Finding Firewatch Tower Variants in Dungeons and Taverns

This guide explains how to locate and identify the different Firewatch Tower variants within Dungeons and Taverns. These structures are designed to blend into various biomes.

Firewatch Tower Placement Rules

All Firewatch Tower variants follow a consistent placement rule. The game attempts to generate one tower per 50x50 chunk region. Each tower will be placed at least 15 chunks away from any other Firewatch Tower.

Firewatch Tower Variants by Biome

Different Firewatch Tower designs appear in specific biomes. Knowing which biome hosts which tower type can help you find them.

Firewatch Tower Birch

The Firewatch Tower Birch generates in birch forest areas. Specifically, it appears in collections designated as birch forests.

Firewatch Tower Cherry

The Firewatch Tower Cherry is found in cherry forest biomes. Look for it within collections identified as cherry forests.

Firewatch Tower Dark Oak

The Firewatch Tower Dark Oak generates in spooky forest biomes. Search for this variant in areas categorized as spooky forests.

Firewatch Tower Forest

The standard Firewatch Tower Forest appears in the general forest biome.

Firewatch Tower Jungle

The Firewatch Tower Jungle generates in jungle biomes. This variant can be found within collections marked as jungles.

Firewatch Tower Mangrove

The Firewatch Tower Mangrove is found exclusively in mangrove swamp biomes.

Where the towers sit in a 97-structure catalogue

Dungeons and Taverns places 97 structures, and the firewatch towers are a family within it rather than a single build. The wood variants — birch and cherry among them — each generate at spacing 50 with a separation of 15.

For comparison inside the same mod, the Deepslate Camp sits at spacing 15 and the Conduit Ruin at 140. A firewatch tower at 50 is therefore squarely mid-range: common enough to meet while travelling, rare enough that you will not see two together.

Variants generate separately

Each wood variant is its own structure entry with its own placement. That means the biome you are in decides which tower you find, and a birch tower and a cherry tower are not alternatives to each other — both can generate in a world.

No loot from the mod itself

The mod adds no items, blocks or recipes. Everything inside a tower comes from vanilla or from other mods in your pack, so what a tower is worth depends entirely on the rest of your modlist.

Searching

All of these are surface structures. Flying beats caving, and a tower's height makes it one of the easier structures in the catalogue to spot from a distance.

Covers the mod’s in-game guide topics: Firewatch Tower Birch Firewatch Tower Cherry Firewatch Tower Dark Oak Firewatch Tower Forest Firewatch Tower Jungle Firewatch Tower Mangrove