POI Guide
This page explains what POIs are, how the 12 current POI types shape a run, and what each choice actually does. You can skim the grouped overview first, read every POI as a guide card, then use the complete reference table at the end for quick lookup.
POI means Point of Interest. In Everything is Crab, it is a map interaction node that offers a small set of mutually exclusive choices when you reach it.
Some POIs are simple and immediate, like taking healing or a direct stat increase. Others only become strong when your build, body parts, or current map state line up with them.
That is why a good POI page needs more than a flat dump. The important part is not only what each button says, but when that branch changes the rest of the run.
Points of Interest are not all doing the same job. Some are clean stat forks, some stabilize a rough run, and a few act more like system events with boss, ally, or day-night consequences.
The easiest way to read them is to separate stable growth nodes from survival nodes, system-changing nodes, and event-heavy nodes.
Once you look at them that way, choices like Wish for winter, Protect the egg, or Study stop feeling like flavor buttons and start reading like run-planning decisions.
Before diving into all 12 entries one by one, it helps to group them by what they usually change in a run.
Algae Reef, Carved Tree, Chaos Tree, Growing Tree, and Lotus Plant mostly change how fast you scale or which stat direction you lean into. They are the easiest POIs to read at a glance, but some still hide mode-specific or condition-specific details.
Healing Pond, Mud Pond, and Oasis focus on keeping a run alive. The difference is that Healing Pond is light sustain, Oasis is the stronger recovery version, and Mud Pond mixes defense with utility and adaptation.
Calendar Stone and Giant Mushroom are less about immediate raw stats and more about changing systems around you. They influence day-night pacing or mushroom-side mechanics instead of just adding one more number.
Unattended Nest and Frozen Specimen feel more event-driven than the rest. They touch boss spawns, charmed allies, random ally outcomes, and variable rewards, so they deserve more explanation than a flat table row.
Each POI below keeps all of its branches together, adds a short run-context summary, and then layers in the most useful extra notes for actual run decisions.
Algae Reef
Calendar Stone
Carved Tree
Chaos Tree
Unattended Nest
Frozen Specimen
Giant Mushroom
Growing Tree
Healing Pond
Lotus Plant
Mud Pond
Oasis
A clean early stat fork. It is useful when you want a straightforward POI that asks for no setup and no special timing.
Choices
Increase Max HP by +7
Increase [AD] by +1
Extra notes
A schedule-shaping POI rather than a simple stat reward. Its value depends on whether your run wants longer daytime or longer nighttime.
Choices
Increases the daytime and reduces the nighttime
Increases the nighttime and reduces the daytime
Extra notes
A growth-versus-defense decision. One branch accelerates leveling and the other gives a cleaner permanent PD gain.
Choices
Gain a full level of [Progress]
Endless: Gain X% of [Progress] needed for the next level
Increase [PD] by +1
Extra notes
A high-upside fork between random stat acceleration and immediate Mutagen Points. It is more volatile than the simpler tree-style POIs.
Choices
Greatly increases 1 random stat
Gain 5 [MPs]
Extra notes
The most event-like POI in the current set. It mixes food, boss risk, social gain, and a defend-the-objective branch in one place.
Choices
Spawns high rarity Meat food and 50% chance to spawn a land boss
+1 [Social]
Defend the egg successfully for 1 minute to spawn a charmed small version of a land boss
Extra notes
A resource-heavy POI that feels closer to a shop or event node than a basic stat pickup. Its most important detail is that part of the reward can vary by run.
Choices
Gain a dynamic reward Costs X Mutagen Points
Gain a random ally
Gain a dynamic reward Costs X Mutagen Points
Extra notes
A synergy POI for mushroom and poison-adjacent runs. Its branches make more sense as system support than as raw universal value.
Choices
Increase number of ticks of your poisons by 1 extra tick
Increase mushrooms' spawning rate by 10%
Increase the success rate of mushroom identification by 10%
Extra notes
A more varied stat fork than Algae Reef. Instead of just defense versus offense, it also includes a random-stat route.
Choices
5% [PD] increase
10% increase on a random stat
5% [AD] increase
Extra notes
The lighter healing-water option. It is a practical stabilizer when you need immediate recovery or modest sustain scaling.
