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Noitanigami

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Making steep cliffs / canyons
« on: May 16, 2013, 12:42:49 pm »
How do I make a map with a lot of steep cliffs or canyons?
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Raphite1

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Re: Making steep cliffs / canyons
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2013, 01:02:11 pm »
An embark site where two rivers join together will often have sheer cliffs. There will probably be water at the bottom, though.
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slothen

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Re: Making steep cliffs / canyons
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2013, 01:02:35 pm »
embark half on a mountain biome.. tab over to the elevation/cliffs display. I'm sure you can do stuff to worldgen parameters, but for finding a single embark with cliffs it doesn't seem necessary, you can find some extreme cliffs with a vanilla world.
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Re: Making steep cliffs / canyons
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2013, 06:35:38 pm »
in advanced world generation, turn 'periodically erode sharp cliffs' (I think that was what it was called) off and it gets a lot easier to find cliffs
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