Wild crabs are wildlife. It is like asking why tiger attacks you in the jungle when you have signed a contract with the zoo.

But in game mechanics point of view the relation to the crabs could be increased along the relations with the crab riders when the increase happens in a dialogue. But if the increase happens via other method aka healing diplomats or handing bounties then we modders could not affect that.

In any way, we do not have a method to change the faction relations setting to the wild crabs after you have allied with the crab riders, except immersion breaking pacifist. Aka we could make a NPC you go talk to and instantly become allies with the crabs. But it would make as much sense as inviting whales to tea.

Originally posted by Cattrina:

Wild crabs are wildlife. It is like asking why tiger attacks you in the jungle when you have signed a contract with the zoo.

I understand, was just wondering because it gets very annoying have my allies heal crabs just for them to get back up and try to kill me again. It gets messy in large battles with fishmen where wild crabs come in and team up against me and then have crab bandits heal them all up when i take them down. Gets very annoying when my team is beat up and then that crab that we took down got back up because it was healed and then all my guys are knocked out