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[Bob Dylan]

Are there more than one of them? From all my fortresses over the years I've only ever found 1, and I've always dug to deep and greedily resulting in !!FUN!! It would be great if I could prolong my fortress for a bit longer with even just 1 extra adamantine vein. Am I just unlucky?

[Witty]

Yes. More than one adamantine spiral is capable of spawning. Maybe your fort embark zone is too small to accommodate more spirals?

[Lich180]

From the Wiki,

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"Word of Toady, and supported by all the careful research I've seen so far, is that there is one blue spire generated in every 2x2 embark grid, randomly placed amongst the four embark squares. Every 16x16 region square therefore has exactly 64 blue (and one special HFS). A 2x2 embark aligned to the grid will have exactly one blue spire. A 2x2 embark offset may have as few as none or as many as four blue spires. Over all the possible configurations of 2x2 embarks, your odds are as follows (rounded): zero blue, 20.4%; one blue, 60.6%, two blue, 17.8%, three blue, 1.8%, four blue, 0.1%, with an average (not surprisingly) of one blue; you also have a chance of special HFS of about 1.6%.
A 3x3 is guaranteed (barring serious program bugs) to have at least one blue, has an average of 2.25 blue, and a max of four blue, with a special HFS chance of about 3.5%. An unaligned 4x4 still has a minimum of one blue, but an average of four blue, and a max of nine blue; with special HFS chance of about 6.3%; aligning it with the grid gives you exactly four blue. Moving up to a 5x5 increases the minimum blue to four, with an average of 6.25 and a max still of nine; the special HFS chance is 9.8%. If you're planning on making the HFS a major part of your fortress and don't cheat with reveal, an aligned 4x2 is the smallest you can generate that is guaranteed to have multiple blue (and therefore a high chance of multiple entrances, reducing the risk that one of the spires will not be traversable)."

So essentially, if you embark with a 3x3 embark, lined up to the grid, you are almost guaranteed to have a candy vein. You might just be unlucky, or not looking enough.

[Bob Dylan]

Thanks for all the responses. I guess ill go hunting for more veins! Maybe feed some demons whilst I'm at it.

[Chevaleresse]

If you don't mind a slight hijack: I mined out some candy VERY early in my fort's lifespan (volcano embark + controlled cave-in = instant discovery of candy) but the king hasn't shown up.

[locustgate]

If you don't mind a slight hijack: I mined out some candy VERY early in my fort's lifespan (volcano embark + controlled cave-in = instant discovery of candy) but the king hasn't shown up.

I thought that he/she also needed a high population.

[Melting Sky]

You can definitely get more than one candy vein per embark and they can vary greatly in size. Look for embarks with great depth if you want lots of candy. You can find veins many dozens of Z levels in height in some cases.

[Panando]

In addition to the information on the Wiki, there can only be a maximum of 5 veins, regardless of how large the map is - essentially the veins max out for around a 6x6 embark.

[Chevaleresse]

If you don't mind a slight hijack: I mined out some candy VERY early in my fort's lifespan (volcano embark + controlled cave-in = instant discovery of candy) but the king hasn't shown up.

I thought that he/she also needed a high population.

I thought I read that the monarch would show up dressed as a migrant if one discovered adamantine early.

[samanato]

If you don't mind a slight hijack: I mined out some candy VERY early in my fort's lifespan (volcano embark + controlled cave-in = instant discovery of candy) but the king hasn't shown up.

I thought that he/she also needed a high population.

I thought I read that the monarch would show up dressed as a migrant if one discovered adamantine early.

As far as I know, this hasn't worked since .31.25 and its reworking of noble positions.