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The Miner
The Cave

The Miner

Follow our comprehensive guide to The Miner section in The Cave, detailing how to use dynamite, mine carts, and characters to overcome obstacles and collect Cave Paintings.

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Follow our comprehensive guide to The Miner section in The Cave, detailing how to use dynamite, mine carts, and characters to overcome obstacles and collect Cave Paintings.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    Grab the bucket, fill it at the Water Puddle, and return to the miner.
  2. 2
    When the miner throws dynamite, grab it with the bucket to extinguish it.
  3. 3
    Climb up, jump off the rope to the right, and use the Dynamite and Flame to enter a side cavern.
  4. 4
    Use one character to block the mine cart below the crane.
  5. 5
    Use another character to pull the Claw Lever and collect the Cave Painting.
  6. 6
    Push the mine cart through to reach the miner.
  7. 7
    Return to the miner, grab another stick of dynamite, and use it on the rocks above the Water Puddle.
  8. 8
    Use all three characters to create counterweight pressure to push the mine cart into the left tunnel.
  9. 9
    Collect the Cave Painting in the upper left before leaving.
  10. 10
    Return to the miner for a stick of dynamite and blow up the rocks above the previous area.
  11. 11
    Head inside, jump across the gap to collect a Cave Painting, and go down to the mine cart.
  12. 12
    With the character holding the shovel, jump into the cart and push them into the tunnel with the other character.
  13. 13
    Ensure you are controlling the character with the shovel as you pass through the tunnel and slap the Track Switch to direct the cart to the miner.
  14. 14
    Bring all three characters onto the weakened track to drop down.
Tips
  • All three characters can be killed by one Miner's dynamite.
  • Use one character to position the mine cart below the claw and another to use the lever to access a sealed passage after catching dynamite in a bucket of water.
  • Use all three characters as counterweights to move the cart to the track on the central left.
  • Grab the Cave Painting as you enter the area after the second dynamite blast.
  • Put the character with the shovel in the cart and push them into the tunnel.
  • Ensure the character with the shovel passes through the tunnel to slap the Track Switch.

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