Choices
Heal for 50% of your Max Hp
Increases [Health Regen] by +1.5
Extra notes
A two-branch POI with one obvious leveling route and one condition-based utility route. It is more interesting than it first looks because the second branch is gated.
Choices
Gain a full level of [Progress]
Endless: Gain X% of [Progress] needed for the next level
5% [Cooldowns] reduction
Prerequisite: Size smaller than 100%
Extra notes
A mixed utility POI that bundles temporary defense, a Tail-gated social branch, and environment adaptation into one stop.
Choices
Decreases damage taken by 25% for 1 minute
Increases [Social] by +2
Prerequisite: Tail
Increases [Cold Adaptation] and [Heat Adaptation] by 10%
Extra notes
The stronger healing-water version. Compared with Healing Pond, it pushes both the immediate heal and the sustain branch much harder.
Choices
Heal for 100% of your Max Hp
Increases [Health Regen] by +3
Extra notes
The complete reference table is preserved below. Use it when you want a compact scan of every POI choice without reading the full guide cards.
| Icon | POI | Choice | Effect | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Algae Reef | Munch! | Increase Max HP by +7 | - |
| | Algae Reef | Play! | Increase [AD] by +1 | - |
| | Calendar Stone | Wish for summer | Increases the daytime and reduces the nighttime | - |
| | Calendar Stone | Wish for winter | Increases the nighttime and reduces the daytime | - |
| | Carved Tree | Contemplate | Gain a full level of [Progress] | Endless: Gain X% of [Progress] needed for the next level |
| | Carved Tree | Hone | Increase [PD] by +1 | - |
| | Chaos Tree | Eat chaos fruit | Greatly increases 1 random stat | - |
| | Chaos Tree | Let the fruit be | Gain 5 [MPs] | - |
| | Unattended Nest | Crack the egg | Spawns high rarity Meat food and 50% chance to spawn a land boss | - |
| | Unattended Nest | Hide the egg | +1 [Social] | - |
| | Unattended Nest | Protect the egg | Defend the egg successfully for 1 minute to spawn a charmed small version of a land boss | - |
| | Frozen Specimen | Chomp | Gain a dynamic reward Costs X Mutagen Points | - |
| | Frozen Specimen | Crack | Gain a random ally | - |
| | Frozen Specimen | Lick | Gain a dynamic reward Costs X Mutagen Points | - |
| | Giant Mushroom | Dip | Increase number of ticks of your poisons by 1 extra tick | - |
| | Giant Mushroom | Spread | Increase mushrooms' spawning rate by 10% | - |
| | Giant Mushroom | Study | Increase the success rate of mushroom identification by 10% | - |
| | Growing Tree | Attack the leaf | 5% [PD] increase | - |
| | Growing Tree | Eat the leaf | 10% increase on a random stat | - |
| | Growing Tree | Grab the leaf | 5% [AD] increase | - |
| | Healing Pond | Bathe | Heal for 50% of your Max Hp | - |
| | Healing Pond | Drink | Increases [Health Regen] by +1.5 | - |
| | Lotus Plant | Eat the plant | Gain a full level of [Progress] | Endless: Gain X% of [Progress] needed for the next level |
| | Lotus Plant | Rest on top | 5% [Cooldowns] reduction | Prerequisite: Size smaller than 100% |
| | Mud Pond | Mud Bath | Decreases damage taken by 25% for 1 minute | - |
| | Mud Pond | Scent Marking | Increases [Social] by +2 | Prerequisite: Tail |
| | Mud Pond | Thermoregulate | Increases [Cold Adaptation] and [Heat Adaptation] by 10% | - |
| | Oasis | Bathe | Heal for 100% of your Max Hp | - |
| | Oasis | Drink | Increases [Health Regen] by +3 | - |
This short FAQ keeps the scope of the page clear.
This guide currently covers 12 Points of Interest and 29 total choices.
Unattended Nest, Frozen Specimen, Giant Mushroom, Growing Tree, and Mud Pond currently show three choices. The rest show two.
Most choice text is clear, but a few exact outcomes can still vary by mode, run state, or hidden conditions. Treat those notes as practical guidance rather than a damage-formula promise.
Because the table is still the fastest way to compare choices at a glance. The guide cards add context, while the table stays useful for quick scanning.