The recent Version 3.6 update for Genshin Impact introduced an expansive new region to explore – Sumeru. Along with new areas, characters, and events, this update brought new puzzles and challenges for players to discover. One such puzzle involves searching for clues in a mysterious cavern in order to progress the Aranyaka quest series. In this comprehensive guide, I‘ll provide expert tips and strategies to help you efficiently find the hidden clues in the cavern to unlock its secrets.
Overview of Sumeru and the Aranyaka Questline
Before jumping into the cavern clue search, it‘s helpful to understand the broader context around Sumeru and the Aranyaka quests.
Sumeru is the newest region introduced in Genshin Impact 3.6, themed around a massive rainforest and desert biome. It includes several distinct subareas, with Vissudha Field being the second main zone unlocked after starting exploration in Lokapala Jungle.
Vissudha Field encompasses lush forests, waterfalls, and ruins overgrown with foliage. It houses the Aranyaka questline, which focuses on reactivating ancient mechanisms and Warding Stones to dispel dangerous fungi and reveal Sumeru‘s history.
The cavern clue search occurs during the Unwavering Achievement phase of Aranyaka, after reactivating the Mechansim-Activating Stone. This puzzle is key to progressing the quest and continuing to explore Sumeru‘s secrets.
Overview of the Chasm Delver‘s Cavern
The cavern where you search for clues is known as the Chasm Delver‘s Cavern, located in northern Vissudha Field. This mysterious cave is initially filled with a magical gray fog that blocks vision and prevents entry to certain passages.
Overview of the Chasm Delver‘s Cavern and its winding passages.
The cavern contains the following features and challenges:
- Winding passages: The cavern has a complex layout with many splits, tunnels, and dead ends. It‘s easy to get lost or turned around.
- Enemies: Fungi and hostile creatures inhabit the cavern, like Fungi Toxinslugs and Gyrofungi Hatchlings. Come prepared for combat.
- Puzzles: You must destroy a Gray Crystal by following a Khvarena fairy to remove the fog. Then use Anemo to scatter sand piles.
- Terrain challenges: Pressure plates, breakable walls, climbing, and jumping puzzles test your traversal skills.
- Hidden chests: Solving puzzles reveals precious and exquisite chests scattered throughout the cavern, containing prizes like artifacts and Adventure XP.
Successfully searching for clues allows you to collect these rewards while making progress in Sumeru.
Step-by-Step Guide to Finding All the Hidden Clues
Here is an in-depth walkthrough of how to locate the clues within the Chasm Delver‘s Cavern:
Destroy the Gray Crystal
Upon entering the cavern, you‘ll notice a Khvarena fairy fluttering around the first large chamber. Interact with it to trigger a trail of Dendro particles leading deeper inside.
Follow the fairy through the cavern passages. Be sure to light up any unlit torches along the way to help navigate this dark environment.
The Khvarena fairy guiding you to the Gray Crystal.
The fairy will eventually reach a dead end chamber containing the Gray Crystal levitating in the center.
Use a powerful ranged Pyro or Cryo DPS character like Yoimiya, Ganyu, or Ayaka to destroy the crystal. I recommend a team like:
- Yoimiya (main DPS)
- Yelan (sub DPS)
- Zhongli (shields)
- Bennett (healing and ATK buffs)
Bennett provides Pyro resonance to boost Yoimiya‘s damage. Yelan and Zhongli offer crowd control to deal with enemies.
Once destroyed, the crystal will shatter and dissipate the fog, allowing you to fully explore the cavern.
Scatter the Sand Piles
After destroying the crystal, proceed west through the newly opened cavern passages. There are around 12 conspicuous sand piles scattered in this area.
To search for clues, you need to scatter them. The most efficient method is using Anemo elemental attacks and skills.
I recommend a team centered around the Anemo archetype:
- Sucrose (main DPS)
- Xingqiu (sub DPS)
- Fischl (sub DPS)
- Diona (shields/healing)
This Sucrose taser comp can rapidly clear out the sand piles with swirl reactions. Sucrose‘s elemental skill and burst will scatter the entire area quickly. Xingqiu and Fischl provide electro-charged enabling for her swirls.
Using Sucrose‘s skills to swiftly scatter the sand piles around the cavern.
Scour the area and check your mini-map to ensure all sand piles have been dispersed. Look around the outer edges for any missed piles hidden in corners.
With all the sand cleared away, you‘re ready to find the hidden clue.
Obtain the Hidden Object
After scattering all the sand, look for a sparkling object among the rubble where one of the piles used to be.
The object will be somewhere on the north side of the room based on my experience, but the exact location may vary.
If you‘re having trouble finding it, equip the Treasure Compass gadget, which will point you toward the general direction of nearby treasure.
Approach the sparkling object and interact to add the Strange Patterned Slate to your inventory. This slate provides clues to locate the missing Dendro Drums for a later puzzle.
Additional Tips and Strategies
Here are some extra tips to help you efficiently find all the clues within the Chasm Delver‘s Cavern:
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Utilize an archer like Ganyu or Amber to shoot the Gray Crystal if melee attacking it is difficult.
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Bring a Pyro character to light torches and illuminate the dark cavern environment.
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Activate the nearby Waypoint and Statue of the Seven before entering for easy access.
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Mark the sand piles and Crystal locations on your map for easy navigation.
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Co-op is useful if you need help or get stuck at any point during the process.
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Healers like Bennett, Diona, and Kokomi help provide sustainability during long exploration.
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Come back later if you don‘t have the right characters leveled – the cavern remains cleared permanently.
Searching for clues within the ancient Chasm Delver‘s Cavern tests your combat, navigation, and puzzle-solving skills. But with the tips outlined in this guide, you‘ll be primed to overcome the challenges and unlock the cavern‘s buried secrets for more adventures in Sumeru.
