Crystal Cavern Guide

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Important Notes

The Crystal Cavern is the second part of the Abandoned Mineshaft, and is only accessible upon defeated the boss of the Fungal Cavern. It is recommended to check out the guide for that dungeon before this one in order to have more knowledge of how to get to this dungeon in the first place.

Contents

• How
• Loot and Purpose
• Layout and Navigation
• Enemies
• Boss
• Minibosses
• Crystallised Cyclops/Crystallised Lizard
• Crystallised Fish/Crystallised Scorpion
• Crystallised Monstrosity
• Overview

How

The portal to the Crystal Cavern is only dropped upon the defeat of the Crystal Worm Mother, the boss of the Fungal Cavern, meaning you can only get to this dungeon by first completing the other one. Click here for a guide on how to beat that boss.

Loot and Purpose

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Completing the Crystal Cavern on an 8/8 maxed stat character gives you an Exaltation in Wisdom, and the preceeding Fungal Cavern gives Wisdom. The caverns are the only ways to get this permanent stat boost. This is the main reason that both caverns are run nowadays.

The coveted Ring of Decades (Deca) gives a whopping +190 HP, but don’t expect it to be common; Decas are especially rare drops from the Cavern Crystals in both dungeons. Due to its rarity, it is also a very valuable trading item.

Similarly to the Fungal Cavern, the Crystal Cavern also drops many UT’s, much more than the previous cavern.

• The only UT dropped by the minibosses, the Irradiance Sheath is the most damage-boosting sheath in the game, granting a high ATT multiplier and shooting powerful shots on a dash. They’re difficult to aim but can be great for damage in the right hands.
• The Cloak of Refraction is unique in that it spawns a decoy along with two mirror images which orbit around the decoy and fire concentrated shots every 0.2 seconds. It’s great for tricking enemies into walking into shots along with clean getaways, although it can be hard to position.
• The Crystallised Mist is an interesting accessory UT that grants invisibility for 8 seconds upon taking over 70 damage from an attack. It’s good for increasing the rushing capabilites of classes that lack invisibility, such as Warrior or Trickster, along with a nice HP boost.
• The Echoes Prism grants great utility for the Trickster, as it marks a location on the first use and teleports you back to that location on the second use. This sort of recall ability allows the Trickster to teleport out of scary situations easily, although one must note that the mark resets after 30 seconds of marking.
• The Fractured Gemstone Wakizashi is another unique ability UT that, instead of spawning projectiles, spawns an orbiting crystal star around you, inflicting Exposed for 4 seconds and dealing 350 damage every hit. This can be utilized when attacking close up or when rushing while enemies are following close. Also note that there is no cooldown, so it is possible to spawn many crystal stars around you to inflict large amounts of damage.
• The Star of Enlightenment is another katana class UT ability. It focuses on boosting damage through its self-inflicting Berserk, but also greatly limits the user’s speed with the self-inflicted Slowed debuff. The star itself also deals an immense amount of damage, ranging from 1,000-1,500. However, the Slowed debuff has a niche use when micrododging, in which case low speed can actually be helpful.

The boss can drop the weapon, armor, and accessory pieces of the Crystal Kunoichi Set for the Ninja class, with the ability piece dropping from the boss of the Fungal Cavern. The Quartz Cutter is weak and has short range, although it does gain a significant boost in DPS when worn with the full set. The Luminous Armor is more useful however, as it gives a whopping +200 HP, along with +5 SPD and +5 VIT, which greatly increases survivability, but has no DEF. Finally, the Radiant Heart gives a small amount of HP and ATT. While some UT rings do give better HP and DPS stats, the ring is needed to complete the full set, which does actually give decent defensive and offensive stats.

Similarly to the Fungal Cavern, the Crystal Cavern boss has a chance of dropping various T14 armors, which are quite valuable pieces of endgame equipment.

Also similarly to the Fungal Cavern, the Crystal Cavern is a great source of various Greater Potions and Potions of Life. While not a main reason to do this dungeon, it’s still worthwhile to get them, as they drop in abundance from the boss.

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Layout and Navigation

The Crystal Cavern’s layout is similar to the Fungal Cavern’s; massive map, various large rooms with wooden platforms and minecarts with Crystals, and small hallways connecting them all. The dungeon also has the same mechanic of clearing crystals to power the drill in order to get to the boss. However, when the boss does activate, even if you aren’t in the boss room itself and are simply a few rooms away, you will be teleported to the boss room, which is nice if people can’t make it to the boss room in time.

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Enemies

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The enemies here are sorted based by creature type rather than by color, although that too still determines their attacks and effects.

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Boss

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Crystal Entity

The boss of the dungeon, the Crystal Entity, has many crystal based attacks. The fight mainly consists of micrododging and telegraphs.

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Minibosses

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Throughout the fight, the Crystal Entity will spawn various Crystal Guardians in between phases. The first two minibosses spawned are each randomly chosen from pairs with the exception of the third and final Crystal Guardian, which is always the same.

Crystallised Cyclops/Crystallised Lizard

Crystallised Fish/Crystallised Scorpion

Crystallised Monstrosity

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Overview

The Crystal Cavern, likewise to the Fungal Cavern, is an amazing source of powerful situation UT’s, a highly offensive ST set for the Ninja, various Greater Potions and Potions of Life, and more chances at the highly valuable Ring of Decades, which can lead to great wealth and power.

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