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[tahu16]

I would like to make a request:
-a lot of necromancer towers concentrated at one point
-a living dwarf civilization
-sand
-deep and/or shallow metal
-copper is fine (iron is great, even without flux)

BONUS POINTS:
-even more towers‼
-flux
-it shouldn't too rich, I don't like when I'm drowning in diamonds
-the world should be FPS-friendly

[Bouchart]

So what parameters do I need to set to create a world with tons of variation in evil/good and savage/tame biomes?  I'd like to be able to do  have a 4x4 embark with something like one part joyous wilds, one part calm, one part haunted. 

[Angle]

Turn up the x and y variance for the listed parameters. You could also use the weighted mesh to get extremes, by turning mesh size to 2x2 and then turning up the listed values at each end.

[Jazzeraint]

Why am I not seeing any volcanoes on my maps?  [VOLCANISM:15:100:400:3200] and [VOLCANISM_FREQUENCY:2:1:0:0:0:3] and not a single red carrot in the last dozen worlds I've made.

Relatedly, I'd love to see a map with the following, or an image usable for Perfect World (or exported PW worldgen file) that slots well for this:

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Scattered seas and a goodly number of small / thin mountain ranges
Grassland / Hill / Forest dominance, then Swamp / Marsh, with scant few Deserts / Wastelands
Lots of volcanoes, otherwise typical volcanism spread
As much savagery as can be included without leading to endless playable civ rejections
Design that offers plenty of small subregions, some medium subregions, and few large subregions

I've been at this for many, many hours with no grand success, so I'd greatly appreciate any aid given at this point.

[Immortal-D]

Why am I not seeing any volcanoes on my maps?  [VOLCANISM:15:100:400:3200] and [VOLCANISM_FREQUENCY:2:1:0:0:0:3] and not a single red carrot in the last dozen worlds I've made.

Relatedly, I'd love to see a map with the following, or an image usable for Perfect World (or exported PW worldgen file) that slots well for this:

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129x65
Scattered seas and a goodly number of small / thin mountain ranges
Grassland / Hill / Forest dominance, then Swamp / Marsh, with scant few Deserts / Wastelands
Lots of volcanoes, otherwise typical volcanism spread
As much savagery as can be included without leading to endless playable civ rejections
Design that offers plenty of small subregions, some medium subregions, and few large subregions

I've been at this for many, many hours with no grand success, so I'd greatly appreciate any aid given at this point.

Try [Volcano_Min:3-10] depending on world size.

So what parameters do I need to set to create a world with tons of variation in evil/good and savage/tame biomes?  I'd like to be able to do  have a 4x4 embark with something like one part joyous wilds, one part calm, one part haunted.

Sent you a pm for this.

[Omeganaut]

Set your min volcanism up around 50.  Low volcanism includes values up to 70 or so, I can't remember the exact number, so even by setting it high, you still will have a variety of volcanic layers.  According to the wiki, Volcanoes only appear at 100 volcanism, although I have also heard it was just random in high volcanism, which was at 90+.  Either way, by pushing up the min, and requiring volcanoes to appear, things should be better.

[Jazzeraint]

Try [Volcano_Min:3-10] depending on world size.

Set your min volcanism up around 50.  Low volcanism includes values up to 70 or so, I can't remember the exact number, so even by setting it high, you still will have a variety of volcanic layers.  According to the wiki, Volcanoes only appear at 100 volcanism, although I have also heard it was just random in high volcanism, which was at 90+.  Either way, by pushing up the min, and requiring volcanoes to appear, things should be better.

Just did a bunch of testing on this.
Contrary to the Wiki, Minimum Volcanoes determines the number of volcanoes on the region.
Tweaking the Volcanism mesh and Min/Max had zero effect on the number of volcanoes that showed up.

Thanks to you both, I now have 125 volcanoes oozing sweet, sweet magma all over my embarks.

[Angle]

If you really like volcaoes, you can get even more by editing the worldgen textfiles. You can put the value above it's normal maximums that way.

