Sauna Cavern

Sauna Cavern
Entrance to Sauna Cavern
Floors	28
Random	Yes
Weather
Boss	Yes
Secret Room	No
Sealed chamber	No
Monster Houses	Yes
Level range*	28 to 35
Music
B1-7F	PMD2) Brine Cave
B8-18F	PMD2) Lower Brine Cave
B19-28F / Midpoint / Lava Path	PMD2) Steam Cave

Sauna Cavern (Sauna, SC) is a dungeon located in Winden, inside the sauna of Snowbasin Town. It contains the essential HM Rock Smash. Proceeding further into the dungeon will eventually lead players to Sauna Cavern Depths. The boss of the dungeon is Rhydon.

Sauna Cavern initially hosts a variety of different types of Pokémon, but boasts Fire- and Rock-type Pokémon the further players are in the dungeon. The weather on the upper floors of Sauna Cavern will start being sunny due to Torkoal's Drought.

Attributes

Traps
Icon	Name
	Grimy Trap
	Mud Trap
	Poison Trap
	PP-Zero Trap
	Spin Trap
	Wonder Tile

• Floors 1-7
• Floors 8-18
• Floors 19-28

1/3

Darkess is present throughout the dungeon. The water tiles scattered across the floor will burn any non Fire-type Pokémon that isn't immune. Starting on Floor 19, instead of water, there is lava.

Boss

After the last floor, the player will arrive at Sauna Cavern Midpoint, whereby a group of explorers consist of 1 Rhydon and 2 Machop were chasing Rolycoly out of their homes and mine fire stones found in the wall.

They have the following moves:

• Rhydon: Bulldoze, Dig, Rock Smash, Rock Throw
• Machop: Fire Punch, Karate Chop, Rock Smash, Scary Face

Boss drop:

• HM Rock Smash (Rhydon)

Dialogue:

Before fighting

• (You hear loud banging sounds coming from the entrance just ahead...)
• [Player Name]: (That can't be good...)
• Rhydon: Ha ha ha! Tiny little pests! That's what you get for trying to block our way!
• Machop: Right there, boss! There's a couple in the wall!
• Rhydon: Raaaaaargh!!!
• Rhydon: ...Whew. These cave walls are darn tough! Gah!
• Rhydon: ...Wait a sec. I hear something... Show yourself!
• [Player Name]: (...!)
• Rhydon: What are you doing here? These tunnels are our territory now, and we won't let anyone disrupt our mining operations!
• Machop: Yeah! We've worked hard to find these precious fire stones, and we won't let anybody get in our way!
• Machop: You better turn back if you know what's good for you!
• [Player Name]: (.....)
• Rhydon: Grr! Your presence here is a threat to our mining efforts. Leave now, or we'll have to make you leave!
• [Player Name]: (.........)
• Rhydon: Fine. If you won't listen to reason, then prepare for a fight!
• Rhydon: Machop, hide the stones and prepare to teach these intruders a lesson!

After defeating

• Rhydon: AAAAAGH!
• Rhydon: Grrr... Machop, report!
• Machop: I'm hurting, but I can still move. Those intruders caught us off guard with their strength.
• Rhydon: We underestimated them. No time for regrets now. We need to regroup and rethink our strategy.
• Machop: Let's get out of here. We're sitting ducks in the dark.
• (It looks like they left something on the ground near you... Better check our what it is.)

Sauna Cave, Lava Path

This rest point serves as the end of Sauna Cavern and the entrance to Sauna Cavern Depths. There's are several rocks blocking the way forward. Use of the move Rock Smash is needed to break them if a player wishes to move onto Sauna Cavern Depths. Otherwise the player can return to Snowbasin Town by going down.

NPCs
Hotshot: (The Carkol warily glares at you, refusing to speak to you.)

Pokémon

Pokémon in bold are recruitable. Please visit the Recruitable Pokémon page for more information.

Portrait	#	Pokémon	Floor	Recruit rate
	079	Slowpoke	B1-18F	10%
	183	Marill	B1-18F	10%
	325	Spoink	B1-18F	10%
	339	Barboach	B1-18F	8.5%
	618	Stunfisk	B1-18F	Unrecruitable
	932	Nacli	B1-18F	3.5%
	066	Machop	B1-28F	10%
	213	Shuckle	B1-28F	Unrecruitable
	316	Gulpin	B1-28F	8.5%
	109	Koffing	B19-28F	9%
	075	Graveler	B19-28F	Unrecruitable
	095	Onix	B19-28F	-2%
	218	Slugma	B19-28F	8.5%
	324	Torkoal	B19-28F	1.5%
	499	Pignite	B19-28F	Unrecruitable
	554	Darumaka	B19-28F	Unrecruitable
	933	Naclstack	B19-28F	Unrecruitable

Items

IS	Item	Location	Tile	Hidden
	Poké	B1-28F	Floor Wall	No Yes
	Scope Lens	B15-28F	Floor	No
	Rawst Scarf	B15-28F	Floor	No
	Def. Scarf	B1-28F	Floor	No
	Power Band	B1-28F	Floor	No
	Flame Orb	B??-??F	Floor	??
	Water Stone	B1-18F	Water	No
	Fire Stone	B19-28F	Lava	No
	Toasted Apple	B1-28F	Floor	No
	Grimy Food	B15-28F	Floor	No
	Ether	B1-28F	Floor	No
	Herbal Tea	B1-28F	Floor	No
	Cheri Berry	B1-28F	Floor	No
	Oran Berry	B1-28F	Floor	No
	Rawst Berry	B1-28F	Floor	No
	Blast Seed	B1-28F	Floor	No
	Gummis	B10-28F	Floor	No
	Smoke Ball	B1-28F	Floor	No
	Iron Thorn	B1-28F	Floor	No
	Gravelerock	B1-28F	Floor	No
	TM Acrobatics	B??F	Floor	??
	TM Incinerate	B??F	Floor	??
	TM Rock Tomb	B??F	Floor	??
	Drought Orb	B1-28F	Floor	No
	Escape Orb	B1-28F	Floor	No
	Foe-Seal Orb	B1-28F	Floor	No
	Sandy Orb	B1-28F	Floor	No
	Slumber Orb	B1-28F	Floor	No
	Totter Orb	B1-28F	Floor	No
	Warp Orb	B1-28F	Floor	No
	Big Mushroom	B1-28F	Floor	Yes
	Heart Scale	B1-28F	Wall	Yes
	Shards	B21-28F	Floor	Yes

Mystery Eggs

Sauna Cavern has Mystery Eggs that can appear starting on Floor 19.

Portrait	#	Pokémon	Location	Tile	Hidden
	218	Slugma	B19-28F	Lava	No
	324	Torkoal	B19-28F	Floor	No

Dungeon Objective

The objective of this Sauna Cavern is for players to proceed through the dungeon and obtain HM Rock Smash. The player may also wish to proceed through Sauna Cavern to access Sauna Cavern Depths and successfully defeat its corresponding boss to officially conquer Sauna Cavern.

With HM Rock Smash, players gain access to various dungeons and shortcuts in the overworld. Examples of dungeons now available to players are Mt. Barricade and Mineral Cavern.

Trivia

• Sauna Cavern was created by Sprinko.
• Sauna Cavern was remade by Syni, and was released on April 27th, 2024.
• Sauna Cavern used to be the only dungeon with 23 Floors.
• Sauna Cavern used to have a Secret Room.

Media

Video

Early PMU 7 playthrough