Snow Cave

The Snow Cave is in the Snow Biome.

Dangers

 * Wild Creatures only spawn between levels 120 and 340 on default settings (they are not tamable). With DifficultyOffset value set to 1, the creatures level can be as high as 672 although the max wild level dinos outside are only 120.
 * Extreme Cold
 * Water (6 absolute damage per 2 seconds)
 * Purlovia (if they can reach you, they can dismount you). If the players deploy their direwolf right after the crouchpoint, it will attract large amount (10-20) of Purlovia.
 * Confusing pathways

Recommended Equipment

 * High quality or multiple sets of and  or
 * to see in dark areas and warm up
 * to kill organisms in melee combat with
 * for food, remember 1 cooked meat is 20 food
 * Consume it to regenerate 1.2 HP each second and increase melee damage by 30%
 * Consume it to gain +50 increased hypothermal insulation, and slow your rate of food consumption by 25%
 * for quick health
 * to warm up and cook meat while inside Snow Cave
 * to cook stuff in the campfire
 * 1 for range with the stone arrows and the other grappling hooks
 * to have ammo for the crossbow
 * to get into areas easier
 * to get loot via mining
 * with about
 * to regenerate health and food
 * or to respawn when needed
 * ~20 Grenades to aggro Purlovias safely
 * An Otter to increase hypothermic insulation

Tips

 * Engram-Grade Fur Gear(the ones made from the Smithy via earning Engrams) is not enough insulation. You will want improved Fur from the Deep Sea Loot Crates.
 * Bring Direwolf in a Cryopod to sniff out the location of burried Purlovia. Lure all other creatures out of the room and kill them, then whistle a creature close to Purlovia to bait them out safely.
 * The cave gets colder the deeper you go. You can be well-insulated at the entrance, and freezing to death at the artifact. A good idea is to bring some or  (use AnglerGel).
 * Direwolves are terrible swimmers. Whenever possible, take advantage of the floating snow "islands" to shoot them down while they swim.
 * Or use a and camp at the ice cave ceiling. You can easily kill all creatures from above using any kind of ranged weapons. Alternatively, you can skip fighting any creatures and just go through on the ceiling of the cave.
 * Don't fall in the water. You will be swarmed by high-level Anglers and freeze, and your gear will be much harder to recover.
 * Or gather all Piranhas and Anglers by swimming in the water and finish them with one rocket-propelled grenade. Don't forget to gather the meat and AnglerGel.
 * There is at least one pitfall trap with water at the bottom from which you will not be able to escape without a should you fall in (the one in question surrounds one of those green-lighted "sci-fi" monoliths).
 * You will either need to grapple over or harvest some large Crystal that block your path occasionally.
 * One or two dozens of well trained dimorphodons can help you clear the cave quite easily. Utilize your swarm tactics to overpower dangerous animals like Yetis and Direwolves and keep yourself safe while the swarm whittles away attacking animals.
 * One of the best ways to navigate the cave outright is by avoiding the creatures within. The extreme cold already poses a massive threat, and animal attacks will only worsen the pain of traversing the Snow Cave. Since the creatures are all of high levels and any mishap can have terrible consequences, they are best avoided. Try to find the quickest route through the cave that involves minimal confrontation with creatures, but beware that you may still be needed to battle!
 * Use the entrance, the player will be able to hit the other creatures with a ranged weapon but the other creatures won't be able to hit the player. The player can also lure the creatures to the entrance to make this tactic a little more effective, so that the hostile creatures will just stand in front of the entrance, and are basically an easy target.
 * One of the easiest ways to even solo that cave is to bring at least 20 metal spikes and 3 sleeping bags. Always stick to the left site of the cave and place one spike in front of you, the creatures will gain damage and die but can´t damage the metal structure. At chokepoints its recommended to leave at least 1 spike as a safe spot if you want to carry out more than one artifact at once without a shoulder pet. The first part of the cave has 2 loot drops where you cant build so you need to sprint through it. Just jump over the water, then left over the crystals and down the waterfall. This way you just need 2 Grappling Hooks to complete the cavern, but make sure you don't have something on your cooker because it will take several hours to complete the cave. If your server/game has Structure Plus mod installed, this strategy can work better as you can pick it up and save resource and weight.
 * With the introduction of, you can now easily transport creatures in and out of the cave safely.
 * In Ark mobile single player, there is a glitch where if you get out of the app completely while in the snow cave and then get back on, all enemies will despawn. Allowing you to roam the cave with no enemies at sight, you must be careful however, some enemies will stay and they will also start spawning back. But in the end, you should be able to speed run past everything.

Compatible Tamed Creatures

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Gallery
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