Gear System

Overview

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The gear system in Crabby Idle allows players to equip their crab with various items to enhance abilities, provide protection, and customize appearance. Equipment is organized into 9 distinct slots based on crab anatomy.

Equipment Slots

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Left Antenna

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• Icon: 🪲
• Purpose: Sensing and environmental detection
• Stat Bonuses: Detection range, sensing accuracy, environmental awareness
• Description: The left antenna helps crabs detect changes in their environment. Equipment here can enhance resource detection, reveal hidden areas, or provide early warning of dangers.

Right Antenna

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• Icon: 🪲
• Purpose: Communication and social sensing
• Stat Bonuses: Social skills, trade bonuses, interaction range
• Description: The right antenna is used for social interactions and communication. Items here can improve trade deals, social abilities, or provide information about other creatures.

Hat

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• Icon: 🎩
• Purpose: Style and minor bonuses
• Stat Bonuses: Luck, charisma, minor skill bonuses
• Description: Headwear for the fashionable crab. Hats often provide unique bonuses unrelated to direct combat, such as increased luck for rare drops or boosted experience gains.

Goggles

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• Icon: 🥽
• Purpose: Vision enhancement and eye protection
• Stat Bonuses: Vision range, accuracy, critical hit chance, environmental protection
• Description: Eye protection and vision enhancement for crabs. Goggles can improve accuracy in combat, reveal hidden details, or protect against environmental hazards like sandstorms.

Cape

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• Icon: 🦸
• Purpose: Special abilities and status effects
• Stat Bonuses: Special powers, elemental resistances, unique effects
• Description: Capes grant crabs extraordinary abilities. These prestigious items can provide elemental resistances, special combat abilities, or unique passive effects that change gameplay.

Carapace (Body Armor)

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• Icon: 🐚
• Purpose: Primary protective armor for the crab’s body
• Stat Bonuses: Defense, health, damage reduction
• Description: The carapace is the crab’s main shell and body protection. Items equipped here provide the primary defensive bonuses and determine the overall armor class of your crab.

Left Claw

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• Icon: 🦀
• Purpose: Off-hand weapon/tool for gathering and combat
• Stat Bonuses: Gathering speed, secondary attack damage, crit chance
• Description: The left claw typically serves as a secondary tool. Equipment here can boost resource gathering efficiency or provide combat support abilities.

Right Claw

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• Icon: 🦀
• Purpose: Main weapon for combat and primary tool
• Stat Bonuses: Attack damage, combat skills, primary action speed
• Description: The dominant claw used for combat and primary interactions. Weapons and tools equipped here directly impact combat effectiveness and primary skill performance.

Legs

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• Icon: 🦵
• Purpose: Movement and stability enhancement
• Stat Bonuses: Movement speed, dodge chance, action stability
• Description: All eight legs work together for mobility. Leg equipment affects how quickly your crab can move between locations and can provide evasion bonuses in combat.

Equipment Rarity Tiers

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Future equipment will be categorized into rarity tiers:

Future Features

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Equipment Sets

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Wearing multiple pieces from the same equipment set will provide bonus set effects:

• 2-piece bonus: Minor stat increase
• 4-piece bonus: Special ability or passive effect
• 6-piece bonus (full set): Ultimate set ability

Upgrading Equipment

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Equipment can be enhanced using gathered resources:

• Reinforce: Increase base stats (+1 to +10)
• Infuse: Add elemental properties
• Enchant: Add special modifiers

Equipment Sources

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• Crafting: Create gear using gathered resources
• Drops: Obtain from combat encounters
• Quest Rewards: Unique items from completing objectives
• Store Purchase: Buy with in-game currency

Technical Details

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EquipmentSlot Enum

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enum EquipmentSlot {
  CARAPACE = 'carapace',
  LEFT_CLAW = 'leftClaw',
  RIGHT_CLAW = 'rightClaw',
  LEGS = 'legs',
  HAT = 'hat',
  CAPE = 'cape',
  LEFT_ANTENNA = 'leftAntenna',
  RIGHT_ANTENNA = 'rightAntenna',
  GOGGLES = 'goggles',
}

Data Structure

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Equipment is stored in the player’s data as:

type EquippedGear = Partial<Record<EquipmentSlot, string>>;
// Maps slot -> itemId

UI Location

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The gear page is accessible via the sidebar navigation under Player -> Gear (/player/gear).