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LittleJP

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Volcanos not showing up on Local map
« on: February 07, 2012, 03:33:29 pm »
So, I've genned a custom world with Volcanoes everywhere.

Now, when I go over a region with a volcano, on the local map, the magma tile may or may not show up. Is this normal behaviour?
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Re: Volcanos not showing up on Local map
« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2012, 03:44:43 pm »
Do you think you could upload the world since that isn't normal behavior? Also just double checking here, but you are looking for the tilde (~) sign right? Not the '^' sign?
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Re: Volcanos not showing up on Local map
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2012, 03:49:36 pm »
I'm looking for the magma tile, since I'm using the Ironhand tileset.
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If you look back in the thread, some people did try, and they got 8008135, which is significant only in that the digits resemble the letter in "BOOBIES".
And so dwarf fortress solves yet another of lifes great mysteries.

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Re: Volcanos not showing up on Local map
« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2012, 06:28:12 pm »
well they should be red, anyway.  I'm not sure what Iron Hand does, but in stock in the two largest maps they are ^ and then down in the region (smallest of the three) maps they will be the double ~.

When you are on your local embark map, the magma does not always come through the surface.  often it will have an obsidian cap on top, which sometimes may have snow on top of it or it might blend in with surrounding rock.  I dont think it ever gets grass or sand on it, so it should at least show up as a round obsidian plug unless you are on a tundra or glacier or mountain...
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Re: Volcanos not showing up on Local map
« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2012, 11:17:16 pm »
Volcanoes will rarely generate underground. Functionally, it's the same as a shallow magma tube - although guessing where it is isn't always easy. You see this bug all the time if you play with a very large number of volcanoes.
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Re: Volcanos not showing up on Local map
« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2012, 12:38:55 am »
actually, its fairly predictable. 

you embark on a known size, say a 3x3 or a 2x5 section or whatever.  the volcano is on one of those embark squares, roughly in the center of it.

If you know where the red double ~ tile was relative to your embark site, you can divide it up into what the world map tiles should be, and there you go.
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