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[Paul]

This is a really great fort site for those who want a bit of everything.

It has:
Sand
Rock layers for every metal and high end gems to be available
The new HFS (the one that's only on 1 local tile per mountain tile)
5 shafts of "Praise the miners!" (one of which extends way up into the cavern system)
Plenty of surface stuff (trees for early woodcutting, murky pools for early fishing and water use, good wildlife like elephants)
Good underground stuff (accessible magma, only 15 levels down. Plenty of water. Open cave areas with lots of trees.)
And a tunnel connecting two goblin forts! (if you notice in the picture, you're RIGHT beside a dark fortress - not sure if they'll invade through that tunnel or anything, I haven't dug down to it yet).

All total the Z-levels are 76, but you should be able to modify this if you want less/more by changing the worldgen settings (it should only affect the # of layers and not the rock types or presence of HFS, unless you specifically disable it)

Spoiler: z-levels broken down, don't look if you don't want to know what layers are down there (click to show/hide)

9 z-levels of bottom fun stuff
7 z-levels of magma sea
1 z-levels of space
5 z-levels of cavern
1 z-level of space
8 z-levels of cavern
1 z-level of space
10 z-levels of cavern
5 z-levels to the forest surface
15 z-levels of mountain
14 z-levels of air

The biomes are:

Spoiler: Basic biome information, not really a spoiler (click to show/hide)

Biome 1 (left side, 8 tiles): Warm, Calm, Mountain
Obsidian
Dacite
Diorite
Rhyolite
Phyllite
Gneiss
Gabbro
Basalt
Biome 2 (upper right side, 5 tiles): Warm, Heavily Forested, Thick, Calm, Tropical Dry Brdlf Forest
Black sand
Dolomite
Granite
Gabbro
Diorite
Diorite
Granite
Quartzite
Biome 3 (bottom right side, 3 tiles): Warm, Calm, Mountain
Dolomite
Granite
Gabbro
Diorite
Diorite
Granite
Quartzite
Gabbro

For those who don't know, the layers present provide:

Spoiler: Breakdown of the metals and gems present in layers (click to show/hide)

Obsidian - Iron, Copper, Silver, Lead, Aluminum, plus it's edged for making obsidian swords.
Dacite, Rhyolite, Basalt - same as Obsidian (except not sharp for swords)
Dolomite - Iron, Platinum, Coke, Ruby/Sapphire, Gypsum(plaster) plus its a flux stone
Granite - Gold, Silver, Lead, Emerald, Tin
Gabbro - Gold, Platinum, Diamonds, Nickel
Diorite - Lots of gold
Phyllite, Quartzite, & Gneiss - Silver, Lead, Zinc

So you get: Iron, Copper, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Lead, Aluminum, Tin, Zinc, Nickel, Emeralds, Rubies, Sapphires, Diamonds, Gypsum for healthcare, Plenty of flux, and ofcourse the sharp stone for experimenting with obsidian swords. And the iron is so darned abundant that you'll never run out of steel (it's present in 5 different layer stones!)

The world also has other interesting sites scattered around with flux and sand and such that might be good too.

One warning: The world takes a bit to gen to the year 1050, so you may want to stop early. A LOT goes on in this history - massive goblin empires, tons of wars, sites being destroyed left and right (plenty of ruins).

Anyway, heres the world gen info:

Spoiler: World gen parameters (click to show/hide)

