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[Bien]

The title says it all. I'm starting, my requirements are: A brook, at least one layer of soil/sand, no aquifers, lots of flora and fauna, not haunted or anything and has a few cliffs.

[THLawrence]

Lets see, magma, sand, sedimentary flux(limestone's the best), brook and trees. That's about it.

[Shades]

For me it's sand, magma and then some form of flowing water.

Sand because its the only thing you can't import, magma for obvious reasons and flowing water because playing with machines and water features is fun.

Anything else I can import as needed.

[Quintin Stone]

I don't know that I have "requirements" as a whole.  When the new version came out, I wanted to really explore its potential.  This meant I wanted everything I came to expect from the 2D game: iron, flux, coke, magma, water, trees, sand.  I built a fortress that lacked magma and flux and wasn't happy with it.  After some searching, I ended up going with Paul's starting point, expanded east 2 spaces in order to include sand.

Now that I've got a 200+ dwarf fortress humming along, I'm up for more of a challenge.  So now I'm willing to go without some of the above "prerequisites".

[ December 04, 2007: Message edited by: Quintin Stone ]

[bheema]

Zombies and magma.

[Scorpios]

<sage>

Your Criteria for a Perfect Starting Location

My god, it's even on the first page!

[Tyrving]

My only real criteria is that the area's INTERESTING. Building into a cliff face along the side of a lake? Awesome. Building across a small mountain from a goblin fort? Cool. Any place that catches my fancy, I'll build at, regardless of the presence of trees, magma, flux, etc. After all, losing is fun! Even if it is a bit hard to lose at the moment.

[ScatmanJohn]

A brook or stream for a stable water supply.
A magma vent.
Plenty of ores, preferably magnetite.
Somewhat of a mountainy site with some steep cliffs.
Chasm or two underground

I'm currently playing on a map that has all of those except the chasm. Or at least I haven't found one yet.

[MyBeardIsOnFire]

I usually come up with some sort of vision of what I want to do, then spend hours searching for the right location on the world map, finally settling on something entirely different.