So there is a trick on official to get any tame into the ice cave. You need to set up a gene and cryo fridge on top of the ice cave outside. It needs to above the chockhold section just passed it. You put sap in a bug and pick up the cryo fridge and fly mid air close to ground. Jump off so its hovering and then head into the cave. Just before you hit the main room throw your cryo and release your dino. As its within range of the fridge above you can uncryo your dinos. This includes gigas as well. But really you could just throw a bunch of yutys and they will clear the cave just fine.

You can use a Procoptodon to transport baby dinos across the map. Making it easier to bring most dinos into these caves. My personal favorite is to breed Thylas, cause bleed doesn't care about the increased cave levels xD.

I did this cave on official beginners with a pack of hyenadons on ASE. No cryos and they fit under the old crouch. Max wild on beginners in lvl 30, but the levels of the creatures in this cave was still in the 100s. Hyenadons are great for this. The have a pack bonus and unlike dire wolves, they can equip a saddle. They also heal when harvesting corpses.

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.

Thank you so much, such a good guide!

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!

Thanks for the update.

Nice video, was just going to try some caves

this is perfect timing. on my playthrough, i'm getting to around the point where i'm doing caves in preparation for bosses, but i was especially worried about the hard snow cave. i didn't even think about trying to raise stuff in there but i totally will now also one thing to say about the upper south cave portion: there is a secret shortcut in the large room with the ruined bridge that you can access with a grappling hook. it takes you directly to the artifact without ever needing scuba gear. so for that reason, me and my friend used a sabertooth each and it was pretty easy

⭐️ 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...

Build a cryo fridge above snow cave to un cryo inside. And if people have built there already use a quetzal for your generator and have a rhynio carry the cryo fridge as you can’t place them on platform saddles. Long winded but it does work

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.

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.

Cave Locations: Central Cave. 40.2° LAT | 46.6° LON. ----- ... North West Cave. 14.1° LAT | 13.9° LON. ... Lower South Cave (Hunter Cave) 85.3° LAT | 54.2° LON. ... North East Cave. 8.9° LAT | 91.3° LON. ... Upper South Cave. 71.3° LAT | 57.2° LON. ... Lava Cave (South East Cave) 74.1° LAT | 92.2° LON. ... Swamp Cave. 64.8° LAT | 35.1° LON. ... Snow Cave. 26° LAT | 29° LON.

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.

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.

Nice video 👍

in the north west cave you can grab the artifact by standing on the egde. you dont have to jump down

In carno cave you can walk your thylo backwards through the entrance instead of spamming the jump button.

actually if you dismount the barry amd set him to follow at the end of the cave,, go ahead and exit, he will come to you after exiting

You are a legend man

Thank you. I will try the egg method

Thank you for your help this I can do

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.

For the upper south cave, you do NOT have to jump down, the path is to the left of the hole maybe a bit hidden but it’s there. First person makes it easier to find it.

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

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

the last snow cave is unreal me and a friend were using baryonix and sabers plus weapons, only got so far before having to stop , need stronger mounts

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

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

For snow cave just build a walk way or u can use turrets to kill wild Dino’s also use pheromone darts to lure purs

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 old fashioned way is to use a lot of grappling hooks and explosives. And focus on durability, not armor value. Bring lots of extra armor. But avoiding that "kachink" sound of armor breaking is far more important than having maxed armor stat. Use consumables to reduce cold damage. And custom crafted consumables as a slow heal to keep the cold damage under control. Did it in flak with 2 fur items. Had to have more spare fur armor cuz it breaks easier than the best flak. Seemed more practical in yellow-label gear (lots of armor with maxed crafting skill build... too expensive to do it in ascendant). Really I think my total armor value was below 1000 on that gear-build. Each piece was carefully selected for durability and hypothermal, and maxed out with many crafts. One of the flak items was blue label even, but had incredible durability. Your 'time till perish' goes WAY up with durability over armor value. High armor value actually breaks your gear faster even, which can make armor with an impressive armor rating result in perishing _faster_ as you "go nekkid" faster. At high gear levels, you don't perish from being hit, your armor breaks and _then_ you perish. And much faster in super-cold. (armor in ark is dumb & counter intuitive - it has about 1/10th the durability it should have for balance) I recommend explosives you can just drop (to conserve your rockets). Usually your enemies will be below your dangling form, easy to just drop bombs on. Save rockets for those narrow spots, to pull enemies to a place with higher ceilings. Custom consumables with a Loooooong slow-healing effect were invaluable. But you have to train your party to NOT spam them like healing potions. Just re-up them when their effect runs out. They just kinda nerf the cold damage. Think of them as the big-brother of the fria curry. Bring a stack of heal potions for more serious spot healing. The long slow heal effect actually works best against a long slow DoT like the cold in there. Prevents you reaching full health, and ending the effect. Towards that goal you'll want to experiment with recipies to maximize a long heal time, without over-healing the cold, or making the food too heavy. You gotta kinda maintain a slightly damaged status, and manage it with a few heal potions. Park a beaver to use as a crafting station for armor repair in the parking lot area, in case you take damage early. And extra gear replacements in it. If you die early in the run, you can at least do a corpse run before respawns start. ALWAYS call out your rocket attacks. If I had a nickle for every time someone ran in front of someone else who's aiming a rocket... Looks like they made it much easier to get dinos into the snow cave... that's a bit disappointing. It's more fun without them ;) forces you to plan ahead more, and approach it very tactically. Smallest party I did the snow cave with was solo, and no dinos. But that did require a LOT of weight stat to carry all the gear needed, which limits your health pool... which makes it tricky to manage your health well. I always brought a longneck for stragglers. A shotgun could work well too, but only if you're good at avoiding the 'bouncing' on grappling hooks, so you can carefully control your distance to targets. It's just more weight efficient for the ammo carrying than an AR, and weight is the biggest obstacle if you're geared appropriately for the snow cave. Tried it with a sword & shield approach, but that was kind of a mess. It's just better to dangle from the ceiling than to tank it. Also tried the snow cave solo with a mutant dimorph-swarm... was great at first, but Yeti AoE attacks killed them off before getting halfway through. An otter can be a boon, but if you get hit much you'll lose it. Fortitude is woefully inadequate for offsetting the cold damage, points better off in weight & health.