[WORLD_GEN]
   [TITLE:THE INFINITE WORLD]
   [SEED:7777777]
   [HISTORY_SEED:2010]
   [NAME_SEED:2010]
   [CREATURE_SEED:2010]
   [DIM:129:129]
   [EMBARK_POINTS:1274]
   [END_YEAR:1050]
   [BEAST_END_YEAR:200:80]
   [REVEAL_ALL_HISTORY:1]
   [CULL_HISTORICAL_FIGURES:0]
   [ELEVATION:1:400:1600:1600]
   [RAINFALL:0:100:200:200]
   [TEMPERATURE:25:75:200:200]
   [DRAINAGE:0:100:200:200]
   [VOLCANISM:0:100:200:200]
   [SAVAGERY:0:100:200:200]
   [ELEVATION_FREQUENCY:4:1:1:3:2:1]
   [RAIN_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [DRAINAGE_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [TEMPERATURE_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [SAVAGERY_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [VOLCANISM_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [TITAN_NUMBER:9]
   [TITAN_ATTACK_TRIGGER:80:0:100000]
   [DEMON_NUMBER:28]
   [GOOD_SQ_COUNTS:6:63:0]
   [EVIL_SQ_COUNTS:6:63:0]
   [PEAK_NUMBER_MIN:5]
   [PARTIAL_OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:0]
   [COMPLETE_OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:4]
   [VOLCANO_MIN:3]
   [REGION_COUNTS:SWAMP:66:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:DESERT:66:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:FOREST:264:3:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:MOUNTAINS:2112:6:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:OCEAN:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:GLACIER:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:TUNDRA:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:GRASSLAND:528:2:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:HILLS:528:2:0]
   [EROSION_CYCLE_COUNT:250]
   [RIVER_MINS:25:25]
   [PERIODICALLY_ERODE_EXTREMES:1]
   [OROGRAPHIC_PRECIPITATION:1]
   [SUBREGION_MAX:2750]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_COUNT:3]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_OPENNESS_MIN:0]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_OPENNESS_MAX:100]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_PASSAGE_DENSITY_MIN:0]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_PASSAGE_DENSITY_MAX:100]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_WATER_MIN:10]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_WATER_MAX:90]
   [HAVE_BOTTOM_LAYER_1:1]
   [HAVE_BOTTOM_LAYER_2:1]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_GROUND:10]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_1:6]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_2:2]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_3:2]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_4:2]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_5:2]
   [LEVELS_AT_BOTTOM:1]
   [CAVE_MIN_SIZE:5]
   [CAVE_MIN_SIZE:5]
   [CAVE_MAX_SIZE:25]
   [MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:5]
   [NON_MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:10]
   [ALL_CAVES_VISIBLE:1]
   [SHOW_EMBARK_TUNNEL:2]
   [TOTAL_CIV_NUMBER:12]
   [TOTAL_CIV_POPULATION:20000]
   [PLAYABLE_CIVILIZATION_REQUIRED:1]
   [ELEVATION_RANGES:1056:1056:528]
   [RAIN_RANGES:528:1056:528]
   [DRAINAGE_RANGES:528:1056:528]
   [SAVAGERY_RANGES:528:1056:528]
   [VOLCANISM_RANGES:528:1056:528]

And the picture of the site location (right on top of the goblin fort):

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I chose a 4x4 because I wanted to have a good mix of the biomes, but you could shrink it down to 3x3 and still have most stuff. The location of the features (for resizing it) are:

Spoiler: don't look if you don't wanna know (click to show/hide)

Bottom left for the HFS, upper right for the easy access magma. Magma also exists elsewhere obviously, but thats the shallowest.

[Zaerosz]

I think I love you now.

[Paul]

I regenned with slightly diff parameters (less layers) and got the same world with a different history. In this history one of the big dwarven civs is at war with the distant goblins (not the ones nearest the site, so I don't think it counts) and the nearest elves (so they'll attack you) at 1050, which could be fun - or you could play the other dwarven civ and be at peace with everyone. It only has 64 total layers, so would probably be a bit better on FPS.

The only difference is less Z-levels, reworked underground (bit less water, still some edge water for infinite source though), and different world history.

