Which artifact is in Old Tunnels?

Old Tunnels holds the Artifact of the Gatekeeper, which is tribute for Manticore, Crystal Wyvern Queen.

Where is the entrance to Old Tunnels?

The entrance is at 58.6, 47.7 on Scorched Earth.

What should you bring to Old Tunnels?

Flak Armor, Ghillie Armor or better Pike Crossbow Cooked Meats Medical Brews Parachutes Grappling Hooks Explosives or Metal Arrows for Rubble Golems

OLD TUNNELS

Artifact of the Gatekeeper · cave on Scorched Earth

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The Cave

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The Old Tunnels is a Cave in the central canyons of the Scorched Earth map.

The Artifact of the Gatekeeper and a Scorched Spike Skin can be found in the artifact crate.

Hazards

Extreme Heat
Dangerous Heights

Recommended Equipment

Flak Armor, Ghillie Armor or better
Pike
Crossbow
Cooked Meats
Medical Brews
Parachutes
Grappling Hooks
Explosives or Metal Arrows for Rubble Golems

What You'll Be Dealing With

assembled from what lives in this cave 11

Heavy carnivoresGrabs and pinsArmour damageTorporAmbushSwarmsHeat

Direwolf — Hunts in packs and gets a damage bonus for pack size, so the fifth wolf hurts more than the first.
Fight in a corridor where only one can reach you.
Mantis — Uses whatever weapon it holds, so its damage depends on what it picked up, and it is fast.
Rubble Golem — A Rock Elemental fragment. Untameable, and it ignores small-arms fire.
Sabertooth — Fast, and does enough damage to a survivor on foot to matter.
Raptor — Pounces and pins a survivor on foot, and comes in packs.
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.
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.

Not a threat: Achatina

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.