What creatures are in Volcanic Cave?

Q: What creatures are in Volcanic Cave?

Araneo, Arthropluera, Pulmonoscorpius.

VOLCANIC CAVE

cave on Genesis: Part 1

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The Cave

guide

The Volcanic Cave is a cave in the Genesis: Part 1 DLC.

It has no precise name when you're in it. It's just told "Volcano" and sometimes nothing about the location. It has four entrances:

* North in (20.40/78.30), at the south of the Lavaclaw Flow. It's the widest entrance, allowing a Giganotosaurus to come in. The entrance is on a clearing, containing Metal and Red Gem.

* South-east in (32.3/85.5), at the Magma Spring. The entrance is on a wall of the volcani and surrounded by purple crystals.

* South in (33.2/82.56), at the Burning Arteries. The entrance, on a pace slope, is surrounded by purple crystals.

* South-west in (29.4/78.4), at the Burning Arteries. The entrance, quite discreet, keeps quite large at the volcano wall.

The temperature is quite hot (42 °C/107 °F) but can vary along the day. Mostly, the player must keep an eye to his Extended HUD to check the temperature elevation for not beeing trapped by an eruption (see below).

Each approximatively 30 minutes, the volcano enters in eruption. The temperature is gradually increasing until 62 °C/143 °F, meaning the volcano is close to blow up. The cave will fill in flames and the players and tames will start to get hurt. The player has still a minute to get out or he will perish burnt. After a few minutes, the volcano will keep cool and the player will can enter again.

What You'll Be Dealing With

assembled from what lives in this cave 3

Armour damageTorporHeat

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.

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.