You could be at war with both the goblins AND the elves if you picked a different site in the world, and there are plenty of other places with sand/flux and such (even ones with obsidian/sand/sedimentary flux stone like this one), I just haven't checked them all for the presence of HFS since I already found a good one

Heres the world gen parameters for the modified version:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[WORLD_GEN]
   [TITLE:The Infinite World]
   [SEED:7777777]
   [HISTORY_SEED:2010]
   [NAME_SEED:2010]
   [CREATURE_SEED:2010]
   [DIM:129:129]
   [EMBARK_POINTS:1500]
   [END_YEAR:1050]
   [BEAST_END_YEAR:200:80]
   [REVEAL_ALL_HISTORY:1]
   [CULL_HISTORICAL_FIGURES:0]
   [ELEVATION:1:400:1600:1600]
   [RAINFALL:0:100:200:200]
   [TEMPERATURE:25:75:200:200]
   [DRAINAGE:0:100:200:200]
   [VOLCANISM:0:100:200:200]
   [SAVAGERY:0:100:200:200]
   [ELEVATION_FREQUENCY:4:1:1:3:2:1]
   [RAIN_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [DRAINAGE_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [TEMPERATURE_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [SAVAGERY_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [VOLCANISM_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [TITAN_NUMBER:9]
   [TITAN_ATTACK_TRIGGER:80:0:100000]
   [DEMON_NUMBER:28]
   [GOOD_SQ_COUNTS:6:63:0]
   [EVIL_SQ_COUNTS:6:63:0]
   [PEAK_NUMBER_MIN:5]
   [PARTIAL_OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:0]
   [COMPLETE_OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:4]
   [VOLCANO_MIN:3]
   [REGION_COUNTS:SWAMP:66:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:DESERT:66:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:FOREST:264:3:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:MOUNTAINS:2112:6:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:OCEAN:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:GLACIER:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:TUNDRA:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:GRASSLAND:528:2:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:HILLS:528:2:0]
   [EROSION_CYCLE_COUNT:250]
   [RIVER_MINS:25:25]
   [PERIODICALLY_ERODE_EXTREMES:1]
   [OROGRAPHIC_PRECIPITATION:1]
   [SUBREGION_MAX:2750]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_COUNT:3]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_OPENNESS_MIN:0]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_OPENNESS_MAX:100]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_PASSAGE_DENSITY_MIN:0]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_PASSAGE_DENSITY_MAX:100]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_WATER_MIN:0]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_WATER_MAX:100]
   [HAVE_BOTTOM_LAYER_1:1]
   [HAVE_BOTTOM_LAYER_2:1]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_GROUND:1]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_1:6]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_2:1]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_3:1]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_4:1]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_5:2]
   [LEVELS_AT_BOTTOM:1]
   [CAVE_MIN_SIZE:5]
   [CAVE_MIN_SIZE:5]
   [CAVE_MAX_SIZE:25]
   [MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:5]
   [NON_MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:10]
   [ALL_CAVES_VISIBLE:1]
   [SHOW_EMBARK_TUNNEL:2]
   [TOTAL_CIV_NUMBER:12]
   [TOTAL_CIV_POPULATION:20000]
   [PLAYABLE_CIVILIZATION_REQUIRED:1]
   [ELEVATION_RANGES:1056:1056:528]
   [RAIN_RANGES:528:1056:528]
   [DRAINAGE_RANGES:528:1056:528]
   [SAVAGERY_RANGES:528:1056:528]
   [VOLCANISM_RANGES:528:1056:528]

Now I'm off to build my fort at war with the Elves. I bet they'll like the magma. Mwahahaha...

[Zaerosz]

AAAAGH. My computer is such a piece of crap that even with nothing else running, 31.02 worldgen runs for half an hour and freezes.

[Fastler]

I would use it, but i have forgotten how to. *ashamed*

[stormyseasons]

copy paste into worldgen.txt, open dwarffort.exe, go into design new world, and choose this one

[ZeroGravitas]

Sigh. All it needs is a brook that freezes during the winter.

[forsaken1111]

Just embarked on this with a 6x6 and its beautiful. Thanks a lot Paul

[Jhoosier]

I would use it, but i have forgotten how to. *ashamed*

Don't worry, you're not alone.  Took me forever today to figure out the worldgen thing for the underwater volcano somebody posted.  I put the worldgen in it's own txt file and then spent half an hour staring at the design new world screen wondering how to load it >.>  Think the wiki finally got me sorted out.

Gonna give this a go tonight, see what fun happens.