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[Emnar]

So stare down your nose at people all you want. I've made successful fortresses on Terrifying coasts without a drop of fresh water, Using regional prospector to give me flowing magma and water to allow a total sandbox area isn't something I will give up, until I can go from adventurer prospector to dwarf fortress that is...

Friendly fire!  I read what Qmarx wrote as endorsing the use of Regional Prospecter, if that's your bag.  He was saying that accusations of cheating are meaningless in a game you can't win and where the primary joy is in just playing it (and losing!).  If you find that RP or any other utility makes that process more fun, then nobody should tell you it's "cheating," and from what I've read in this thread, nobody has.

[SwiftSpear]

It's finding lava for me. Are you sure you're looking in the right biomes?

Are mountians still the right biomes?

[corc]

It's finding lava for me. Are you sure you're looking in the right biomes?

Are mountians still the right biomes?

Yeah, I was under the impression that lava was in every mountain square but saw it far less often than the blue tilda or light blue pound symbol   This was in the previous version of DF as well as the current.

[neoquietus]

Each mountain square seems to have adamantite, a "river" type chasm, a "sinkhole" type chasm, an underground river, and an underground lake, but lava/magma does not seem to be required.

Every time I've gone looking for lava with this patched version I've found it right where it says it is, though in a few cases a supposedly "surface" magma vent was actually a few z levels below ground and I had to dig for it.

[mmeurk]

I got rivers displaying correctly. The new version is linked in the first post.

[Shadowlord]

It's finding lava for me. Are you sure you're looking in the right biomes?

Are mountians still the right biomes?

Yeah, I was under the impression that lava was in every mountain square but saw it far less often than the blue tilda or light blue pound symbol   This was in the previous version of DF as well as the current.

Nope - and they never were, AFAIK (maybe you were just lucky in your site selection previously ). You want to look for places which have layers whose names are in dark text (these are Igneous extrusive layers). Those are almost always guaranteed to have 2 magma sources somewhere on the (maximum embarkable size) map. Magma vents or volcanos visible from embark-selection count as one of those two sources.

See http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Stone for more information on stone types.

[Jifodus]

Before the new map generation system, at least one lava tile (pool/pipe/volcano) could be found on every mountain tile. Now it's much rarer, but they do still exist. I fault the new ability to customize lava/volcanoes.

[Logical2u]

Before the new map generation system, at least one lava tile (pool/pipe/volcano) could be found on every mountain tile. Now it's much rarer, but they do still exist. I fault the new ability to customize lava/volcanoes.

What? By old version, you mean .38, right?

Because there was hardly EVER magma on mountain tiles back then. Unless prospector was horribly broken.

Are you thinking of the 2D version, which always had a river, cave-river, magma, chasm, and HFS?

[Golgath]

Any info on whether the new version of prospector will show tunnels between dwarven fortresses?  I love the idea of having my fortress built on the road between two others.

[Stravitch]

Is there anyway someone else could upload the file to somewhere other than DFFD?  I've never been able to download from that site.  I always get an error.

[ShadowDragon8685]

Does the hacked RP work with 39c?

[ShadowDragon8685]

Nevermind: I can confirm, WORKS WITH 39c!

[Drakis]

we need an update for 39d, it doesnt work now.

[Shadowlord]

What for? Look in your init.txt file - DF itself provides the same functionality now (if you enable it), and even includes a site finder! 

[mmeurk]

It seems that the need for this tool has been completely obviated. Thanks a lot for the new features Toady! You have saved me from maintaining a horrible mess of assembly.