Crystal Lizard
A dead Crystal Lizard that has lost its shine |
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| Enemy Type | Passive |
| Weakness | None |
| Resistances | None |
| Immune | None |
Crystal Lizards are an Enemy in Demon's Souls and Demon's Souls Remake. These special enemies are particularly valuable because they drop ore that can be used to upgrade your equipment. Be mindful, however, that they will flee as soon as they see you and vanish if you don't defeat them quickly enough.
Crystal Lizard Description
A Crystal Lizard is a small lizard which glows with a cool white light when alive. They are not hostile, but only run away when they notice you, and after running some distance they "burrow"/fade away and disappear. The reason you want to hunt them down is they always drop a nice selection of weapon upgrade stones (the specific type varies with each Lizard). If you are a new player who wants to get good custom upgraded weapons, then this is your notice that you really need to pay attention to the Lizards, since hunting them for their loot is the best way to maximize your upgrade stones without a lot of extra farming.
Crystal Lizard Strategies
- The Crystal Lizard makes a jingling sound. You have to be near it to hear, but the sound is not stopped by walls
- It is easiest to target them with magic from afar, they will flip over and can be rushed after
- Crystal Lizards often run into enemies and cliffs - be careful when chasing them.
- For the Crystal Lizard nest in Armor Spider Archstone, using an AoE spell like Firestorm is quite effective. Alternatively, bring friends and have everyone cast Wrath of God or similar AoE effects, or go after specific geckos each
How to Respawn Crystal Lizards
If a Crystal Lizard got away from you, it will reappear at the location when you reload the area. In the original game, this could be done by exiting the game and restarting. In the remake, the only way to reset Crystal Lizards is via archstone or death.
Crystal Lizards respawn whenever you kill a boss. So if You kill Tower Knight, all Crystal Lizards in Boletarian Palace will respawn (both those in 1-1 and 1-2).
Crystal Lizards are limited and will not come back once you have exhausted their spawns.
Items Dropped by Crystal Lizard
Various Shards and Chunks of Stones, used for Upgrades for your equipment. The loot depends on Luck and World Tendency.
- In Pure Black World Tendency, the Crystal Lizards are harder to kill but they have the best drop rate.
- In Pure White World Tendency, the Crystal Lizards are easier to kill, but they have the worst drop rate.
All Crystal Lizards Locations Guide
- Side passage left at the starting Archstone. (To reach this area you require Pure Black or Pure White Tendency). Drops: Shard of Hardstone, Large Hardstone Shard, Shard of Sharpstone, Large Sharpstone Shard.
- Before the fight with the Tower Knight, there is a staircase on the right, the Crystal Lizard can be found upstairs. Drops: Large Hardstone Shard, Chunk of Hardstone, Large Sharpstone Shard, Chunk of Sharpstone.
- There is one inside the prison where Biorr, of the Twin Fangs is being held. You must have acquired the Iron Ring of Keys to access the prison. Drops: Large Hardstone Shard, Chunk of Hardstone.
- After the cutscene where the Fat Official closes the door, turn right. You can find one hiding between the columns. Drops: Chunk of Hardstone, Pure Hardstone, Chunk of Sharpstone, Pure Sharpstone.
- Behind the 3 Boletaria Soldiers wielding crossbows at the start of the area. Drops: Chunk of Hardstone, Pure Hardstone, Chunk of Sharpstone, Pure Sharpstone.
- Hiding behind the planks, halfway the right alleyway. Drops: Chunk of Hardstone, Pure Hardstone, Chunk of Sharpstone, Pure Sharpstone.
- At the walkway where there are 2 Fat Officials, there is a Crystal Lizard behind them before the next doorway.
- At the start of the area, on the left side. Can be visible from the stairs you have to ascend from the archstone. Drops: Shard of Hardstone, Large Hardstone Shard, Shard of Sharpstone, Large Sharpstone Shard.
- Guarded by Scale Miners after going through the bellows room. Drops: Shard of Spiderstone, Chunk of Spiderstone, Pure Spiderstone.
- Video Location: Shown in our walkthrough video at 33:44. Click here to watch it
- From the start point, you start through a tunnel, there is a Scale Miner on your right and a Crystal Lizard a little further. Drops: Large Hardstone Shard, Large Sharpstone Shard, Chunk of Sharpstone, Shard of Clearstone, Chunk of Clearstone.
