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Starting in Mountain tiles?
« on: May 31, 2009, 01:56:24 am »

Is there any way to make it so you can start in a map with nothing but mountain tiles?
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Re: Starting in Mountain tiles?
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2009, 01:57:47 am »

Look on the wiki, there's a utility that lets you embark ANYWHERE. Like, in the ocean. Or the mountains, if you're the boring type.
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Re: Starting in Mountain tiles?
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2009, 02:57:43 am »

I would not advise trying to embark on nothing BUT ocean. Last time I checked it spends ages trying to find someplace to put your wagon.
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Re: Starting in Mountain tiles?
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2009, 05:37:12 am »

I would not advise trying to embark on nothing BUT ocean. Last time I checked it spends ages trying to find someplace to put your wagon.
I dunno what it would be looking for.  Passing whale, p'haps?
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Re: Starting in Mountain tiles?
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2009, 08:00:53 am »

Wait, you can't embark on only mountain tiles? Since when?

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Re: Starting in Mountain tiles?
« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2009, 08:42:06 am »

I would not advise trying to embark on nothing BUT ocean. Last time I checked it spends ages trying to find someplace to put your wagon.
I dunno what it would be looking for.  Passing whale, p'haps?
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Re: Starting in Mountain tiles?
« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2009, 10:09:22 am »

Wait, you can't embark on only mountain tiles? Since when?

Since forever.  If your embark site contains only "mountain" biomes, the "e" for Embark is not highlighted/activated - it is, literally, a non-starter.  No plants, no embark. (With vanilla DF, anyway.)
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Re: Starting in Mountain tiles?
« Reply #7 on: May 31, 2009, 10:11:55 am »

i think you can't embark on mountains because then caravans/migrants wouldn't be able to access your fortress (if they (or sometime in the future will) follow the same laws as player characters on world map).
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Re: Starting in Mountain tiles?
« Reply #8 on: May 31, 2009, 11:43:01 am »

Embark anywhere WILL let you embark on mountains, but then you get a NO TRADE on any friendly civs on the status screen. If you try to embark on a regular site with embark anywhere, it'll still give you the NO TRADE thing.