Thorny snail

For the Familiarisation NPC, see Thorny snail (Familiarisation).

Thorny snail
Release		15 January 2008 (Update)
Summoning level		13
Duration (mins)		16
Points cost		20
Familiar size		1x1
Race		Snail
Abilities		Beast of Burden (3)
Special moves		Slime Spray
Combat level		16
Examine		A hermit slug!
Combat stats
Life points		Max hit
3,500		172
Attack	Defence	Ranged	Magic
12	11	12	12
Immune to poison		Yes
Attack style		Melee, Ranged
Attack speed		Unknown edit
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The Thorny snail is a level 13 Summoning familiar. It is summoned using a thorny snail pouch. It can be used for Ranged experience. The Thorny snail has a combat level of 16 and can hit up to 172. It only uses melee up close and will use ranged attacks when away from the target. Additionally, its Thorny Snail scroll (Slime Spray) can deal bonus damage.

The snail can also serve as a Beast of Burden that can carry up to 3 items. However, it is the lowest level beast of burden apart from the class one clay being, the cub worldbearer and the little worldbearer. As a result it is seldom used.

One advantage of training with thorny snails or creating the pouches is that once the quest Nature Spirit is completed, all ingredients needed are all in the same area, providing you bring enough gold charms. Spirit shards and pouches may be bought from the Nature Grotto's wishing well, thin snail may be obtained from killing myre blamish snail and ochre blamish snail south of the Grotto.

Thorny snail pouch

Thorny snail pouch is made by using a Summoning pouch on a Summoning obelisk with 9 spirit shards, a gold charm and a thin snail in the inventory. Making the pouch earns 12.6 experience points. Using the pouch to summon a Thorny snail gains 0.2 experience points, and costs 20 Summoning points. If players exchange their Thorny Snail pouches at Bogrog, they will receive 7 spirit shards per pouch.

Thorny snail pouch

	Shards	Cost/XP	Charm	Tertiary
	9 ( 225)	218.7 coins		Thin snail
	Create XP	Use XP	Low alch	Hi alch	GE price
	12.6	0.2	259	389	726 (info)
	GE Database	Cost to make	Bogrog shard return		Shard return level
	Look up price	2,755	7 (175)		23
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	Examine text
	I can summon a thorny snail familiar with this.

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Thorny Snail scroll (Slime Spray)

A player activating the scroll.

Slime Spray is the special move for thorny snails, which makes them attack the player's opponent, inflicting an unknown amount of damage. Doing so will cost the player 3 special move points and provide 0.2 experience.

Thorny Snail scroll (Slime Spray)

	Create XP	Use XP	Special move points
	0.2	0.2	3
	Low Alch	High Alch	GE Price
	25	38	27 (info)
	GE Database	Bogrog shard return	Shard return level
	Look up price	1/2 (13)	23
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	Examine text
	A scroll for a thorny snail familiar.

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Thorny Snail scroll (Slime Spray) enables the use of the slime spray special move for a Thorny snail. Using the pouch on a Summoning obelisk creates 10 scrolls and provides 0.2 experience.

Dialogue

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Update history

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• update 15 January 2008 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• A hermit crab is a crab which lives in the cast-off shells of snails or other shellfish. The examine info therefore implies that the thorny snail is actually a slug residing in a snail's shell. This may also be a reference to the summoning ingredient being a shell-less snail body, and when it is summoned it has a new shell.
• If you are wearing a snelm of any kind, it will tell you that you are wearing the spine of his dead relatives as a hat.