Magma Cavern

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Magma Cavern マグマの地底 Magma Depths

Basic info Floors: 26* Rest stops: Yes Traps: No Monster Houses: Yes Main type: Ground, Rock, Poison*, Ground*RB Ground, PoisonRTDX Boss: Groudon

Allowances Recruiting: Yes Items: Allowed Money: Allowed Starting level: Current Team members: 3

Location

Magma Cavern (Japanese: マグマの地底 Magma Depths) is the fifteenth dungeon in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX. It contains 26 total floors and is the penultimate dungeon to be visited during the game's main storyline. The dungeon's first section consists of 23 floors and ends in Magma Cavern Pit (Japanese: マグマの地底　最下層 Magma Depths - Bottom Layer) which contains a further 3 floors. It is home to Groudon.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Once the player completes Uproar Forest and finishes at least four missions, Pokémon Square will form a team to rescue Alakazam's team, which hasn't returned. The dungeon will be unlocked once the player finishes at least two missions after that happens and finishes the Team Base.

The visual theme of floors 1 to 7 is normal rock with magma leaking out, for floors 8 to 17 it is hot rock with more magma present, and on floors 18 to 23, the rock becomes blackened with heat, featuring more magma than any other dungeon in the game. In the original games, after floor 23 lies a Kangaskhan Rock and a door that leads to Magma Cavern Pit.

The music in the regular Magma Cavern is unique to this dungeon, and is present on all floors (with the exception of floors 80-89 of Wish Cave).

Gameplay

Generation III

Monster Houses may appear on floors 8-20. Shops may appear on floors 2-6. There is a chance of finding a buried item in floor 1 of Magma Cavern Pit. Darkness shrouds all floors, limiting field of sight to 2 tiles in hallways.

Generation VIII

The boss floor is made of solid rock floating above a layer of magma. When the boss battle starts, the ground shakes, causing the team's Pokémon to be scattered across the floor. Every few turns, magma floods the floor tiles or drains into the ground. Any non-Fire-type Pokémon that touches the magma will get burned.

Pokémon encountered

Generation III

Magma Cavern

Pokémon		Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
	Raticate	1-3	19	Unrecruitable
	Sandshrew	1-6	20	10.4%
	Nidoqueen	1-6	20	Unrecruitable
	Nidoking	1-6	21	Unrecruitable
	Graveler	5-10	22	-19%
	Magmar	7-11	21	Unrecruitable
	Mawile	8-12	20	7.1%
	Arbok	8-14	21	Unrecruitable
	Magcargo	9-14	21	Unrecruitable
	Rhydon	14-20	23	Unrecruitable
	Sandslash	15-20	24	Unrecruitable
	Golem	15-20	15	-30%
	Grimer	15-21	20	12.2%
	Onix	21-23	30	9.6%

Magma Cavern Pit

Pokémon		Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
	Onix	1	30	9.6%
	Steelix	1	25	Unrecruitable
	Groudon	3	27	-10% Boss
Groudon cannot be recruited until after the end credits.

Generation VIII

This section is incomplete. Please feel free to edit this section to add missing information and complete it. Reason: Mystery House levels, floors

Pokémon		Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
	Raticate	1-3	24	10.8%
	Sandshrew	1-6	24	10.8%
	Nidoqueen	2-5	24	10.8%
	Nidoking	2-5	24	10.8%
	Graveler	3-8	25	10.8%
	Crobat	3-8	24	10.8%
	Magmar	8-13	30	10.8%
	Arbok	8-13	24	10.8%
	Mawile	10-16	24	10.8%
	Magcargo	12-19	38	-2.2%
	Koffing	16-22	24	10.8%
	Rhydon	16-22	42	-2.2%
	Sandslash	20-23	24	10.8%
	Golem	20-25	25	10.8%
	Grimer	20-25	24	10.8%
	Onix	23-25	24	10.8%
	Steelix	24-25	24	10.8%
	Groudon	26	28	100% Boss
Fainted Pokémon
	Cloyster	2-22	28	100%
	Staryu	2-22	26	100%
	Jumpluff	2-22	29	100%
	Lunatone	2-22	26	100%
	Solrock	2-22	26	100%
	Relicanth	2-22	26	100%
Mystery House
	Graveler	2-22	?	100%
	Onix	2-22	?	100%
	Steelix	2-22	?	100%
	Mawile	2-22	?	100%
	Lunatone	2-22	24	100%
	Solrock	2-22	?	100%
	Claydol	2-22	36	100%
	Relicanth	2-22	?	100%
	Metagross	2-22	?	100%
	Probopass	2-22	24	100%
Groudon cannot be recruited until after the end credits After the credits roll, Groudon will revert to its primal state after enough damage is dealt