- From the archstone. go right along the tunnel. Once you reach the end, turn right, go through the narrow passage. You will have to start dropping from scaffolding to scaffolding. On the third one, turn to your right and drop on the narrow wooden beam. Go across it and enter the cave. At the end of it, you will find two Crystal Lizards. Drops: Large Hardstone Shard, Chunk of Hardstone, Shard of Sharpstone, Shard of Clearstone, Chunk of Clearstone.
- After the archstone, go left. cross the platform at the upper level, and go through a passage. The Lizard is hiding behind a pile of debris on the left. Drops: Shard of Hardstone, Large Hardstone Shard, Chunk of Hardstone, Large Sharpstone Shard, Chunk of Sharpstone, Shard of Clearstone, Chunk of Clearstone.
- Take the moving platform and venture to the lower level. You will find 2 Crystal Lizards in this room, and they will lead you towards their nest. Drops: Large Hardstone Shard, Chunk of Hardstone, Large Sharpstone Shard, Chunk of Sharpstone, Shard of Clearstone, Chunk of Clearstone,
- There is one after the 3 Rock Worms, just before reaching the Filthy Man. Drops: Large Hardstone Shard, Chunk of Hardstone, Large Sharpstone Shard, Shard of Clearstone, Chunk of Clearstone.
- In the lava area, near the exit passage towards the boss. There are 2 Crystal Lizards in the room behind the one with a Large Bearbug. Drops: Large Hardstone Shard, Chunk of Hardstone, Large Sharpstone Shard, Chunk of Sharpstone, Shard of Clearstone, Chunk of Clearstone.
- Just before you jump down on the 3 Rock Worms, you can reach another Crystal Lizard by a ladder. It is located on an upper wooden plank. Drops: Large Hardstone Shard, Chunk of Hardstone, Large Sharpstone Shard, Chunk of Sharpstone, Shard of Clearstone.
- There's one Crystal Lizard on the left side of the corridor, just before reaching the room where you fight the Dragon God. Drops: Chunk of Hardstone, Pure Hardstone, Chunk of Sharpstone, Pure Sharpstone.
- There's one next to the second harpoon used to hurt the Dragon God. Drops: Chunk of Clearstone, Pure Clearstone,
- In the first floor, after fighting the Prisoner Horde, keep going forward and turn left. Drops: Shard of Moonlightstone, Chunk of Moonlightstone.
Upper Latria Fool's Idol Archstone
- Once you past the Black Phantom Mind Flayer's stairs, and fight the Enemies on your right, when you are fighting the Giant Man Centipede, under the big red tentacle, you will spot one Crystal Lizard on the distance. Drops: Chunk of Moonlightstone, Pure Moonlightstone.
- Can be found right in front of the area where you fight the Old Monk. Drops: Chunk of Moonlightstone, Pure Moonlightstone.
- Roll over the broken down tower walls to find a corpse containing x1 Regenerator's Ring, then take the narrow path on the right to find a Crystal Lizard. Drops: Shard of Moonshadestone, Chunk of Moonshadestone.
- In the area where you find Sparkly, the Crow. Get close to the right edge and you will see one Crystal Lizard, drop down and chase it to kill it. Drops: Shard of Moonshadestone, Chunk of Moonshadestone.
- Near the location of the White Bow, by the cliff side. Drops: Chunk of Moonshadestone, Pure Moonshadestone.
- One emerges from a grave on the cemetery area and the other is hidden on the grass. Chunk of Moonshadestone, Pure Moonshadestone.
- Across the bridge shortcut, next to the Rat's nest. Drops: Shard of Faintstone, Chunk of Faintstone.
- While going to where you unlock the shortcut, you will fight 2 Depraved Ones and a Crystal Lizard, near a body containing x1 Legendary Soldier's Soul. Drops: Chunk of Faintstone, Pure Faintstone.
- On the boss area, there is a path to the right that leads to more creatures. Midway through this path, you can see the lizard. Drops: Chunk of Faintstone, Pure Faintstone.
Crystal Lizard Notes and Tips
- Original Game: To Respawn Crystal Lizards, that have escaped you.You can go to the main menu and quit the game. Once on the main menu, reload your save. This is really useful in cases where there are many Lizards and you couldn't kill them all, for example the Crystal Lizard nest in 2-2
AnonymousI would like to thank the crystal lizard near Sparkly in 4-1 for not dropping anything at all when I killed you with a bow with pure white tendency. Champion.
