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[[image:New Twilight Forest Dark Tower.png|720x377px]]
|image=Dark Tower - Outside
|biome=Dark Forest Center
|blocks=[[Towerwood]]<br>Dark Tower Devices<br>[[Twilight Oak Log]]s<br>[[Darkwood Log]]s<br>Spruce Stairs<br>Oak Fences<br>Netherrack<br>Various Saplings & Flowers<br>Ladders<br>Redstone Devices
|boss=Ur-Ghast
|id=dark_tower
}}


Rising ominously over the [[Dark Forest]] are the awe-inspiring '''Dark Towers'''. So tall that they seem to pierce the sky itself, these immense constructions contain all manner of unique rooms, obstacles, treasure and monsters to explore and fight on the epic journey to the top. They are generally found at the very heart of a Dark Forest, where the thick, choking foliage becomes a strange, autumn-like hue, perhaps due to the sinister influence of the Tower.
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These colossal towers can only be found acceding out of a [[Biomes#Dark%20Forest|Dark Forest]]. There are many unique floors, themes, obstacles, treasure, and monsters which you can find throughout the Dark Tower. The entrance of the Dark Tower is made up of [[Dark Tower Mechanism Blocks#Reappearing%20Block|Reappearing Blocks]], and can be found by traveling through the Dark Forest.</span>


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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dark Towers resemble [[Lich Tower|Lich Towers]], but are instead much larger, and made up of many different types of [[Towerwood]]</span>, an almost unbreakable wood found in, mossy, infested, cracked, and encased. Adventures may also find many strange and unique items and blocks such as,[http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Netherrack Netherrack], [http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Soul_sand Soul Sand], [http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Nether_Wart Nether Wart], [http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Redstone_lamp Redstone Lamps], and more. Some of the towers connected to the Dark Tower are is also made out of Netherbursts.


=Features=
Below you can see an example of a Netherburst.
Superficially, Dark Towers resemble the [[Lich Tower]]s scattered elsewhere in the Twilight Forest, in that it has a central shaft from which many smaller towers and turrets jut out from at seemingly random places along the walls. This is where the similarities end, for those smaller towers may as well be child's toys compared to this monster. Stretching at least twice as tall again, a typical Dark Tower may have several shafts above the main structure anchored into the ground, only reachable by climbing up into the smaller turrets.


Another obvious difference is that instead of stone, the tower is built out of the appropriately named [[Towerwood]], a ruddy orange wood that is incredibly dense and difficult to break, with an encased variety forming the corners and frames within and throughout the tower. Despite it's unearthly toughness, even here the passage of time marches on - moss has crept onto some parts, cracks have formed over the years and even some parts have been infested with creatures. In the main though, the tower still stands proud. No windows are set into the walls, but oddly, huge holes can be glimpsed in the sides of the turrets connected to the tower, with netherrack strewn amongst damage burning eternally. As the tower has not collapsed, clearly the towerwood appears to be immune to fire.
[[image:Twilight Forest Netherburst.png|560x293px]]


Finally, once inside there are wondrous technological devices and all manner of rooms with various functions, all linked together by small passages and blocks that respond to touch, serving as doors between the various chambers. [[Vanishing Block]]s disappear upon being activated, while [[Reappearing Block]]s will return to their physical form after a few seconds. Caution is advised as being in the way of a Reappearing block when it reforms would be unpleasant.
There are many different rooms, floors, and towers that make up the Dark Towers. These rooms may contain monster spawners, but also many unique treasures such as, [http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Enchanted_book Enchanted Books], [[Steeleaf]], [[Ironwood]], [http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Redstone Redstone], [http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Diamond Diamonds], and more. One special treasure that you can find in these chests are [[Tower Key|Tower Keys]]. In order to travel to the top of the Dark Tower, one must search the many floors and towers, looking for the four Tower Keys to complete the [[Dark Tower Mechanism Blocks#Locked/Unlocked%20Vanishing%20Block|Locked Vanishing Block]] doors.


===Entrance===
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The mobs that inhabit the Dark Towers are Skeletons, Creepers, Endermen, Blazes, [[Pinch Beetle|Pinch Beetles]], [[Carminite Ghastguard|Carminite Ghastguards]] (spawning outside the tower), [[Carminite Ghastling|Carminite Ghastlings]], [[Carminite Golem|Carminite Golems]], [[Towerwood Borer|Towerwood Borers]], and [[Carminite Broodling|Carminite Broodlings]]. The Carminite Monsters and the Towerwood Borer can only be found in the Dark Tower.</span>
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Upon reaching the base of the tower, there are usually several entrances into small antechambers. These can be entered via the reappearing doors into an entrance hall with a staircase leading up.


