Temple

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A temple is a structure devoted to an object of worship, any Sphere-aligned being such as a deity, megabeast, or titan.

Fortress mode

In Fortress mode, temples are locations, that can be created from meeting areas. Temples can be dedicated to any deity at least one of your dwarves worships (not necessarily out of dwarven Pantheon), or to "no particular deity" making it a place for anyone to worship whomever they want or meditate on whatever. Currently there are no known incentives to make dedicated temples for a particular deity.

Temples require instruments and thus need containers to store them. Temples also require a certain amount of empty floor space (called dance floor), same as taverns. Performers can also be assigned to temples to perform sacred dances.

Being able to commune with their deity or meditate gives a serious enraptured stress decrease to the dwarves. Not having a designated place to pray, on the other hand, makes them sad or distracted. Thus, making a temple early on might be a good investment for your fortress, even more so if you're going through difficult times.

Adventure mode

World-generated temples are visitable in Adventure mode. They are located in Human towns and Goblin fortresses, and the object of worship will be consistent with the Sphere or Spheres the Civilization is aligned to. Priests can be found in temples, and will allow you to join the local sect of their religion with the conversation topic 'Service'.

On the first joining a sect dedicated to a particular object of worship, that entity will be added to the character's record. An adventurer can then converse(k) anywhere with any deity object of worship. Though the deity's only response is silence, repeated conversations can change the deity's object of worship status from 'dubious' to 'casual', 'object', 'devoted' and 'ardent'.

In the current version it is not possible to join a temple.

It's unknown whether conversing with other objects of worship can increase their worship status; megabeasts tend to be uniformly hostile, though Titans may be flagged 'benign'^[Verify].

Occasionally you will find a human temple with a large pool of magma at the bottom.

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Temples can have basements, sometimes extensive catacombs which may be crawling with enemies. These range from the typical kobolds and goblins, to the occasional lurking Mummy (with assorted Skeletal minions).

You can defile a Temple by toppling a statue, which leads to being cursed by a deity with either vampirism or becoming a werebeast. For this the Temple must be actively used (i.e. not an old ruin).

"Temple" in other Languages Dwarven: rath Elven: fothi Goblin: spôgmuk Human: olum