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[Salkryn]

So, I want to build a world with a LOT of monsters for my dwarves to face off against, and a large amount of savage fauna. I've read that certain megabeasts such as dragons won't be full-sized before 1000 years have elapsed, but building a world that old massively slows down the game on anything larger than pocket size. Related to size and age, building a high-savagery and high beast world with a long history almost always ends up with only goblins and dying dwarf civs by the time I start the game. What I'm trying to build--and I don't know if it's possible--is a world with surviving civilizations for trade and high numbers of dangerous wildlife, ideally with all of the supplies to build a healthy metalworking industry to arm up a solid military. Any suggestions you might have to achieve this goal would be welcome.

[Imic]

Eats popcorn

[Staalo]

It's very tough to get playable civilizations to survive more than few years in high-megabeast world gens. I have usually settled with 10-50 year histories to get the monster densities I want in similar scenarios.
See this thread for some ideas how to set up the world gen parameters.

[martinuzz]

So, I want to build a world with a LOT of monsters for my dwarves to face off against, and a large amount of savage fauna. I've read that certain megabeasts such as dragons won't be full-sized before 1000 years have elapsed, but building a world that old massively slows down the game on anything larger than pocket size. Related to size and age, building a high-savagery and high beast world with a long history almost always ends up with only goblins and dying dwarf civs by the time I start the game. What I'm trying to build--and I don't know if it's possible--is a world with surviving civilizations for trade and high numbers of dangerous wildlife, ideally with all of the supplies to build a healthy metalworking industry to arm up a solid military. Any suggestions you might have to achieve this goal would be welcome.

Edit dragon raws (they're in creature_standard.txt) and mod them to be fully grown at only 100 years, by changing the line [BODY_SIZE:1000:0:25000000] into [BODY_SIZE:100:0:25000000]. For more (relative) chance of dragons being spawned during worldgen, up their [FREQUENCY] While you're at it, remove their [BONECARN] tag, and add [NO_EAT] and [NO_DRINK]. Don't know if the latter two really help, but according to the wiki, creatures with BONECARN aren't very prolific.

[deathpunch578]

have the history be very short. and if you want to, make the world small and number of civs low.
this sets up a small world with struggling civilizations in a world full of savagery and horrid beasts. (I would recommend frequent minerals, just to deal with this)