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Cave guide
JABBA's caves and the rules for building in them. Every line comes from our own server settings, rules and in-game checks. 2 caves listed so far; more are added as staff check them.
Cave rules on JABBA
- Cave building
- Allowed on both clusters, PvP and PvE. Server Info, server settings.
- Structure damage in caves
- 3x (official is 6x). One C4 on a Tek wall did 2,329 damage in a cave and 772 outside. Dakota's raid test, Oct 12 2026.
- Tesla coils in caves
- Allowed. Cybers Structures cave settings, checked in game Sep 8 2026.
- Blade Wasps, Tribe Towers and Gachas in caves
- Work in caves. Cybers Structures cave settings, Sep 8 2026.
- Broken ratholes
- Open a ticket before you build in one. Warning and move time, then 100 AOE, then tribe wipe, then ban. Building rules.
- Foundation spam near a cave
- Max 60 foundations from your nearest outpost tower and 250m from a base or cave entrance. Building rules.
- Cave loot
- All gear is blueprints. Journeyman to Mastercraft in blue, purple and yellow caves, Mastercraft to Ascendant in red ones, Tek Ramshackle to Ascendant. Loot guide, checked against the live servers Oct 1 2026.
- Underwater caves
- On The Island and Astraeos. Gear is blueprints, Mastercraft to Ascendant, red ones Ascendant to Epic. Loot guide, Oct 1 2026.
- Custom Cave Edit
- $35 in the Shop. Dakota opens up, clears or reshapes a cave by hand after a ticket. Shop.
Hit counts for a cave wall are on the raid calculator.
Caves by map
2 caves on 2 maps.
No caves listed for The Island yet. Staff add them as they're checked in game.
No caves listed for The Center yet. Staff add them as they're checked in game.
No caves listed for Scorched Earth yet. Staff add them as they're checked in game.
No caves listed for Aberration yet. Staff add them as they're checked in game.
No caves listed for Extinction yet. Staff add them as they're checked in game.
No caves listed for Ragnarok yet. Staff add them as they're checked in game.
No caves listed for Valguero yet. Staff add them as they're checked in game.
No caves listed for Astraeos yet. Staff add them as they're checked in game.
No caves listed for Genesis yet. Staff add them as they're checked in game.
No caves listed for Lost Colony yet. Staff add them as they're checked in game.
No cave matches that. Try the cave's name or its map.
Ragnarok Castle Cave
Ragnarok
- Coordinates
- Not checked yet
- Entrance
- Not checked yet
- Structure damage
- 3x, like every cave on JABBA
- Building
- Allowed, but banned for Cluster Alpha
On the Cluster Alpha banned list. A tribe that builds here is disqualified from Cluster Alpha until the season ends.
Source: Cluster Alpha banned-cave list (!cacaves), Oct 29 2026
Valguero
- Coordinates
- Not checked yet
- Entrance
- Not checked yet
- Structure damage
- 3x, like every cave on JABBA
- Building
- Allowed
Buildable again since the v94.35 update on Oct 21 2026. It was opened for building on Sep 8 2026.
Source: JABBA'S HELPER news post Sep 8 2026; Dakota confirmed it in game Oct 21 2026
Banned for Cluster Alpha
Building in one of these disqualifies your tribe from Cluster Alpha until the season ends. The live list is !cacaves in Discord.
- Snow North
- Oasis
- Easy Underwater
- Labyrinth Cave
- Element Factory
- Gills Needed
- Mushroom Cave
- Panzers Love Lagoon
- Shipwreck
- Poseidon's Cave
- Apollons Cave
- Lady of the Lake
- Shadow Cave
- Ragnarok Castle Cave
- Caesar's Dunlop Hideout
List as of Oct 29, 2026.
Unsure about a cave? Ask staff before you build.
Missing a cave?
Staff add caves after checking them in game: coordinates, what fits through the entrance, and whether building there is allowed. If you know one that isn't here, open a ticket in Discord with the map and the cave's name.