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[Sutremaine]

Did you get a bunch of green Os? They tell you where you can jump to.

[Kolnukbyne]

Finding your way into hell takes a long time and is reliant mostly on sheer chance, I believe. Basically wander around hell until you find a wide open space with undead things in it and a structure with a upright sword in it. You can remove the adamantine sword, which opens hell up.

Disclaimer: I haven't ever done this before and this is all based on what I've been told by other people, may be slightly inaccurate.

Disclaimer II: Demonic Boogaloo:

The structures that would let adventurers into hell don't exist anymore.

As far as rivers and swimming go, you only need one point in swimming to be able to get through a river but if you want to jump it make sure you have plenty of space between yourself and the river, press 'S' and select sprint (make sure you're standing) then run towards the river. When you're up next to it press 'j' and you will have a wide cone-shaped selection area flashing in front of you. Move your in-game cursor to a part that isn't water and hit enter, you'll jump across the river.

[StagnantSoul]

The structures that would let adventurers into hell don't exist anymore.

[Kolnukbyne]

Well that's a bit of a problem. Can hell be accessed by the slade towers raised by demons? I don't believe I've found one yet so I haven't had a chance to explore them.

[StagnantSoul]

No, those don't access hell either.

[Kolnukbyne]

So would I be right to assume that the only way to access hell in the current version is via an existing fortress that has breached an adamantine tube?

[StagnantSoul]

Exacta.

[Ziusudra]

No, although the demonic fortresses don't exist anymore, the spires still access hell.

[Cptn Kaladin Anrizlokum]

No, although the demonic fortresses don't exist anymore, the spires still access hell.

Yeah, it just takes a long time. Head to the goblin capital.

[Pirate Bob]

Also, prepare to be disappointed with the goblin capitols. 

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At least in my attempts, the goblin capitols contained hardly any goblins, most of whom were peasants and not hostiles.  One of them did not seem to have a slade spire, then another had a slade spire, but there seemed to be no entrace to it (I looked quite a bit).  Another I could get inside of, but only could go up, not down.  A third I could go down in, and it was filled with level upon level of completely empty prison cells.  I eventually gave up on trying to go down as it seemed the most likely outcome would be that I would get lost and starve to death down there.  Given that you are a vampire and don't need to eat (being thirsty just slows you down a bit, you won't die) it should be somewhat safer to try.

Don't get me wrong.  I love the idea of the new sites.  The design is very reminiscent of Orthanc.  Once they are filled with bloodthirsty goblins trying to murder you it will be great fun to try to invade one.  But for now the lack of defenders just makes them boring.

If you want an extreme challenge for adventure mode, you should try to find a vault.  However these are hidden, and I don't think there's an easy way to find them besides looking in legends mode.  Also, as the wiki article states, you are likely to be killed instantly by the guardians.

One other thing about finding caves - sometimes when you get info about the location of an enemy, they will be in a cave and this will give you the location of the cave.  At least this was the case in 34.11 - I'm not sure if I've had this happen yet in 40.xx, but I can't see why it would have changed.  Caves are marked as green circles on the map.

[Kolnukbyne]

So I found what I believe to be a slade spire. Being the smart person I am I didn't check to see if it was made of slade though.
Huge tower, circular, widest building I've ever seen. Filled to the brim of trolls which were friendly towards me and mauling on the goblins dwelling inside. Exploring it's fucking labyrinth of troll-gore-rooms I found nothing but troll-gore and a single Goblin Lady who attacked me.

Anyways, killed her, went as high as I could, explored every room, no way down.

[Pirate Bob]

So I found what I believe to be a slade spire. Being the smart person I am I didn't check to see if it was made of slade though.
Huge tower, circular, widest building I've ever seen. Filled to the brim of trolls which were friendly towards me and mauling on the goblins dwelling inside. Exploring it's fucking labyrinth of troll-gore-rooms I found nothing but troll-gore and a single Goblin Lady who attacked me.

Anyways, killed her, went as high as I could, explored every room, no way down.

This is consistent with what I have seen.  Some of the slade spires (and this is definitely what you found) have no way down.  Not sure if this is a bug or its meant to be this way.

[ChildofSolitude]

Interesting to note, my compainions didn't seem to care at all when I drank the blood of a dying bandit.

However, when I turned over to put one of our fallen comrades 'out of their misery', they attacked immediately. Odd.

(Also, as a vampire, you have an incredible resistance to pain; I once lost all of my limbs and had nervous damage in the spine and was still able to push the werebeast to death. I had to succumb immediately after, though, as I couldn't move.)

[Quartz_Mace]

Actually, you feel no pain at all, so you're not resisting it.

Also, you don't need to breathe either.

[Sheer_Bliss]

Whilst we're talking about vampires is anyone else having trouble finding them in 2014? In the older versions you could just spam the quest option till they told you about a night creature but there's so much extra stuff in DF2014 that the quest log just gets full of stuff.