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Cave Diving Experience Guide: How the game works

Cave Diving Experience

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Overview

Cave Diving Experience is a Roblox exploration game where you squeeze through tight cave passages, mine ores, and upgrade your pickaxe to reach deeper and more dangerous areas. The game has underwater caves, lava zones, and geothermal tunnels, each requiring different gear to survive. This guide walks you through the ore progression, cave entrances, key locations, and the gear you need to push further underground.

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Contents

01 How the game works Summary 02 Ore progression from copper to emerald Table 03 Live and upcoming events Events 04 Cave entrances and what is inside them Check 05 Surviving the Geothermal Caves Step 06 Finding hidden areas Tips 07 Badges worth chasing Tips 08 Titles and the level track Table 09 Glossary Words 10 Common questions FAQ

How the game works

Summary

In short The core loop is simple: mine ores, smelt them into ingots, craft better pickaxes, and use the new pickaxe to reach caves you couldn't before.

Every run starts at the spawn area, which has six named cave entrances at different difficulty levels. Inside those caves you find ore nodes — mesh crystals that stand out from the surrounding terrain. You mine them, haul the ore back to the furnace using coal as fuel to smelt ingots, then visit the blacksmith to craft a stronger pickaxe. Better pickaxes unlock harder ores, and harder ores unlock the next pickaxe tier. Some areas also demand specific gear — scuba equipment for flooded passages and a thermal suit for the lava-heavy geothermal zone.

Starting point　six named cave entrances at spawn, ranging from Easy to Crystal Cave difficulty.
Ore nodes　mesh crystals attached to cave walls; mine them to collect up to nine minerals per node.
Coal　the fuel for every smelt; without it you cannot turn any ore into an ingot.
Furnace and blacksmith　smelt ore into ingots at the furnace, then craft pickaxes at the blacksmith.
Gear　scuba gear for underwater caves, thermal suit for the geothermal caves.
Cave Rescue system　use it if you get stuck and cannot find your way back out.

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Ore progression from copper to emerald

Table

In short Each ore tier requires a specific pickaxe to mine, so you have to work through the chain in order.

The table below shows every ore, the pickaxe you need to mine it, and where to find it reliably. Rarity increases as you go down the list, and the coins column reflects sell value relative to other ores — diamond and obsidian sell for the same rate per kilogram even though diamond feels rarer.

Ore	Pickaxe needed	Best place to find it	Notes
Coal	Starter pickaxe	Near every cave	Fuel for the furnace; cannot be smelted itself
Copper	Starter pickaxe	Close to spawn	Lightest ore; used to craft the copper pickaxe
Iron	Copper pickaxe	Geothermal Caves, Mineshaft	Second pickaxe tier; required for titanium pickaxe recipe
Gold	Iron pickaxe	Mineshaft and connecting caves	Heaviest ore in the game; marks the start of mid-game
Titanium	Gold pickaxe	Mineshaft and a cave below it (4 deposits)	Also needs iron in the crafting recipe
Obsidian	Titanium pickaxe	Deep geothermal caves (heat suit required)	Grinding back and forth to spawn is part of the process
Diamond	Obsidian pickaxe	End of Geothermal Cave, end of Impossible Cave	Same value per kg as obsidian; pickaxe costs 1 million coins
Emerald	Obsidian or diamond pickaxe	Atlantis (bring scuba gear), Diving Bell	Rarest ore; glows green; pickaxe costs 2 million coins

03 Live and upcoming events Events

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Live now Oct 23 – Oct 30

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Cave entrances and what is inside them

Check

In short The six named entrances at spawn each lead to a different family of caves.

The six named entrances at spawn each lead to a different family of caves. Difficulty climbs steeply past Hard, and Extreme caves branch into some of the game's most punishing and rewarding locations. Flooded and Crystal Cave have their own separate character — Flooded is full of interconnected water tunnels, while Crystal Cave connects to Son Doong, the largest cave in the game.

Easy and Medium caves two shared entrances.
Hard cave contains Nutty Putty, Devil's Butt Crack, Catacombs, Subzero, the Waterfall, Atlantis, and the Diving Bell.
Extreme cave two entrances; leads to Swamp, Beach, Geothermal Caves, Impossible, Hell Hole, Lava Cast, and Thai Cave Rescue.
Flooded cave reached via the Extreme cave entrance marked 'tight water passages'; inside are flamingos, ropes, and titanium, gold, iron, copper, and coal deposits.
Crystal Cave leads further in and connects to Son Doong; follow the red crystals after diving into the water to find the exit.
Son Doong the biggest cave in the game; roughly 30 minutes end to end if you know the route; contains coal, copper, iron, gold, and a single diamond ore near the throne at the far end.

Surviving the Geothermal Caves

Step

In short The thermal suit is not optional past the second lava bridge — without it, the heat kills you even before the lava does.

