Overview
In this guide I give you some few pointers and tips when you think you’re ready to go into the depths that are, the don’t starve “Caves”
Oh S*** it’s dark down here!
Yeah I know, it is… It really is. And if you check your sanity meter is droppin’ like a rock!!!!!
Step: 1. Before I ever went in the caves I gave myself tons of preperation. So. First is first, make yourself a miner’s hat. This will be highly required for obvious reasons, it’s f****ng dark!!!!
Step: 2. Bring a hammer and get lots of foods that not only fill you up, but heal you a lot too. Honey ham or Dragonpie is recommended. You can make honey ham with 2 pieces of meat + 2 honey (OR 1 piece of meat 1 piece of COOKED monster meat (MUST BE COOKED) and 2 ham) And dragonpie can be made with 1 dragon fruit and 3 sticks! Dragon fruits are rare though and assuming you have a bird cage they will be impossible to keep finding from your farm plots.
Step: 3. Your sanity goes down so fricken fast in the caves. Make sure to bring taffy, LLOOOOOTTTSSSS of taffy. Taffy is made with 4 honey in the crock pot. I assume you already have most of the things I’m talking about, after all if you have any interest in going in the caves you better be prepared.
Step: 4. Armor, this is a no brainer. Of course you want ARMOR! Log armor is the most basic, but marble armor could be an option if you are a wealthy wilson if you know what I mean!
Step: 5. INTO THE CAVES. Once you’re in the caves it is like the real world, very dark and ominous as you could probably wonder. The first thing you might want to find is the bunnymen, a famous youtuber “Mrgmview” who plays don’t starve mainly on his channel calls them “Hoppy-hops” I adore this name and I will continue to adress them as so.
Step: 6. Now careful when you’re around the hoppy-hops, if you have ANY type of meat in your inventory they will shout “UNCLEAN and MURDERER” and will become hostile. So avoid getting close to them IF meat is in your inventory. I usually bring draonpie so it isn’t really a problem for me.
Now take that hammer you brought with you out, and smash down the bunny homes. YOU HEARD ME TAKE ‘EM DOWN CAPTAIN!! You will get half of the supplies to make 1 bunny home by breaking 1, so 2 makes 1. So 6 bunny homes means 3 in the surface, 4 is 2, etc. Bunnys upstairs in the surface realm act like night time pigmen, they will come out at dusk, and night like spiders. And kill any hostile mobs. Here are some hoppy-hops men at the surface: 
Step: 7. If you want to read up about the rest of the caves skip to step 9, because step 8 below talks about the bunny home placement.
Step: 8. So bunny homes are all about placement, I like to put them near a spider nest usually because spiders come out at night and the bunny men kill them, making automatic silk drops. Also hoppy-hops kill hounds for you, they have a strong bite and will kill hounds in 2-3 attacks usually, but they strike in groups and will help tons with hounds indeed. So whenever you hear hounds run over to your bunny-bros!
Step: 9. So from this point on I will do something a bit different that I did in my previous don’t starve guide. I am going to put a picture of a cave mob and describe it’s aggro, behaviour, drops, etc.
Ahhh the slurtle, a creature that’s so ugly that it might just be cute… The slurtle is useful, yet strong. Their mounds can be found deep in the caves and in random spots. The mounds spawn the slurtle and they roam around and eat rocks and flint from time to time. Upon eating the rocks and flint they will drop slurtle slime, this slime can be used to fill your lantern, which is a light source you should make upon going in the caves the second trip (after you made those bunny homes) OR their slime can be one of the most amazing alternatives for gunpowder!!! But let me tell you DO NOT attack the slurtle, it has 400 health and is deadly. Unless you are good at kiting and dodging it’s incoming damage, you’re done. Your armor better save you cause this turtle can pack the punch. Also, after taking mass amounts of damage he retracts into his shell until you take a few steps back, then he’s ready to fight again. Once again don’t bother attacking this friendly fellow. ALTHOUGH! he has a small chance (10% to be exact) to drop a “Shelmet” the shelmet is a strange looking helmet that you wear on your head with 750% durability meaning it can take 75 uses, aka 75 hits. And absorbs 90% OF INCOMING DAMAGE!!!! Though your cute little slurtle isn’t worth the effort sometimes. This is a damn good helmet, but a football helmet could help just as much.
The BATsilisk… I hate these things, though useful for their bat wings that rarely drop and the guano they poop out on normal occassions. I question if their worth it. They are annoying and come out to the surface from the sink hole at dusk and night. Though if you have 5 of their bat wings, some nightmare fuel and more. Bam you have a “Bat Bat” which has life steal and gives you health back when you kill something! Though that’s neat their guano is also a better type of manure which helps grow stuff 1.5x faster than usual. Though since it count as “Guano” and not “manure” it cannot be used to MAKE farm plots and things with manure as a requirement. It can also fuel fires etc.
These guys are a pain in the d!ck….. His name is the spitter, he likes to shoot little pebbles at you and it hurts like HECK! Try to avoid them at all costs, they’re more durable, and obviously more ranged than the normal spider. And they drop the same loot, NOT WORTH THE EFFORT!
Ugh the basic cave spider, the less annoying cousin of the spitter. These guys are more durable than any spider you’ll see in the game (other than the spider queen of course) They retract into their shells when taking too much damage and boy is it annoying. Can’t tell you the last time I actually bothered to kill one of these guys, once again. NOT WORTH, THE EFFORT.
Splu-Monkeys, their clever name is made to sound like “Spelunking” which is when you essentially discover and roam caverns and caves. These little rascals will steal your sh!t. LITERALLY, this is not a joke they will chase you down and steal your inventory items! Snatch them up quick before they rob you clean!. They spawn off of a barrel (Heheheh get it, monkeys… barrels ehehhehehehe) Cave banana trees usually are lying around near the monkeys aswell. DO NOT CHOP THESE they can not be brought to the surface and give you basic logs when chopped. Keep them underground when you need a healthy snack 😉 Now I recommend using a hammer to get rid of the monkeys. But BEWARE if aggrod these guys will literally throw poop at you and it deals DAMAGE! Hahaha! can you believe it!? And they’re quick little jerks too so make sure to get a boomerang, fire staff or some type of range to take them out.
You’re probably staring at this going “What……!?” If you really wanna know what these are, they’re the ROOT of the tentacles you see in swamps. In game they are called “Big tentacle” but people of the community have cleverly dubbed them “Tenta-Pillars.” When attacked these son of a guns have much smaller versions of them circle you and smack you. They are taken out usually with 1 hit with a tentacle spike, and most likely 2 with a normal spear. BUT this might be worth the health loss because when killed there is a 100% chance to drop a tentacle spike which is the 3rd most powerful weapon in the game! (Next is the night sword, and the thulecite club which is out in the newest ruins update!) So yes, it is worth the health loss.
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The rock lobster, kinda a dumb creature if you ask me. I feel like it was just a filler for the caves, to make them feel more lively. This animal is so hard to kill, does tons of damage, and only drops rocks when you kill it!!! Not worth it at all. Luckily though it is neutral and will stay friendly if not attacked by you specifically. But other then that I see nothing wrong or even right with this creature. Personally I only like it cause it refers to the old song “rock lobster” which was soooo dumb. Ah well.
Well I hope you enjoyed this guide and I hope it informed you a bunch about the things in the caves. There are gems and such in the caves but there are other guides out there that cover them. So good day to you all and don’t go starvin’ on me 😉
