Quicksand Cave

Quicksand Cave	りゅうさのどうくつ; Quicksand Cave
Floors:	21*
Rest stops:	Yes
Traps:	Yes
Monster Houses:	Yes
Main type:	Ground
Boss:	Mesprit*
Recruiting:	Yes
Items:	48
Money:	Allowed
Starting level:	Current
Team members:	4

Underground Lake redirects here. For the TCG card, see Underground Lake (Skyridge 141).

← Northern Desert

Quicksand Cave

Crystal Cave →

Quicksand Cave (Japanese: りゅうさのどうくつ Quicksand Cave) is a dungeon in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky located in Arid Area, underneath Quicksand Desert (Japanese: りゅうさのち). It has a total of 21 floors, with Quicksand Cave consisting of ten floors, Quicksand Pit (Japanese: りゅうさのどうくつさいしんぶ) of ten floors, and Underground Lake (Japanese: ちていのみずうみ). Mesprit serves as the boss of the dungeon, and after the credits can be recruited on subsequent visits. The dungeon is unlocked the day after the player completes the Northern Desert. After clearing the dungeon initially, it cannot be revisited until after the credits.

Gameplay

The jobs here are ranked E, A and S by default, depending on the floor. Quicksand Pit is ranked S for purpose of Treasure Boxes.

All floors are medium-sized, with varying room density - 3 to 9 rooms on most floors, 3 to 8 on some. There's usually 2-3 starting enemies on first four floors of Quicksand Cave and 2-4 on later ones. There's 1-4 items on the first three floors of Quicksand Cave and last four floors of Quicksand Pit, 2-5 items on floors 4 through 10 of Quicksand Cave and first floor of Quicksand Pit, and 3-6 items on floors 2 through 6 of Quicksand Pit.

The IQ Booster activates on odd floors past the first one (counting Quicksand Pit as continuation of Quicksand Cave). The player cannot be rescued if knocked out in Quicksand Pit. The turn limit is 1000. The enemies in this dungeon have 26IQ, granting them Status Checker IQ skill. There is light darkness in the dungeon. The Tyranitar and Hippopotas in the dungeon will cause sandstorms to occur, while Pupitar can cause them by using the move.

Pokémon encountered

Quicksand Cave

	Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
Nincada	B1F-B7F	23-24	6.4%
Vibrava	B1F-B9F	27-28	0.5%
Pupitar	B1F-B10F	23-25	0.5%
Skorupi	B1F-B10F	24-26	8.2%
Sandslash	B1F-B10F	23-25	0.5%
Mawile	B8F-B10F	24-25	6.4%

Quicksand Pit

	Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
Pupitar	B1F	25	0.5%
Skorupi	B1F-B5F	26-27	8.2%
Mawile	B1F-B5F	25-26	6.4%
Sandslash	B1F-B10F	25-27	0.5%
Tyranitar	B2F-B10F	28-30	-12%
Hippopotas	B3F-B10F	26-28	8.2%
Ninjask	B5F-B10F	27-28	0.5%

Underground Lake

Pokémon		Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
	Mesprit	N/A	42	100% ^Boss
Mesprit cannot be recruited the first time around.

Items

Ground

Item		Floors
	2-120^TD/125^S Poké	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	4 Iron Thorn	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S 4 Silver Spike	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Grimy Food	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S Silver Gummi	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S All-Hit Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S All-Mach Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S Blowback Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S Decoy Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Drought Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Escape Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S Foe-Fear Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S Foe-Hold Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S Foe-Seal Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Hurl Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S Luminous Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S Petrify Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Rollcall Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S Slumber Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S Spurn Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S Switcher Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S Totter Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S Transfer Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S Warp Orb	B1-10F, PB1-PB10F

Monster House

Item		Floors
	2-120^TD/125^S Poké	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S Blue Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S Brown Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S Grass Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S Green Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S Orange Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S Silver Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S Sky Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S White Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S Black Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S Clear Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S Gold Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S Gray Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S Pink Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S Purple Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S Red Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S Royal Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S Yellow Gummi	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S Aerial Ace	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S Attract	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S Brick Break	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Brine	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S Bullet Seed	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S Calm Mind	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Dig	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S Dive	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Embargo	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S Energy Ball	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S Explosion	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S False Swipe	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S Flash	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S Focus Blast	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S Focus Punch	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S Giga Drain	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Giga Impact	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Hidden Power	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Hyper Beam	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S Iron Tail	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S Light Screen	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S Natural Gift	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Payback	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Poison Jab	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S Protect	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S Recycle	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S Reflect	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S Rest	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S Roar	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S Rock Slide	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Roost	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Safeguard	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S Shadow Claw	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Shock Wave	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S SolarBeam	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Stealth Rock	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S Steel Wing	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Swords Dance	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S Taunt	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S Thunder Wave	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Thunderbolt	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S Torment	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	Vacuum-Cut	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^D^S Water Pulse	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F
	^T^S Wide Slash	B8-10F, PB1-PB10F

Traps encountered

This dungeon has the same traps as Northern Desert. The game will generate 2-5 of the following tiles.

