The Caverns is a feature located in The Hole, it includes 2 main parts.
Firstly the Camp where your villagers are and second the Caverns, who are located in the hole.
All the Villagers(except (image)the explorer which you have at the start) are hidden in the caverns and must be rescued(clicked),
they can then be upgraded using Opals which will give them xp overtime and level them up unlocking new features.
The caverns are located in the hole, they are unlocked by leveling up the explorer villager.
Shallow Caverns
The Shallow Caverns are the first set of caverns in The Caverns.
The Well
Collect materials from buckets to spend on upgrades or Opals.
With the (image)Bar Expand-o-rama upgrade you can expand the cap every time you hit the max,
Once you reach 14 expansions you will need the (image)UBER Bar Expand-o-rama-hala expansions upgrade to expand further.
You can unlock new buckets from the (image)Engineer villager.
Cost of Opals in Gravel
Opal
Cost
Opal
Cost
1
1
10
67.4 M
2
6
11
446.1 M
3
60
12
3 B
4
1,042
13
21 B
5
6,708
14
150.1 B
6
41,984
15
1.1 T
7
261.3 K
16
8.3 T
8
1.6 M
17
63.9 T
9
10.4 M
18
506.8 T
Clear 50 Rocks to Unlock
Clear 500 Rocks to Unlock
Clear 9,000 Rocks to Unlock
Clear 125 K Rocks to Unlock
Clear 1.5 M Rocks to Unlock
Clear 20 M Rocks to Unlock
Clear 100 M Rocks to Unlock
Clear 500 M Rocks to Unlock
Clear 2 B Rocks to Unlock
The Motherlode
The (image)engineer vilager is located here
Mine the motherlode to get ore, after a certain amount of ore gained you can destroy a layer and gain an Opal,
then the efficiency required to mine the motherlode increases and so is the ore amount required.
You are capped at 5 layers broken per day, which is also shared with the other caverns related to skilling.
The Dawg Den
Fight hounds, each hound kill gives a score, hounds that stay alive for too long start to generate fear.
once the fear bar fills up you lose.
You can get Opals based on your highest score.
The Score Multiplier can be increased by charging the amplifiers by clicking on them, to reset you need to hold down.
You Unlock more Amplifiers From The engineer.
List of all Amplifiers
Image
Name
Buff
Score
Bigger Bite
Hounds now have a base attack value of X
+0.11x
Elusive Instinct
Hounds now require X Accuracy for 100% hit chance
+0.09x
Canine Recovery
All hounds now heal X% HP every 3s
+0.08x
Bigger Bow Bow
Hounds have a 10% chance to spawn BIG with Xx HP and DMG
+0.10x
Doggo EMP Effect
Somehow the hounds now make your attacks cost Xx more MP
+0.08x
Cursed Howl
Hounds have a 5% chance to be cursed, causing Xx more Fear