Items

Generation III

Magma Cavern

Item		Floors
	4-278 Poké	1-23F
	Gold Ribbon	1-23F
	Heal Ribbon	1-23F
	Pecha Scarf	1-23F
	Persim Band	1-23F
	Power Band	1-23F
	Racket Band	1-23F
	Special Band	1-23F
	Stamina Band	1-23F
	Warp Scarf	1-23F
	Insomniscope	1-23F
	Scope Lens	1-23F
	X-Ray Specs	1-23F
	3-4 Gravelerock	1-23F
	5-7 Iron Thorn	1-23F
	5-7 Silver Spike	1-23F
	Apple	1-23F
	Black Gummi	1-23F
	Gray Gummi	1-23F
	Red Gummi	1-23F
	Silver Gummi	1-23F
	Aerial Ace	1-23F
	Attract	1-23F
	Brick Break	1-23F
	Bullet Seed	1-23F
	Dig	1-23F
	Earthquake	1-23F
	Facade	1-23F
	Fire Blast	1-23F
	Flamethrower	1-23F
	Focus Punch	1-23F
	Giga Drain	1-23F
	Frustration	1-23F
	Hidden Power	1-23F
	Rest	1-23F
	Return	1-23F
	Roar	1-23F
	Safeguard	1-23F
	Secret Power	1-23F
	Shadow Ball	1-23F
	Shock Wave	1-23F
	Solarbeam	1-23F
	Taunt	1-23F
	Thief	1-23F
	Thunderbolt	1-23F
	Torment	1-23F
	Toxic	1-23F
	Link Box	1-23F

Magma Cavern Pit

Item		Floors
	4-514 Poké	1F

Kecleon Shop

Item		Floors
	Gold Ribbon	2-6F
	Joy Ribbon	2-6F
	Heal Ribbon	2-6F
	Pecha Scarf	2-6F
	Persim Band	2-6F
	Power Band	2-6F
	Racket Band	2-6F
	Stamina Band	2-6F
	Warp Scarf	2-6F
	Insomniscope	2-6F
	Scope Lens	2-6F
	X-Ray Specs	2-6F
	Apple	2-6F
	Big Apple	2-6F
	Cheri Berry	2-6F
	Oran Berry	2-6F
	Pecha Berry	2-6F
	Rawst Berry	2-6F
	Reviver Seed	2-6F
	Max Elixir	2-6F
	Blowback Orb	2-6F
	Hurl Orb	2-6F
	Lob Orb	2-6F
	Petrify Orb	2-6F
	Pounce Orb	2-6F
	Stayaway Orb	2-6F
	Switcher Orb	2-6F
	Warp Orb	2-6F

Monster House

Item		Floors
	4-278 Poké	8-20F
	Aerial Ace	8-20F
	Attract	8-20F
	Brick Break	8-20F
	Bullet Seed	8-20F
	Calm Mind	8-20F
	Dig	8-20F
	Earthquake	8-20F
	Facade	8-20F
	Fire Blast	8-20F
	Flamethrower	8-20F
	Focus Punch	8-20F
	Frustration	8-20F
	Giga Drain	8-20F
	Hidden Power	8-20F
	Ice Beam	8-20F
	Light Screen	8-20F
	Psychic	8-20F
	Reflect	8-20F
	Rest	8-20F
	Return	8-20F
	Roar	8-20F
	Safeguard	8-20F
	Secret Power	8-20F
	Shadow Ball	8-20F
	Shock Wave	8-20F
	Solarbeam	8-20F
	Taunt	8-20F
	Thief	8-20F
	Thunderbolt	8-20F
	Torment	8-20F
	Toxic	8-20F
	Blowback Orb	8-20F
	Escape Orb	8-20F
	Evasion Orb	8-20F
	Hurl Orb	8-20F
	Petrify Orb	8-20F
	Pounce Orb	8-20F
	Radar Orb	8-20F
	Rebound Orb	8-20F
	Rollcall Orb	8-20F
	Scanner Orb	8-20F
	Switcher Orb	8-20F
	Trawl Orb	8-20F
	Warp Orb	8-20F