The Geothermal Caves descend about 1,300 metres and are considered one of the hardest areas in the game. Lava kills instantly on contact regardless of your equipment, so every move counts. The cave also holds obsidian and diamond, two of the rarest ores available.

Buy the thermal suit purchase it from the merchant shop for 12,000 coins before you attempt this cave; you must wear it constantly after passing the second lava bridge.
Use ragdoll at the entry when you first drop into the cave near the evil ducks section, activating ragdoll helps you navigate the initial descent.
Cross the lava parkour on the far side of the main chamber there is a lava pool with a parkour route leading to the obsidian and diamond ore deposits.
Watch the passage branches above the parkour area a hole near the ceiling opens into roughly five different passages; most are dead ends or lava.

Finding hidden areas

Tips

In short Several of the game's most memorable spots are tucked inside routes that have no obvious signage.

Many badge-earning locations are reached by noticing small gaps or unmarked turns rather than following a main path.

Tips worth knowing

Swamp — enter the Extreme cave marked 'tight water passages', descend to water at around 50 metres, swim almost to the end, then look left for a patch of marshy soil with a small hole leading into the Swamp.
Waterfall (Subzero) — go into the Hard cave, take the hole at 40 metres, bear right past the copper ore, find the two close black points and drop down, then zigzag through lava rocks until you hit ice at 305 metres; the floating ladders just after that mark the Waterfall.
Son Doong — dive into the water inside Crystal Cave and follow the red crystals to the exit; no scuba gear is needed for this crossing.
Atlantis — bring scuba gear; emerald ore is far more abundant there than anywhere else.

Badges worth chasing

Tips

In short Most badges reward genuine exploration, so they double as a checklist of places and challenges you should try anyway.

The game has 22 badges. Discovery badges unlock when you reach hidden areas; challenge badges require clearing specific hard passages. A few are earned by accident.

Tips worth knowing

Lava! — fall into lava at any point.
Subzero and Waterfall — awarded for reaching the icy Subzero area and then finding the Waterfall within it.
Swamp — reach the Swamp through the Extreme cave route.
Lava Cast — make it to the bottom of Lava Cast inside the Extreme cave system.
Nutty Putty and DBC — two of the hardest badges; both require squeezing through extremely tight passages in the Hard cave.
Impossible — the badge description calls the achievement nearly impossible by legitimate means.

Titles and the level track

Table

In short Titles are purely cosmetic milestones that update automatically as your level increases.

Your title updates automatically as your level increases. The track runs from level 0 all the way to level 5,000.

Title	Level required
Noobie	0
Explorer	10
Cave Diver	20
Deep Diver	50
Elite Diver	80
Master Diver	100
Cavern Seeker	200
Stalactite Stalker	300
Abyss Wanderer	400
Grotto Guardian	500
Chasm Crawler	600
Subterra Sage	700
Hollow Warden	800
Depthbound Diver	900
Caverdeep Legend	1,000
Gloomshaft Master	1,200
Stonewell Sovereign	1,400
Underdark Voyager	1,600
Echohollow Elder	1,800
Voidcave Ascendant	2,000
Tunnelborn Titan	2,200
Bedrock Overseer	2,400
Cryptdeep Conqueror	2,600
Fathomless Phantom	2,800

Glossary

Ragdoll physics: A setting where your character's body moves with physical simulation, which helps you squeeze through tight passages and control awkward drops.
Thermal suit: Protective gear bought from the merchant for 12,000 coins; required to survive the heat in the deep sections of the Geothermal Caves.
Scuba gear: Equipment that lets you breathe and move through fully flooded cave passages, needed for Atlantis and other underwater areas.
Ingot: The processed form of a mined ore after it has been smelted in the furnace using coal as fuel; required for pickaxe crafting.
Cave Rescue system: An in-game feature that gets you out when you are completely stuck and cannot navigate back to spawn on your own.
Ore weight: Each ore spawns with a weight value; heavier samples are physically larger, sell for more coins, and contribute more material to the blacksmith's crafting recipes.

Common questions

FAQ

I keep dying in the Geothermal Caves even with the thermal suit on — what am I doing wrong?

The thermal suit protects against the ambient heat, but it does not protect against direct lava contact, which kills you instantly no matter what you are wearing.

Do I need scuba gear for every water section?

Not always. The water crossing inside Crystal Cave that leads to Son Doong does not require scuba gear — the passage is short enough to swim without it. Atlantis and the deeper flooded areas do require scuba gear, and Atlantis is also the best place to farm emerald ore.

What devices can I play Cave Diving Experience on?

The game runs on mobile, tablet, PC, console, and VR.

Why does the Swamp have so many ores?

The Swamp holds five gold, two iron, seven copper, and around eleven coal deposits in a single area.

Updated Oct 17, 2026
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