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[Zeus]

Well i just finished the tutorial on the wiki, the newb one, so I decided to embark on my own dwarven adventure. I decide to stop at the year two hundred and whenever i pick a suitable location near a river and mountain, with grass terrain, the area appear brown and barren on the next screen and the wold layout in the world selection screen looks different thatn that generized in the world.

Does anyone know whats going on?

Btw I'm new to dwrf fortress. Hello

[MechaGodzilla]

I think its just a case of scale and the limited graphics avaliable to DF.

One square on the world map (far right on embark screen) equals several several more squares in the Region map (middle) which in turn equates to each 16x16 embark area (left-most map).

So i suppose im tryin to say that although things may look real close together and grassy on the world map at generation, only way to make sure what is what is to look at the local embark map when you start up. DF tends to generalize the worlds terrain the further and further zoomed out youre looking at it.

Unless I completely misunderstand your question?

[Zeus]

No no that makes sense, so at that would mean geographical features like ponds or some bodies of water wouldnt show up on the world babe do to scale.

Alright i wasnt sure how the world was scaled down.
ThanksMechagodzilla

[MechaGodzilla]

Yup yup! Glad to have been of help!