[Omeganaut]

Thanks for the testing.  I guess I hadn't bothered to do the science on the new version.

[Jazzeraint]

Thanks for the testing.  I guess I hadn't bothered to do the science on the new version.

There were rejections at world start, though, so the volcanism settings need to permit the number of volcanoes popping up. Even with volcanism minimum at 0, though, it didn't add any extra time to the world-gen process. The rejections happen before it starts processing anything (so when it first draws the volcanism map, I suppose).

Now I just need to find a volcano next to the other features I like...

[vjek]

... Now I just need to find a volcano next to the other features I like...

While I understand the desire NOT to do this, it takes very little time to get a volcano exactly where you want it (at least, at the world level, not the embark level) with world painter.
It takes something that can occupy day's worth of time, and reduces it to minutes or hours at most.

In particular, if you create the exact world you want, and paint one tile of 100% volcanism, and request one volcano, it will only appear in that painted location.  Everything else can be random, if desired.

[Jazzeraint]

While I understand the desire NOT to do this, it takes very little time to get a volcano exactly where you want it (at least, at the world level, not the embark level) with world painter.
It takes something that can occupy day's worth of time, and reduces it to minutes or hours at most.

In particular, if you create the exact world you want, and paint one tile of 100% volcanism, and request one volcano, it will only appear in that painted location.  Everything else can be random, if desired.

The desired bit in particular is in the evil (at least one that reanimates, preferably) / good regions and biomes around the volcano at the embark level, as well as having local Necromancer towers. I haven't tried to max out subregions through fidgety brushing in Perfect World, though, since I've gotten errors after painting a couple of times before. Or do you mean a different application?

[vjek]

... Or do you mean a different application?

I mean the built in world painter interface, or Preset Field Values interface, if you prefer.

[Jazzeraint]

... Or do you mean a different application?

I mean the built in world painter interface, or Preset Field Values interface, if you prefer.

Oh, I'll have to try this. Thank you!

[zdrgn]

I spent a while playing with worldgen to find a nice vanilla mix with volcanoes galore.

I just made this map, it parameters are fun without these exact seeds, but I generated about 10 tonight before finding this one that has a lot of volcanoes with 3+ biomes in a 4x4 embark near water like aquifer or river.  Scarcity is 666 resulting in lots of embarks with shallow metals + deep metals + flux.
It has boosted numbers of good and evil biomes and is pretty close to as many biomes as u can fit on a large region map.  I remember from tweaking these back in about 40.9 that I had to adjust some of the variance numbers down or fail to create from too many biomes.

I will play this map a while and hopefully abandon many a fortress to ruin before attempting some of the harder embarks
like:  joyous tundra + terrifying frozen sea + volcano
or simply terrifying aquifer glacier volcano.  (both with multiple biome + metals & flux in 4x4 embark of volc.)

I counted at least 6 starts with my resource reqs of 2-3 biomes shallow, deep and flux + volcano and surface water (partial aquifer or river) in a 4x4.

It is very very spikey mountainous because of my parameters.
Lots of 12+ cliff faces on these volcanoes.

I boosted numbers of megas and kept the time short (112 years) to have less of them killed off.

Oh and some of the parameters lead to extra forest wetness, minimized frozen waste(though still plenty of starts) and minimized speckled oceans, lots of mountains in smaller ranges.

I hope to enjoy it, and hope someone else may .

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Created in DF v0.40.24.

