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[JayThePro]

My TSK Map leads me to the middle of nowhere.  I have had the problem several times before with vampires, but never cared. I always found another vampire in the same world to kill and drink their blood. This time, there is only one vampire, and he is very close to a necromancer tower. I'd love to drink his blood and explore that tower....any help?

[itisnotlogical]

The quest marker only leads you to the general area, usually the town or village where the vampire is hiding. The idea is to ask nearby people to find out which house the vampire lives in.

[JayThePro]

That's the problem...there are no houses around for thousands of tiles...

[Frizzil]

I'm not sure if this is *always* the case, but the vampires I've found have all been flashing.  It might just be a coincidence, though, since vampires might often be 'elite' fighters given their immortality.

You can also (l)ook at villagers to see what they're wearing-- vampires generally wear clothing made out of human body parts (crowns of bone, necklaces of teeth, etc.)  Again, not sure if this is always the case.

[Kolnukbyne]

That's the problem...there are no houses around for thousands of tiles...

I used to have the same problem, I'm not exactly sure what I'd done about it. What did the person who gave you the quest say about the location?

[Tirion]

Maybe it's a non-human type of site that doesn't spawn.

[Kolnukbyne]

When I used to get this problem I always ended up at a bridge over a stream in the middle of nowhere. I think it might have been from sewers expanding way out beneath their towns, though I'm not sure if that's possible.

For this very reason I gen worlds with few vampire curses and more night trolls, megabeasts, semimegabeasts etc. ALso because vampires are freakin' boring.

[Repseki]

They aren't boring if you use Fear the Night. At least not as boring. Also, Were-Grizzly Bears!!

This sounds like a non-human site to me though.

[JayThePro]

This isn't an experience issue. I know how to find quests. I also know the types of material Vampire wear. The TSK leads me to the middle of a Dark Forest. I found another vampire, and killed him. After drinking his blood, I went to that Tower I was talking about. Now, being a Necro-Vampire, being in this forest isn't as dangerous. I strike down things with a single hit. I have about 250ish followers searching this forest, killing everything in their paths. They found a house. Apparently, It "blends" in with the trees?(Is that possible? O_O) I scroll over it, and it says its made out of the same stuff the trees are. Freaky. Haven't entered it yet

[Eric Blank]

It's not so much a bug as it is that Toady set the TSK token to lead you towards the center of the site the target resides in (or as far as I've seen it will guide you to the rough center of the territory a site occupies) rather than directly to the target themselves. This even goes for towns and villages, which are massive, and for which the "center" that the TSK token points you to is nowhere near any of the areas actually populated. The vampire IS in that town or hamlet, but won't be out there in the "center" of the site: they'll be in one of the houses (or dungeons/sewers in hamlets large enough to have a keep) in a population center.

The exception being if the vampire is supposed to be in a "dark fortress" (goblin site), "forest retreat" (elf site) or "mountain halls" (dwarf site). In which case the vampire is only their in legends mode. Because that site doesn't actually exist in-game, so the vampire technically both is and is not there. Just like the rest of the population that is supposed to be there but wasn't given any instructions for how and where to show up and thus doesn't. They will have a site to exist in in the next version. Coincidentally, by "Dark Forest," did you mean dark fortress?

Also, buildings are almost always made from the wood available to a civ, which would come from their surroundings, so it SHOULD be made from the same stuff as the surrounding forests.