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Immortal-D

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Viewing a site from the World Map?
« on: September 04, 2016, 10:31:13 am »
I actually did a search on this first.  Per title, I'm wondering if there is any way of viewing a potential Embark from the World Map?  I found what I believe to be a crazy waterfall (elevation goes from 8 to 0, both river tiles).  I would assume either Stone Sense or Armok Vision, but didn't see anything relevant in their respective threads.
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Putnam

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Re: Viewing a site from the World Map?
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2016, 03:45:36 am »
The tile-by-tile map is generated when you embark or you go there as an adventurer; there is no way to see it before then.
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Blakmane

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Re: Viewing a site from the World Map?
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2016, 05:59:14 pm »
Make a copy of your dwarf fortress folder. Open that version and embark on the spot. Have a look around, exit, and then delete the copied folder. Go back to your original folder and embark (or not) normally.

Can also do this with the worldgen/save folder without having to make an entirely new DF, but a whole new DF folder is the most straightforward way if you don't know the file structure.
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