Buried items

Item		Floors
	Gold Ribbon	1F
	3-4 Gravelerock	1F
	Silver Spike	1F
	Banana	1F
	Joy Seed	1F
	Life Seed	1F
	Sitrus Berry	1F
	Calcium	1F
	Ginseng	1F
	Iron	1F
	Protein	1F
	Zinc	1F
	Huge Apple	1F
	Black Gummi	1F
	Blue Gummi	1F
	Brown Gummi	1F
	Clear Gummi	1F
	Gold Gummi	1F
	Grass Gummi	1F
	Gray Gummi	1F
	Green Gummi	1F
	Orange Gummi	1F
	Pink Gummi	1F
	Purple Gummi	1F
	Red Gummi	1F
	Royal Gummi	1F
	Silver Gummi	1F
	Sky Gummi	1F
	White Gummi	1F
	Yellow Gummi	1F
	Cleanse Orb	1F
	Decoy Orb	1F
	Drought Orb	1F
	Escape Orb	1F
	Evasion Orb	1F
	Fill-In Orb	1F
	Hail Orb	1F
	Hurl Orb	1F
	Identify Orb	1F
	Invisify Orb	1F
	Itemizer Orb	1F
	Lob Orb	1F
	Longtoss Orb	1F
	Luminous Orb	1F
	Mobile Orb	1F
	Mug Orb	1F
	One-Room Orb	1F
	One-Shot Orb	1F
	Petrify Orb	1F
	Pierce Orb	1F
	Pounce Orb	1F
	Quick Orb	1F
	Radar Orb	1F
	Rainy Orb	1F
	Rebound Orb	1F
	Rocky Orb	1F
	Rollcall Orb	1F
	Sandy Orb	1F
	Scanner Orb	1F
	See-Trap Orb	1F
	Shocker Orb	1F
	Silence Orb	1F
	Sizebust Orb	1F
	Slow Orb	1F
	Slumber Orb	1F
	Snatch Orb	1F
	Stairs Orb	1F
	Stayaway Orb	1F
	Sunny Orb	1F
	Switcher Orb	1F
	Totter Orb	1F
	Transfer Orb	1F
	Trapbust Orb	1F
	Trapper Orb	1F
	Trawl Orb	1F
	Two-Edge Orb	1F
	Warp Orb	1F

Generation VIII

Magma Cavern

Item		Floors
	10-102 Poké	1-25F
	Cover Band	1-25F
	Defense Band	1-25F
	Detect Band	1-25F
	Efficient Bandanna	1-25F
	Joy Ribbon	1-25F
	Heal Ribbon	1-25F
	Mach Ribbon	1-25F
	Nullify Bandanna	1-25F
	Power Band	1-25F
	Prosper Ribbon	1-25F
	Twist Band	1-25F
	Zinc Band	1-25F
	Fickle Specs	1-25F
	Heavy Rotation Specs	1-25F
	3-6 Geo Pebble	1-25F
	Grimy Food	1-25F
	Cheri Berry	1-25F
	Oran Berry	1-25F
	Pecha Berry	1-25F
	Rawst Berry	1-25F
	Blast Seed	1-25F
	Eyedrop Seed	1-25F
	Sleep Seed	1-25F
	Stun Seed	1-25F
	Tiny Reviver Seed	1-25F
	Totter Seed	1-25F
	Training Seed	1-25F
	Max Ether	1-25F
	Dazzling Gleam TM	1-25F
	Giga Impact TM	1-25F
	Ice Beam TM	1-25F
	Return TM	1-25F
	Rock Polish TM	1-25F
	Snarl TM	1-25F
	Stone Edge TM	1-25F
	Sunny Day TM	1-25F
	Surf TM	1-25F
	Foe-Hold Orb	1-25F
	Revive All Orb	1-25F
	2-4 Confuse Wand	1-25F
	2-4 Petrify Wand	1-25F
	3-5 Slow Wand	1-25F
	3-4 Slumber Wand	1-25F
	3-4 Stayaway Wand	1-25F
	3-4 Switcher Wand	1-25F
	3 Whirlwind Wand	1-25F

Sparkling Floor

Item		Floors
	Big Apple	1-25F
	Sitrus Berry	1-25F
	Eyedrop Seed	1-25F
	Heal Seed	1-25F
	Life Seed	1-25F
	Reviver Seed	1-25F
	Tiny Reviver Seed	1-25F
	Max Elixir	1-25F
	Calcium	1-25F
	Carbos	1-25F
	Protein	1-25F
	Zinc	1-25F
	Foe-Hold Orb	1-25F
	Foe-Seal Orb	1-25F
	Health Orb	1-25F
	Nullify Orb	1-25F
	Revive All Orb	1-25F
	Rollcall Orb	1-25F
	Slumber Orb	1-25F
	Trapbust Orb	1-25F

Monster House

Item		Floors
	10-101 Poké	1-25F
	Cover Band	1-25F
	Mach Ribbon	1-25F
	3-6 Geo Pebble	1-25F
	Grimy Food	1-25F
	Oran Berry	1-25F
	Rawst Berry	1-25F
	Eyedrop Seed	1-25F
	Tiny Reviver Seed	1-25F
	Totter Seed	1-25F
	Max Ether	1-25F
	Max Elixir	1-25F
	All Dodge Orb	1-25F
	Foe-Hold Orb	1-25F
	Revive All Orb	1-25F
	Slow Orb	1-25F
	Slumber Orb	1-25F
	Trapbust Orb	1-25F
	3 Confuse Wand	1-25F
	2 Petrify Wand	1-25F
	3-4 Slow Wand	1-25F
	4 Slumber Wand	1-25F

Traps encountered

Generation VIII

This section is incomplete. Please feel free to edit this section to add missing information and complete it. Reason: needs percentages

Note: The % are rough estimates.

