How to Get Empty Beer Can — Spider Crab Quest
Get the Empty Beer Can in How to Fish: buy a Beer Can, give it to the Lighthouse Keeper instead of drinking it, then use it for Spider Crab.
Quick answer
Buy a Beer Can and give it to the Lighthouse Keeper. Do not drink it. The quest returns an Empty Beer Can, which is the bait used to pull up Spider Crab.
How to get the Empty Beer Can
- Earn a little starting money from early catches.
- Buy a Beer Can from the first-island shop.
- Take it to the Lighthouse Keeper.
- Use the quest interaction to give him the Beer Can.
- Receive the Empty Beer Can.
- Equip/use the Empty Beer Can as bait for the Spider Crab encounter.
This is the early main-story chain commonly associated with Who Stole My Beer.
Common mistake: drinking the beer
A launch-day player drank the Beer Can and lost the item they needed for the quest. If your goal is progression, the important action is the hand-in to the Lighthouse Keeper — not consuming it yourself.
What happens after you use the Empty Beer Can?
The bait leads into Spider Crab, the first major boss blocker. The tested fight is much easier once you understand its charge pattern: the crab can leave itself stunned/dizzy after a rush, giving you a safe damage window.
Read the Spider Crab boss guide before spending the attempt if you are under-geared.
If you are stuck
- Have a full Beer Can? Give it to the Lighthouse Keeper.
- Drank it? Buy another one and repeat the hand-in.
- Have the Empty Beer Can but no progress? Use it as the boss bait rather than treating it as ordinary loot.
- Beat Spider Crab but still cannot leave? Return the unique Spider Crab quest drop to the Lighthouse Keeper.
Then continue with the main island progression guide.
Evidence & source notes
- Official Steam store page — Official identity, release, feature set and the quest/boss island progression loop.
- Launch-day gameplay transcripts supplied for this guide — Quest steps and combat observations below come from supplied launch-window gameplay transcripts and are labelled Video-tested or Needs confirmation as appropriate.