Mudcrabs have become one of the staples of the Elder Scrolls series, but in Skyrim they gained an burrowing animation that they play over and over again. This animation, while inventive, has several key issues: it looks very out of place on any terrain other than river banks or beaches, and Mudcrabs killed while burrowed almost always fall off the map and are unlootable.

What this mod does is a simple fix: it removes the burrowing idle animation from Mudcrabs by replacing it with their normal standing idle. This means that they won't burrow, but will instead just play their normal idle animation - standing still and flicking their mandibles and antennae.



Simply copy the meshes folder to your Skyrim/data directory, or use a mod manager such as Mod Organizer (HIGHLY recommended) or Nexus Mod Manager (NOT recommended, but it will still work).



Delete the three files in the "meshes\actors\mudcrab\animations" folder: "diginstart.hkx", "digout.hkx", and "idle_diginsleep.hkx". They are all just copies of the file "mainidle.hkx", anyways...



None.



There aren't any permissions to be given - these are just renamed copies of stock Skyrim non-DLC files already included in the game, set up to work as I intended.