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[Solusphere]

Since reading about the Curious Underground Structures in the wiki, i've been attempting to generate a fort containing one which I can use as an Adventure Mode boss battle, of sorts. I've made a whole bunch of fortresses in an attempt to find one, and none of them have had this feature. Making them in evil biomes doesn't seem to have had much effect either. I was wondering if anyone either has a save containing one (preferably with the, uh, "trigger" still in place) or any tips on worldgen settings and the like that would help me locate one myself?

[itisnotlogical]

If I remember, in an old thread somebody generated a candy spire that rose straight out of the ground and ~2000 z-levels in to the sky. 5 FPS of course, but that's all I can think of if you're having such bad luck finding it yourself.

[Solusphere]

Yeah, i'm aware of that, but The Curious Underground Structure is a specific map feature deliberately generated by the game. I'm trying to avoid spoilers, so look it up on the wiki if you want to see what I mean.

[itisnotlogical]

Yeah, i'm aware of that, but The Curious Underground Structure is a specific map feature deliberately generated by the game. I'm trying to avoid spoilers, so look it up on the wiki if you want to see what I mean.

I thought all candy spires led to those? I haven't played fort mode in a long time.

[Anathema]

There's exactly one in each 16x16 'local' embark area. If you embark and then use DFHack's "prospect all" function, it'll tell you at the end if you have one*. With DFHack you can also type "die" to quickly exit without saving. So pick a good local area, and it'll take at most 16 attempts to locate the curious structure within that area. Each attempt goes quickly with the help of DFHack, so once prospect has found it, you can die real quick and customize your real embark for that spot.

*Spoiler: at the end of your prospect report it will say:

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"Has Demon Temple"

[AutomataKittay]

Yeah, i'm aware of that, but The Curious Underground Structure is a specific map feature deliberately generated by the game. I'm trying to avoid spoilers, so look it up on the wiki if you want to see what I mean.

I thought all candy spires led to those? I haven't played fort mode in a long time.

Nah, it's entirely different thing to the Underworld, it's the sword in the stone that'll eat you when you pulls it out.

[Solusphere]

There's exactly one in each 16x16 'local' embark area. If you embark and then use DFHack's "prospect all" function, it'll tell you at the end if you have one*. With DFHack you can also type "die" to quickly exit without saving. So pick a good local area, and it'll take at most 16 attempts to locate the curious structure within that area. Each attempt goes quickly with the help of DFHack, so once prospect has found it, you can die real quick and customize your real embark for that spot.

Ah, awesome. Saw that on the wiki, but misunderstood what it meant. Thanks for that, that will help a lot!