How exactly do you escape the caves?

[the hot dog strangler]

So I'm playing the game fine up until I get captured, then I have no way of getting out of the cave. I usually wake up next to a group of the damn things and they all just group up on me and kill me, and I have no health or energy to fight them off.

What do I do?

[KLightningflik]

Just keep heading up (not down) and make your way back to the surface. If you start in the cave with the axe there should be a small opening you need to duck under. Literally shouldn't take more than a couple minutes.

[Naeked Grandma!]

There are a few caves with different exits and entrances , so mapping them out is something i am currently doing and will post a video of it tomorrow.

To help you out now though...Crouch and work your way along the walls. If you walk without crouching they will hear you and attack. I have walked entire caves without being attacked just by crouching.

Getting out? not easy sometimes. Usually the exits are just after a group of cannibals and the path should be an uphill climb.

Good luck!

[VaLiuM]

Don't just stay there and wait for something to happen or not to happen, crouch away from them but immediately and find resources to get your health up and defend yourself (defend, not attack, don't go nuts down there). And always aim to go upwards.

[the hot dog strangler]

Alright, so how would I go about finding my camp? Is the game programmed to automatically put the player in the cave nearest to his position when being captured? Or is it just random in general?

[VaLiuM]

It's newly implemented random cave spawn and because of that no one can tell you. You should be clever enough to have at least one shelter or anything that marks your base and then just follow the marker back home.

[Rogue]

You can place a marker anywhere. Mark the location of the plane when you exit and any other places of interest. You build markers in the Survival guide.

[eggybotz]

after 4 tries in cave, I successfully escape.

but seriously, every time I'm in the cave, it position me on the far from the exit. sometimes I thought I'm almost out then there is a wood wall and I bash it with axe and on surprise I'm still in the cave but half way but unlucky there are 10 native people following me :(