Far Cry 5: Root Canal Live Event Guide

by enricofairme · Published May 29, 2018 4:20 PM · Updated February 21, 2025 6:05 PM

The Live Event progression for this week's Far Cry 5 challenge, Root Canal.

The new Far Cry 5 Live Event, Root Canal, is now available to complete. This week’s challenge is all about bashing cultists with melee weapons and looting teeth from their corpses. To help you easily complete this Live Event, use the Root Canal Live Event guide below. Let’s get to bashing.

Root Canal Live Event Progression

As with every previous Live Event, Root Canal offers both Personal and Community Progression with rewards for completing milestones. Here’s the breakdown:

Personal Progression:

5 Kills = 50 Silver Bars
10 Kills = Tooth and Nail Melee Weapon

Community Progression (PC):

250K Kills = 50 Silver Bars
500K Kills = Dentist “Special Outfit”

Instructions: “Use your melee weapons to crack open the cultist skulls and loot their teeth.”

How to Complete the Root Canal Live Event

Melee selection from the weapon weapon. — Utilize The Furious consumable to easily complete the Root Canal Live Event.

Getting a tooth from looting a body. — Utilize The Furious consumable to easily complete the Root Canal Live Event.

Completing this Live Event is incredibly straightforward. Start by heading to any Outpost (you may need to reset if you’re in the endgame). Once there, use “The Furious” consumable to increase your melee damage, and equip your preferred melee weapon.

Start bashing cultists with your weapon, but remember to loot their bodies for teeth after each kill. If the enemies call for reinforcements, take them out as well. Repeat this process until you’ve collected the required 10 Teeth.

This Live Event is simple and quick, so it won’t take long to complete.

Access Loot

Once you’ve finished the challenge, you’ll unlock some fun new loot:

Tooth and Nail (Melee Weapon): Head to any General Store, open the Weapons tab, and go to the Melee Weapons section. Scroll to the bottom, and you’ll find the “Tooth and Nail” bat—a bat covered in teeth, making it a perfect weapon for the job.
Dentist (Special Outfit): After the community hits the 500K kill milestone, you’ll be able to find the Dentist outfit in the Character Customization menu under the Special Outfit tab.

Similar to last week’s Friendly Fire event, this week’s Live Event was fairly easy and didn’t offer much in terms of rewards. Hopefully, future events will bring more challenging content and better loot.

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