So i have a pet project going, where i'm generating worlds in DF to be used as the setting of a fictional world. For a while i was struggling at taking notes from the vanilla legends mode, but then i remembered mods exist and downloaded a couple in order to help. To be honest, i was kind of blown away by the level of information recorded in game. I didn't think i'd ever have access to the EXACT number of pond turtles that exist in a world at any given time, but now i do, and ready access to that information has been enormously helpful in ideas for world building already.
Currently i'm using Legends Viewer, and have poked around a bit with World Viewer, but i wanted to ask for input. If you're the kind of person that likes poking around DF worlds looking for story fodder, how do you generally go about it? Are there mods that you prefer? What kind of information do you look for, and how? I'm not only interested in advice, but also just curious about what people might have to say on the topic.
For the record, having access to expandable family trees and interactable maps has been, just a great experience after years of trying to piece together the details of a world's history in legends mode. Have you had a similar experience you might like to share?