| Firewatch Towers |
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| Mod | Dungeons and Taverns |
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| Variants | 9 |
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| Observed | 0 per 26 km² (all variants) |
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Firewatch Towers are narrow surface structures added by Dungeons and Taverns. Each tower is a 9 by 9 block building with a ladder running up its interior, two beds and a single chest. Most variants are 19 blocks tall, the cherry variant is 21 and the mangrove variant is 31. The towers are rare in the pack: in a 26 km² test sample of the pack's world, none were found. They are built from the wood of their biome, so the variant a player finds shows the biome it was generated in.
Generation
The towers generate on the surface in nine variants, one for each wood type. All nine variants share the structure set nova_structures:firewatch_towers with equal weight, so each variant has a 1 in 9 share of the set. The variant determines the biomes where it can appear:
- Birch is placed in birch forests, birch taiga and related biomes.
- Cherry is placed in cherry groves and the magnolia woodland biome.
- Dark Oak is placed in the spooky forest biomes, such as dark forests, ominous woods and moors.
- Forest is placed in a fixed list of forest, maple, redwood, orchard, willow and pumpkin patch biomes.
- Jungle is placed in jungle, rainforest and bamboo biomes, as well as amethyst and eucalyptus forests.
- Mangrove is placed only in floodplains, mangrove swamps and bayous.
- Savanna is placed in savanna biomes, including savanna badlands, savanna plateaus and baobab savannas.
- Swamp is placed in swamps, marshes, fens, bogs and bayous.
- Taiga is placed in the largest group of biomes, the taiga tag, which covers taigas, snowy and cold forests and old-growth taigas.
The full biome list for each variant is in the structure table under Loot.
Placement uses the random spread method with a spacing of 144 chunks and a separation of 43 chunks. Spacing is the size of the grid cell in which a tower is tried, and separation is the minimum distance between towers of the same set. These are the in-game values after the pack's sparse structure scaling. The terrain under each tower is shaped to meet the building. The placement also keeps towers out of a 10-chunk area around villages.
Fear Nightfall does not include Firewatch Towers in its list of horror structures that were placed closer together. They follow the reduced density the pack applies to ordinary surface structures, which is why they are scarce.
Layout
Each tower is a single template with no separate rooms. The ladder is the only way between levels, and it runs up the interior of the tower. The walls use the variant's wood, such as birch logs and stripped birch logs in the birch variant or oak logs and planks in the forest variant. The walls also have fences, stairs, slabs and small glass pane windows. Every variant has two beds and one chest, and most variants also have doors. The base of the tower sits on grass blocks, with some grass and tall grass around the foot.
The templates contain no light sources, so the interior is unlit when a tower generates. They also contain no mobs and no mob spawners, so a tower is empty of monsters when it is first generated.
Inhabitants
Firewatch Towers have no inhabitants of their own. Hostile mobs spawn in the biome around a tower in the usual way, and the tower's interior is no more protected from them than the surrounding terrain.
Loot
Each tower has one chest. Its loot table gives Firework Rockets with a 100% chance, paper with 96% and an empty map with 83%. The more useful rolls are arcane essence at 43%, scrolls at 33% and spyglasses at 66%. The rarest rolls are enchanted books, smithing templates and rotten spell books, which each have a chance of 2 to 3%. Uncommon ink and blank runestones have chances of 6 to 7%. The full table is below.
