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[Wyrdean]

I've been away from dwarf fortress for quite a while and while getting back into it I've been rather unlucky with my embarks, so any good ones you'd like to share?

[Leonidas]

Which embarks do you consider to be the good ones?

[Wyrdean]

Anything interesting, It could be incredibly difficult like a glacier or, it might be an embark with surface lava for an easy magma forge and enough adamantine to make a castle out of.


I've yet to build a cliff fortress so an embark with a good mountain would be nice.

[Grand Sage]

I recently tried making an arteficial cliff out of a mountainside. Didn't go so well fps-wise...

[Cryoshakespeare]

I always suffer from embark paralysis - I find a cool embark and then I'm so hesitant to get started because I tend to be unhappy with not creating an amazing build in that one of a kind spot.

My current embark is a 3x3, with two tiles of swamp on the left side, one mountain tile in between them, and then mountain tiles on the middle and rightmost columns. There is a volcano located in the center. The mountain extends upwards with the volcano at an incredibly steep incline for about 120 Z-levels from the surface of the swamp. It is so freakishly high there, and since the volcano protrudes from the edge of the mountain slope a bit, you could have people fall off the edge of the volcano all the way to the bottom. It is awesome. But I'm so perfectionistic that I can't start o_o . Please tell me I'm not the only one this happens to

Edit: It even has a partial aquifer at the swamp so I can do shenanigans with obsidian.

[userpay]

That sounds like a fun embark... Any chance you could post up the world gen/where it is?

[Grand Sage]

have you tried embarking on top of a minotaur labyrinth? preferrably with a live minotaur in there? Great fun!

[thefinn]

This world has in it a dying dwarf civ (there's only 2 dwarf civs left in the game) which has been at war with the elves off and on since the start of the world. They have also been attacked by rampaging monsters constantly lol.

It only has 16 dwarves left (Easy to take over I'm thinking), and is situated right next to a Tower and in range of the elves (no goblins, but you can't have everything.)

This is your standard very large world, with few civs, minerals everywhere and huge amounts of beasts and savagery, then I put it into the advanced system and added more volcanoes, reduced cavern layers to 1 (for less lag), made caves visible and maybe a couple of other incidental things.

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Created in DF v0.44.12.

[WORLD_GEN]
[TITLE:STANDARD]
[SEED:i2KYWKsuwGwceyKEqGaE]
[HISTORY_SEED:4woMguk4sk6UwAWYg0S6]
[NAME_SEED:qC22iaQcKoAgmc06My6k]
[CREATURE_SEED:kOsqgoUeQK4GKYQu6kA8]
[DIM:257:257]
[EMBARK_POINTS:1504]
[END_YEAR:125]
[BEAST_END_YEAR:125:-1]
[REVEAL_ALL_HISTORY:1]
[CULL_HISTORICAL_FIGURES:0]
[ELEVATION:1:400:1600:1600]
[RAINFALL:0:100:400:400]
[TEMPERATURE:25:75:400:400]
[DRAINAGE:0:100:400:400]
[VOLCANISM:0:100:400:400]
[SAVAGERY:0:100:400:400]
[ELEVATION_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
[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:3:1:2:3:4:5]
[VOLCANISM_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
[POLE:NORTH_AND_OR_SOUTH]
[MINERAL_SCARCITY:100]
[MEGABEAST_CAP:150]
[SEMIMEGABEAST_CAP:300]
[TITAN_NUMBER:66]
[TITAN_ATTACK_TRIGGER:80:0:100000]
[DEMON_NUMBER:52]
[NIGHT_TROLL_NUMBER:26]
[BOGEYMAN_NUMBER:26]
[VAMPIRE_NUMBER:26]
[WEREBEAST_NUMBER:26]
[SECRET_NUMBER:52]
[REGIONAL_INTERACTION_NUMBER:52]
[DISTURBANCE_INTERACTION_NUMBER:52]
[EVIL_CLOUD_NUMBER:26]
[EVIL_RAIN_NUMBER:26]
[GENERATE_DIVINE_MATERIALS:1]
[GOOD_SQ_COUNTS:24:244:0]
[EVIL_SQ_COUNTS:24:244:0]
[PEAK_NUMBER_MIN:12]
[PARTIAL_OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:0]
[COMPLETE_OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:4]
[VOLCANO_MIN:4]
[REGION_COUNTS:SWAMP:252:1:1]
[REGION_COUNTS:DESERT:252:1:1]
[REGION_COUNTS:FOREST:1008:3:2]
[REGION_COUNTS:MOUNTAINS:2016:2:2]
[REGION_COUNTS:OCEAN:2016:1:1]
[REGION_COUNTS:GLACIER:63:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:TUNDRA:126:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:GRASSLAND:2016:3:2]
[REGION_COUNTS:HILLS:2016:3:2]
[EROSION_CYCLE_COUNT:250]
[RIVER_MINS:100:100]
[PERIODICALLY_ERODE_EXTREMES:1]
[OROGRAPHIC_PRECIPITATION:1]
[SUBREGION_MAX:3500]
[CAVERN_LAYER_COUNT:1]
[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:15]
[LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_1:30]
[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_MAX_SIZE:25]
[MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:80]
[NON_MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:120]
[ALL_CAVES_VISIBLE:1]
[SHOW_EMBARK_TUNNEL:2]
[TOTAL_CIV_NUMBER:20]
[TOTAL_CIV_POPULATION:15000]
[SITE_CAP:2000]
[PLAYABLE_CIVILIZATION_REQUIRED:1]
[ELEVATION_RANGES:33000:4032:2016]
[RAIN_RANGES:2016:4032:2016]
[DRAINAGE_RANGES:2016:4032:2016]
[SAVAGERY_RANGES:0:8256:16512]
[VOLCANISM_RANGES:2016:4032:2016]