What You'll Be Dealing With
assembled from what lives in this cave 15 UnderwaterShockArmour damageTorporPoison and gas
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Anglerfish — Lures, then bites hard, in water dark enough that you meet it at melee range. -
Dunkleosteus — High armour and health; slow, but it destroys what it catches. -
Helicoprion — A fast, shark-like open-ocean predator built for speed; it runs down anything slower. -
Manta — Fast, and hits hard for its size in shallow water. -
Megalodon — Fast, and does enough damage to kill a swimmer immediately. -
Mosasaurus — Very high health and damage; one of the strongest things in any flooded cave. -
Piranha — Attacks in shoals the moment you enter the water, and does not stop.
Do not enter the water on foot. There is no gear answer, only a mount. -
Xiphactinus — A large predatory fish with rows of razor teeth, aggressive to swimmers on sight. - Cnidaria — Shocks on contact, dismounting a rider and stunning a swimmer.
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Electrophorus — Shocks you in the water, which stops you swimming and stops you fighting back until it ends.
Never enter water that has one in it on foot — the shock lasts long enough to drown you. -
Arthropluera — Its ranged acid attack damages armour directly — primitive Flak breaks in one or two hits — and armour damage cannot be repaired if the piece is destroyed.
Wear Hide rather than Flak and carry Fiber and Hide to repair. Kill it at range; it out-damages armour faster than you out-heal it. -
Araneo — Webs you in place from range, which stops you kiting and stops a mount fleeing. Its bite applies torpor.
Kill it at range before it closes. Bug Repellant makes it ignore you entirely. -
Pulmonoscorpius — Torpor per hit, higher than almost anything else its size, and it is fast.
Bug Repellant, and Stimulant for when it lands hits anyway. -
Titanoboa — Applies heavy torpor per bite and is quiet enough to reach you before you see it.
Stimberries or Stimulant on your hotbar. Two bites will drop an unprepared survivor. - Eurypterid — Applies torpor and Swamp Fever-style damage over time in water.
Not a threat: Ammonite, Coelacanth, Dung Beetle, Sabertooth Salmon, Trilobite
Each line above is a fact about the creature and its own in-game
behaviour — attributed to this cave only because the cave contains it. It is not a
walkthrough, and it does not claim to describe the layout or the route.