===Maze===
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finally, the peak of the Dark Tower in covered in Netherbursts and is home to the terrifying [[Ur-ghast]]. The Ur-ghast is a gigantic creature with long tentacles with blood on them. The Ur-ghast will fire fireballs, summon minions, and stay at the peak of the Dark Tower until defended. Upon the Ur-ghast's defeat, a treasure chest will spawn in the middle of the peak containing valuable treasure. </span>
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Only found near the bottom of the tower, this seems to be a test for those who would try to explore the tower. This area consists of narrow corridors and reappearing doors, with some double chests containing food and loot hidden in side passages. The maze is not difficult to navigate, with another staircase leading up out of it.


===Support Beam Chamber===
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Below you can see pictures from the middle and bottom of the Dark Tower.</span>
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This is a large vaulted space with many log beams criss-crossing through the space with ladders on them. Climbing is made more difficult with ladders placed below vertical beams, requiring tricky maneuvers to avoid falling back down. Sometimes [[Anti-Builder]] devices are placed within the space, preventing block placement to bypass the ladders. Other explorers have reported that magical spawners for [[Carminite Ghastling]]s may be found here as well, presenting a difficult challenge as their attacks may damage or destroy the beams.


===Builder Chamber===
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Even higher in height and mostly empty, this awesome space seems impossible to climb, with no visible walkways, stairs or ladders up to the shadowed platforms above. Instead, what is found here are floating masses of {{mcw|Redstone Lamp|Redstone Lamps}} with small platforms of encased towerwood and [[Carminite Builder]] devices. There are always Anti-Builders here as well, preventing an easy climb. Instead, one must use the Builders to form temporary bridges and stairs from one platform to another, all while watching their step extremely carefully - one wrong move here may well be the last. Truly, those who have successfully ascended to the top of these rooms show an understanding of, and mastery of the Carminite devices.


===Smelting Room===
[[image:New Twilight Forest Dark Tower 2.png|360x188px]][[image:New Twilight Forest Dark Tower 3.png|360x188px]]
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Similar in design to the entrance hall, here there are multiple {{mcw|Furnace|Furnaces}} to be found set in the walls on raised wooden platforms, along with two Anvils in varying states of repair.
 
===Dispensary===
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Identical to smelting rooms, but instead there are {{mcw|Dispenser|Dispensers}} in the walls instead of furnaces. Occasionally a {{mcw|Brewing Stand|Brewing Stand}} may be found here as well.
 
===Farm Room===
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For lack of a better term, this room appears to be dedicated to storing various varieties of plants, saplings and fungi, as evidenced by the varieties planted in soil on platforms. There is usually a chest and crafting table here, with food and possibly some loot stored within.
 
===Netherburst===
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Netherbursts are large burning holes that have been blasted into a Dark Tower, seemingly at random. They can be a serious hindrance to explorers as they often have destroyed stairs and walkways, hindering movement in the tower. An extra source of danger comes from being open to the outside of the tower, allowing [[Carminite Ghastguard]]s to see in and attack intruders, as well as other monsters to potentially knock them through the opening and to their doom far below at the base of the tower.
 
===Small Tower===
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The smaller towers encountered higher up the tower normally come with a central chamber, with four doors leading into auxiliary turrets at each cardinal direction. These in turn reach higher again with smaller rooms, which may contain odd redstone contraptions - scientific experiments? - or perhaps simple furniture for the former residents. Some doors do not lead into rooms, but instead onto small balconies where the view is truly breath-taking, whether looking down over the Twilight Forest below, or above at the rest of the tower.
 
Some rooms may contain a chest with loot, including the essential [[Tower Key]]s that are required to unlock access to the upper floors of the tower. Some others contain a magical spawner that summons [[Carminite Broodling]]s or the more dangerous [[Carminite Golem]]s, so be prepared for a fight.
 
===Locked Tower Door===
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Usually, access to the upper floors is secured by these locked doors. Four Tower Keys are required to unlock the door and open the way forward.
 
===Reactor Room===
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Found near the top the tower, these rooms are similar in size to the forges but with a very different purpose. In one corner is a raised platform with a crafting table upon it, with item frames on the walls. The 3x3 patterns appear to be crafting recipes for the blood red material known as [[Carminite]], as well as various recipes for different machines and blocks that use it, for example a [[Carminite Builder]].
 
