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Vana'diel Bestiary: Spiny Spipi  

Family:Crawler
Found in:East Sarutabaruta
Level:9 - 10
Flags:
  • Notorious Monster
  • Not Aggro
  • Linking
  • Detects by Sound
  • Pursues by Scent
  • Based on Earth
  • Weak against Darkness
  • Weak against Ice
  • Weak against Lightning
Drops:
Stolen Items:
Updated: Sun Mar 1 06:45:57 2009

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General Information

Spiny Spipi's Spawn Location
Spiny Spipi's Spawn Location

Spiny Spipi's Special Attacks

  • Cocoon: Self target Defense Boost (Effect can be dispelled).

  • Poison Breath: Frontal cone AoE Water based magic damage with an additional Poison effect.

  • Sticky Thread: Frontal cone AoE Slow effect.

This page last modified 2009-02-28 22:45:43.

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Location
# Sep 28 2004 at 11:23 AM Rating: Decent
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Seems to me that Spiny pops the most at J-6 just south of the river. He likes to hang out in the trees real close to K-6. He sometimes spawns with another crawler and you voke Spiny you'll get two for the price of 1. I've killed him 3 times but only gotten silk threads so far.

But I am amazed at how much this guy is camped. The M.S. Cape is a nice 25k but not really anything to wet yourself over....
Got It! :D
# Sep 24 2004 at 12:43 PM Rating: Default
first time camping a NM today was out there for about an hour with my Taru THF/RNG lol... any way i saw him/her/it on Widescan ran over with weapon out and 2 guys attack it just as im about to swing at him... im like NOOOOOO... but then /check them both.. LVL7 DRG and a LVL8 MNK with no sub... im like die die die.. and they did HAHAHA.. and way i go behing id wait for last person to die and BAM!!!! Sneak Attack.. and then BAM.. Burning Blade.. thank you very much... 30K in my pocket..

HEHE
Steal from it
# Sep 23 2004 at 7:19 PM Rating: Decent
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Not sure if anyone has mentioned this, but if you have Thf you can steal a Silk Thread from him, giving you a total of up to 3 Silks and hopefully one Cape :) I'm not sure the ratio on steal since I fought him 3 times total, and was able to steal 2/3 times.
best way to do it
# Sep 21 2004 at 4:51 PM Rating: Decent
I decided to kill him yesterday, and my advice is:

1st - Get a friend
2nd - make a small pty of 2
3rd - keep walking and killing crawlers in one side of the rock ledge while your friend is doing the same in the other side
4th - split the profit

Got him 3 times yesterday (4 hour camping), and in the end of the hunt, both of us had a new cape....

hehehe


Edited, Tue Sep 21 17:52:26 2004
Spipi
# Sep 17 2004 at 6:13 PM Rating: Decent
there was thief waiting for the Spipi from 2h <maybe> when i come Spipi PoP then i Voke It and it Drop mistsilkcape and 2 SilkS :D Lizz 19/2 :(((((
Spawns
# Sep 16 2004 at 7:00 PM Rating: Decent
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Despite what some have said, i've seen her spawn all over that oval. I've got her 6 times total, all in spawned in different places. The last 3 times i used 15 THF/RNG and got drops 2/3. I highly recommend widescan. I got her two times in a row with other campers who apparently didn't, because they were A LOT closer to her than me and I just ran right by them, ranged attack, BAM mist silk cape :)!
success
# Sep 16 2004 at 4:11 PM Rating: Decent
i was sulkin in sartabaruta to find this, im like WTF...eh, and i look at it, a named crawler!

so i farmed it like all the others..... ang got silk AND a silk cape! so thats my tale... 1st time ever seein it too!
not a total loss ...
# Sep 16 2004 at 2:41 AM Rating: Decent
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Well I've fought her twice (I dunno, always thought of this as a female) with no drop except 2 silk every time. Both times she popped in the exact same spot : right on the river on the south side, between the two trees in the little outcropping on the map. I rarely see anyone camping her on Odin, of course maybe because I don't all that often. Cape is about 26k there ... gonna keep trying.
Spiny Slayer
# Sep 15 2004 at 4:37 AM Rating: Default
Tonight I was out farming silk thread and noticed that no one was camping Spipi, which is rare on my server. Having never seen him, I hung out, killing crawlers with my 25 Rng/Nin, and I was about to give up, when I saw his name on my widescan. I hauled *** to his location (he had wandered off quite a bit). Anyway, I engaged him not expecting to get the drop, but sure enough, one silk thread, one mist silk cape. This was my first NM rare drop, so naturally I'm psyched.
tips
# Sep 13 2004 at 2:47 PM Rating: Default
ok i have been camping this guy for a while and i have noticed a few little things he does. first off he spawns every 1-2 hours and there are 3 major points all the way down the river, where the river comes into open land and near the road towards the tower. ussually he is uncamped on alexander when i "camp" him i do more farming than camping farm silks(10K per stack) remi shells (5k per stack) and beehive chips(4k per stack) this way i never go empty handed so far he has droped the camp for me 75% of the time but i also have TH1 good luck to you he is usually very easy and not a very big spawning area i never even use widescan but i guess it could help

