Quick Guide to Swamp Cave

[Aska]

I've spent the last couple of months farming the loot in the new swamp cave and thought I might write a short guide to help people get to the endgame content that this little baby is hiding away.

Clear Strategy-
The swamp cave is very very easy to clear if done correctly and a total pain and resource sink if not. I use the following loadout:
scuba tank
full ghilli (minus scuba tank)
1 stack of stims (for mistakes)
1 pumpaction shotgun (also for mistakes)
1 enduro stew
a bit of food

You can play around with the armor, but this way you get to look cool as well ;) the enduro stew will replenish health at the rate it is lost for the duration of the run.

I don't shoot anything myself ideally, i use a swarm of 15 dimorphodons, which were all prime tamed over lvl 100 and then selectively bred. mine have 31hp/35ap and some other stats and hatch at lvl 166.

The dimos will do all the work for you, the best strategy to control them is to set the swarm to medium range neutral, then pick one or two strong dimos and set them to low range aggressive. the alphas will lead the swarm and you follow along behind.

Loot:
the cave contains 3 drop pods, blue, red and yellow. blue and red respawn reliably, twice per run on a round about 1 hour cooldown (you must leave the room and re-enter in order to respawn the drops). yellow appears to spawn rarely but can be refreshed once as with red and blue after its initial apprearance.

The confirmed loot table of the red drops is as follows:
C4 detonator and brick prefab and bp
rpg round prefab
Laser pointer prefab and bp
all electrical crafting items bp
metal dino and behemoth gate and gateframe bp
Fabricated pistol prefab and bp ranging apprentice to ascendant
Fabricated Assault rifle prefab and bp ranging apprentice to ascendant
Rocket Launcher prefab and bp randing apprentice to ascendant
Full Flak prefab and bps ranging from rams quality to ascendant
Heavy miner's helmet prefab and bp ranging rams to ascendant
Argy saddle bp ascendant
Spino saddle prefab and bp ranging mastercraft to ascendant
Rex saddle prefab and bp ranging mastercraft to ascendant
Bronto saddle " "
Megalodon saddle " "
Carno Saddle " "

Walkthrough- I won't include images here, it is enough to say that the path is fairly direct, and by taking the left-most passages, the player will arrive in the red drop room without difficulty. it is the 3rd large chamber on the left side of the cave.