Nether Skeleton Towers and Camps

Nether Skeleton Towers and Camps are two kinds of skeleton-held surface sites that Dungeons and Taverns adds to the Nether. A tower is a tall structure built in sections and floored with skeleton units. A camp is a low, sprawling site built around a fire. Both are populated by skeletons and wither skeletons, and the camps and most towers also hold piglins and piglin brutes. Fear Nightfall classes both as horror structures. They are sparse, and they are among the harder Nether sites to find.

Generation

There are four tower variants and four camp variants. Each variant is named after the Nether biome family it grows in: crimson, soul, warped and waste.

The towers form one structure set in which each variant holds an equal one-quarter share. The towers place 42 chunks apart with a separation of 21. The camps form a second set in which each variant holds 12 of the set's 51 weight units, and they place 57 chunks apart with a separation of 28. Both spacings are the in-game values, already scaled by the pack's Sparse Structures setting. The camps are scaled much more heavily (about 2.9 times the mod default) than the towers (about 1.06 times), so camps are considerably rarer. In a 26 km² sample of the Nether, no tower or camp was observed.

The towers do not generate within 16 chunks of a nether fortress or bastion remnant, so a tower is never found in the same area as those structures.

Each variant spawns in a fixed set of biomes:

• Crimson: Crimson Forest, Undergrowth, Visceral Heap and Infernal Holt. The crimson camp and tower use the same biomes.
• Soul: Soul Sand Valley, Blackstone Basin, Withered Abyss and Black Ice Glaciers. The soul camp and tower use the same biomes.
• Warped: Warped Forest, Glistering Meadow and Mycotoxic Undergrowth. The warped camp and tower use the same biomes.
• Waste: Nether Wastes, Crystalline Chasm and Erupting Inferno. The waste camp and tower use the same biomes.

Towers start between Y 33 and Y 90 and can extend up to 75 blocks from their starting point. Camps start between Y 33 and Y 70 and can extend up to 20 blocks from their starting point.

Layout

A tower is assembled from a base section and a stack of tower sections drawn from the variant's template pool. The base is picked from the variant's plate and feature pieces. Tower floors are filled from a separate unit pool, which holds an empty unit (weight 1), a wither skeleton unit (weight 2) and a skeleton unit (weight 2). In practice, about 40% of floor units hold wither skeletons, about 40% hold skeletons and about 20% are empty.

A camp is a smaller jigsaw built around a fire piece. Each camp variant has its own pool, and the crimson pool uses a fire piece as its only element.

Inhabitants

• Crimson towers contain only skeletons and wither skeletons.
• Soul, warped and waste towers contain skeletons, wither skeletons, piglins and piglin brutes.
• All four camp variants contain piglins, piglin brutes, skeletons and wither skeletons.

Wither skeletons carry the vanilla Wither effect on their attacks, and piglin brutes hit hard in melee. Compare with Piglin Outposts, which is the separate piglin site that Dungeons and Taverns adds to the Nether.

Loot

The best loot is in the supply chest, which only the soul, warped and waste towers contain. It holds the set's rare entries, including Arcane Essence, a Blazing Fishing Rod, Blank Runestones and a Gold Tier Upgrade, which is the rarest entry. The chest table is rolled several times, so a single chest may yield several of these. See the table below for the chances of each entry.

The crimson tower has no supply chest. It uses the standard tower chest table only, which is rolled five times.

Camps use the camp chest table, which is rolled four times, and it is worth checking for gold, bones, sticks, flint, string and an enchanted bow. Structure pots in these sites use a pot table with healing potions, coal, gunpowder, glowstone dust, quartz and gold.

Under Fear Nightfall's chest mapping, these chests keep their original loot and receive additional loot from other installed mods.

Nether Skeleton Tower Crimson nova_structures:nether_skeleton_tower_crimson

Biomes (4): Crimson Forest, Undergrowth, Visceral Heap, Infernal Holt

Mobs placed in the structure: Skeleton, Wither Skeleton

Nether Skeleton Tower Soul nova_structures:nether_skeleton_tower_soul

Biomes (4): Soul Sand Valley, Blackstone Basin, Withered Abyss, Black Ice Glaciers

Mobs placed in the structure: Piglin, Piglin Brute, Skeleton, Wither Skeleton

Chest loot: nova_structures:chests/nether_skeleton_tower/skeleton_tower_supply

Item	Chance	Avg. stack
Arcane Essence	76.3%	4.1
Raw Porkchop	51.7%	3.1
Cooked Porkchop	51.0%	1.9
Coal	48.3%	1.8
Nether Quartz	48.3%	3.2
Stick	44.3%	1.8
Air	27.7%	0.0
Scroll	24.3%	1.0
Blazing Fishing Rod	19.7%	1.0
Blank Runestone	15.7%	1.0
Bomb	15.7%	1.9
Gold Tier Upgrade	5.3%	1.0
Iron Tier Upgrade	5.0%	1.0
Blue Bomb	2.7%	1.0
Amulet of Teleportation	1.3%	1.0
Ring of Expediency	1.0%	1.0
Emerald Stoneplate Ring	1.0%	1.0
Frostward Ring	1.0%	1.0
Fireward Ring	0.7%	1.0
Ring of Invisibility	0.7%	1.0
Poisonward Ring	0.7%	1.0
Conjurer's Talisman	0.3%	1.0
Ring of Recovery	0.3%	1.0
Heavy Chain	0.3%	1.0
Silver Ring	0.3%	1.0

