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[Berossus]

Im done with zombie hair and that idiotic crap, but normal embarks are just boring me to hell.

Is there an evil embark that doesnt zombify every turd you drop but still is somewhat challenging?
At the moment i see either mind-numbingly lame or "fucked-by-mechanics"-unfun.
Looking for a solid middle ground...

[vjek]

Check out this one, Berossus.

No re-animation, but definitely fun and challenging. 

[ulspa]

I haven't done any deeper research but I think on freezing embarks, the goblins wear metal breastplate and metal helms. otherwise it will be the same.

[Larix]

Im done with zombie hair and that idiotic crap, but normal embarks are just boring me to hell.

Is there an evil embark that doesnt zombify every turd you drop but still is somewhat challenging?
At the moment i see either mind-numbingly lame or "fucked-by-mechanics"-unfun.
Looking for a solid middle ground...

I tend to stay away from evil embarks. They're good for the occasional challenge, but for sustained play i find them too annoying to deal with.

Evilness can be fiddled around in worldgen, but i don't know if it's possible to make e.g. raising of the dead less frequent specifically without defanging all evil areas completely: a region with high "desired evil squares" counts but all specific evilness options set to zero (regional interactions, disturbances (? i've no idea what this actually does, might be totally unrelated?), evil rains, evil clouds) produced a world mostly covered in evil biomes, but a quick check suggested i was getting completely ordinary wilderness with no effects.

You can pick challenging embark locations without resorting to evil embarks - extremely cold, extremely hot, little usable water, massive aquifers, nearby towers, start close to a goblin civ you're already at WAR with or get "lucky" and find a dwarf civ that starts out at war with the elves...

Deadly evil embark locations are only a serious gameplay challenge for the first month of a fortress - either you get yourself dug in, or you don't. After that i find it turns into drudgery, staying alive, snatching the occasional item or migrant from the surface when the coast's clear, but when you have husking clouds or similar nonsense to deal with, you practically play fully turtled forever, which i find supremely boring.

[Necrisha]

Evilness can be fiddled around in worldgen, but i don't know if it's possible to make e.g. raising of the dead less frequent specifically without defanging all evil areas completely: a region with high "desired evil squares" counts but all specific evilness options set to zero (regional interactions, disturbances (? i've no idea what this actually does, might be totally unrelated?), evil rains, evil clouds) produced a world mostly covered in evil biomes, but a quick check suggested i was getting completely ordinary wilderness with no effects.

I think reanimating biome is in regional interactions, seeing as clouds/dusk/fog would be disturbances. and weather is pretty obvious. I like husking clouds when I'm doing an isolation fort as it's something to chase migrants around and a challenge to get stuff in as normally you would be turtling.

[Berossus]

That sounds interesting, but ive never screwed around in any files before.

So i just copy/paste that code into a txt file, rename it world_gen.txt and replace it with the one in my init folder?

[vjek]

That sounds interesting, but ive never screwed around in any files before.

So i just copy/paste that code into a txt file, rename it world_gen.txt and replace it with the one in my init folder?

Typically, it's easier just to edit the existing world_gen.txt and add it to the end of the file.  But strictly speaking, either method will work.

[Necrisha]

or you could edit the parameters during advanced world gen...

[RailroadRider]

I found one with no less than 6 werecreatures, 4 vampires and a yeti.

Might try and put the world up, but my computer doesn't have an internet connection.

[smurfingtonthethird]

For sustained play, I'd recommend killing any and everything that comes to your fort. Bonus if you kill the dwarven caravan too and become a rebel fort.

[Berossus]

I tried the above map and its nice.
I managed of course to get a "no neighbours" tile, except for the caravan that turned zombie and killed each other on my central staircase until all that remained was a macelord and a swordmaster.
Swordmaster chance-killed the mace is now my gateguards against anything, because he is legendary as fuck.

Anybody can tell me what exactly i would have to mess around in world gen to achieve:
.) Non-reanimating yet evil biome.
.) Shallow world (35 Z-levels are enough for me, i dont need 180+)
.) Lots (and i mean flipping LOTS) of titans, megabeast and stuff

[vjek]

You'll note there is an embark location shown in that post, and within it, the ground does not re-animate the dead.

If you just want evil without EVIL (that is, nothing bad) that's easy, but is that really what you want? or just evil without re-animation?

Any other requirements, besides lots of titans, semi-megabeasts, megabeasts?  How about goblins? temperature, surface water, steel-friendly, etc?

[Berossus]

I saw that there was an embark down there, but id like to create some worlds of my own, with the specs i "listed" above (short list, but a list none the less).
Zombie-cloud is ok, but eternally reanimating is just tedious.

[RailroadRider]

Lairs and necro towers can be good Fun. To make these more common, make a tiny world (17x17) and turn up vampire & were curse types, for necros turn up "Secret" types.