How to Find Crab Claws in Underwater Structures

Exploring Ocean Structures

Crab claws cannot be crafted; you must acquire them through exploration. Prepare for an ocean expedition by stocking up on underwater breathing aids, such as Water Breathing potions, a Respiration-enchanted helmet, or air-pocket blocks like doors and torches. Board a boat and search ocean biomes for underwater structures, including submerged ruins and sunken shipwrecks.

Uncovering Treasure Chests

Once you spot an underwater structure, dive down and locate its storage containers. Crab claws generate inside underwater structure chests and standard treasure chests. Clear away any hostile drowned guarding the site, then open the chests to inspect the loot. If you locate a shipwreck with a map chest, use the buried treasure map to unearth nearby buried treasure chests along shorelines, as these also offer opportunities to find crab claws. Because crab claws are a rare exploration reward, you may need to search multiple underwater sites before finding one.