Image	Trap	Floor 1-25
	Gust Trap	? %
	Hunger Trap	? %
	Slow Trap	? %
	Slumber Trap	? %
	Spin Trap	? %
	Warp Trap	? %
Warp Trap is visible at the start of the floor surrounded by three items and lava.

Other encounters

Generation III

Image	Tile	Floor 1, 7, 21-23	Floor 2, 5-6	Floor 3-4	Floor 8-20
	Kecleon Carpet	0%	5%	10%	0%
	Monster House	0%			8%

Bosses

Generation III

First encounter	Rematch
Type: Ground Unknown Ability: Drought Held item: None Groudon Lv.27 HP: 500 AncientPower Rock   --       Slash Normal   --       Scary Face Normal   --       Mud Shot Ground   --	Type: Ground Unknown Ability: Drought Held item: None Groudon Lv.37 HP: 500 AncientPower Rock   --       Slash Normal   --       Bulk Up Fighting   --       Earthquake Ground   --

Generation VIII

First encounter

	Type: Ground Unknown Ability: Drought Held item: None
Groudon Lv.28 HP: 1572
Hammer Arm Fighting Physical   --       Precipice Blades Ground Physical   --       Roar Normal Status   --       Lava Plume Fire Special   --

Rematch (Phase 1)

	Type: Ground Unknown Ability: Drought Held item: None
Groudon Lv.50 HP: 2187
Hammer Arm Fighting Physical   --       Precipice Blades Ground Physical   --       Eruption Fire Special   --       Earthquake Ground Physical   --

Rematch (Phase 2)

	Types: Ground Fire Ability: Desolate Land Held item: None
Primal Groudon Lv.50 HP: 1942
Hammer Arm Fighting Physical   --       Precipice Blades Ground Physical   --       Eruption Fire Special   --       Earthquake Ground Physical   --

Layout

	Entrance	Magma Cavern interior	Magma Cavern Pit	Bottom
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In animation

Magma Cavern in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Team Go-Getters Out of the Gate!

Magma Cavern briefly appeared in a flashback in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Team Go-Getters Out of the Gate!. Snubbull informed the Whiscash Elder at the Whiscash Pond that Team A.C.T. had left on a mission to save a Plusle and a Minun there.

In the manga

Magma Cavern in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Ginji's Rescue Team

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Ginji's Rescue Team

Magma Cavern was the location where Ginji and Mudkip headed in order to meet Ninetales and find out if Ginji was truly the cursed human causing natural disasters. They finally reached the Magma Cavern in Why I Became a Pokémon. The Answer Finally Revealed!!, but were surprised by the arrival of Team A.C.T., who had come to take Mudkip away. Refusing to be taken away, Ginji and Mudkip engaged in a battle against the Gold Rank team, but soon Ninetales arrived, halting the fight. Ninetales then revealed that the real cursed human being was actually Gengar, whose appearance in the Pokémon world was resulting in Groudon's awakening, thus causing all the natural disasters that had happened recently.

In Tears and Emotions - It's the Final Chapter!, Groudon was completely awakened. Gengar revealed that he intended to have Groudon destroy the entire Pokémon world, as it was the cause of his current state. Groudon, however, didn't listen to him, and almost crushed him under falling rocks, only to be saved by Mudkip. All of Ginji's friends from Pokémon Square, as well as the Absol he and Mudkip had met in Frosty Forest, arrived to their help. Thanks to Gengar, who had finally realized the error of his ways, distracting Groudon with his Double-Edge, everybody got a chance to attack Groudon together, successfully defeating the Continent Pokémon and saving the Pokémon world.

In other languages

Magma Cavern Language Title French Mine Magma German Magmahöhle Italian Caverna Magma Korean 마그마 지하 Magma Jiha Spanish Caverna Magma

Magma Cavern Pit Language Title French Mine Magma - FondRTDX Mine Magma-FondRB German Magmahöhlentiefe Italian Antro Magma Korean 마그마 지하 최하층 Magma Jiha Choehacheung Spanish Sima Magma

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