center vote finalist Giant Lobster: The Semi-Aquatic All-Terrain Healer

[DragonHorse]

Lobster Art commissioned from RiskyBiscuits, Dossier Sketches commissioned from Lapis. Dossier by Me.

Name: Giant Lobster

Species: Pemphix Gigantstation

Time: Triassic

Temperament: Aggressive

Wild

Just when I thought the ARK’s Oceans were terrifying enough, I came across this oversized Lobster I’m calling Pemphix Gigantstation. This Giant Crustacean has two unique claws, one for grabbing its prey & a much sharper one for stabbing. When it isn’t walking along the ocean floor, it can be seen occasionally hiding in the sands of beaches with only their antenna sticking out. Survivors must not approach a buried Lobster unless they plan to tame one.

 

Domesticated

If you managed to tame this Giant Lobster, you’ll find that this Megalodon Sized Crustacean has some incredible utility both inside & outside of combat. The Giant Lobster acts at your Underwater Daeodon, able to heal allies both on Land & Water!! It can even latch itself onto ally creatures, healing at a much faster rate and making its ally invulnerable to damage. It also has incredible mobility, being able to walk the ocean floor, swim, walk on land and even climb surfaces with the help of its powerful claws.

ATTACKS/ABILITIES

Left Click: Claw Attack (Becomes jab attack if holding a target)

Right Click: Grab (Press again to release)

(Primary Abilities inspired by Elden Ring Lobsters)

 

C Key Healing (Can be used on Land & Water) Lobster has a healing bar that starts at 0% but increases at it heals its allies. At 100% it can latch itself onto a single ally super healing it while also preventing the creature its latched to from taking ANY DAMAGE for a short period of time. As its Latched, the healing bar will decrease, once the bar reaches 0%, Lobster will detach itself then you need to heal allies to do the super healing ability.

(Ability Inspired by TF2 Medic & Ubercharge)

X Key: Snipe Shot: Giant Lobster will fire a pulse of water from its much larger claw. If it hits an enemy, it damages them, but if it hits an ally, it’ll heal them.

(Ability Inspired by TF2 Medic Crusader’s Crossbow)

LOBSTER MEAT 

Harvesting a Giant Lobster provides Lobster Meat which acts as a form of Mutton/Algae for Fish eating tames. Cooking it makes Grilled Lobster which is a handy food item that also heals the player a lot more than normal food or medical brews.

TAMING, SADDLE LEVEL, SPAWN LOCATIONS 

Taming: You need to let The Giant Lobster Grab you with its Claw and before it stabs you with its sharp claw, feed it Exceptional Kibble where it will drop you and become passive for a little bit before becoming aggressive again. Repeat until Tamed

Saddle: Lv 65

Spawn Locations: All Gen 1 biomes near/in sources of water or just Gen 1 ocean biome depending on the two following ideas below

 

IDEA 1: UNIQUE APPEARANCES PER BIOME

 

Found that some crustaceans are able to live in some pretty intense climates, such as Yeti Crabs found in cold regions. The Giant Lobster has also followed this as they can be found in all 5 biomes of the Genesis Simulation which have different colors & unique features depending on the biome. Variants can interbreed

Bog - Green & Covered in Moss. Found in watery areas of the Bog

Snow - White & covered in Ice or Fur like Yeti Crabs. Found in Ice Lake with Beavers

Ocean - Blue & covered in barnacles. Found everywhere in Ocean

Volcano - Red and covered in Dried Magma. Found in Oil Fields

Lunar - Purple & covered in Space Rocks. Found in Lunar Caves with Karkinos

If this seems too much however, there’s a second proposal

IDEA 2: RARE VARIANT: BLUE LOBSTER

There are instances of Blue Lobsters being found in real life, so the same can be said here in ARK as you could find a Blue Lobster in the wild as opposed to the standard Red Lobsters (Ha. Word Play)

The Blue Lobster would function like a Tek Creature spawning at higher levels than normal. Their healing abilities would also be much better than normal Lobsters making hunting/taming one of them worth the search.

Fan art above by Chawizard

WHY VOTE FOR LOBSTER

Only Two Crustaceans in ARK, Eurypterid & Karkinos, & only one of them actually being tameable

Adds a healer for the Ocean (Daeodon=Land, Owl=Flyer), that can also be used on land

Healing abilities can help during the brutal hunt missions of Gen 1, Other map Bossfights, & keeping Tames alive in PvP

Lobster fanart above by Sav

PROS & CONS 

Pros: Bulkier & More Combat Version of the Karkinos, Ocean version of Daeodon, Can Climb on Surfaces

Cons: Slower than Crab in walking/sprinting, while it can swim it's not as fast as some of the ocean’s fastest swimmers (about Basilo speed), Can only carry one creature compared to Karkinos carrying two, while it can climb, it's not winning any marathons as it is a very slow climber

  

THANKS FOR READING!!

 

Edited October 25, 2025 by DragonHorse
Better pic of dossier, other pictures

[PeppaShrekky]

Still bitter that this lost The Center vote, hopefully it can redeem itself

[Xelz]

YES!! I need my lobster!

[Tweeezs]

[Xenorachnoide]

A really good proposition, every arthropod lovers deserve a vote and you balanced it to not be the usual powercreep creature. 
You wisely used existing lobster abilities (like the pistol one) and different morphotype depending of the biome.

How do you think that "latch on" ability will work on smaller target (this baby seems quite big)?

[Snallygaster123]

Big Lobter:)

[kangalxddd]

Awesome

[Picklerick12]

A giant lobster would be cool to see in Genesis.

[Arknoob22]

Sad this lost =(

[Lascell]

Can we stick to actual prehistoric creature names instead of making up silly names?