Ice Wind Lava Caves

The Ice Wind Lava Caves are lava tubes Deacon explores in What It Takes To Survive, while meeting O'Brian. You meet your first Reacher here and then fight a 100-Swarmer Horde underground.

Type: Landmark

Found in

What It Takes To SurviveYou need O'Brian's help to get Sarah off Wizard Island by air, so you ride out to meet him. He sends you into the Ice Wind Lava Cave to find Cooper, and the job gets much bigger from there.

Good to know

The story mission What It Takes To Survive takes place here.
The game's first Reacher appears in these caves.
The 100-Swarmer Ice Wind Lava Caves Horde lives here and must be cleared.
The mission pays 10,000 XP and the Poison Bolt recipe.

How to approach it

Tunnels work in your favour against the Horde. Back into a narrow passage and use fire where they bunch up.

StorySpoilerShow

O'Brian explains here how Hordes hold together and why NERO cares about how fast the Freakers are changing.

Related places

Region
Crater Lake
Crater Lake is the far southern region built around the real lake and Wizard Island, the Militia's headquarters. It opens in the second half of the story and has the most encampment jobs and NERO research sites in the game.