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Randomonioum

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Finding caves - A new adventurers problem
« on: September 19, 2009, 09:47:21 am »
Right, I've played dwarf fortress for a while, and I have only just started playing the adventure mode. Great fun, but I have a problem. I hear a lot about caves, and them containing megabeasts, and other Fun things, but I can never seem to find them. Is there a special way of going about it, or is it all luck? I know this is a common question, but I can't find an answer anywhere, and this is quite annoying.
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If you gave them a biome then the Elves may indeed start turning up with Wagons in cages.
Quote from: Vester on September 03, 2009, 05:26:49 pm
Well, it does tie in to the fact that personality-wise, dragons are nothing more than gigantic, scaly, firebreathing cats.

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Re: Finding caves - A new adventurers problem
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2009, 10:00:55 am »
Step one, if you have a quest, press the z or q, what ever it was, then a map pops up, or you can press t and start traveling, then press > to stop
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Re: Finding caves - A new adventurers problem
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2009, 10:05:30 am »
Quote from: Randomonioum on September 19, 2009, 09:47:21 am
Right, I've played dwarf fortress for a while, and I have only just started playing the adventure mode. Great fun, but I have a problem. I hear a lot about caves, and them containing megabeasts, and other Fun things, but I can never seem to find them. Is there a special way of going about it, or is it all luck? I know this is a common question, but I can't find an answer anywhere, and this is quite annoying.

There's an option at worldgen to set caves to be revealed

Barring that, ask around in towns for quests. More likely than not there's a megabeast or semimega nearby just for you to kill.
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Re: Finding caves - A new adventurers problem
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2009, 01:04:48 pm »
Quote from: Vester on September 19, 2009, 10:05:30 am
Barring that, ask around in towns for quests. More likely than not there's a megabeast or semimega nearby just for you to kill.

Actually, more likely than not, "We are quite untroubled here."
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Re: Finding caves - A new adventurers problem
« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2009, 01:38:29 pm »
I stop all my worldgens between 50 to 170 years. I barely get that message anymore. :D
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Re: Finding caves - A new adventurers problem
« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2009, 04:53:29 pm »
Stopping worldgens seems like a good idea. More beasties for my fortresses too!
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Quote from: Neruz on October 17, 2009, 06:39:00 am
If you gave them a biome then the Elves may indeed start turning up with Wagons in cages.
Quote from: Vester on September 03, 2009, 05:26:49 pm
Well, it does tie in to the fact that personality-wise, dragons are nothing more than gigantic, scaly, firebreathing cats.

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Re: Finding caves - A new adventurers problem
« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2009, 04:25:58 pm »
The legendary lands mod has some workaround that fixes the megabeast extinction by making them more powerfull during worldgen, which results in more interesting worlds to play in. Great fun, but my adventurers have however not lasted long in this mod, as I keep running into implords and the like, great fun though.
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