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[Alyfox]

I feel like I am maybe asking this in the wrong place, but tired brain can't find a better spot currently

First off, I find that in my worlds I get a *lot* of territory where there are no hills. just hundreds of kilometers of flat land. I tried jiggering around increasing elevation X and Y variance and increasing the number of sub-regions and while I'll get some nice hills around some rivers, im still often left with the equivalent of a minecraft flat-world.

ALSO! I would love to see more canyons, gorges and ravines. The description for erosion cycle leaves me with the impression of smoothing things out, but canyons and the like tend to be created by long, long periods of river erosion, the two ideas being contradictory in my head - what would be more correct when it comes to actual mechanics? Higher erosion count?
As a note to that last one, I usually gen with "periodically erode extreme cliffs" turned off.

lastly, are there possible parameters to encourage the generation of things like sinkhole/crater-like geography? Not literal sinkholes or craters (AFAIK neither are possible) but I guess you could also call them oblong ravines maybe. I know it woul dbe difficult to discern via the world map, but embarking in a large area (4x4 or bigger maybe) and having a nice roundish/oblongish multi z-level hole in the ground would be pretty cool IMO.

Ok, thats all for now. Thanks in advance!

[Alyfox]

Another Q. not quite related, but sorta maybe?

If on the world map an area (in 50.05) does not list any metals, is that an absolute "there are no metals here"? Or is it possible to find trace veins?

[Ward]

I know very little about world gen, but I do know this: If it says there are no metals, there are absolutely none.