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[Pan]

Are demonic fortresses affected by the cavern layers? I have never seen a clown fortress, no matter where I embark. I tried a maximum area embark earlier, and still there was no cotton candy weapon in the stocks screen. I read it's found on the third cavern layer, and I remember that I've always set my cavern layers to 1 to save FPS. Could that be the reason?

[Eoganachta]

I've only ever seen two of them and I found each via z-stocks-weapons etc and I have always found them on the thrid layer. It might just be that you havent embarked on a place with one. They're quite rare and are something you can't really plan for.

[Girlinhat]

Amazingly, we're like 2 for 5 on multiplayer.  Upright Swords seem to have some affinity for us...  They occur on the bottom cavern layer, and require a hell zone to spawn.  There's 1 per 16x16 embark area, and it's all luck.

[Jelle]

You're not alone, I've never seen a demonic fortress. I've even went looking for one in adventure mode but no luck.

[Girlinhat]

You're never going to find one in adventure mode.  Your best method for finding one is to do an 8x8 embark 4 times.  Each time, check the R rooms screen for an upright weapon.  Then ctrl-alt-del to hard shut down, and re-embark closer to the destination.  Since there's one on every 16x16, you will find it eventually.

[Jelle]

That sucks, the only practical use I can imagine for a lone adamantine weapon is for an adventurer who can't obtain one any other way then a dwarf fortress you had made adamantine toys.

[Pan]

You're never going to find one in adventure mode.  Your best method for finding one is to do an 8x8 embark 4 times.  Each time, check the R rooms screen for an upright weapon.  Then ctrl-alt-del to hard shut down, and re-embark closer to the destination.  Since there's one on every 16x16, you will find it eventually.

Ugh. Forget it. How were your experiences with the demonic fortresses?

[NecroRebel]

I've not found many, but I haven't really been looking and use small (3x3) embarks.

Oddly, one of the ones I did find was actually in the depths. As in, the clown fortress was completely beneath the semi-molten rock, and as such was completely useless as a means of penetrating the semi-molten rock. Probably bugged, that was.

[kellen]

I was always confused as to why on some embarks, when I tried to link levers up to my standard defense systems, I would get an option to link the lever to an Adamantite sword half a hundred z-levels bellow my actual lever.

Now I know.

[A-Dos]

That sucks, the only practical use I can imagine for a lone adamantine weapon is for an adventurer who can't obtain one any other way then a dwarf fortress you had made adamantine toys.

Bear in mind the Adamantine weapon is also Mastercrafted, always...

[Melagius]

You're never going to find one in adventure mode.  Your best method for finding one is to do an 8x8 embark 4 times.  Each time, check the R rooms screen for an upright weapon.  Then ctrl-alt-del to hard shut down, and re-embark closer to the destination.  Since there's one on every 16x16, you will find it eventually.

Personal experience prove you wrong.

[Lectorog]

If you really want it in adventure mode, you're going to have to uncover it with a fort first.

I think cavern layers may have some effect on this. Not sure, I've never messed with layers or the sword. Use the method for finding it; it's not like it's that hard. If it's not anywhere, you'll have to change the settings.

[Ubiq]

I've only ever ran across one and it had its entrance on the third cavern level. I found it on the second though as the fortress was in a large cavern that extended from the third layer up the second. The topmost floor of the fortress was even with the main level of the second cavern, which was a dry level since all the water in the cavern system was in a lake down by the entrance of the fortress.

So hungry heads were roaming around next to the entrance while there was a camp of cave swallowmen chilling out near its summit.

[ImBocaire]

I never found one when I set my cavern layers to 2. I'm pretty sure you need 3 cavern layers for one to spawn in your world. Other than that, it's pure luck and/or tedious scumming.

[Lectorog]

I never found one when I set my cavern layers to 2. I'm pretty sure you need 3 cavern layers for one to spawn in your world. Other than that, it's pure luck and/or tedious scumming.

It's not really tedious. 5 embarks max. All considered, that amount of time should be small in Dwarf Fortress.