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Raphite1

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Maximum cavern depth?
« on: March 14, 2012, 10:01:03 pm »

What's the maximum depth for the first cavern layer? I've explored ~45 levels down on my current map and have hit nothing. Not just a straight shaft down, but carving out at least a 5x15 section on each layer. The first level has been much, much shallower in the past.

The only worldgen tinkering I did this time around was to remove the [AQUIFER] tag from soil layers.

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Re: Maximum cavern depth?
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2012, 10:02:25 pm »

I've had a world where the first caverns were ~130 zlvls underground.
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Re: Maximum cavern depth?
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2012, 10:08:01 pm »

Check your world gen settings, you can set Z levels between layers.

And it can be really really really deep.  I've seen 150 at most to layer one.
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Re: Maximum cavern depth?
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2012, 10:08:49 pm »

More Moria map has over 200 8)
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Re: Maximum cavern depth?
« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2012, 10:19:28 pm »

What's your surface z-level, and your minimum z-level?
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Re: Maximum cavern depth?
« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2012, 10:26:59 pm »

What's your surface z-level, and your minimum z-level?

Lowest surface level is 99, bottom of map is -25. I have explorations down to 52 so far.

I'm carving a large, spiral wagon ramp downwards, which is getting a bit tedious. =)

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Re: Maximum cavern depth?
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2012, 12:46:36 am »

does your embark cover multiple biomes?

if so, send shafts down on those as well.

as a rule, i send shafts down all four corners of my embark.
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Re: Maximum cavern depth?
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2012, 09:54:07 am »

does your embark cover multiple biomes?

if so, send shafts down on those as well.

as a rule, i send shafts down all four corners of my embark.

Just out of curiousity why for? Just more acces?
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