New Enemy Idea: The Chest Hermit Crab (aka the Mimic, Treasure Crab, Chest Crab, Treasure Chest Crab, and Loot Crab.)

@vernalwriter370 Interesting concept. Kind of like the Mimics in CoD zombies.

You come across a grog chest & think "oo free loot," only to have it spring limbs and attack you. Maybe once you defeat it, it releases the piece of loot it disguised itself as, plus the crab meat you suggested.

Reminds me of a mini Tamatoa from Moana

This is an awesome idea. As long as it doesn't impede the current amount of treasure received on average (like it does not "replace" an existing chest you could have gotten) I think this is really fun.

Perhaps if it buries itself, and you can find the buried dirt point (like a player buried treasure), you can try to dig it up again and it will try and scurry away from you again.

Maybe it can be associated with an audio cue so you know that one is in the area, but it might be hiding and trying to wait for you to not be looking and try and grab one of your unsecured chests.

There is a lot of potential with this idea, I give it a +1.
It's just outright fun, and gives PvE enemies an actual threat to your loot aside from sinking your ship. I'm all for permanent additions to Sea of Thieves. This is a good one.