The corner next to the crafting station will always hold a strange contraption, possibly the culmination of Carminite research. Pistons and Redstone blocks surround a 3x3x3 block with {{mcw|Obsidian|Obsidian}} in the corners and Netherrack between, all surrounding a strange machine that explorers have come to know as a [[Carminite Reactor]]. Activating the pistons surrounding the device may activate the reactor - caution is strongly advised.
 
===Tower Ruins===
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Just above the reactor rooms is the top of the tower, or rather what's left of it. Multiple Netherbursts have devastated the turrets, leaving nothing but eternally-burning Netherrack and half-intact floors and frames in a scene of devastation. There usually isn't a lot left, except that the design seems to mirror the small towers, suggesting that at one point the tower may have been taller still, until whatever catastrophe befell it. Regardless, those who have battled their way to the top must be prepared for the fight of their lives, as reaching what remains of the central chamber will rouse the horrifying, anguished [[Ur-Ghast]].
 
=Monsters=
Several monsters can only be found in a Dark Tower, perhaps unsurprisingly given the strange blend of magical and technological research that went on here. [[Carminite Ghastguard]]s, similar in appearance to those {{mcw|Ghast|monstrous denizens}} found in the Nether roam the exterior of the tower, attacking anyone foolish enough to be outside, while [[Carminite Ghastling]]s patrol the interior, smaller than the Ghastguards but no less dangerous for it. Also found are [[Carminite Golem]]s, similar in aspect to {{mcw|Iron Golem|Iron Golems}} but animated by Carminite and packing a fearsome punch.  [[Carminite Broodling]]s have also made their nests in the tower, swarming any who get too close. [[Towerwood Borer]]s can be found in the walls of the tower itself, having infested even the toughened towerwood.
 
In addition to these terrors, more mundane creatures such as Skeletons, Creepers, Blazes and [[Pinch Beetle]]s can be found in the shadowy chambers. Adventurers would do well to bring light sources to prevent unpleasant surprises.
 
Last, but by no means least, the [[Ur-Ghast]] itself resides at the very top, amidst the burning ruins at the tower peak.
 
=Treasure=
Food, arrows and {{mcw|Wool|Red Wool}} can be found in many chests in the tower, along with {{mcw|Enchanted Book|Enchanted Books}}, [[Steeleaf]], [[Ironwood Ingot]]s, {{mcw|Redstone}}, {{mcw|Diamond|Diamonds}} and more. One special treasure that you can find in these chests are [[Tower Key]]s. In order to travel to the top of the Dark Tower, one must search the many floors and towers, looking for the four Tower Keys to complete the [[Locked Vanishing Block]] doors. [[Charm of Keeping|Charms of Keeping]] can also be found.
=Progression=
Adventurers will need to defeat the [[Knight Phantom]]s before assaulting the Dark Tower, otherwise the structure will be entirely locked out by a magical force field, preventing any attempt to interact with the doors or breaking in through the walls. That is, of course, if one is able to even get to the tower through the blindness spell that shrouds the centre of the Dark Forest. Putting the Phantoms to rest will lift both enchantments.
 
Slaying the Ur-Ghast and obtaining some of its [[Fiery Tears]] completes the Dark Forest part of the Twilight Forest journey. Seeking out and defeating the [[Hydra]] and [[Snow Queen]] is also necessary in order to dispel the magical acid rain that falls over the [[Twilight Highlands]].
 
=Image Reel=
{{ImageGallery|Shae Dark Tower Far|A Preview of the Dark Tower from afar.<br>Provided by [[User:Shedao_Shai|Shae]].|480px}}
{{ImageGallery|Shae Dark Tower|A Preview of the Dark Tower.<br>Provided by [[User:Shedao_Shai|Shae]].|480px}}
{{ImageGallery|Shae Dark Tower Boss Room|A Preview of the Dark Tower's Ruins.<br>Provided by [[User:Shedao_Shai|Shae]].|480px}}
{{ImageGallery|Shae Shader Dark Tower Far|A Preview of the Dark Tower from afar using [https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/shaders/sildurs-vibrant-shaders Slidur's Vibrant Shader].<br>Provided by [[User:Shedao_Shai|Shae]].|480px}}
{{ImageGallery|Shae Shader Dark Tower|A Preview of the Dark Tower using [https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/shaders/sildurs-vibrant-shaders Slidur's Vibrant Shader].<br>Provided by [[User:Shedao_Shai|Shae]].|480px}}
{{ImageGallery|Shae Shader Dark Tower Boss Room|A Preview of the Dark Tower's Ruins using [https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/shaders/sildurs-vibrant-shaders Slidur's Vibrant Shader].<br>Provided by [[User:Shedao_Shai|Shae]].|480px}}
 
