Snub

A Snub is an alien encountered in Osiris: New Dawn.

Characteristics
A smaller version of the Crab monster, Snubs are now one of the most common aliens sighted on Proteus 2. Upon sighting the player, the Snub will take a somewhat relaxed approach to attacking the player, circling around the player before charging them. This makes them easy to take out alone, but dangerous in groups, which they usually appear in.

Snub variants include:
 * Young Snub - Level 01 variant found on Proteus 2
 * Aged Snub - Level 02 variant found on Proteus 2
 * Mature Snub - Level 03 variant found on Proteus 2
 * Ice Snub - Level 04 variant found on Aziel.

In the Wild
Snubs will only attack you if you get relatively close. They tend to circle around you, every now and then performing a charge attack, similar to the Skeliopods. When they charge, Snubs throw up a dust cloud, which acts almost like a cloaking device, making it harder to hit as they become completely obfuscated behind it.

Hive Mentality
Snubs tend to come in pairs or triplets, though they won't all aggro to you at once like the Parasytes do. Occasionally, you'll come across hive structures, usually near Lithium nodes, that spawn Snubs as long as you're in the immediate area. They tend to spawn new creatures between every 5 and 10 seconds. Exercise extreme caution when gathering near these hives.

Crafting
Snubs drop the same items as the Crab monsters. Parts scavenged from the corpses of these creatures can be fashioned into a Crab Hut.

Possible item drop: Crab Meat, Crab Shell