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[lunaman22]

Y'all know what advanced world gen settings change the amount of creatures in the world?
I need them to train my marksdwarfs on live targets.
Aboveground and caverns included.

[PatrikLundell]

Without detailed knowledge, I would expect it to involve hacking creature raws to increase their group sizes. The vanilla action would be to embark in savage biomes, as that allows for two simultaneous critter groups in the embark on each level (the non savage value is a single group).
Also, don't embark where you risk exterminating the critter population (glaciers have few types of critters, and some of them in low numbers). It's possible to hack the pop numbers to increase them, which can guard against extermination, but it does not affect the number of critters on the embark.

[EDog]

You can also try to get as many biomes as possible in your embark, as each one has its own separate population of each type of critter. Other options include embarking near goblin sites and/or towers, and reanimatimg biomes, all of which come with good helpings of Fun

[PatrikLundell]

More biomes bring a larger variety of critters and reduces the risk of local extinction, but it does nothing to increase the concurrent number of critters.