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{{ImageGallery|Dark Tower - Entrance|The Entrance to the Dark Tower.}}
{{ImageGallery|Dark Tower - Cozy Room|A Cozy, Empty Room.}}
{{ImageGallery|Dark Tower - Furniture|Comfy!}}
{{ImageGallery|Dark Tower - Bookroom|Smarts!}}
{{ImageGallery|Dark Tower - Netherburst|A Netherburst that struck the side of the Dark Tower.}}
{{ImageGallery|Dark Tower - Chamber Branches|A Branching Passageway.}}
{{ImageGallery|Dark Tower - Balcony View|What a lovely view!}}
{{ImageGallery|Dark Tower - Beams|A Small room filled with ladders and logs to traverse.}}
{{ImageGallery|Dark Tower - Maze Upper|A glimpse of a [[Reappearing Block|bubbling]] Maze below.}}
{{ImageGallery|Dark Tower - Water Room|A Chamber filled with water and {{mcw|Squid|Squids}}.}}
{{ImageGallery|Dark Tower - Lock|A [[Locked Vanishing Block]] with a {{mcw|Nether Wart}} farm in the Chamber besides it.}}
{{ImageGallery|Dark Tower - Greenery|A Beautiful set of Exotic Plants.}}
{{ImageGallery|Dark Tower - Brewery|A Brewery fit for any {{mcw|Witch}}!}}
{{ImageGallery|Dark Tower - Recipes|The Secret to [[Carminite]]!}}
{{ImageGallery|Dark Tower - Forge|A grouping of Furnaces and an Anvil to put the mallet to work!}}
{{ImageGallery|Dark Tower - Bookshelf|What a comfy place for such a Horrid Tower!}}
{{ImageGallery|Dark Tower - Experiment|A Small redstone Experiment.}}
{{ImageGallery|Dark Tower - Light Relay|A Redstone Experiment for {{mcw|Redstone Lamps}}.}}
{{ImageGallery|Dark Tower - Chest Piston|A Puzzle designed to provide loot if solved.}}
{{ImageGallery|Dark Tower - Carminite Trap|A Simple Redstone Trap.}}
{{ImageGallery|Dark Tower - Anti-Builder Room|A Complex [[Anti-Builder]] maze.}}
{{ImageGallery|Dark Tower - Builder Room|A Large Puzzle to challenge the [[Carminite Builder]] Experts.}}
{{ImageGallery|Dark Tower - Climbing Room|A Large Room filled with lights, ladders, and no safety precautions!}}
{{ImageGallery|Dark Tower - Reactor|A [[Carminite Reactor|mysterious reactor]]... Let's turn it on!}}
{{ImageGallery|Dark Tower - Ghast Trap|A fully operational [[Ghast Trap]] in action!}}
{{ImageGallery|Dark Tower - Boss Room|The top of the Dark Tower. Who might lay here?}}
 
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=History=
{{history table|
{{history|1.14.0|Added Dark Tower.}}
{{history|1.15.1|Revised interior and added more rooms.}}
{{history|1.15.2|Mobs can no longer spawn on top of the Dark Tower.
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Carminite Ghastguards now spawn outside of the Dark Tower.
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Added more new rooms to the Dark Tower.
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Added Tower Keys to the Dark Tower loot. There is a set amount of keys that can generate in loot.
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Unique mobs exclusive to the Dark Tower now spawn.}}
{{history|1.15.3|An error will now print instead of crashing if 4 Tower Keys cannot generate.}}
{{history|1.15.4|Revised the interior rooms for more thematic appeal.
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Tweaked spawn rates to account for vertical height.
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Minor tweak to make the fourth door accessible in the rooms with 4 doors.}}
{{history|1.16.1|Changed the map icon for Dark Tower.}}
{{history|1.17.2|Replaced Maze Wafers with Experiment 115.}}
{{history|1.18.2|The Dark Tower will no longer attempt to build the boss room above world height.}}
{{history|3.8.654|Fixed a Repeater circuit not working properly.}}
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