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

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

I find the giga monke best for the redwood cave. 2 of them if possible, or a frog as a secondary for cemnting paste.

Barry is still undefeated

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

Snow cave i just used 3 good barys, they heal alone eating fish, guess what this cave have tons? Salmons.... Gg

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)..

I'm surprised no one talk about the use of lazarus chowder for water caves, I only bring one scuba tank. I pop a lazarus, and when I'm close to ned oxygen, i wear the scuba for 5 seconds untill my oxygen is back full, and take off the scuba again. then pop another lazarus when the timer goes off.. repeat.

Focal chilli and run done cave and all drops 30+ times on official no less

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.

I used a Baryonyx for all of them except the swamp one

The baryonyx does fit in the upper South cave

.snow cave we run deadons to heal each other and throw grenade to get to you come out of ground

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

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

Cryopods are gonna get added later this month

You can 100% use a tuso with even a decent saddle on both the sea caves.

I use a frog in most caves and i the upper south cave i built a massive tower so my frog can get down

Man. I just got my ass kicked in the West water cave. Wish I had seen this video first as I was not riding my basilo and was wondering why it was just sitting there taking hits.

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?

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

Diga-me é possível um único urso causar mais que 400 de dono? Perdi 5 Bary bem na entrada da Hard Ice Cave.

Can Megatherium fit through any of these caves or is it strictly by cryopod only? I see you mentioned that Megatherium is recommended for lava cave but baryonyx works too. Thanks in advance!

Best cave guide

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.

North west cave you can exit without a grpple hook - when you get to the artifact just run straight over the gap (dont jump, it will kill you) and go out. u can do it with flak and a pike easily - otter for 2nd artifact pick up breeding in the snow cave is the worst recommendation atleast on official that is clearly no option...just run it naked, learn the run and youll get bps and artifact every time, way simpler and more fun

FYI the Bary in this video says level 240, so don't try and run it with your level 76 Bary!!

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.

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

Shadowmane is the best fight meet find Artifacts under deep water and hell 😎😎😎👍🏽👍🏽 Shadowmane is my Favority

Sabers are good for all

North West snow cave hyenadons actually be useful?

Kapro an idea for the upper south cave?

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

Ppl sleep on the beezlebuffos

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

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.

My thyla would not fit in North East cave. Am I just bad?

Heavy Turret regelt.

for ice cave. use foundation and doorframes. one time clear. wont respawn anymore

Baryonix is to weak for ice/snow cave? thanks for reply :)

Use heavy turrets to clear ice cave

I used an allo and had tribe mates with shots guns

raasclark uses a frog in the swamp

Tylo dont fit in lava cave, he cant pass the entrance

Ra Ra Rasputin

I take it you're not getting the same amount of megalodon spawns in lost faith as I am? 40k HP & 20k HP basilos got deleted in minites with the sheer amount of megalodons in the first room on our first attempt. Tried to count once, and it's like 40+ megalodons, a couple alpha megs, and an alpha mosasaur.

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

thylacoleo cant join northeast cave so big

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

megalania can go inside?

WTF happened to the Thyla! They nerf its jump? Can barely make it across any gaps now

Lost Hope is easy with Baryonyx xD

Megalanias are good to the caves?

cryos made the game so easy

wait for bats

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

You can use arthroplura or spider in ice cave cause wild animals don't attack them

Deino

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

Can you imagine a server full of people all trying to raise and then leave dinos in the snow cave...? This cave is obsurd.

Just a note: If you're playing in single player, you absolutely CAN use cryopods with a mod. Personally, I can't stand Ark without them.

Dude the scuba mask does not work, I was still taking damage.

Please Remake your old video now that the cryopods are back

never hear someone mess up saying Piranha

What the heck is GG?

lower south cave, Central Cave WTF boi! Make the cave announcements with hunter, Skylord, Strong CAVE NOOB omg