Firewatch Tower Birch nova_structures:firewatch_tower_birch
| Mod | Dungeons and Taverns |
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| Dimension | Overworld |
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| Spacing | 144 chunks, separation 43 (mod default ~50, ×2.88 pack spread factor) |
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| Share of set | 1/9 (nova_structures:firewatch_towers) |
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| Observed | none in 26 km² sample |
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| Biomes | 10 |
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| Loot tables | 1 |
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| ID | nova_structures:firewatch_tower_birch |
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Biomes (10): Mystic Grove, Temperate Highlands, Old Growth Birch Forest, Birch Forest, Silver Birch Forest, Autumnal Maple Forest, Birch Taiga, Rocky Shrubland, Lavender Valley, White Cliffs
Chest loot: nova_structures:chests/firewatch_tower
Firewatch Tower Cherry nova_structures:firewatch_tower_cherry
| Mod | Dungeons and Taverns |
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| Dimension | Overworld |
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| Spacing | 144 chunks, separation 43 (mod default ~50, ×2.88 pack spread factor) |
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| Share of set | 1/9 (nova_structures:firewatch_towers) |
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| Observed | none in 26 km² sample |
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| Biomes | 3 |
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| Loot tables | 1 |
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| ID | nova_structures:firewatch_tower_cherry |
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Biomes (3): Magnolia Woodland, Cherry Grove, Mauve Hills (Removed)
Chest loot: nova_structures:chests/firewatch_tower
Firewatch Tower Dark Oak nova_structures:firewatch_tower_dark_oak
| Mod | Dungeons and Taverns |
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| Dimension | Overworld |
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| Spacing | 144 chunks, separation 43 (mod default ~50, ×2.88 pack spread factor) |
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| Share of set | 1/9 (nova_structures:firewatch_towers) |
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| Observed | none in 26 km² sample |
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| Biomes | 15 |
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| Loot tables | 1 |
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| ID | nova_structures:firewatch_tower_dark_oak |
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Biomes (15): Ominous Woods, Dark Forest, Maple Forest, Temperate Highlands, Overgrown Greens, Shrubland, Redwoods, Sparse Redwoods, Lavender Valley, Grassland, Sakura Grove, Windswept Maple Forest, Mirage Isles, Sakura Valley, Moor
Chest loot: nova_structures:chests/firewatch_tower
Firewatch Tower Forest nova_structures:firewatch_tower_forest
| Mod | Dungeons and Taverns |
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| Dimension | Overworld |
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| Spacing | 144 chunks, separation 43 (mod default ~50, ×2.88 pack spread factor) |
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| Share of set | 1/9 (nova_structures:firewatch_towers) |
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| Observed | none in 26 km² sample |
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| Biomes | 12 |
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| Loot tables | 1 |
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| ID | nova_structures:firewatch_tower_forest |
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Biomes (12): Sleepy Hollows, Forest, Maple Forest, Redwood Forest, Orchard, Old Growth Forest, Willow Forest, Birch Taiga, Woodland, Pumpkin Patch, Blooming Valley, Blooming Plateau
Chest loot: nova_structures:chests/firewatch_tower
Firewatch Tower Jungle nova_structures:firewatch_tower_jungle
| Mod | Dungeons and Taverns |
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| Dimension | Overworld |
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| Spacing | 144 chunks, separation 43 (mod default ~50, ×2.88 pack spread factor) |
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| Share of set | 1/9 (nova_structures:firewatch_towers) |
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| Observed | none in 26 km² sample |
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| Biomes | 18 |
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| Loot tables | 1 |
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| ID | nova_structures:firewatch_tower_jungle |
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Biomes (18): Jungle, Rainforest, Rainforest, Sparse Jungle, Volcanic Plains, Sparse Rainforest, Fungal Jungle, Rocky Jungle, Floodplain, Bamboo Jungle, Rocky Rainforest, Bamboo Forest, Eucalyptus Forest, Tropical Jungle, Jungle Mountains, Tropics, Amethyst Rainforest, Amethyst Canyon
Chest loot: nova_structures:chests/firewatch_tower