[WORLD_GEN]
   [TITLE:LR-V192-DRGNZ]
   [SEED:MeCaIG8iMyKWkqm8QaAK]
   [HISTORY_SEED:eUmeO2U0SsUma8g4qA4y]
   [NAME_SEED:NIYxyq8luLgHp4m0DMFi]
   [CREATURE_SEED:EAOiMQiySuuIKQ8GkYY6]
   [DIM:257:257]
   [EMBARK_POINTS:1504]
   [END_YEAR:112]
   [BEAST_END_YEAR:50:50]
   [REVEAL_ALL_HISTORY:1]
   [CULL_HISTORICAL_FIGURES:1]
   [ELEVATION:1:400:2800:2800]
   [RAINFALL:0:100:1200:1200]
   [TEMPERATURE:25:60:200:200]
   [DRAINAGE:0:100:400:400]
   [VOLCANISM:0:100:3200:3200]
   [SAVAGERY:0:100:2800:2800]
   [ELEVATION_FREQUENCY:2:2:1:1:4:5]
   [RAIN_FREQUENCY:3:2:1:1:1:5]
   [DRAINAGE_FREQUENCY:4:1:1:1:1:5]
   [TEMPERATURE_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [SAVAGERY_FREQUENCY:2:1:2:3:4:5]
   [VOLCANISM_FREQUENCY:2:5:1:1:1:3]
   [POLE:NORTH]
   [MINERAL_SCARCITY:666]
   [MEGABEAST_CAP:169]
   [SEMIMEGABEAST_CAP:225]
   [TITAN_NUMBER:64]
   [TITAN_ATTACK_TRIGGER:80:0:100000]
   [DEMON_NUMBER:52]
   [NIGHT_TROLL_NUMBER:26]
   [BOGEYMAN_NUMBER:26]
   [VAMPIRE_NUMBER:26]
   [WEREBEAST_NUMBER:26]
   [SECRET_NUMBER:69]
   [REGIONAL_INTERACTION_NUMBER:52]
   [DISTURBANCE_INTERACTION_NUMBER:52]
   [EVIL_CLOUD_NUMBER:26]
   [EVIL_RAIN_NUMBER:26]
   [GENERATE_DIVINE_MATERIALS:1]
   [GOOD_SQ_COUNTS:333:2222:4444]
   [EVIL_SQ_COUNTS:333:2222:4444]
   [PEAK_NUMBER_MIN:50]
   [PARTIAL_OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:2]
   [COMPLETE_OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:0]
   [VOLCANO_MIN:192]
   [REGION_COUNTS:SWAMP:516:3:2]
   [REGION_COUNTS:DESERT:516:3:2]
   [REGION_COUNTS:FOREST:4128:8:7]
   [REGION_COUNTS:MOUNTAINS:12384:9:9]
   [REGION_COUNTS:OCEAN:4128:5:4]
   [REGION_COUNTS:GLACIER:2064:3:2]
   [REGION_COUNTS:TUNDRA:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:GRASSLAND:2064:5:4]
   [REGION_COUNTS:HILLS:2064:5:4]
   [EROSION_CYCLE_COUNT:64]
   [RIVER_MINS:400:400]
   [PERIODICALLY_ERODE_EXTREMES:1]
   [OROGRAPHIC_PRECIPITATION:1]
   [SUBREGION_MAX:5000]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_COUNT:3]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_OPENNESS_MIN:0]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_OPENNESS_MAX:100]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_PASSAGE_DENSITY_MIN:0]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_PASSAGE_DENSITY_MAX:100]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_WATER_MIN:0]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_WATER_MAX:100]
   [HAVE_BOTTOM_LAYER_1:1]
   [HAVE_BOTTOM_LAYER_2:1]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_GROUND:15]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_1:5]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_2:1]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_3:1]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_4:1]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_5:2]
   [LEVELS_AT_BOTTOM:1]
   [CAVE_MIN_SIZE:8]
   [CAVE_MAX_SIZE:40]
   [MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:256]
   [NON_MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:384]
   [ALL_CAVES_VISIBLE:0]
   [SHOW_EMBARK_TUNNEL:2]
   [TOTAL_CIV_NUMBER:50]
   [TOTAL_CIV_POPULATION:22222]
   [SITE_CAP:2222]
   [PLAYABLE_CIVILIZATION_REQUIRED:1]
   [ELEVATION_RANGES:2064:2064:2064]
   [RAIN_RANGES:2064:2064:2064]
   [DRAINAGE_RANGES:2064:2064:2064]
   [SAVAGERY_RANGES:2064:2064:2064]
   [VOLCANISM_RANGES:2064:2064:2064]