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[ArdentPenguin]

In a relatively new fortress (about one year in) I go to the Stocks screen to find where the fortress axe is, since nobody seems to be chopping wood.

We have two picks... an axe... and a TWO-HANDED ADAMANTINE SWORD. 157 levels below ground, in an entirely unrevealed area of the map. It's marked blue on the stocks screen, the way merchant's gear and such is marked blue, and obviously I can't actually see the sword itself.

I know trying to mine it out would be a terrible mistake, but this sword... it calls to me...

[I assume this is an HFS-related bug? I definitely shouldn't be able to see that]

[ISGC]

I suggest you dig straight for it and find out for yourself.
it's more FUN that way.

[BurnedToast]

you are correct in that you should not be able to see it, it's the same old bug that lets you see GCS webs and such before you reveal them.

Anyway, you might as well dig straight for it now that you know it's there. It's probably pretty valuable and you might even be able to get one of your dorfs to use it! What's the worst that could happen?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Seriously, that sword will easily be the crown jewel of your fort, go get it as soon as you can. It's very suprising how easy Toady made to get at it, but I suppose that'll be fixed in a future update. You might need, at most, two or three soliders. Don't worry, it's a piece of cake.

[ArdentPenguin]

I suppose there's only one way to find out!

* ArdentPenguin goes to designate 150+ up-down stairways...

[Drakeero]

*hides in his bunker*

[Vehudur]

I agree, what's the worst that could possibly happen?

[arzzult]

It's a tra-
You know what? I'll just let you find out for your self. Have Fun.

[krisslanza]

What are the odds on finding them anyway? I only managed to ever 'find' one, and that was because the parameters and site had been told about. I can never find them in my own worlds

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Well, have fun.

[ArdentPenguin]

(I'm aware it's a trap - I plan on backing up a save before sinking the staircase)

(...sorry if I spoiled anybody's fun )

[Drakeero]

savescum BEFORE you start digging the stairs just in case you're one of the unfortunate people who get huge FPS dings from having too many stairs on their map.

[ArdentPenguin]

Heh, well,

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dug straight down until I finally hit a slade structure of some sort. Dug around and further down, and uncovered a massive complex of zombie and skeletal surface and cave creatures. Hordes of macaques, camels, naked mole dogs, all skeletal or zombified... FPS dropped from 100 to about 20, miasma everywhere. Total chaos.

The sword is down on a lower level of the complex, so I couldn't even get there before being torn to shreds. I'd wait to see the ultimate gory results, but it'll take a long time with this framerate, so looks like I'm savescumming.

Never seen this particular kind of HFS... crazy shit. Dunno if they're skeletal/zombies because I'm on a haunted biome, or if they'd always be that way.

EDIT: Spoiler tag is an actual spoiler, not a picture.

[Namfuak]

Change title to "Cotton Candy" or "Blue" please.

Other than that, what you uncovered is a "Demon Fortress."  The wiki doesn't give much more info than what you just said, but from what I understand there is one on every 16x16 of possible embarks, so if you were to make a 16x16 embark map and then find it, then to make another fortress with a normal embark square in the place where you found it it would still be there.

[Zaik]

What are the odds on finding them anyway? I only managed to ever 'find' one, and that was because the parameters and site had been told about. I can never find them in my own worlds

There's one in every "Regional Map" tile, which is 16x16 "Local Map" tiles.

with a 2x2 you've got a 1 in 64 chance, 3x3 is about 1 in 28.5, 4x4 = 1 in 16.

If you absolutely need to find one, Embark on the whole Local Map area, figure out about where it is, savescum(to save cavern mud, if you just reclaim you lose it all), then re-embark around where it was at.

Takes a bit, but it's a lot faster than going around making 2x2s over and over hoping for one or something.