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[Shiv]

Do these still exist?  I was looking for elephants and the wiki said tropical biomes.  So I genned a new world and...no tropical biomes.  Ok next world, no biomes.  Hmm...maybe the next one....ok none. Maybe the next one (repeat 4 more times).  No tropical biome at all.  It's all taiga, tundra, or temperate (woodland, savanna, conifer forest, etc). 

Do tropical biomes still exist?  Are they no longer called 'tropical'?  Perhaps just a temperate area in a hot shrubland or savanna?  I did an experimental embark on a 'temperate savanna (hot)' to test that but all it had was Rhesus maques.  However, perhaps the elephants hadn't spawned yet?

[Grumman]

They still exist. This thread discusses such a worldgen, with elephants, hippos and crocodiles.

[Malicus]

The problem is that for some reason, they're only created on large worlds.  If you really want a tropical biome, then you'll have to wait for a large world to generate.

[Shiv]

The problem is that for some reason, they're only created on large worlds.  If you really want a tropical biome, then you'll have to wait for a large world to generate.

Yah that seems to be it.  Problem is now searching through such a huge map for the one spot that has magma, untamed wilds tropical biome, plus some sort of water supply. 

The search continues.

[Talith]

i find that if you make a large world of size 33x257 instead of the default 257x257, you can search through it a hell of a lot faster when using the finder, but yet still get the advantages of large maps, such as tropical biomes.

[Malicus]

Hrm, actually, I think that's right.  It only matters how far north/south it extends, if I remember correctly.  You'd have a lot less choice and you'd probably have to regenerate several times to find what you wanted that way, though.