Nether Skeleton Tower Warped nova_structures:nether_skeleton_tower_warped

Biomes (3): Warped Forest, Glistering Meadow, Mycotoxic Undergrowth

Mobs placed in the structure: Piglin, Piglin Brute, Skeleton, Wither Skeleton

Chest loot: nova_structures:chests/nether_skeleton_tower/skeleton_tower_supply

Item	Chance	Avg. stack
Arcane Essence	76.3%	4.1
Raw Porkchop	51.7%	3.1
Cooked Porkchop	51.0%	1.9
Coal	48.3%	1.8
Nether Quartz	48.3%	3.2
Stick	44.3%	1.8
Air	27.7%	0.0
Scroll	24.3%	1.0
Blazing Fishing Rod	19.7%	1.0
Blank Runestone	15.7%	1.0
Bomb	15.7%	1.9
Gold Tier Upgrade	5.3%	1.0
Iron Tier Upgrade	5.0%	1.0
Blue Bomb	2.7%	1.0
Amulet of Teleportation	1.3%	1.0
Ring of Expediency	1.0%	1.0
Emerald Stoneplate Ring	1.0%	1.0
Frostward Ring	1.0%	1.0
Fireward Ring	0.7%	1.0
Ring of Invisibility	0.7%	1.0
Poisonward Ring	0.7%	1.0
Conjurer's Talisman	0.3%	1.0
Ring of Recovery	0.3%	1.0
Heavy Chain	0.3%	1.0
Silver Ring	0.3%	1.0

Nether Skeleton Tower Waste nova_structures:nether_skeleton_tower_waste

Biomes (4): Nether Wastes, Crystalline Chasm, Erupting Inferno, Redstone Abyss (Removed)

Mobs placed in the structure: Piglin, Piglin Brute, Skeleton, Wither Skeleton

Chest loot: nova_structures:chests/nether_skeleton_tower/skeleton_tower_supply

Item	Chance	Avg. stack
Arcane Essence	76.3%	4.1
Raw Porkchop	51.7%	3.1
Cooked Porkchop	51.0%	1.9
Coal	48.3%	1.8
Nether Quartz	48.3%	3.2
Stick	44.3%	1.8
Air	27.7%	0.0
Scroll	24.3%	1.0
Blazing Fishing Rod	19.7%	1.0
Blank Runestone	15.7%	1.0
Bomb	15.7%	1.9
Gold Tier Upgrade	5.3%	1.0
Iron Tier Upgrade	5.0%	1.0
Blue Bomb	2.7%	1.0
Amulet of Teleportation	1.3%	1.0
Ring of Expediency	1.0%	1.0
Emerald Stoneplate Ring	1.0%	1.0
Frostward Ring	1.0%	1.0
Fireward Ring	0.7%	1.0
Ring of Invisibility	0.7%	1.0
Poisonward Ring	0.7%	1.0
Conjurer's Talisman	0.3%	1.0
Ring of Recovery	0.3%	1.0
Heavy Chain	0.3%	1.0
Silver Ring	0.3%	1.0

Skeleton Camp Crimson nova_structures:skeleton_camp_crimson

Biomes (4): Crimson Forest, Undergrowth, Visceral Heap, Infernal Holt

Mobs placed in the structure: Piglin, Piglin Brute, Skeleton, Wither Skeleton

Skeleton Camp Soul nova_structures:skeleton_camp_soul

Biomes (4): Soul Sand Valley, Blackstone Basin, Withered Abyss, Black Ice Glaciers

Mobs placed in the structure: Piglin, Piglin Brute, Skeleton, Wither Skeleton

Skeleton Camp Warped nova_structures:skeleton_camp_warped

Biomes (3): Warped Forest, Glistering Meadow, Mycotoxic Undergrowth

Mobs placed in the structure: Piglin, Piglin Brute, Skeleton, Wither Skeleton

Skeleton Camp Waste nova_structures:skeleton_camp_waste

Biomes (4): Nether Wastes, Crystalline Chasm, Erupting Inferno, Redstone Abyss (Removed)

Mobs placed in the structure: Piglin, Piglin Brute, Skeleton, Wither Skeleton

Tips

Bring ranged weapons for the towers, where skeletons on the floors can shoot at you. Piglin brutes are melee threats, so keep a clear retreat when you fight them.

If your goal is skeleton-only sites with no piglins, go for the crimson towers. For the best loot, search the soul, warped and waste towers for the supply chest.

The advancement Visit all Nether Skeleton Towers requires entering all four tower variants. The towers are sparse, so plan a route through all four biome families before you commit to the search.