StarCraft 2 - Spine Crawler Exploit

I was thinking about how hatcheries always have a bit of creep around them the moment they've begin building, and how spine crawlers can only be built on creep, so I tried this, and to my surprise, it worked!

Simply take a drone, press B-H and lay your hatchery, then press ESC-B-C and click in the middle of where your hatchery was to build a spine crawler. After they build, they will continually lose health since they need to be on creep.

I can think of very few real-world applications for this (I was playing against a "Very Easy" bot), but it's a fun trick anyway.

This works as of SC2 Beta Patch 9.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• StarCraft 2
• SC2
• Beta
• Patch 9
• Spine Crawler
• Exploit
• Trick
• Bug
• Hack
• Secret
• Cheat

[dreamsofmishra]

I've always wondered why do zerg buildings need creep to survive.. especially spine crawlers since they're perfectly fine running around, but deny them of creep when they're burrowed and they die? I wonder what's Starcraft's explanation for this.

[InsatiableMonkey]

@dreamsofmishra The answer is existential depression.

[gratnas]

if you can make 6 hatcheries and cancel them (75 mins each) and than build 6 spine crawlers, and ur playing vs toss who has like 10 probes he is doing something wrong

[DanielTrollz]

CONGRATZ U BEAT A VERY EASY COMPUTER!

do u want a cookie?

[01010101011223]

@MajinBacon too much time i guess

[MajinBacon]

why not just do the hatch cancel -> spawn creep tumor then make them?

[wc1hater]

They look HILARIOUS!

[asdfghjkl34101]

Then they die because there is no creep.

[BzKRaszagal]

@GeranylTube but his logic is now flawed because it is impossible to do because of costs for cancelling.... well that early...

[GeranylTube]

The point of the video isn't beating the computer, guys. It's to prove that you can build things on the creep canceled hatcheries leave behind.

[OsswaldMickael]

nice idea, i did never thought to do this =) well played, be blessed =)

[kevski12]

15 minutes in and your one base . . . . . nice try to catch up, making 6 hatches in the enemies base