Sandshrew
Burrows deep underground in arid locations far from water. It only emerges to hunt for food.
How to Evolve Sandshrew in Cobblemon
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Sandslashlevel upMethod: level up
Learnable moves: crushclaw
Consumes held item: No
Requirements:
- Must reach level 22
Base Stats & EV Yield
Generic Info
- Height
- 0.6m
- Weight
- 12kg
- Catch Rate
- 255
- Base Friendship
- 50
- Experience Group
- medium_fast
- Base Experience
- 60
- Hitbox
- 0.8w x 1h - Fixed: No
- Status
- Implemented
Drops
Sandshrew can drop Armadillo Scute, Grip Claw, and Quick Claw and 1 more item. The table uses 4 drop rolls; percentages are per roll, not guaranteed drops. Quantity ranges show the possible item count for that entry.
Player Interactions
- Brush
- Requires holding
- #c:tools/brush
- Drops / gives
- Armadillo Scute
Breeding
- Egg Groups
- Field
- Egg Cycles
- 20
- Gender Ratio
- 50.0% M / 50.0% F
Behavior
- Movement
- Walk Speed
- 0.2
- Avoids Water
- Yes
- Herd
- Max Size
- 2
- Tolerated Leaders
- Sandshrew AlphaTier 1Sandslash AlphaTier 1
- Combat
- Will Defend Owner
- Yes
- Resting
- Can Sleep
- Yes
- Will Sleep on Bed
- Yes
- Light Requirement
- 0-4
- Drowsy Chance
- 0.0333
- Rouse Chance
- 0.0042
Forms & Variants
Choose a Sandshrew form or feature-driven variant.
Where does Sandshrew spawn in Cobblemon?
Sandshrew has 2 spawn entries as a common spawn at levels 5-30 in arid-tagged biomes and snowy forest-tagged biomes.
Habitat encounters
Sandshrew appears in 5 habitats. Open one to see its complete spawn pool, phases, and conditions.
Carved Ice Spikes
Earthen Hives
Sandpit Clearing
Snowy Burrow
Sunscorched Clearing
What moves does Sandshrew learn?
Sandshrew has 143 listed moves: 40 level-up, 64 TM, 8 egg, 31 tutor.
As an Alpha
Full Alpha guideWhat Sandshrew becomes as a Cobblemon 1.8 Alpha
Size
≈ ×1.59 larger
Marks
Level vs your party
Guaranteed moves
Normal wild moveset plus two guaranteed TM moves (slots 3 & 4)
Drops if defeated
Base rewards scale with its level; its ground typing adds bonus gems & berries.
Base drops Tier 4
- Exp Candy L×1–319%
- Exp Candy Xl×125%
- Rare Candy×16%
- Health Candy×1–38%
- Mighty Candy×1–38%
- Tough Candy×1–38%
- Smart Candy×1–38%
- Courage Candy×1–38%
- Quick Candy×1–38%
Type drops
- Ground Gem×2–3
- Shuca Berry×1–2