story structures - NicIAss/betterruins GitHub Wiki
These are story-related structures that appear in the world under specific conditions. Each structure includes information about where and how it spawns, as well as its overall placement in the progression of your world exploration. Use this page as a reference to understand where you might encounter them, and what to expect when you get there.
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built by NiclAss
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Can be found by talking to a Luxuries trader and giving him 10 rusty gears in his dialogue for a map to this structure.
You can find a new map in the top room of the tower in a aged chest on a table.
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Spawns a cold glacier landform around it with a forced temperature of -9°C
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built by Tiggetagg
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Can be located by a map found in the top room of the forlornhopetower in a aged chest on a table.
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Spawns a cold glacier landform around it with a forced temperature of -9°C
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built by Tiggetagg (help by Dampus, Bellcross, Virrno, NiclAss)
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Can be found by talking to a Luxuries trader and giving him a Large Intact Globe found in other ruins all around the map.
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built by StAdrian (hidden area by QPTech and NiclAss)
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Is spawning close to spawn so can be found randomly or you can find a map to it in any ruin randomly.
Spawning Information:
- Placement: SurfaceRuin
- Depends on Structure:
spawn - Spawn Distances: X: 2000 to 3000, Z: 2000 to 3000
- Requires Landform: "veryflat", radius 400
- Reduced vegetation and other structures to emphasize its industrious past.
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built by FreianOfVoid
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Can be found randomly in any ruin loot.
Can also be bought as a map from treasure hunter trader shop inventory. Not guaranteed to be in their trade, so check his inv regularly.
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built by Tiggetagg
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Can be found by talking to a Luxuries trader and giving him a meteoric iron knife in his dialogue for a map to this structure.
Contains a lot of maps to further places.
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built by FreianOfVoid
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Can be found in a chest in the Crossroads story structure near a corpse.
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built by Virrno
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Can be found in a vessel in the Crossroads story structure.
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built by Yapludepatte
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Can be found in a vessel in the Crossroads story structure.
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built by Sirayne
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https://sirayne.carrd.co/#sunrift-experiment-structure
Map can be found by talking to the lux trader and bringing him an Iron Pickaxe. Map can also be found in a very rare surface structure.
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built by Nybygget (Lore by quilladile)
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The map can be found by talking to an agricultural trader and bringing him a gold scythe.
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built by Virrno
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The map can be found in the crossroads. (This structures was recently moved from megastructures category to story structures category.)









































