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[Goodwin]

So for various reasons I want to embark on a site that has an above ground cavern entrance. Is there any way I can go about quickly finding an embark site featuring an above ground cavern entrance?

[i2amroy]

The only times you get access to the caverns from above ground is in bugged sites. It should never happen on a normal site (with the exception of volcanos).

[TheDarkStar]

Aren't there supposed to be caves, which connect to the caverns?

[i2amroy]

Caves may indeed connect to the caverns (Forgot about that, usually don't play on caves ). If so you can turn cave visibility on in world generation (though embarking on a cave might bring you into contact with all sorts of unpleasant inhabitants.

[laularukyrumo]

embarking on a cave might bring you into contact with all sorts of unpleasant inhabitants.

I think that was the point.

The easiest way to guarantee an embark that contains a cave with underground linkage (as opposed to those pitiful excuses for caves that house ettins and the like) is to turn off megabeast and semi-megabeast caves in advanced worldgen parameters, increase the number of non-mountain caves, and turn on cave visibility. Then look for a cave and presto. Troglodytes.

[Sutremaine]

You can also check out the cave in Legends mode.

[vjek]

Yep, easy to do. Reduce the number of Z-Levels, increase caves...

try this. 

Spoiler: many caves worldgen (click to show/hide)

Code: [Select]

Created in DF v0.34.11.

[WORLD_GEN]
[TITLE:CAVERN_LAND]
[SEED:4owOY2oGQCckQGSosGua]
[HISTORY_SEED:iWcsqEswiCqimIsiwous]
[NAME_SEED:YqyC0U0Scco0mAsu8wgi]
[CREATURE_SEED:8eciuCayMaWCMMKeEcUS]
[DIM:65:65]
[EMBARK_POINTS:2500]
[END_YEAR:300]
[BEAST_END_YEAR:300:99]
[REVEAL_ALL_HISTORY:1]
[CULL_HISTORICAL_FIGURES:0]
[ELEVATION:100:350:0:0]
[RAINFALL:100:100:0:0]
[TEMPERATURE:75:75:0:0]
[DRAINAGE:0:0:0:0]
[VOLCANISM:0:0:0:0]
[SAVAGERY:0:100:0:0]
[ELEVATION_FREQUENCY:4:9:0:0:0:1]
[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:1:1:1:1:1:1]
[VOLCANISM_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
[MINERAL_SCARCITY:2500]
[MEGABEAST_CAP:0]
[SEMIMEGABEAST_CAP:0]
[TITAN_NUMBER:0]
[TITAN_ATTACK_TRIGGER:0:0:100000]
[DEMON_NUMBER:0]
[NIGHT_TROLL_NUMBER:0]
[BOGEYMAN_NUMBER:0]
[VAMPIRE_NUMBER:0]
[WEREBEAST_NUMBER:0]
[SECRET_NUMBER:0]
[REGIONAL_INTERACTION_NUMBER:0]
[DISTURBANCE_INTERACTION_NUMBER:0]
[EVIL_CLOUD_NUMBER:0]
[EVIL_RAIN_NUMBER:0]
[GOOD_SQ_COUNTS:0:0:0]
[EVIL_SQ_COUNTS:0:0:0]
[PEAK_NUMBER_MIN:0]
[PARTIAL_OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:0]
[COMPLETE_OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:0]
[VOLCANO_MIN:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:SWAMP:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:DESERT:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:FOREST:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:MOUNTAINS:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:OCEAN:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:GLACIER:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:TUNDRA:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:GRASSLAND:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:HILLS:0:0:0]
[EROSION_CYCLE_COUNT:1000]
[RIVER_MINS:0:0]
[PERIODICALLY_ERODE_EXTREMES:0]
[OROGRAPHIC_PRECIPITATION:0]
[SUBREGION_MAX:2750]
[CAVERN_LAYER_COUNT:3]
[CAVERN_LAYER_OPENNESS_MIN:90]
[CAVERN_LAYER_OPENNESS_MAX:100]
[CAVERN_LAYER_PASSAGE_DENSITY_MIN:0]
[CAVERN_LAYER_PASSAGE_DENSITY_MAX:0]
[CAVERN_LAYER_WATER_MIN:25]
[CAVERN_LAYER_WATER_MAX:25]
[HAVE_BOTTOM_LAYER_1:1]
[HAVE_BOTTOM_LAYER_2:1]
[LEVELS_ABOVE_GROUND:5]
[LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_1:10]
[LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_2:2]
[LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_3:2]
[LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_4:2]
[LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_5:3]
[LEVELS_AT_BOTTOM:2]
[CAVE_MIN_SIZE:499]
[CAVE_MAX_SIZE:500]
[MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:0]
[NON_MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:800]
[ALL_CAVES_VISIBLE:1]
[SHOW_EMBARK_TUNNEL:2]
[TOTAL_CIV_NUMBER:8]
[TOTAL_CIV_POPULATION:10]
[SITE_CAP:100]
[PLAYABLE_CIVILIZATION_REQUIRED:1]
[ELEVATION_RANGES:0:0:0]
[RAIN_RANGES:0:0:0]
[DRAINAGE_RANGES:0:0:0]
[SAVAGERY_RANGES:0:0:0]
[VOLCANISM_RANGES:0:0:0]


First random embark I tried had a path from the surface to the first cavern layer.

Also...
Civilized World Population

   639 Dwarves
   30400 Goblins
   707 Kobolds

   Total: 31746

[Gaybarowner]

when you gen worlds in adv gen you can set show caves to 1 to allow caves to show

[i2amroy]

The easiest way to guarantee an embark that contains a cave with underground linkage (as opposed to those pitiful excuses for caves that house ettins and the like) is to turn off megabeast and semi-megabeast caves in advanced worldgen parameters, increase the number of non-mountain caves, and turn on cave visibility. Then look for a cave and presto. Troglodytes.

You can also increase the sizes of the caves. The default for cave max size is only like 25-50, but they go all of the way up to 500.