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[Nyxalinth]

I would love to see a mod where you have an option for a completely random embark, dwarves, location and all.

All dwarves would already have skills assigned
The embark could be *anywhere*
Goods/animals randomly assigned

So concieveably, you could wind up with six woodcutters, a soapmaker, and a bonecarver at embark, with 12 cats and a mule, in a freezing terrifying biome.  WITH AQUIFERS.  Make the most of it!

Would such a mod be possible? I can't mod or program my way out of a rope reed sack, alas.

[Nyxalinth]

Oops, that total 8 dwarves.  I am also fail at counting today, it seems

[existent]

I would love to see a mod where you have an option for a completely random embark, dwarves, location and all.

All dwarves would already have skills assigned
The embark could be *anywhere*
Goods/animals randomly assigned

So concieveably, you could wind up with six woodcutters, a soapmaker, and a bonecarver at embark, with 12 cats and a mule, in a freezing terrifying biome.  WITH AQUIFERS.  Make the most of it!

Eh, what with embark profiles being stored the way they are, I'm not sure this is possible. Definitely not without quite a bit of work. On the other hand, I suspect that choosing a random embark location would be much simpler to program. I'm no coder, though, so don't take my word for it.

[Nyxalinth]

I think that just a random location could still be cool, actually.  Could someone do this?

[existent]

I think that just a random location could still be cool, actually.  Could someone do this?

Well, lemme think. How big is the world map? 257x257 or something, right? So, just pick a random number 1-257 twice. Once for x-value, once for y-value. It'd be a pain to count manually though. That's the part I wouldn't know how to handle.

[xtank5]

I think the best way for a program like that to work would be RNGs develop a legal and random Embark Profile.  Then the program opens and Runs DF to gen a new world.  After that it would start a new game, choose a random spot, embark, and choose the profile it made.

[Eagleon]

If you can fetch menu size and current selection from memory in the item selection screen, this should be fairly trivial to program, as items already cull themselves by price. The other stuff (embark location, size, civ, dwarf skills, etc) I'm almost certain has already been accessed externally, though probably by multiple programmers. Pets are different, but it shouldn't be too intensive to make an array of prices and cull the ones above your budget, depending on whether these are stored together in any structured way in memory.

So yeah, it's probably possible. I'm not the one to do it, but I like the idea. I imagine you'd get a lot of level 1 skills and random one-shot items. If you made probability of selection logarithmic (likelyhood of selecting any particular choice multiplying with points into that choice), you'd get more interesting embarks.