Best Dino for each cave on The Island | Ark: Survival Ascended (2023)

cant wait for pods, taking my megatherium in the swamp cave!

I got my baryonyx through the snow cave but what really messed me up was those damn Purlovias that was my doom. Then knocked me off the mount and ganked me(every other creature I could handle fine)..

In the swamp cave when using a Barry u don’t need to dismount to get to the artifact. If u wiggle around on ur way up and in first person u can make it up.

For the northwest cave a pack of dimorphs is a good help.

Ra Ra Rasputin

I love how the snow cave is so bad that it earned the entire thumbnail for a video about all caves

Use heavy turrets to clear ice cave

Cryopods are gonna get added later this month

I am not sure if it is still working but wasn't the arthropleura undetectable for other dinosaur? I remember seeing a video where someone used it to simply slip past everything.

Carnotaurus can enter in snow cave. 200 armour and grenade and you pass the snow cave. But i assume raising yuti is better

Just install the cryopod mod and you can take any cave with the best creatures possible.

If come inside with equus, then make your dino to sleep and drag it inside with lasso?

wait for bats

megalania can go inside?

Argys fit in the snow cave. I brought 4 level 150s in and it was still tough, but worked and you can take them out.

I spammed 12 dimorphodon in the north west cave and it worked great. A couple got killed and another 2 got clipped into the walls so they’re gone forever, but definitely worth it.

The baryonyx can still leave the upper south cave, you just gotta build a few platforms.

Sabers are good for all

imagine raising a yuty on official with 1x rates in a cave alongside the server lmfao
u high bro?

I’m still waiting for this game to came out for PlayStation but this video should help for the future ❤

screw using dinos in snow. just build a turret box with 4 heavy turrets set to wild. lure shit to it and build a new one every now and then as you progress. this cave sucks.

Thank you. I will try the egg method

north west cave been doing it naked in official pve server, the large gap after artifact just need to sprint no jump just sprint

Thanks for the update.

cryos made the game so easy

You can bring 2 baby megatherium into the Swamp cave. First stays right under the first ramp, second goes into the narrow tunnel behind the red thing on the left side of the first big room. This allows you to clear the cave safely from arthro spit, gets you ALL the drops and gets you the artifact. Best way to farm endgame blueprints in ASA imho.

In swamp cave u can get to artifakt whit bary. never dismounted ;) just need to wigle

Heavy Turret regelt.

⭐️ i found that sarcos didn't aggro on my megatherium while i was in the water, only the piranha did. But when i hopped off the megatherium to grab the loot crate near the pool of death in the central cave, three sarco came from out of nowhere almost instantly... good thing Kapros don't spawn in caves...

raasclark uses a frog in the swamp

I used to do this back in 2017-18 with a pack of raptors and 200% movement speed 😂

in the last cave.. just graple to the top cange to pumpgun or bow and kill all things ^^

Been using a wolf for caves. He handled the lower South cave and lava caves no problem. For Artifact of the Devourer, I just used ghillie and bug repellent and snuck in and out.

I wanted to avoid mods in ASA but probably I'll get me the Cryopod mod after seeing your video 😅

It would be nice to have a picture of where each cave is on the map so we can see which dinos belong to where

People have been saying for years that the Baryonyx is a great cave mount, and i never really listened... Until now. It's awesome, especially when there's water as it can heal extremely quickly after a tail-spin.

You don't actually need to go through the water tunnels in the central cave to get to the artifact though. Just scramble the Bary part way up the wall under the secret entrance, then walk/jump yourself up the rest. ASA allows the player to scale up rock faces easier than ASE.

I did and do the direwolves tactic with some dimorphordons, we screw the cave. The rest i concur.

What the heck is GG?

So, once you unlock personal teleports from one of the fights.. you only need to go into this cave once more.. because you can place a foundation, generator, and small teleporter by the gorilla in the back (because we all use cave building enabled in single player.. right?). This also means you don't need to get out the long way.. place it, and portal back to base.. come back anytime you need one. This also means way less grapples for method 2. Which btw.. for those choke points, you don't yolo through them.. get get agro.. back up, and let them fall of the cliffs, then go in.. or use spike walls and shoties. Anyway, i hope this tip helps out in later game, when return trips should be less trouble.

So...they took away cryopods but makes enterance smaller? lol

thylacoleo cant join northeast cave so big

Best cave guide

I only use sabertooth with good saddles i Ride one and 3 are running and attacking (hard snow cave) the Other ones i solo IT to with my sabers

Did they seal the shortcut on the upper south cave from the ruin where the dinosuchus are in your clip straight over that pool up to the artifact?

I think the best cave mount in general for the land ones at least would be the Sabretooth. Not only does it have great maneuverability, but it can net you a whole lot of Chitin, so you are basically killing a bunch of birds with one stone.

Tuso way better than basilo. Not even an opinion. Just a fact. Everyone knows basilo sucks in damage compared to king tuso. And mosas are too shit to even put in that comparison.

Upper south cave, no need to go in water. Just use grappling hook to the top right while standing in front of first sarco pool. Great video by the way!

You could try to use a megalania on the snow cave, walking through the ceiling all the way to the artifact. Make sure to throw grenades every once in a while to take out purlovias and yuties in small corridors.

Dunno man... think u are novelinzing water caves too much xD I ran both with a lvl 120 diplocalus hahaha

I did the Snow Cave with all my wolves, it took 1+ hour but it didnt feel too hard