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Root Crab
Cooking
Verified US market
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Root Crab details
| Type | Cooking |
|---|---|
| Item level | 70 |
| Requires level | 1 |
| Max stack | 1,000 |
| Vendor sell price | 12 silver50 copper |
| Expansion | Midnight |
| First seen in our data | build 12.0.7.68887 |
Read from the 12.1.0.69933 game build. Prices are US Auction House data.
In-game tooltip for Root Crab: "A common creature in Quel'Thalas. Can be bought and sold on the Auction House."
What Root Crab is used in
Cooking
| Recipe | Skill tier and category | Needs | Other reagents | Makes | Lists at (US) | Reagents per craft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Buttered Root Crab | Midnight Cooking, Advanced, grey at 75 | 6 |  Buttered Root Crab | 6 gold | 8 gold |
"Needs" is how many one craft consumes. Reagent cost adds up the required materials at the cheapest current listing of each; it is left blank when any reagent has no live price. Recipes, quantities, products and skill tiers are read from the game data.
Crafting value of Root Crab
Root Crab goes into one recipe, Buttered Root Crab, taught in Midnight Cooking.
Its product, Buttered Root Crab, from Midnight Cooking, lists at 6 gold on the US Auction House.
One craft of Buttered Root Crab takes 6 Root Crab plus 3 Plant Protein, 3 A Big Ol' Stick of Butter, 3 Pouch of Spices and 1 Tavern Fixings; at current prices those reagents cost 8 gold21 silver per craft.
Root Crab is about 58% of that reagent bill at its current price; Plant Protein, A Big Ol' Stick of Butter, Pouch of Spices and Tavern Fixings make up the rest.
Leveling and recipes for Root Crab
Buttered Root Crab (Advanced) turns yellow at Cooking skill 60 and grey at 75.
Reagents used with Root Crab
In Buttered Root Crab, Root Crab is combined with A Big Ol' Stick of Butter, Plant Protein, Pouch of Spices and Tavern Fixings.
A Big Ol' Stick of Butter 1 shared recipe
Plant Protein 1 shared recipe
Pouch of Spices 1 shared recipe
Tavern Fixings 1 shared recipe
What Root Crab is crafted into
Buttered Root Crab (Food & Drink). Made with Buttered Root Crab, 6 Root Crab per craft.
Root Crab: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 20% below its 30-day median. Over these 30 days the lowest listing moved more than tenfold, so a single snapshot can sit far from typical.
| Now | 80 silver |
|---|---|
| 30-day low | 25 silver Sep 15 |
| 30-day high | 43 gold98 silver Aug 27 |
| 30-day median | 1 gold |
| 7-day median | 83 silver |
| Hourly snapshots | 687 |
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Root Crab by region
Americas and Oceania (US) has the lowest listing of the regions we track. Each region is a separate Auction House, so gold and items do not move between them.
| Region | Lowest listed price | Listings | Units |
|---|---|---|---|
| Americas and Oceania (US) | 80 silver | 278 | 34,671 |
| Europe (EU) | 1 gold99 silver | 429 | 44,824 |
Other reagents in the same recipe tiers as Root Crab
Midnight Cooking has 48 recipes. Besides Root Crab, the reagents they call for most are Tavern Fixings (22 recipes), Pouch of Spices (17 recipes), Thalassian Fillet (16 recipes), A Big Ol' Stick of Butter (14 recipes), Plant Protein (13 recipes), Cooking Spirits (12 recipes), Mana-Wyrm Essence (12 recipes), Practically Pork (10 recipes), Petrified Root (7 recipes), Neutralized Venom Clot (5 recipes).
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Ancient Pandaren Spices78 silver
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About Root Crab
Root Crab is a crafting material in World of Warcraft. This page tracks its verified Auction House price and the recipes that consume it, so you can judge whether it is worth farming, buying, or selling right now.
Demand comes from Cooking. When a recipe that uses Root Crab spikes in value, the material tends to follow, so watch the recipes above alongside the price history.
To read the chart: compare the current lowest listing against the typical range. A price sitting below its recent band is a buy or craft signal; a price above it favors selling or farming. The method matters more than any single number, since commodity prices move between hourly snapshots.