Wartbite Cricket

Basic Info: Where found: Grassland Badlands Marshland Attacking: Skill required: Small Game Hunting Blood (health): 5 Liftable or Inventory?: Inventory Item(s) gained: Dead Wartbite Cricket Skinning/Butchering: Item(s) on pickup: unknown (use 'none' if cannot be butchered) You cannot butcher this creature. Rare item(s): Cricket Violin

Wartbite Cricket

About

Crickets are commonly found in the wilderness. They usually spawn in groups.

Once you kill a cricket you simply right-click it to pick up the dead body and place it into your inventory, unlike other creatures whose body you must actually lift to carry someplace and cannot place in your inventory.

Tips

• Crickets are actually very tough against a new player. If the only thing you have is Self-Defense and 5 Blood, and you attack it, it will probably K.O. you, and you will lose all your items and teleport in Boston. However crickets stop attacking after a K.O. and will not kill you.
• The best time to try hunt them is after learning Backalley Pugilism: turn on Guard, approach it and use Uppercut for an initial attack, then walk away and stay away until you see the cricket heading straight for you, as it approaches, hit it with another uppercut, rinse and repeat.
• Even better, get Fencing and use Thrust to one hit kill.
• A simple "One-Two" kill for a Cricket with only Back-Ally pugilism and around 15 YB is to aggro it with an Upper-Cut, and then perform a Stomp shortly after it briefly runs away (it will be caught in the AoE of the Stomp, negating it's maneuverability). Timing of the Stomp is important: If too early, the cricket will hop out of range; If too late, your attack will be interrupted.
• One way to effectively weaken crickets and other small huntable creatures is to find a good ledge that has no breaks (passable slopes) in it, at least in your view range, then initiate combat with the cricket and get it caught at the top of the ledge while you climb down from it. Crickets only seem to be able to pathfind around ridges if they can "see" a way around, so if they cannot, they will just sit there and allow you to weaken them with a constant hail of slingshot stones. This can make cricket-hunting feasible for lower blood players; although, a finishing couple of punches is usually still necessary, but it is safe considering your advantage over the cricket.