- Anonymous
does the crystal lizard spawn counter carries over when you go to NG+?
- Anonymous
Be careful killing the lizard near the sparkly crow, it can fall through the map losing you the loot. I don't remember the original version doing this. Shame Bluepoint can't fix this.
- Anonymous
Wiki should really add that Crystal Lizards have a limited number of spawns, but how it decreases isn't stated, so:
- if it runs away and burrows underground
- if it runs and dies ala falling or lava, AND you can't reach the resources
- if it gets killed by the player
- in remake, an unharmed escaped lizard DOESN'T reduce it's spawn count
To spawn them back, it is enough to simply go to menu and load the profile (this keeps enemies dead) - be careful how close you are to the lizard you wanna spawn, it might start running before you can. In remake, you need to reload the area (by going back to Nexus, or dying). Therefore, only in remake it's more tedious to respawn them, but if they escape unharmed and burrow, you don't lose one spawn count.
Every boss kill in that world adds +1 spawn count to ALL lizards in that particular world.
- Anonymous
The comment somebody left on December 1st is exactly right. Remake rules are as follows: lizards who escape you unharmed will always respawn after reloading the Archstone however if a lizard escapes you after you have damaged it that uses up the spawn and it will not come back until it’s spawned again by defeating another boss in that world. This time around you can literally stroll into the nest in Tunnel City to grab the pure stone loot causing every lizard to burrow away in the process WITHOUT using up one of the 4 maximum spawns they have.
- Anonymous
I've been told that the lizards have been changed in the remake can someone please explain what changes exactly were made if this is true?
For people who don't know this: crystal lizards spawns are cumulative; each time you kill a boss, all crystal lizards in this world get a spawn. For example, crystal lizards you see in Dragon God area have 4 spawns before killing the boss (the one they have at the beginning and the spawns from the 3 bosses you killed) and get one more after this.
- Anonymous
As much as i love this game i hate that Crystal Lizards stop respawning after a set number of tries. It would be ok if what they dropped were mere bonuses, but as it is now they drop some pretty damn important materials. It's needlessly annoying.
- Anonymous
So their spawns are no longer reduced when you fail to get one? This is a big deal because some lizards are insanely frustrating to get and if you fail in the original that’s the spawn gone even though you missed the upgrade materials. This combined with a couple of pure stones being tied exclusively to lizards made for some sweaty anxiety filled gameplay encounters
- Anonymous
Guys, I have found that if you have max items in the inventory, and you kill a lizard, you can send dropped loot to base (stockpile Thomas) and it doesn't count as a lizard kill, it's however limited to 2-3 times. So get your inventory full, kill lizards, send loot to base and repeat. This way you can get 2-3 times the loot from each lizard.
- Anonymous
How many times does a Crystal Lizard respond until you exhaust them? I was able to farm the one that drops spiderstone for a bit until he stopped respawning.
- Anonymous
In the original when you didn't get a crystal lizard and it disappeared it counted towards the spawn limitation.
In the remake you can easily let a lizard disappear without worrying about it not respawning, as long as you don't damage it. That means in the lizard cave, simply attack the ones you'll get and don't worry about the rest, they'll respawn as long as you didn't attack them
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
In remake, if you hit them, then die or teleport out that counts as a kill.
This is stupid.
It looks like you can no longer save and exit to respawn lizards as you could in other entries.
Unfortunately, the trick from the PS3 version (where you check the loot but don't close the window, then quit/reload through the XMB ) doesn't work in the remake because there is no such window, however, it CAN be done another way... Go to Stockpile Thomas and fill up your inventory til completely full, then look up the weight of your desired drop as well as everything that particular lizard CAN drop, save/reload near the lizard (to restart the autosave timer), kill the lizard and immediately examine the loot drop and look at what the weight is (taking into account the possibility of multiple drops) and determine if it dropped what you wanted; if not, don't close the window, press the PS button and close the game through the switcher, then restart/reload your file and try again. Two more notes: 1. Be quick about it or the game may save. 2. You can only do ONE lizard at a time or the game will save.
I have done this many times and it does work - with other enemy drops too. It's not great, certainly not as effortless as the PS3 version, but it's better than nothing.
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