North East Cave

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North East Cave

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Cave on The Dead Island

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Interior Map

Location

Map

The Island

Location

14.7° Lat, 85.4° Lon

Loot

Artifact of the Devourer
16.1° Lat, 84.6° Lon

Artifact Level

55

Loot Quality

Blue
Red

The North East Cave is a cave in the northeast of The Island, on an island known as The Dead Island or "Carno Island". The cave contains the Artifact of the Devourer, needed to summon the Megapithecus. This cave consists basically of one big room with the path spiraling on the wall.

Dangers

• Big Drops
• Narrow Pathways
• Extreme Cold
• Many Onycs

Recommended Equipment

Armor

• Chitin Armor, Fur Armor or better
• SCUBA Armor for the short underwater passage is not necessary

Weapons

• Pike
• Crossbow or better

Consumables

• 30 ×  Cooked Meat
• Medical Brew (multiple)
• Stimberry or Stimulant as antidote for the scorpion-stings
• Fria Curry
• Bug Repellant

Tools

• Torch
• Grappling Hook (Bring at least five.)
• Campfire
• Parachutes

Recommended creatures

• Thylacoleos can deal large amounts of damage to bats, and harvest chitin with ease. Thylas also have a climbing ability, albeit this will not help you escape many sections of the cave.
• Terror Birds can glide to the bottom of the cave immediately, but will face the threat of large swarms of bats, it can also struggle with escaping.
• Enforcers are skilled climbers, bat killers, and can teleport. This makes them a very useful mount for caving, though one would need a powerful enforcer to hold its own.

Tips

• Some Metal rocks block the way, bring a Metal Hatchet or Metal Pick.
• The fastest way down is by using a Parachute or Grappling Hook. Be prepared for a lot of Onyc and Pulmonoscorpius on the ground though.
• It is possible to get the artifact without building anything, but foundations can be used to make some jumps easier.
• The jump over the pit in the center is possible.
• Be careful not to fall.
• Bug Repellant will make this cave much easier. You will lower the aggro radius of some creatures, namely Onyc.
• If you die in certain places in the cave your body may glitch through the ground and out of the map border.
• Mesopithecus Dossier is near the artifact on the left side.
• Megalosaurus Dossier is at the bottom of the pit about halfway back from the artifact.

Creatures

Common

• Araneo
• Megalania
• Onyc
• Pulmonoscorpius

Uncommon

• Dung Beetle
• Megalosaurus

Compatible Tamed Creatures

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Accessibility Ratings:

• Excellent: Full-Cave Access (Entrance-to-Artifact)
• Limited: Can Access Portions of the Cave Safely
• Not Recommended: Can Get Stuck/Unable to Leave Cave

Creature	Accessibility	Rideable	Notes
Archaeopteryx	Excellent	No	Can be carried in and out by player.
Baryonyx	Excellent	Yes
Beelzebufo	Excellent	Yes	Reduced fall damage increases chances of survival in a fall.
Compy	Excellent	No	Can keep one on shoulder or bring a whole pack.
Dimorphodon	Excellent	No	Can keep one on shoulder or bring a whole flock.
Dire Bear	Limited	Yes	Can fit into the cave and swim into the main chamber, but will be unable to exit if you proceed further without building exit ramps.
Direwolf	Excellent	Yes
Dodo	Excellent	No	Can be carried in and out by player.
Dung Beetle	Excellent	No	Can be carried in and out by player.
Enforcer	Excellent	Yes	Wall climbing plus teleport and lack of fall damage makes this one of the best suited mounts for this cave.
Gigantopithecus	Excellent	Yes
Hesperornis	Excellent	No
Jerboa	Excellent	No	Can be carried in and out by player.
Kairuku	Excellent	No	Can be carried in and out by player.
Megalania	Excellent	Yes	Best creature to ride trough the cave only by running down the wall to reach the artifact
Megatherium	Excellent	Yes	Risky to maneuver but can enter and make it out safely.
Mesopithecus	Excellent	No	Can be carried on shoulder or bring a whole troop.
Pachy	Limited	Yes	Ramps will have to be built to safely ride it out of the cave. (Needs AllowCaveBuildingPvE for PvE servers.)
Pteranodon	Excellent	Unofficial/ Single-Player	Can be glitched in and out of the cave while on-follow at the water portion.   Official Servers: Cannot mount in cave.   Unofficial/Single-Player: Requires server setting -ForceAllowCaveFlyers to mount.
Raptor	Excellent	Yes
Ravager	Excellent	Yes	Reduced fall damage.
Sabertooth	Excellent	Yes
Terror Bird	Excellent	Yes	Doubles as a Parachute to the bottom.
Thylacoleo	Excellent	Yes	A tight fit through the initial section and high move speed can be tricky in the water   Can fire weapons while mounted, though will not be able to climb most cliffs to exit.
Velonasaur	Excellent	Yes	Can ground bats with quill attack.
Vulture	Excellent	No	Can be carried on shoulder or bring a whole flock.

Notes

• If you bring a dino that can not jump and it falls it will be unable to escape the cave without building escape ramps.
• This cave is swarming with bats.
• There are dangerous jumps, as you will walk a spiral path down to the ground. It is advised to bring a parachute with you.
• Parachuting down from the top is probably the best way to get down.
• It is possible for players to bring their sabers in to farm chitin however the reward is often not worth the risk. There is a lot of maneuvering that requires foundations and ramps and players are extremely likely to die if they fall.
• There is a small section of water just after the entrance to the cave and before the large descending spiral walk. No piranhas or sarcos spawn here and a player with no extra points in oxygen will be able to navigate with only half oxygen used.
• At the bottom is a metal rock blocking the path back up. It is possible to jump over the rock if the player climbs on a rock ledge just below the metal rock.
• You can use the grappling hook to climb up and down safely. To climb down to the bottom two hooks are needed (re-attach in the middle). To climb up completely with hooks only, around four or more hooks are needed.
• Spinosaurus have the ability to swim which makes them an effective way to travel to the island and rid the cave entrance of carnivores lurking in the area. Thylacoleo however, are a superior choice due to small size and surprisingly good swim speed.

• After level 51, players can bring larger dinosaurs in using cryopods
• Cave does not exist on mobile

Gallery

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  Cave Entrance

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  Inside the Cave