Editing The Caverns

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{{About|The Caverns|[[The Sewage Pipes]] or [[The Grand Hallway]]}}
{{Locations
|title=The Caverns
|image=
<gallery>
SeekMines.png|The Ravine
The Caverns - Seek Chase Part 1.png|Broken Bridges
NestMinecart.png|Minecart Rail
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|floors_present=[[The Mines]]
|rooms_present=140-149
|entities=
*[[Seek]]
*[[Guiding Light]]
*[[Queen Grumble]] (at the end)
*[[Jack]]
*[[Shadow]]
*[[Glitch]] ([[Revives|Revive]])
*[[Void]]
*[[Dread]] (Trick or Treat modifier)
*[[Screech]] (Trick or Treat modfiier)
*[[Timothy]] (Trick or Treat modifier)
*[[Hide]] (Trick or Treat modifier)
*[[A-90]] (Trick or Treat modifier)
*[[Eyes]] (Trick or Treat modifier)
*[[Gloombats]] (Trick or Treat modifier)
*[[Lookman]] (Trick or Treat modifier)
}}

'''The Caverns''' are a major location in [[The Mines]]. Notably, it's where the first [[Seek]] chase takes place. Immediately after, you will be led straight into [[The Nest]] at Door 150. 

=={{Icons|Overview}} Overview==
[[File:SeekMines.png|thumb|[[Seek]] in The Ravine. ]]
===The Ravine (Room 140)===
''The Caverns'' begin with a long, flooded room with exposure to the outside, with a pipe overhead. When a [[player]] reaches the end of this room, goo will begin to leak from the pipe and [[Seek]] will rise from the water before giving chase. This room spawns at Door 140 and 195 respectively. The [[Guiding Light]] takes the form of a trail of blue particles.

===Broken Bridges===
The first half of ''The Caverns'' consists of caves, with broken bridges that players have to jump across. Players will have their jump enabled for the first half of the [[Seek]] chase. In Room 145, players will enter a cutscene in which players fails the jump and falls onto a moving [[minecart]], formed by [[Guiding Light]]. 

=== Minecart Rail ===
The corresponding half is a [[minecart]] rail, where players have to duck to avoid obstacles and steer between different tracks. There will be tracks splitting into 2 or 3 paths, with the [[Guiding Light]] showing the correct path. If players select the wrong track or do not select a track in time, the [[minecart]] will follow the incorrect track and crash into a wall or fall into a pit, resulting in their death. A player will take 40 damage and temporarily have their vision blurred if they fail to duck under the obstacles in time. 

===Room 149===
The final room consists of a platform with lockers each side, and a gate and buffer stop that prevents the [[minecart]] from moving, therefore ending the [[Seek]] chase. The [[minecart]] then starts moving again and continues on the rail, until a cutscene plays in which [[Queen Grumble (Restored)|Queen Grumble]] appears and players falls into [[The Nest]]. 

''The Caverns'' last for 9 Doors, starting from Door 140 and ending at Door 149. 

===Hazards===

*Stalagmites: Stalagmites are located in the middle of Broken Bridges, specifically, in the Broken Bridges section, if the player jumps too early towards a broken bridge, the player will fall into the spikes and die with their torso being brutally impaled by them.
*Falling Rocks: Falling Rocks appear in the Broken Bridges section, they usually fall out of the ceiling and towards the path of the correct bridge. This can potentially block the players way and causes [[Seek]] to be able to slightly catch up.
*Planks: Planks appears in the Minecart Rail section, it appears to be a obstacle where players must crouch in order to get past, it can usually appear on the correct path of split paths and sometimes on the incorrect path. If they are not dodged, the player will take 40 damage..

===Notes===

*It's important to know that while holding A/D to steer, it slows down a player's minecart which might result in [[Seek]] catching up.
* Whilst in a minecart, you cannot use, or even select any [[items]], such as a [[Crucifix]], to save you. This makes Doors 145-148 extremely difficult due to the speed of the minecart and the little time you have to pick the right path, illuminated by [[Guiding Light]].

==Tips == 

*Look ahead to give yourself as much time to react as possible, especially during the minecart section.
*Holding A/D can make your minecart slower to make it easier to react. However, this also means that [[Seek]] might be able to catch up.
*When the minecart is going down a ramp, look up to give more time to react.
**The same can be done for turns, instead looking in the direction the minecart is turning.
==Bugs ==

*If a player uses a [[Revives|Revive]] (when no other players are alive) as soon as the [[Seek]] chase is over, the minecart might stop moving right as it enters Door 150.
** The [[Queen Grumble]] pursuing a player will not kill them, and will instead disappear. This means that a player is softlocked.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgwzKn-Cq3A</ref>
*There is a small chance that [[Guiding Light]] will disappear throughout the minecart chase, making it impossible to tell which way to go.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CgB0lMoXPVY</ref>
*Spectating players can't see the minecart that an alive player is riding in.
*If you stop right before the jump in door 145, [[Seek]] will run into the floor and not kill you, however if you activate the cutscene afterwards, you will die at the end of it.

=={{Icons|Trivia}} Trivia==

*The [[Seek]] chase in ''The Caverns'' is proceeded by the second [[Seek]] chase, which occurs in [[The Sewage Pipes]].
*[[Items]] can spawn on drawers/inside lockers during the chase, including during the minecart section and door 150.
*According to most players, this is the hardest [[Seek]] chase out of the two that occur in [[The Mines]].

== Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Caverns SeekAngle.png|[[Seek]] chasing the player through The Caverns
File:Caverns CrazyFrog.png|A visual bug where dead players do not see the minecart of the alive player(s).
File:Screenshot 20241113-051928 YouTube.png|What appears to be a scrapped version of The Minecart Rails seen in the trailer. 
</gallery>

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