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[Uristits]

Is this possible? Does anyone have experience with this? Is this allowed?

Dwarf fortress already makes really good maps and it would be interesting and time saving to use dwarf fortress to generate the world maps instead of me developing the algorithm.

[DwarfStar]

I'm sure it's allowed for your own personal enjoyment. If you intended to publish and make money off of the resulting game, I don't know the answer myself. You might need to check with a lawyer, or maybe someone else here would know.

As far as how to do it, it's definitely possible. I saw this video recently demonstrating editing of the world gen files, and he explains how the file format works. You'd need to figure out how to parse that and convert it into whatever format the other game needs...or just write the code into the other game to load DF world gen files directly.

https://youtu.be/85b27iLaGgQ?t=1333

[Mohreb el Yasim]

The maps (world map) themselves can be exported in many different layers and you can also get many information from the legends in the XML export format.
Look at legend viewer third party program for more details...

[FantasticDorf]

I think ive memorized seeing a dwarf fortress to Minecraft-map conversion tool before, given that a lot of the data is pretty densely packed, but you'd have to search the third party tools modding subforum to try and find it. MC by comparison can use actual-geographical OSM data, so a df xml with some direction on what to build would work out fine also.