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[ChickenLips]

Pretty new to the game still, so I thought I'd embark at a spot with a cave, saw something weird, and thought I'd ask to see if it's a bug or As Intended.

Upon finishing embark, I look and see on the map a HUGE, tightly-packed clump of trade goods, food (soon to be rotten), ettins, giant rats and blind cave bears on the surface just hanging out -- and all of it centered on top of a brook, at that.  Looks dd and inappropriate, to say the lest.

Is this, eh, how it's supposed to be, or is this "cave" somehow bugged?

[opsneakie]

I think it's more or less as intended, although the clumps of trade goods and food and monsters is usually much much smaller than that.  Strange but not overly crazy.

[ChickenLips]

Ah, so the caves aren't actually caves in the sense of the caverns found underground?  Or is there usually a cave somewhere in that mess?

[NinjaE8825]

Is there a small, hollow hill with openings into the depths anywhere on the map? That's the cave.
If there isn't, it's most likely a bug.
The trade goods are because the "cave" is home to a tribe of ettins. It's all stuff they've stolen during worldgen. If you were to visit a nearby town as an adventurer, they'd probably bawl your ears off about it and send you to off the ettins.

[thijser]

Could it be that the cave as dissapeared as a result of erosion?

[Quietust]

This has shown up in at least one other thread, and the cause of the bug is that there's a brook running directly through the region tile that should contain the cave entrance.

[Psieye]

Ah, so the caves aren't actually caves in the sense of the caverns found underground?  Or is there usually a cave somewhere in that mess?

"Caves" mean surface caves where various big creature tribes take up residence in and proceed to pillage from surrounding civilisations for all worldgen history. "Caverns" are the things you find deep underground. It's possible for a Cave to be connected to a Cavern, but this is by no means a guarantee or even the norm.

Now, as others have pointed out, your Cave is bugged because of the brook. All that loot is meant to be there, but so too is an actual Cave.

[Teach]

Every cave I've been in has been connected to the caverns.

[ChickenLips]

Good to know.  Yeah, I didn't see any cave, but then I didn't play it much further, thinking it'd pretty much be near-suicide to try to plop down within a stone's throw of that mess.    Definitely nothing that looks like a mound for sure.

Checking the bug tracker, I found what you guys are talking about, and threw my own worldgen parameters in the comments.