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[Tekkud the Farmer]

Hi all,

(I hope this is the correct place to post this.)
I just want to share this worldgen preset I made back in v34.11 (and have since updated it to v40.13) that gives a rather large (129x129) and beginner-friendly world: 91% forest, 98% without aquifer, 100% warm, and volcanoes, rivers and minerals everywhere. I've also attempted to preserve the original variety found in the "normal" world types, to a certain extent of success. I have descriptively named this preset the Volcanic Megaforest, sine it's quite reminiscent of the Triassic era.

Worldgen data (copy-paste into data/init/world_gen.txt):

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[WORLD_GEN]
[TITLE:VOLCANIC MEGAFOREST]
[DIM:129:129]
[EMBARK_POINTS:9001]
[END_YEAR:80]
[BEAST_END_YEAR:10000:-1]
[REVEAL_ALL_HISTORY:1]
[CULL_HISTORICAL_FIGURES:1]
[ELEVATION:96:324:3200:3200]
[RAINFALL:66:100:3200:3200]
[TEMPERATURE:54:60:1600:1600]
[DRAINAGE:40:100:3200:3200]
[VOLCANISM:0:100:3200:3200]
[SAVAGERY:0:80:2400:2400]
[ELEVATION_FREQUENCY:1:4:16:6:2:1]
[RAIN_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
[DRAINAGE_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
[TEMPERATURE_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
[SAVAGERY_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
[VOLCANISM_FREQUENCY:2:1:0:0:0:1]
[POLE:NONE]
[MINERAL_SCARCITY:450]
[MEGABEAST_CAP:24]
[SEMIMEGABEAST_CAP:48]
[TITAN_NUMBER:32]
[TITAN_ATTACK_TRIGGER:100:0:0]
[DEMON_NUMBER:32]
[NIGHT_TROLL_NUMBER:14]
[BOGEYMAN_NUMBER:14]
[VAMPIRE_NUMBER:14]
[WEREBEAST_NUMBER:14]
[SECRET_NUMBER:64]
[REGIONAL_INTERACTION_NUMBER:28]
[DISTURBANCE_INTERACTION_NUMBER:28]
[EVIL_CLOUD_NUMBER:14]
[EVIL_RAIN_NUMBER:14]
[GENERATE_DIVINE_MATERIALS:1]
[GOOD_SQ_COUNTS:0:1:0]
[EVIL_SQ_COUNTS:0:1:0]
[PEAK_NUMBER_MIN:0]
[PARTIAL_OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:0]
[COMPLETE_OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:0]
[VOLCANO_MIN:90]
[REGION_COUNTS:SWAMP:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:DESERT:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:FOREST:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:MOUNTAINS:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:OCEAN:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:GLACIER:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:TUNDRA:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:GRASSLAND:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:HILLS:0:0:0]
[EROSION_CYCLE_COUNT:120]
[RIVER_MINS:720:240]
[PERIODICALLY_ERODE_EXTREMES:1]
[OROGRAPHIC_PRECIPITATION:1]
[SUBREGION_MAX:5000]
[CAVERN_LAYER_COUNT:3]
[CAVERN_LAYER_OPENNESS_MIN:50]
[CAVERN_LAYER_OPENNESS_MAX:50]
[CAVERN_LAYER_PASSAGE_DENSITY_MIN:0]
[CAVERN_LAYER_PASSAGE_DENSITY_MAX:0]
[CAVERN_LAYER_WATER_MIN:0]
[CAVERN_LAYER_WATER_MAX:60]
[HAVE_BOTTOM_LAYER_1:1]
[HAVE_BOTTOM_LAYER_2:1]
[LEVELS_ABOVE_GROUND:12]
[LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_1:10]
[LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_2:4]
[LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_3:4]
[LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_4:4]
[LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_5:2]
[LEVELS_AT_BOTTOM:1]
[CAVE_MIN_SIZE:5]
[CAVE_MAX_SIZE:32]
[MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:8]
[NON_MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:200]
[ALL_CAVES_VISIBLE:1]
[SHOW_EMBARK_TUNNEL:2]
[TOTAL_CIV_NUMBER:20]
[TOTAL_CIV_POPULATION:-1]
[SITE_CAP:-1]
[PLAYABLE_CIVILIZATION_REQUIRED:1]
[ELEVATION_RANGES:0:0:0]
[RAIN_RANGES:0:0:0]
[DRAINAGE_RANGES:0:0:0]
[SAVAGERY_RANGES:0:0:0]
[VOLCANISM_RANGES:0:0:0]
Screenshot of an example world:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

- World is largely covered by one large forest biome, with some mountains and practically no oceans (only some barely noticeable pools of water on the edges).
- Due to the domination of one large biome, there isn't space to generate Good or Evil biomes so they're absent. Unless you want the 91% forest to become 91% wormy tendrils.
- Volcanoes spawn everywhere for free magma for forges/smelters. A fair number spawn near rivers too.
- Aquifers will hardly be a nuisance.
- All four civilisations should still be present, and the underground stuff like the cavern layers and the magma sea are unchanged as well.
- Extremely fast worldgen (about a minute or less), very few rejections.

- Due to the large number of wide rivers, it's quite adventurer-unfriendly.

I've set the mineral scarcity to fairly low (i.e. lots of minerals), a rather short world history, no poles to maintain a warm temperature throughout (means no glaciers), and embark points to over 9000 because I can. Feel free to tweak these settings to suit your desires.

I hope this worldgen preset will be useful to new players, or just those who're looking for an easy a slightly less difficult time (i.e. being a sissy like me ). Or if you have any tips on improving this preset, I welcome feedback too.

[somegaijin42]

Me like! Nice job!! Got a good embark with a tall volcano and a nice peaceful river. Tons of metal...no coal, but plenty of trees to compensate...plus, mag-ma. Thanks, m8!