrupt the balance of enemies.While it’s easier to disrupt the balance of smaller enemies, disrupting the balance of larger enemies is difficult and requires you to play a mini-fishing game.

EachBarbed Hookyou use to disrupt the balance of enemies willconsume your hook uses, which are displayed next to the Heartkelp Pod icon in the bottom right corner, whether you are successful or not.Another use of this skill is for digging up X spots.This skill also consumes one Barbed Hook from your inventory each time it is used.

Another Crab’s Treasure - Kril fighting against a sardine that has a barbed hook on head

Luckily, finding or purchasing Barbed Hooks is not a difficult task. Barbed Hookscan drop from small enemiesin the game, primarily Sardines. These dropsglow greenon the ground, so make sure to pick them up.

Additionally, Barbed Hooks aresold at the Prawn Shopin the Lower Crust of New Carcinia and are quite affordable. The price of one Barbed Hook is50 microplastics, while buying ten costs 450 microplastics.

Another Crab’s Treasure - Prawn shop’s menu and ten barbed hooks on right side

To increase the number of Barbed Hooks you’re able to carry at once, you shouldget a Tackle Pouchor find them in various places throughout the game.

Identify Diggable X Spots

After obtaining enough Barbed Hooks,you need to find X spots.Fortunately, there are many locations in the game where you can find X spots. However, finding one is not enough;you need to identify which of the X spots can be excavatedusing the Spearfishing skill.

If you have experienced this and accidentally passed over an X spot, you have likely witnessed a frightening scenario. Amassive worm emerges from the location of the X spot, grabs you in its mouth, and then disappears with your shell.

Another Crab’s Treasure - A massive worm emerges from the sand and grabs Kril

To identify diggable X spots with Spearfishing,hold down the button you use for the fishhook ability, which you use to latch onto things. If ablue target icon appearsover the X spot, it is a diggable point. If no blue target appears, it is a trap, meaning it is an area where worms are hiding.

Digging X Spots With Spearfishing

First, if you have found a safe X spot and your hook uses in the bottom right corner are not at zero, you can dig this X spot. To do this, use the fishhook button on the X spot.This will initiate a mini-game.

You have alimited amount of timeto complete this mini-fishing game. It’s quite simple. A line attached to the fish icon at the top moves and changes position. You control the bottom part of this line.

Another Crab’s Treasure - Kril aiming a diggable X spot and blue aiming icon appears on it

Your goal is toadjust the bottom part to make the line straight. In other words, whatever angle the top part is at, you need to make the bottom part the exact opposite,creating a straight line.

Whether you succeed or fail in this mini-game,you will lose one of your hook usesin the bottom right corner, andone Barbed Hook will be consumed from your inventory.When you dig X spots, you can either find junk that grants you microplastics or Stowaways.

Another Crab’s Treasure - Kril trying to dig X spot with his spearfishing skill

Additionally,once you dig an X spot, it disappears.So, you will need to find new safe X spots to discover new items.

Fishing In The Gunk

Besides playing the mini fishing game with X spots, you are not limited to just them. If you look carefully in the gunk rivers or lakes, you willsee white ripples.Just like with X spots, you can fish in these white ripples.

You can find these ripples more frequently in areas with many gunk lakes or rivers,such as Flotsam Vale or Expired Grove.Just like the X spots, if you successfully fish in these white ripples, they will disappear.

Another Crab’s Treasure - Kril spearfishing on the gunk lake