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[Vugor]

mostly just trees and not much of anything from mining out huge sections underground

[Kreega]

A water source is pretty much it.

Oh, and a terrifying biome. I just like picking a random place along a river/brook, so long as it's terrifying. Need some kind of challenge (for my current fort I'm making 5-dwarf squads, only the leaders of which get weapons, like a cheap bronze mace from a caravan).

[Rhenaya]

a not rain dependant water source (brook, ocean, lake, river) and wild strawberries... on embark at least a bunch of dogs and a pair of breeding cattle also a pick and an anvil

[Jisaan]

a single steel axe, and that anvil 

If you're going to bring an anvil, you may as well just bring some metal and make the axe yourself. Saves a lot of points for other things.

Anyway, as to the original question... Not a whole lot, really. I generally just embark on areas that look interesting... My current fort is next to a lake fed by three rivers, and some mirthful mountains. No other features as far as I know. There was a decent amount of wood though.

Other maps have included a haunted cliffside with no water or magma, a tundra with a magma pipe, and some other area that I don't remember that well... Something with a chasm and magma I think. I guess if I were to name one thing though, it would be wood. Mountains are nice too.

[Calvin]

My 7 dwarves.


Seriously, why doesnt anybody mention the 7 dwarves?

[Duke 2.0]

My 7 dwarves.


Seriously, why doesnt anybody mention the 7 dwarves?

 Who needs 7 when you only need 1?

[Draco18s]

One of the following:

Infinite water
Magma
Chasm

[Neonivek]

My 7 dwarves.


Seriously, why doesnt anybody mention the 7 dwarves?

Because I get 7 dwarves no matter what... why don't you mention solid ground, tools, or temperatures your dwarves can survive in?

[Inquisitor Saturn]

Magma, a source of water, and flux(which I usually don't use anyway)

[Skid]

HFS, goblins, trees or magma, and any water.

[Skanky]

Just magma.

If possible, I like trees and sand and flux, but if not thats still doable. But I am addicted to magma.

[Yuu_Inohara]

a magma pipe and some form of river (be it a brook, an underground river, or a normal one) and bauxite, bauxite is a must considering my many hairbrain schemes involving the magma, and I'm not suicidal enough to settle for adamantine (says the guy settled on a glacier and somehow had all but five of his dwarves die of thirst (water water everywhere but not a drop to drink ))

[Haven]

At least one pick. And a dwarf or seven. Probably some seeds, too.

[Idiom]

Flowing water.

[Coke_Can64]

Many trees and thick vegetation. For without wood, most of my forts wouldn't have half the internals or outsides and without every second square being a shrub, the dwarves will starve before summer . Also, a large flat section that the fortress may be built under and farms above. And some rock. Well, alot more than some rock maybe.

Magma... not really needed and I usually have troubles with too much water...