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[Elvang]

I've been messing around with advanced world generation and my latest batch of worlds turned out a good number of embarks that met my criteria (see sig, last 4 regions). The only thing I've noticed is still missing are giant cave spiders. Do they only spawn in areas with bottomless pits? Anyone know what parameters I should change to increase their chance of spawning?

On a side note, when using finder to search for chasms it will often return positive but the embarks have bottomless pits instead.

[Guy Montag]

No idea. I've only encountered one GCS and it was on a bottomless pit on an experimental fortress site.

From my experience, about 1/10 pits will have a GCS, and there isn't anything you can do to create more bottomless pits besides increasing the number of mountain tiles that are accessible via normal embark mode.

increase the elevation x variance by 1200, and y varience by 800, you will get nice, long thin mountain ranges.

Otherwise rape the raws and increase it's occurance rates.

[Elvang]

I have no problem finding the pits/chasms (the variance is already 800:1200), they are GCS-less most of the time though. Are there certain biomes/temperatures that the GCS prefer? I could increase the chances of those appearing if there are.

[Michaelsoftman]

In the raws, the GCS has [BIOME:SUBTERRANEAN_CHASM].  You could try changing that to [BIOME:ALL_MAIN].

You could also try increasing [POPULATION_NUMBER:3:5].

I'm not sure though, I don't mod creatures much.  Maybe someone else can back me up on this?

[Neruz]

Increasing the pop number definitely seems to increase the number of GCS's, but i'm surprised you're having trouble finding them; invariably whenever i embark on a Chasm there's one hanging out the front eating my dudes.

[Elvang]

Out of 16 regions/worlds that I've found each one had a bottomless pit or chasm but only 2 have actually had a GCS. Preferably I'd like to only change the world generation parameters, so if I find a cool embark I can always share it with someone later.

[Rysith]

Increase population number, then add the tags that will allow them to breed. Problem solved. Fun had.

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