Volcano Dungeon

Getting in

The Volcano Dungeon is the cave at the north end of Ginger Island, on the south side of the volcano. A lava river blocks the door. Pour water on the lava with a watering can. A steel can, or a better one, covers five tiles in a line, which is enough for one pour. The path lasts until night. After you finish the dungeon, a parrot builds a permanent bridge for 5 golden walnuts.

There are ten floors. You find a doorway, not a ladder. Staircases cannot be placed. Warp totems and the return scepter are the fast way out. Otherwise you walk back. Passing out at 2:00 am costs 2,500g. You wake in the island farmhouse, or in the valley farmhouse if the island house is still locked.

Nodes, monsters, and crates are placed once each day. Leaving and coming back does not refill the floor.

Floors 5, 9, and 10

Once a parrot is on floor 5, it digs an exit for 5 golden walnuts. The hole drops you on the east side of the volcano, next to the parrot express. You cannot re-enter on floor 5. The next trip starts at the cave.

Floor 9 always has a chest. Rare chests are more likely on that floor, and luck moves the rare chance.

Floor 10 is the Forge. Cinder shards pay for gem enchantments on weapons and tools. The first visit also has a chest with one Prismatic Shard. That chest does not come back. The southwest door returns you to the far side of the entrance gate. Step on the button to open it. On later days the gate is already open, so the Forge is a short walk from the cave. Reaching floor 10 also adds 20 more floor layouts to the dungeon. The magma on floor 10 can be fished for a lava eel.

The first common chest you open, and the first rare chest, each also give a golden walnut. Common chests can hold cinder shards, a golden coconut, taro tubers, pineapple seeds, two rings, or a dwarf weapon. Rare chests can hold more cinder shards, boots, rings, a deluxe pirate hat, an ostrich egg, or a dragontooth weapon.

Monsters and cinder shards

Cinder shard nodes drop cinder shards and award 12 mining experience. Other mine nodes, including iridium and mystic stones, can appear too. Mushroom floors are full of magma caps and false magma caps, which wake up when you get close. Cutting the mushroom husks has a 0.5% chance to drop an ancient seed.

Some doors are gates with one to three pressure pads. A red dot is locked and a green dot is open. Islands in the lava hold pads, chests, or nodes. The watering can bridges those too. Fishing is possible in the floor 10 magma, and not on the floors before it.

• Iridium ore, which also spawns here
• Skull Cavern, the other late-game mine