so far i am also 1/2 lizzy 3/9 spook 15/21 spiny spipi 0/1 valk. emp and 0/19 jaggedy eared jack

mock
# Sep 09 2004 at 3:17 AM Rating: Excellent
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This NM is mocking me the whole time. If i camp him he never shows up or if he does no drop, or if im lvl one of my lower lvl jobs , say around 7, bam it never fails he there w/ no one around to get him. When I come back to get him he not there. He does it to tease me. Well that my ranting for this forum.
Pretty Easy...
# Sep 02 2004 at 12:32 PM Rating: Decent
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Both times I have defeated him he has spawned in the exact same location: on the river at J-6. No drop either time.

I'm not much of a fighter as a Whm but I soloed him both times with Banish II and Fire.

I'm such a bully...

--Chef
No Luck Yet
# Sep 02 2004 at 10:57 AM Rating: Decent
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First tried camping this thing several times and would never see her. Only one time she popped while camping. No drop of course. I wanted the cape for my mage jobs. Have seen her twice since that just stolling through there on my way back to windy, of course no drop either of those times. Go figure. At this point I don't care much anymore because I've leveled my WHM high enough that I can just buy the White Cape for a lot less money.
Return of favor!
# Sep 02 2004 at 9:53 AM Rating: Decent
Sorry to hear you guys having trouble with it... I camped that little crawler when I was low level and didn't even see him once... when I returned to lvl my BLM sub, I hunted him with a friend but still no Spiny Spipi... I just camped that NM 4 days total and I saw him only once but he was already engaged in combat with a lvl 38 guy... I was pissed off... so I left and decided to lvl BLM in bastok...

On my way back from Valkurm Dunes (BLM20/RDM10), I decided to check if he was there (no intention to camp him) and there he was... alone near the route... casted a Dia spell to get him aggro quickly... that was a real fantasy coming true! The NM was MINE! LOL.. another guy stopped and said ''I was camping it for an hour!!!'' and he stayed to watch me kill it.

I was rude with that guy... I decided to enjoy the moment and to kill Spiny Spipi slowly (using only my staff...lol).. the guy was still standing there waiting and I was hitting the crawler 20dmg while Spiny hitted 3-4dmg (with no protect on)...

After 4 mins, he finally died and dropped 2 silk threads and the Mist Silk Cape... that was my first ''real'' NM drop of the game...
Hapenned yesterday so it was easy to remember! ;)

Spiny 1/1 ... I like saying that
Golden Bat 0/1

Cidelie RDM30/BLM20/WAR10/BRD10
RE: Return of favor!
# Sep 02 2004 at 11:36 AM Rating: Decent
Congratulations....I hope to wander acrossed it again someday. Fei Victus!
Curses!
# Aug 31 2004 at 3:11 PM Rating: Decent
I ran into Spipy once by accident. I was level 6 whm, with my other character Mobius. I didn't even know what he was, but figured "what could happen?" After the first hit, I started to run like hell.....he tracked me down and owned me. I told a LS member what happened, so she ran outta the ruins there at the far east, and came over to raise me. Nobody claimed Spipy, and ppl were coming. She killed it with a few doses of Fire and Lightning I believe, and got the drop. She ended up giving me 10k for a finders fee. I'm not complaining lol. I now hunt this thing whenever I'm back home in Saruta...no luck yet.
One day Spiny Spipy, one day.

Mobius 28whm/18blm...Wintercastle's "Soon To Be Taxi Service"
damn &$%@ timing
# Aug 29 2004 at 1:47 PM Rating: Default
i was bored so i was just lvling my monk for some random reason and walk across spippy, who i had camped 2x without a glimpse

