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[Dwarven-dungeon-master]

I was wondering if someone would be so kind and give/create me a save file for Dwarf Fortress with a good area to make a fortress. I'm really, really, bad at picking an area to live in.
It would've been great if that area contained flux stone, some magma, and maybe some elves...
Thank you very much if you can find it in your heart to help me

[Sir Finkus]

Use the built in site finder after you generate a world to find what you need.

[Dwarven-dungeon-master]

Use the built in site finder after you generate a world to find what you need.

Yeah, well, I've tried. But I can't seem to find a location that suites me. It's either no mountain to dig in, or to much mountain, or to much water, to little water etc.

[Firehound]

I find a brook(rivers tend to have carp/gar/lampreys) + forest/desert combo suits me well. pay attention to the embark screen, you'll notice the biomes your embarking on there. if your worried about the amount of mountain, find a peice that has notably less or move your embark in local using umkh to move around. UMKH will increase/decrease the size of your map to a max of 16x16 or min of 2x2(without a program to get a 1x1)

[Grimlocke]

I got a parameter set that makes finding magma with flux a lot easier. Each should have at least a few nice sites with flux, magma and maybe some other stuff. I recommend sand and water. No need to use the sitefinder, just find a magma pipe and use the F keys to see what rocks you get. Search around mountain edges if you want other features like chasms and underground rivers. The lower mountains usualy make better sites due to fps issues.

Just make sure your elves dont all die during worldgen, mine do that sometimes.

Spoiler: copy this into your world_gen.txt file in data/init (click to show/hide)

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[WORLD_GEN]
[TITLE:Grimrealm 257x129]
[DIM:257:129]
[END_YEAR:1000]
[BEAST_END_YEAR:1000:-1]
[REVEAL_ALL_HISTORY:1]
[CULL_HISTORICAL_FIGURES:0]
[ELEVATION:20:400:1000:1600]
[RAINFALL:0:78:20:30]
[TEMPERATURE:-80:160:1:1]
[DRAINAGE:0:83:60:40]
[VOLCANISM:70:100:1600:1600]
[SAVAGERY:0:100:1600:1600]
[ELEVATION_FREQUENCY:6:5:1:1:30:9]
[RAIN_FREQUENCY:4:10:0:0:0:3]
[DRAINAGE_FREQUENCY:5:9:7:0:3:3]
[TEMPERATURE_FREQUENCY:2:3:2:10:2:4]
[SAVAGERY_FREQUENCY:5:4:2:1:3:6]
[VOLCANISM_FREQUENCY:6:4:0:2:0:24]
[GOOD_SQ_COUNTS:2000:3000:0]
[EVIL_SQ_COUNTS:250:3000:12000]
[PEAK_NUMBER_MIN:140]
[OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:0]
[VOLCANO_MIN:200]
[REGION_COUNTS:SWAMP:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:DESERT:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:FOREST:240:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:MOUNTAINS:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:OCEAN:200:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:GLACIER:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:TUNDRA:1000:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:GRASSLAND:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:HILLS:0:0:0]
[EROSION_CYCLE_COUNT:8]
[RIVER_MINS:160:160]
[PERIODICALLY_ERODE_EXTREMES:1]
[OROGRAPHIC_PRECIPITATION:1]
[SUBREGION_MAX:5000]
[CAVE_MIN_SIZE:400]
[CAVE_MAX_SIZE:500]
[MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:400]
[NON_MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:200]
[ALL_CAVES_VISIBLE:1]
[SHOW_EMBARK_RIVER:2]
[SHOW_EMBARK_POOL:2]
[SHOW_EMBARK_M_POOL:2]
[SHOW_EMBARK_M_PIPE:2]
[SHOW_EMBARK_CHASM:2]
[SHOW_EMBARK_PIT:2]
[SHOW_EMBARK_OTHER:2]
[SHOW_EMBARK_TUNNEL:2]
[TOTAL_CIV_NUMBER:60]
[TOTAL_CIV_POPULATION:-1]
[PLAYABLE_CIVILIZATION_REQUIRED:1]
[ELEVATION_RANGES:0:0:0]
[RAIN_RANGES:0:0:0]
[DRAINAGE_RANGES:0:0:0]
[SAVAGERY_RANGES:0:0:0]
[VOLCANISM_RANGES:0:0:0]