The best Dino for each cave on The Island | Ark: Survival Evolved

Great list! My only difference of opinion is the Caverns of Lost Hope. On my server, Basilos are unreliable as wingmen, as sometimes they just follow me and refuse to contribute to the fight regardless of their behavior setting or whistle commands. Personally, I prefer to do most of the cave on a Tuso, and switch to a basilo just for the artifact chamber. Then as an escort I recommend bringing at least 2, mate-boosted, baryonyx. The bary's are only there to stun everything you fight, not deal damage, so put all their points into health and give them the best saddle you can make. I recommend putting a few stacks of fish in their inventory before entering the cave, and turning their harvesting/looting off so you dont have to empty their inventory from them being overburdened. The lower level your Barys are, the more of them you should bring, just try to get a good mix of male and female so they retain their mate buff if any of them die.

NOTE: Bary's are only viable if you are running the cave solo- their spin attack will dismount friendly players, even if you are in the same tribe and on a PvE server (which is dumb).

Use therizinos for tek cave there easy to maneuver down the path and they pack a punch just make sure you put veggie cakes in there inventory,for the underwater caves use a good imprinted basio they wreck put movement into cave dinos ,and for the hard ice cave i use 3 allos for the buff

Can you please do an updated guide for ASA (no cryos)?

PLs do a redo for ASA non cryo. All my thx. Subbed

This needs to be revamped for ASA, (No Cryo Pods at launch)

Only one many people will need help with for ASA is north snow, that one can be a real pain.

lol, such a poor list... in reality you generally only need 2 dinos for every walkable cave, the desmo and the therizino

Tip: For the Cave of The Massive, terror birds are great because of their hover ability, and they can outrun threats like onycs.

I think spino is shorter than rex when on all fours so hes great at ice cave and has great knockback to kill everything

info you just have to use the cryo pod 2 -3 times in the swamp cave, becuase the megatherium can fit trough the tunnel to the left side

I did that exact thing falling into the lava/rabies with a baryonyx. I lost my otter.😢 I have been wondering if I needed to try something new.

Im so scared of caves that i took a megatherium and 3 dire bears for the first cave

What’s best for mobile lava?

What's considered a high level Basilo?// how much health on them would you recommend

Running Central Cave with a direwolf or sabretooth is a good way of farming chitin. On my server we have a little base setup with chem benches and doeds to farm cementing paste. Works pretty well.

A simple tip for the second water cave, just breed a basi a few times, AND make sure you get more HP and STR when you do. Cause it will solo the cave.

I have seen people doing the second water cave with the diplocaulus and it seemed to work really well as a speed run. I really want to try this too 😅

Use least 4 bassilosorus the only one i have is a low level one

First two caves the Direbear is way better than Barry. Northeast, upper south and lava can also be done easily with the Direbear.

Me and some buddies of mine are currently trying to beat all bosses on the island on a private server. That one ice cave with the polar bears is absolutely dreadful. We tried taking in 3 rexes and even with that, the amount of high level mobs is insane.

NO CRYO PODS NO TEK. BASE GAME
im a noob but i refuse to turn on easy noob god mode lol
im playing single player on the island.

Excellent guide. Some good advice for every cave.

My go to cave creature for any land based cave is the Theriznosaurus, nothing aggros you and you can easily mount and dismount when you need to, to throw it out a bit further.

Is the kapro a good substitute for the bary?

If you play on official pve
The answer is shadowmane for every cave

I remember me doing the north east cave with a thyla, spamming a cryopod to kill all creatures. I also remember doing both underwater caves with just a basilo, where i avoided almost all creatures and got the artifact

Deinos for land, tusos for water

Good guide. I think the underwater caves can certainly be challenging to inexperienced players, so it does help to research and be prepared. I’ve noticed that some of the biggest problems in these caves are the high level alphas, pack bonuses, and dunks. It helps to have a nearby settlement or to rush through the cave with maybe a daeodon for the land portions of it to help heal up any damage. A high level basilo really is the most effective way of reducing problems, and knowing which fights you can take is key to success. Being impatient and cocky will get you killed.

I wondered why I was getting nowhere with the snow cave, it's only the hardest one 😂

The desmodus is op for some of them that you don’t have to swim in

As someone who has never legitimately beaten the overseer, I am absolutely dreading the underwater and ice caves 💀

Pls do best torpor dealer

Another tip for the Caverns of Lost Hope is to not stay still while fighting all of the creatures inside. If you swim in a circle attacking you won't get stuck and it makes it harder for the enemies to hit you.