Firewatch Tower Mangrove nova_structures:firewatch_tower_mangrove
| Mod | Dungeons and Taverns |
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| Dimension | Overworld |
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| Spacing | 144 chunks, separation 43 (mod default ~50, ×2.88 pack spread factor) |
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| Share of set | 1/9 (nova_structures:firewatch_towers) |
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| Observed | none in 26 km² sample |
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| Biomes | 3 |
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| Loot tables | 1 |
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| ID | nova_structures:firewatch_tower_mangrove |
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Biomes (3): Floodplain, Mangrove Swamp, Bayou
Chest loot: nova_structures:chests/firewatch_tower
Firewatch Tower Savanna nova_structures:firewatch_tower_savanna
| Mod | Dungeons and Taverns |
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| Dimension | Overworld |
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| Spacing | 144 chunks, separation 43 (mod default ~50, ×2.88 pack spread factor) |
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| Share of set | 1/9 (nova_structures:firewatch_towers) |
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| Observed | none in 26 km² sample |
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| Biomes | 22 |
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| Loot tables | 1 |
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| ID | nova_structures:firewatch_tower_savanna |
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Biomes (22): Savanna, Arid Highlands, Prairie, Dry Bushland, Mediterranean Forest, Hot Shrubland, Scrubland, Savanna Badlands, Savanna Plateau, Lush Savanna, Baobab Savanna, Fractured Savanna, Windswept Savanna, Ashen Savanna, Towering Cliffs, Sakura Grove, White Mesa, Savanna Slopes, Sakura Valley, Basalt Cliffs, Steppe (Removed), Barley Fields (Removed)
Chest loot: nova_structures:chests/firewatch_tower
Firewatch Tower Swamp nova_structures:firewatch_tower_swamp
| Mod | Dungeons and Taverns |
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| Dimension | Overworld |
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| Spacing | 144 chunks, separation 43 (mod default ~50, ×2.88 pack spread factor) |
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| Share of set | 1/9 (nova_structures:firewatch_towers) |
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| Observed | none in 26 km² sample |
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| Biomes | 9 |
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| Loot tables | 1 |
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| ID | nova_structures:firewatch_tower_swamp |
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Biomes (9): Bayou, Willow Swamp, Swamp, Marsh, Fen, Wetland, Bog, Marsh, Fungal Fen
Chest loot: nova_structures:chests/firewatch_tower
Firewatch Tower Taiga nova_structures:firewatch_tower_taiga
| Mod | Dungeons and Taverns |
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| Dimension | Overworld |
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| Spacing | 144 chunks, separation 43 (mod default ~50, ×2.88 pack spread factor) |
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| Share of set | 1/9 (nova_structures:firewatch_towers) |
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| Observed | none in 26 km² sample |
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| Biomes | 39 |
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| Loot tables | 1 |
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| ID | nova_structures:firewatch_tower_taiga |
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Biomes (39): Yellowstone, Blackwood Taiga, Taiga, Forested Highlands, Maple Forest, Redwood Forest, Pine Taiga, Boreal Taiga, Maple Woods, Field, Shrubland, Old Growth Pine Taiga, Willow Forest, Old Growth Spruce Taiga, Wintry Forest, Old Growth Dead Forest, Redwoods, Old Growth Golden Boreal Taiga, Old Growth Boreal Taiga, Moonlight Valley, Sparse Redwoods, Dead Forest, Siberian Taiga, Jade Cliffs, Forested Field, Wintry Lowlands, Pine Slopes, Lavender Valley, Moonlight Grove, Hot Springs, Lush Valley, White Cliffs, Frozen Cliffs, Rocky Shrubland, Siberian Grove, Cloud Forest, Lavender Forest, Temperate Grove (Removed), Pumpkin Fields (Removed)
Chest loot: nova_structures:chests/firewatch_tower
Tips
Expect the ladder to be the only way up, so clear the ground below the tower of mobs before climbing. Because the interior has no light, bring a light source before entering. The chest is the only container in the tower, so a single visit covers all of its loot. The towers are scarce, so searching the forest, taiga and swamp biomes at dusk is the most practical way to find one.
Firework Rocket
Paper
Empty Map
Spyglass
Arcane Essence
Scroll
Common Ink
Uncommon Ink
Blank Runestone
Enchanted Book
Smithing Template
Rotten Spell Book
Conjurer's Talisman
Fireward Ring
Rare Ink
Amulet of Teleportation
Air
Ring of Expediency
Frostward Ring
Heavy Chain
Ring of Invisibility
Poisonward Ring