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Like flesh crawlers, cave crawlers are another superb herb monster that add to their Herblore bounty some other good drops, including lots of Herblore secondary ingredients. These are Slayer monsters, but only require level 10 Slayer, and they are easy to kill even with level 30 skills, though obviously higher level players will do so much more quickly. These monsters have a deadly poison (8 damage) but it only impacts you when they hit, so at very high levels you rarely need antipoison. At mid and low levels I recommend super antipoisons as you will get hit much more often.

Getting to the cavern is a bit of a nuisance for low level players, but those at mid levels and above can get their very quickly using rings of slaying.

With monsters that drop a large number of herbs, there are trade-offs between keeping all the herbs or leaving the lower-valued ones so you can try to get more of the ones that cost more. There is also a trade-off between using a beast of burden to get more herbs per trip, or summoning a macaw for its herb enhancing benefit, because the macaw increases the percentage of good herbs (ranarr and above) by a hefty 40%. The key factors that determine the best approach are the number of herbs you get per hour from the monster, the distance to the bank (and thus how much time you waste per hour banking if you take more trips) and the value of non-herb drops.

These monsters drop many herbs but also a lot of other non-stackable items, which would suggest that a beast of burden would be best. However, they are also extremely close to a bank, effectively, because you can get there within 30 seconds using a cheap ring of slaying. Accordingly, I recommend using a macaw here to improve herb quality and banking all the herbs and other good drops you get.