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[em1LL]

Hi all!

What savagery, evil and drainage parameters in the embark screen really means? Is there any wiki article about it?

Thanks in advance.

[Arx]

Here.

Evil makes more evil biomes, savagery makes more savage biomes and can make worlds totally inhospitable to civilisation, and drainage makes more lakes.

[Badger Storm]

Savagery, by the way, means you'll get giant versions of animals, furries humanoid versions, and a few very rare, savage-exclusive creatures.

[em1LL]

Is there any more detailed description of these parameters? Is terrifying worse than haunted, for example?

[Dyret]

I think terrifying is a savage haunted biome, so probably.

[Badger Storm]

It depends.  A Terrifying biome could just have elf blood that your dwarves think is icky, whereas a Haunted biome might have dust clouds that turn whatever they touch into nigh-unstoppable super-zombies. 

[StagnantSoul]

Also, bitter mucus does more than raining blood. It causes burns, which means your dwarves will sit in the hospital for weeks to heal.

[Eldin00]

The description of the surroundings in any biome will be one of 9 possibilities. For good biomes, 'Serene' describes low savagery, 'Mirthful' describes normal savagery, and 'Joyous Wilds' describes high savagery. For neutral biomes, 'Calm' is low savagery, 'Wilderness' is normal, and 'Untamed Wilds' is high savagery. For evil biomes, 'Sinister' is low savagery, 'Haunted' is normal, and 'Terrifying' is high.

Biomes with high savagery add giant creatures and animal people, along with the possibility of a few dangerous savage-biome-only creatures. Biomes with low savagery make the more dangerous normal creatures rare or non-existent.

Good biomes are neutral biomes plus a few good-specific plants and creatures, most of which are pretty harmless (unicorns excepted).

Evil biomes are neutral biomes with a few evil-specific plants and creatures, and additional evil effects added in. Evil effects may include evil rain (rains which cause a syndrome or are made of blood/ichor/other unpleasant things), evil clouds of dust/fog which induce major syndromes or possibly convert creatures into powered-up undead, and spontaneous reanimation of dead creatures/body parts.

[xaritscin]

drainage controls the presence of acuifers in the map i think.

savagery well, people already explained

[Naryar]

Savage biomes aren't that threatening due to all the animal men prancing around.

Unless you embark on savage glaciers which are always fun.

[GhostDwemer]

I don't think drainage influences lakes or aquifers. It influences biomes. Together, rain and drainage determine how wet the soil is; soil wetness, elevation, and temperature determine what grows there. See this wiki page: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Biome#Generating_a_Biome