Caves (roguelike) Wiki

The Shelter is the place where the player starts in a new game file. Your character returns to the Shelter upon permadeath or by entering home portals. Major and permanent upgrades can be done in the Shelter, where items recycling, purchase and crafting are also available.

Installer[]

The Installer is located in the leftmost chamber of the Shelter. Players can use emeralds to install modules on their characters in each run.

More about Modules

Replicator[]

Located in the middle chamber of the Shelter, the Replicator is the place where new characters are created. The player can distribute Strength, Agility and Luck stats when creating character but these stats can't be changed afterwards.

Players can enter the Replicator to change their armor before starting their journey or after returning to the Shelter using home portal. Changing armors cost 10 emeralds each time. While changing abilities cost 5 emeralds. Information like abilities and effects of armors unlocked is shown here.

More about Armors

Factory[]

The Factory is located in the middle chamber in the Shelter, next to the Replicator. Players can use emeralds to make permanent improvements, e.g. upgrading bomb damage, unlocking new abilities.

More about improvements

Portal to Caves[]

The glowing purple portal located at the bottom part of the middle chamber of the Shelter can teleport character to the main places of adventure, caves, of :

  • locations 1 to 4 by options if it is a new journey, with options to purchase items and adjust game modes and difficulties,
  • previous location if the player used a home portal to return to the Shelter.

Armory[]

The Armory is located at the right chamber of the Shelter. Players can purchase unlocked weapons and ammo at the Armory.

Blueprint of the items can be found in different caves.

Item

Price (gold)

Name Price (gold) Name Price (gold)
Sword 55 Arrow Gun 60 Phase Gun 120
Dagger 55 Battle Hammer 70 Pistol Bullets 9 per 5 units
Mace 55 Energy Hammer 120 Shotgun Shells 10 per 5 units
Battle Axe 55 Electric Pistol 120 Rifle Bullets 7 per 10 units
Reflex Sword 65 Katana 65 Arrow 8 per 5 units
Pistol 50 Electric Katana 120 Flamethrower Fuel 6 per 10 units
Shotgun 60 Scimitar 65 Acid Arrow 10 per 5 units
Battle Rifle 60 Flamethrower 125 Shock Arrow 12 per 5 units
Long Bow 40 Claws 65 Fire Arrow 12 per 5 units

Vending Machine (Shelter)[]

The Vending Machine is located at the right chamber of the Shelter. Players can purchase unlocked items at the Vending Machine. Blueprint of the items can be found in different caves. Note that this Vending Machine is different from the guarded Vending Machine in caves.

Item Price
Elixir of the Warrior 16 Emeralds
Elixir of the Gunner 16 Emeralds
Antidote 6 Gold
Vitamin Charge 28 Gold
Robosphere 25 Gold
Teleporter 25 Gold
Map Scanner 10 Gold
Steel Pickaxe 10 Gold
Mining Drill 60 Gold

Recycler 2.0[]

Located in a chamber between the middle chamber and the Storage, the Recycler 2.0 allows the player to recycle 12 items each time the Shelter is visited.

The Recycler 2.0 has a resource extraction efficiency of 95%.

Crafting Station[]

Located next to the Recycler 2.0, the Crafting Station is where the player can create items from different components through crafting. Craftable items can be classified into 6 categories: Melee weapons, Ranged weapons, Explosives, Inventory modules, "Gadgets" and Special components, items available for crafting are separated into 4 tiers based on their complexity and power/usefulness, the first tier is already unlocked by default allowing the player to craft only the most basic items while the other 3 must be unlocked by the player. In order to craft higher tier items the player has to install energy cells on the Crafting station, the Crafting station has a maximum capacity of 3 energy cells that will power the Crafting station until the character dies, when the player creates a new character the energy cells will be drained and must be replaced.

Crafting items will eventually level up your "crafting skill" the higher your crafting is, the less resources will be spent during the production of an item and crafted weapons may be more powerful than usual.

Industrial furnace[]

Located at the corner of the chamber next to the Crafting station. The Industrial furnace allows the player to produce some crafting components by smelting ores.

The smelting recipe to produce each component is written below:

Ingredients Results
  • 3 Copper ore
  • 3 Titanium ore
  • 9-15 Simple components
  • 3 Copper ore
  • 3 Titanium ore
  • 12 Acid elements
  • 12-18 simple components
  • 2 Copper ore
  • 2 Electric stone
  • 8-10 Electric elements
  • 2 Titanium ore
  • 2 Fire stone
  • 10 Simple components
  • 8-10 Fire elements


Note: When smelting some ores there is a small chance that you will receive gold or emeralds.

Resource management terminal[]

Located at the opposite end of the same chamber where the Crafting station, Recycler 2.0 and Industrial furnace are located. The resource management terminal allows the player to store resources (crafting components) collected during their journey. It also allows the player to manage resources that were stored beforehand and upgrade the storage.

Storage[]

Located in the south chamber of the Shelter, this is the place where collected resources are safely stored in (indestructible) crates, this allows the player to use these resources even after permadeath. The resources stored here can be managed at the Resource management terminal, the player can also improve the maximum capacity of the storage at the Resource management terminal.

Empty room (Old recycler)[]

Located in the northeast chamber of the Shelter (above the chamber where the Armory is located) the empty room is the place where the Recycler was previously located before the crafting system was implemented, in here the player could recycle 12 items that they collected during their journey in exchange for gold and emeralds instead of crafting components.

After the crafting system was added the Recycler underwent some changes and was moved to it's current location, while the room it previously occupied is now empty and devoid of purpose.

Notes[]

  • From early December to mid-January a Christmas tree will appear to the left of the Replicator, you can inspect it to receive some supplies.
  • You cannot use consumables, bombs, weapons, summon creatures or drop items when inside the shelter.