Into The Hive Cave Exploration: Routes and Extraction

Explore toward your mission objective while fighting insect swarms, use destructible cave walls to open routes where needed, and return to extraction after completing the mission. Into The Hive’s caves are randomly generated, so your route depends on the layout you encounter.

Understand the cave layout

Into The Hive sends one to four players into sprawling cave systems. Exploration and combat happen together: you work through insect swarms while looking for a route toward your mission objective.

Random generation makes the current cave layout central to navigation. Use the objective as the purpose of your exploration, and work out how the passages you encounter can take you toward it. This applies whether you enter alone or with other players; both take place within the same cave-mission structure.

Open routes through destructible walls

Destructible terrain gives you another way to move through the caves. Breaking through a destructible wall opens a route, letting you change the available passages as you explore.

That connects wall breaking directly to navigation: the cave’s existing openings are only part of how you can find your way forward. When destructible terrain offers a useful place to pass through, opening it can become part of your route toward the objective. The wall-breaking guide covers that topic separately.

Return to extraction after the objective

Mission completion comes before the run back to extraction. Treat reaching and finishing the objective as the point when your destination changes: your next task is to return to extraction.

This gives cave exploration two purposes during a mission—finding your way toward the objective, then making your way back out. For more on that final stage, see the extraction guide.

Choose your camera view

You can switch between first-person and third-person views during gameplay. Both are available while playing, so choose the perspective you prefer as you explore and fight through the caves.