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[Fisbik]

Hey everybody!  Been playing since version 0.28 or the later 0.27s (don't remember) but now I'm having an issue to which I can't find an answer:

     In 31.03, more often than not upon embark, there are no seeds or booze available.  If I have a saved embark profile then I get the message that none of these items are available; otherwise they simply aren't there to add.  I've been trying to embark in a small region, 5x5 area, along a stream or lake with some soil layers, in temperate or cold climates.  So it's nothing extreme that would seemingly disqualify those items.  In 40d and before, these items were always available regardless of where I embarked.
     The only file alterations I've made other than basic changes in the init. file are: turning off weather and economy and removing the [aquifer] tag from sand.  The world gen. changes I've made to the region are: reducing the years to 100; reducing the z-levels above ground to 5; removing the Bottom Layer and removing the Cavern Layers.  Again, I don't seem to have made any major change that would delete all the seeds and booze.

If there is something I can edit to fix this, please let me know.  I've tried re-installing to no avail.
 

[Logical2u]

Right, so since you removed Cavern Layers, the dwarven civ you're affiliated with can't actually ever get underground plants, since they only naturally occur in caverns.

[Fisbik]

Thank you!  I just made a new world and it seems to be OK.  However, is there a way around this?  I'm really not interested in the whole cavern and magma sea thing so much as I am the military and medical changes.

[ISGC]

don't dig down?
try and find a mountainous area in which you can dig a good deal of z-levels without disturbing the caverns or magma layers (which are often quite a ways down)

[Logical2u]

Thank you!  I just made a new world and it seems to be OK.  However, is there a way around this?  I'm really not interested in the whole cavern and magma sea thing so much as I am the military and medical changes.

Alright, I have an idea, but I'm not particularly sure it will work.

Likewise, it may result in strange in game behaviour.

Step 1.

Open the file "Plant_Standard" in your RAWs folder.
Modify all plants you want on embark from "Biome:Subterranean_water" to "Biome:Any_wetland"
Remove the underground_depth tag.

Essentially, this turns underground plants into above ground plants. May result in strangeness - humans and elves bringing you plump helmets, for example. Also being able to gather them outdoors.

Step 2.

Open "Entity_Default"
Turn your dwarves into humans, essentially.
Add the tag "Outdoor_Farming" to dwarves.
Change the "start_biome" tag value from "mountain" to "Any_grassland", to ensure that they will actually be able to farm.

You'll probably see dwarvan caravans arriving with stuff like "Sunshine" and "Sun berries" because of this.

So, no promises on whether this will actually work, and no promises on whether or not this will result in gameplay weirdness.

don't dig down?
try and find a mountainous area in which you can dig a good deal of z-levels without disturbing the caverns or magma layers (which are often quite a ways down)

It's not that easy - the underground layers can still sap a not insignificant portion of your CPU/memory due to the current pathing weirdness with undiscovered layers, fluids, and critters. Not to mention the shear number of layers available to view.

[nekoexmachina]

try and find a mountainous area in which you can dig a good deal of z-levels without disturbing the caverns or magma layers (which are often quite a ways down)

..or just generate a world with ~30-100 layers 'above cavern level 1'