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  • Tips For Cave Searching
  • What To Bring While Caving
  • Possible Cave Locations

Caves in Icarus are full of valuable ores, and even make a great place to accept shelter. Frequently times though, information technology can exist quite difficult to find caves, but we are hither to help. In this guide, we are going to get over efficient ways to observe caves, equally well as possible cave locations that you can visit.

Even if your current prospect may non involve visiting a cavern, they tin provide ore for y'all to make stronger tools. It'south important to know that all of the caves nosotros mention may not be bachelor to you lot. The caves we list may not have a gamble to appear during your prospect. Some caves may be blocked off and inaccessible; this is random for each prospect, so you may non have access to the same caves between prospects.

Tips For Cavern Searching

player heading into cave

Caves are ofttimes found effectually mountains and cliffs, too equally areas that have a lot of ore and boulders near a ledge. If you are looking for caves, try sticking near these areas. Caves may exist sunken into the side of the mountain and not fully visible at get-go. In the image above, you tin run into a cave that is completely exposed, but this won't always be the case. Before y'all set up out to cave explore, be prepared to do some searching for difficult-to-run into caves.

Hidden Caves

player looking at hidden cave within mountain side
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Caves can appear hidden with a breakable wall blocking the entrance. If this is the instance, you can simply break the barrier with your pickaxe. With the barrier broken, y'all tin can enter the cave and start collecting ore.

Keep an middle out for whatever suspicious indents in a cliff or mountainside that has a flat rock 'wall' in place of an archway. This is a giveaway that the wall can be cleaved, allowing you lot to destroy it and enter. In the prototype above, you can see the entrance to a hidden cave that doesn't look as natural as the stone around it.

What To Bring While Caving

steel and iron tools on technology tree

Before going into a cavern, you lot will demand to set. Let'south become over a quick listing of items that you lot should bring while exploring caves. These items will aid yous as you explore and can forestall any unfortunate situations.

  • Food and Water
  • Spare Oxygen
  • Bandages
  • Tools
    • Pickaxe
    • Axe
    • Knife
    • Bow and Arrows
    • Torch
  • Building Materials
    • Woods
    • Thatch
    • Sticks
  • Bedroll
  • Campfire

With these materials, yous can safely explore a cavern and set up a small respawn betoken with a bedroll. If you spend also long in a cavern, you may besides develop pneumonia. This is a condition event that volition greatly slow downwardly your health and stamina regeneration, too equally subtract the amount of experience that you lot earn. If y'all get pneumonia, step out of the cave until it goes away. With access to tier four of the technology tree (level 30), you lot can also build a dehumidifier to lower your chances of developing pneumonia.

Caves tin also hold cavern worms; this is a dangerous poison-spitting enemy that tin deal a hefty corporeality of damage. You can repel the toxicant past building walls and shooting arrows at the worm; for more than information, be sure to check out our full guide on killing cave worms.

Possible Cave Locations

icarus map grid with markers indicating that a cave is present

Now, let's take a wait at all possible cave locations. The column messages will get from height to lesser vertically, while the row numbers will count horizontally. In the image, above, you tin can see all of the possible cavern locations on the map. If a section of the map has an 'Ten', yous can find the cave around whatsoever cliffs or mountainsides that are present.

As mentioned to a higher place, not all of these caves volition be available to you. Access to these caves volition be random upon starting a new prospect. Overall, at that place are still tons of caves, meaning that you won't have to travel as well far to observe at to the lowest degree one.

Column Alphabetic character (Vertical)

Row Number (Horizontal)

A

  • 3

B

  • 2
  • 3
  • vi
  • 13

C

  • two
  • iii
  • 4
  • 10
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15

D

  • two
  • 5
  • 7
  • x
  • 12

E

  • 5
  • 9
  • 11
  • 12

F

  • ii
  • 4
  • vii
  • xi
  • 15

G

  • iii
  • 5
  • 7
  • 9
  • 10
  • thirteen
  • xiv
  • 15

H

  • 2
  • 5
  • half-dozen
  • vii
  • 8
  • x
  • 14

I

  • v
  • 10
  • xiii

J

  • 7
  • 10
  • 14
  • 15

K

  • 5
  • 7
  • 10
  • 11
  • fourteen

50

  • 3
  • iv
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • nine
  • 12
  • 13

M

  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 14

Thou

  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • half-dozen
  • 7
  • ten
  • 12
  • 15

O

  • 3
  • 7
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 14

P

  • eleven
  • xiii

That'south all there is to know about cave locations in Icarus! Overall, just remember that the caves present will vary each time you arrive on Icarus. Be sure to search for caves early in your prospect and get together materials to assist in your survival.

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