i was so angry that i was on my mnk that i engaged forgetting i was only ad about half hp and imediatly 2 hrd, died, huriedly changed jobs to my rng/thf only grabbing my bow and a few arrows, fleed over to the chocobo stables and ran out there as fast as i could,ran around for a few minutes and widescanned but allas, no trace of that damn crawler ><
No luck >_<
# Aug 28 2004 at 3:34 PM Rating: Decent
Me and a friend from LS (he was THF15, I was WHM30) were camping for Spini, we ran around for 3 RL hours and didn't even see him. We saw a few high levels but they said they weren't there for Spini. So we gave up.
Today, I'm trying to hunt Spini with my THF18/MNK7 and I still see no sign of him. How many times do I have to camp just to catch a glipse of him? >_< I've never seen/faught any NMs before, I'm hoping I'll get Spini though.
easy gil
# Aug 24 2004 at 6:04 PM Rating: Decent
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his long spawn time non-withstanding, this guy and his placeholder crawlers are an excellent source of gil. go up to the northernmost river in this zone, then run all around that area killing crawlers as you see them. 12 silk threads = 8k+ on Ragnarok. if you happen to see this fellow, just splack him. a level 13+ character shouldn't have tons of trouble with this guy... perhaps 15 to be safe. the possibility of a 30k drop, along with the silk threads you aquire from crawler farming make hunting in sarutabaruta well worth the time and effort.

Souls, Mithra THF/NIN on Ragnarok
LS, ShinraElite, Gothemknights

"there are only 3 real monsters. dracula, blackula, and son of kong."
Spiny Vet
# Aug 22 2004 at 6:18 PM Rating: Excellent
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Ok let me clear up a few things for you guys. Spiny spawns on almost an 80 minute timer, sometimes she'll skip a spawn and you'll be sitting there for quite some time. Having widescan is almost a must with this NM because the spawn area is huge. I have gotten her 28 times and have gotten the drop 18, much more sucess after treasure hunter with my lvl 18 thf. Spiny can spawn at any time of day. The most prolific spawn area seems to be the area right next to the river with the little jaggedy rocks sticking up in the air. She has spawned there quite a bit, as well as all the way at the bottom of the river, and on the opposite side of the huge rock wall. There are 8 spawn spots that I have counted, and I have not seen her spawn in any different areas than these. Spiny has single handedly funded my Ranger/Ninja combo from lvls 1-30, and now i must say that a 30k drop simply won't do it for me any more. The plan is to lvl up my thf to 25 for flee, camp lizzy again 2/5 on her, and make a bit more money. At lvl 35 i can take down the emperor, but with such a large spawn area it would be hard to get it w/out flee, so I have quite a bit of time before i can camp with flee as a ranger/thf. Also I am 1/3 on jack, the rabbit everyone loves to hate, so i'm going to camp him a bit more. To all of you guys only hunting for money, you should find another way to make it. I hunt for the thrill of the hunt and if i get the drop, then yay, but if not, i am satisfied knowing that i have just tracked down a rare monster and killed his ***. As always happy hunting my friends, and good luck to you! :)
RE: Spiny Vet
# Aug 22 2004 at 6:53 PM Rating: Good
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good info ^^
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Spipi
# Aug 20 2004 at 3:58 AM Rating: Decent
I was so lucky when I first got him.
I've heard of him, so I was hunting in the area where he spawns, but of course, like all notorious monsters, I never found him.
So i ran down the river hunting for bees when I saw a guy fighting 2 crawlers, I thought he might need help.
But he died before I could provoke, and then I saw he was fighting spipi... poor lvl 7 guy..
I killed Spipi and the other crawler, he dropped:
-Mist Silk MCape
-Silk thread
-Silk thread

Ich was like wow.. ^^ never had luck with NM, (I'm from Sandoria), but as I went to Windy for Bonecraft I fell over them ^^

Edited, Fri Aug 20 05:15:43 2004
no fair...
# Aug 17 2004 at 4:59 PM Rating: Decent
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I was standing right where it spawns by the water for 2 hours, it didnt pop so i moved over to the west, i cam back and some level 16 was killing it. ><, he dint get anythng though

i think it helps if u kill the crawlers around

(sorry if sumone has already said this)
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Four Long Hours
# Aug 17 2004 at 3:30 PM Rating: Decent
And I got two silk threads. I'm still there, hoping to get a cape this time around.

Thanks for all the info, though. It's helped this poor Mithra!

Michiko
dam
# Aug 17 2004 at 3:13 PM Rating: Decent
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i was farming on my mnk lvl 13, and some lvl 5 guy keeps telling me to come fight a crawler, and when i get there its an NM, i didn't get 1 single thing from this dam guy, i had to use hundred fists too
no drop
# Aug 17 2004 at 9:44 AM Rating: Decent
i fought it but no drop




Records
Leaping lizzy 1/23
bigmouth billy 0/1
Stingying sophe 2/2
valkurm emperor 12/12 ^^
Spini spipi 0/1
I'm a war
# Aug 15 2004 at 9:42 PM Rating: Decent
i have no use for this cape but when i get it im gonna keep in in my bazzar for all the mages to see it and want it d(^_^)b






Leaping Lizzie 1/12 ><
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