VULCANO CAVE

Artifact of the Pack · cave on Astraeos

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The Cave

guide

The cave on Volcano Island, home of the Artifact of the Pack — the last of Thodes's three artifacts.

The entrance is at 67.8 / 63.0. The island above is where the map's lightning creatures live, and the cave itself spawns full-size Rex and Therizinosaur.

Hazards

  • Rex and Therizinosaur inside the cave — this one is fought on a mount, not crawled.

What You'll Be Dealing With

assembled from what lives in this cave 10
Heavy carnivoresArmour damageTorporPoison and gasAmbushSwarms
  • Mantis — Uses whatever weapon it holds, so its damage depends on what it picked up, and it is fast.
  • Rex — Very high health and damage. Roars, which stuns.
  • Rubble Golem — A Rock Elemental fragment. Untameable, and it ignores small-arms fire.
  • Therizinosaur — High damage per hit and a fast attack; dangerous out of proportion to its size.
  • 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.
  • Dilophosaur — Spits blinding venom that also slows.
  • Megalania — Climbs walls and ceilings, so it attacks from above where a mount cannot follow, and its bite applies a stacking torpor.
    Check the ceiling. Stimulant for the torpor stacks.
  • Onyc — Attacks in numbers, drains stamina, and is small enough that most mounts cannot hit it.
    A shotgun, or a pike on foot. They path erratically, so aimed single shots waste ammunition.
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.

What To Bring

derived from the hazards above — this cave has no editors' list yet
  • A strong mount, or a ranged weapon and a chokepoint — Heavy carnivores
  • Hide Armor (cheap to replace) — Armour damage
  • Fiber and Hide to repair in place — Armour damage
  • Stimberry or Stimulant — Torpor
  • Bug Repellant — Torpor
  • Gas Mask — Poison and gas
  • Medical Brew — Poison and gas
  • Move slowly; check ceilings and the ground — Ambush
  • A shotgun or a wide-arc melee weapon — Swarms

Location

entrance · artifact
Astraeos map
Entrance 67.8, 63.0 Artifact 62.4, 62.3

Cave facts

Entrance67.8, 63.0
Artifact at62.4, 62.3

Artifact

and what it opens
Artifact of the Pack tribute for 4 bosses
Also found in Upper South Cave, Underground World, The Frozen Dungeon, The Twisted Vine

Other Caves On Astraeos

nearest first all caves →
Coordinates and loot odds from the game's own data files.
ASE.GG · Vulcano Cave

Player Tips

tricks from other survivors, for this page