Image	Trap	Appearance %
	Slumber Trap	8.33%^D/11.11%^S
	Summon Trap	12.5%^T/11.11%^S
	Trip Trap	12.5%^T/8.33%^D/11.11%^S
	Warp Trap	12.5%^T/11.11%^S
	Wonder Tile	62.5%^T/83.34%^D/55.56%^S

Other encounters

Image	Encounter	B1-B7F	B8-B10F, PB1-PB10F
	Monster House	0%	8%

Bosses

Mesprit is guaranteed to know Future Sight. The other three known moves will vary between the following: Rest, Confusion, Imprison, Protect, Swift^S and Lucky Chant. Its stats and possible moves are the same when fought in both the main story and post-game.

Mesprit Lv.42
HP: 350

Type:

Psychic

Ability:

Levitate

Held item:

None

Layout

Game	Entrance	Rest stop	Quicksand Pit	Underground Lake shore	Underground Lake
Time
Darkness
Sky

Trivia

Only in the Japanese versions, the internal data for Quicksand Pit includes an unused name for a final cutscene or boss floor: (Japanese: りゅうさのどうくつさいかそう) Quicksand Cave Bottom Layer. The games use Underground Lake as the dungeon's final floor instead.

In other languages

Quicksand Desert


Language		Title
French		Désert du Nord
German		Mahlsandwüste
Italian		Deserto delle Sabbie Mobili
Korean		유사의 땅 Yusa-ui Ttang
Spanish		Arenas Movedizas

Quicksand Cave


Language		Title
Japanese		流砂の洞窟* Ryūsa no Dōkutsu
French		Grotte Sables Mouvants
German		Treibsandhöhle
Italian		Grotta delle Sabbie Mobili
Korean		유사의 동굴 Yusa-ui Donggul
Spanish		Cueva Arenas

Quicksand Pit


Language		Title
Japanese		流砂の洞窟最深部* Ryūsa no Dōkutsu Saishinbu
French		Grotte Sables Mouvants fond
German		Treibsandgrube
Italian		Fossa delle Sabbie Mobili
Korean		유사의 동굴 최심부 Yusa-ui Donggul Choesimbu
Spanish		Sima Arenas

Underground Lake


Language		Title
Japanese		地底の湖* Chitei no Mizuumi
French		Lac Souterrain
German		Untergrundsee
Italian		Lago Sotterraneo
Korean		땅밑 호수 Ttangmit Hosu
Spanish		Lago Subterráneo

Locations in the Pokémon world in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky
Major locations
Sharpedo Bluff • Treasure Town • Kangaskhan Storage • Kecleon Shop Marowak Dojo • Chimecho Assembly • Wigglytuff's Guild • Croagunk's Swap Shop Beach • Fogbound Lake • Hot Spring • Luminous Spring • Pelipper Island Spinda's Café^S • Shaymin Village^S • Sky Peak^S
Dungeons
Main story: Beach Cave • Drenched Bluff • Mt. Bristle • Waterfall Cave • Apple Woods Side Path • Craggy Coast • Rock Path • Mt. Horn • Forest Path Foggy Forest • Steam Cave • Amp Plains • Northern Desert • Quicksand Cave Crystal Cave • Crystal Crossing • Chasm Cave • Dark Hill • Sealed Ruin Dusk Forest • Deep Dusk Forest • Treeshroud Forest • Brine Cave • Hidden Land Temporal Tower Postgame story: Mystifying Forest • Blizzard Island • Crevice Cave • Surrounded Sea Miracle Sea • Aegis Cave • Mt. Travail • The Nightmare • Spacial Rift Dark Crater Seven Treasures: Bottomless Sea • Shimmer Desert • Mt. Avalanche • Giant Volcano World Abyss • Sky Stairway • Mystery Jungle Misc optional: Concealed Ruins • Marine Resort • Serenity River • Landslide Cave Lush Prairie • Tiny Meadow • Labyrinth Cave • Oran Forest Lake Afar • Happy Outlook • Mt. Mistral • Shimmer Hill • Lost Wilderness Midnight Forest • Zero Isle North • Zero Isle East • Zero Isle West Zero Isle South • Final Maze
Dungeons exclusive to Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky
Postgame story: Sky Peak Mountain Path Misc optional: Zero Isle Center • Destiny Tower • Oblivion Forest • Treacherous Waters • Southeastern Islands • Inferno Cave Special Episodes: Star Cave • Murky Forest • Eastern Cave • Fortune Ravine • Spring Cave Southern Jungle • Boulder Quarry • Left Cave Path • Right Cave Path • Limestone Cavern • Barren Valley Dark Wasteland • Spacial Cliffs • Dark Ice Mountain • Icicle Forest • Vast Ice Mountain Demo only: Little Plains • Mt. Clear • Challenge River • Trial Forest • Guiding Sea • Hidden Shopkeeper Village

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