Cave of the Brute (Island map)

[jinaru2004]

I am on a server with 1 other person and cannot seem to clear cave of the brute solo. I have a very strong basilosaurus with 50k health and 1078 attack and even has a 131 Ascended saddle. But what we are finding is when we go into the cave the first little area is not that bad but the 2nd and even the 3rd room (where the artifact spawns) is just over spawned with meg,s and Xi's. I have tried watching video's and even reading other posts about this but it seems like other people don't even have Xi's spawning in the cave (least they are not mentioning them) and the megs they are just pulling out a group at a time and killing which we can and do for the first rooms. once we get to the artifact room though we cannot find a spot to pull the megs to where we can block them from rushing us. When we try it solo the Xi's chew through our mounts real fast as it doesn't seem to want to let us pull out small groups of them at a time and just brings the whole room

[jinaru2004]

and yes as a team we have cleared the cave but the mobs just spawn back just as thick if not thicker.

[Cobretti]

I experienced the same over the weekend. I was pulling that 2nd room about 5 megs at a time but it just didn't feel like I was making any progress so I made a dash for the land between the 2nd and 3rd room and walked to the artifact room.

Interestingly, I was able to swim around without a mount in the artifact room for quite a long time but as soon as I stopped to loot the artifact I got nailed.

I've since breed an army of megalo and xi's and I'm going to unleash them all in that cave and see what they can do, I'm not overly confident.

Alternative is to go to centre map for the artifact

[ObsessedArk]

Maybe take a second Baso that is mate boosted, I get the issue though that cave is brutal for a solo player

[Pomp And Circumstance]

that cave is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up, i started playing when the game came out and it was fine, i just recently came back and its insane, i made a character on a center server just to get that artifact, on the center its sitting out in the open under water, so i just swim down grab one and transfer it

[Marc~]

My question to you is what kind of dino have you bred.... Your most likely not using strong enough dinos.

I recently went (3 weeks ago to be precised) with a friend of mine (2 players only mounted on 1 dino each only).
My friend mounted a Deinosuchus for which the stats I'm not a 100% sure but was arround 20-30k HP. (Edit: My friend confirms he had 30k HP).
Myself, I mounted a Baryonix with 8k HP & 800% Melee.

I was stunning strategically as in I would try to stun partially in group of 3-4 so that I could alternate the stun and have only part of the ambush able to attack and attack myself the ennnemy inbetween stuns.

My friend would do his best to maximise his bite to inflict the most damage possible.

We did have to stop after each ambush to heal up (or rather, I would stop and heal up by feeding my Bary as I didn't have any fish arround to eat).

The second ambush qas the most dangerous but it wasn't all that bad non the less.

[jinaru2004]

Basilosaurus 50k health, 1078 melee damage, 131 ascended saddle, have taken it in with a squad of Xi's also and after they get eaten I run lol. all bread and imprinted... the biggest issie I think is the Xi really, even worse if there is a alpha meg up cause if it agro's it seems to just pull the whole room, if wildcard would pull the Xi's out of the dungeon though it would solve everything. Thought about looking for a no Xi mod but I use them and still don't quite have all the stats I want before I start mutating

[Pezza]

I use a bred Deino and find the giga bite damage does wonders.

The trick with their 'giga bite' on the deino is to bite once then swim away as the damage takes affect whilst the bitten dino is moving.

I normally take a mated deino with me for the extra damage. I have tried taking a small group of Xi with me but found the AI is terrible and every 5 seconds they get stuck.

[Cobretti]

I was able to clear it today using dino balls which allowed me to get a giga in there. I used a fast water / land tame to quickly go across the 2nd room onto land and then went over land to the artifact room.

Water tames last about 10 seconds in that room so there is no point using them as the main damage dealer. Firstly I got the giga to stand on the platform in the artifact room and eat everything that was in it's bite range.

I then put a basilo down and whistled follow (while I was standing on the platform), as soon as it had attracted enough sharks, I soul balled and ate everything with the giga. Kept repeating this until there were perhaps 5-10 sharks left and then cleaned up with the basilo

Took me over an hour, 800 shark teeth.

It's cheesy but I just don't see how any water tame, regardless of saddle, can clear that room.

By the way, prior to doing the above I released 10 imprinted, saddled and mated Megaladons and 10 more Xip's and all 20 of them lasted no more than 20 seconds in there.