Talk:Rock Lobster/@comment-26810414-20150730181520/@comment-26376406-20150730195703

There is no rock lobster mating season. They just reproduce offscreen at a certain rate.

If you need help dealing with the chronic issue of having rock lobsters everywhere, you can surround a mineral with 4 stone walls and leave a small space between every 2 walls. The rock lobsters should not be able to pass through this space, but you should, giving you the option to build the pen first and put the rock in when it is done. This keeps the lobsters in the area from wandering away from that point. The congregation of rock lobsters can subsequently deal with batalisks spawning from sinkholes, periodic hound attacks, and even giants! Be careful with certain giants, though. Deerclops and Bearger can destroy the walls, letting the lobsters wander afterwards.

You can also lure the lobsters away from your base by giving them a common mineral, then leading them somewhere else and staying in the area until you have to option to attack them instead of examine them. While befriended, you can also lead them back into the caves and stay there until they no longer follow you. Leaving rock lobsters in the caves can be a very easy and quick way to dispose of them, but once introduced to the surface, more will continue to spawn, even if there are none above ground. Unless every rock lobster in the save is killed (including those on the surface and under every sinkhole), they will continue to spawn on the surface once taken to it.