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[Silverionmox]

There's a specific thread about it, though. Can't recall which one.

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Non-mountainous / Above-ground features

[Othob Rithol]

I've been tinkering with the idea of abandoning UD when the new version comes out, and instead running one solely on worldgen formations (as in terrain, rivers, building placements etc). That would likely include a serious overlap with an above-ground diversity list.

[Faces of Mu]

Ah, thanks for the link, Silverionmox! My own search attempt neglected the hyphen.

[TheNewerMartianEmperor]

I have an idea: what about the mountainheart in good mountains? Maybe they could cause good thoughts and events to happen when they are mined out. and what would happen on a mountain with both one of the elder things and a giant burrowing creature? Great A'Tuin cancels worship Thing: Hungry
Thing, Elder one has been struck down

[Heron TSG]

I recently made an AG diversity topic 

[SirHoneyBadger]

I recently made an AG diversity topic 

And it's a good one too, if rather limited for my taste (which I understand the reasons for, but it kind of makes me hope that someone will start a third one that will deal with magical (fantastical) geography/geology, sometime down the line)

[Heron TSG]

Well, I'd rather it be about improving the mundane above ground world than about creating semi-impossible geological features and oceans made of lizard pee and blubber.

[SirHoneyBadger]

And you're entirely right to do so. I don't have an issue with that. I'm just saying that there should be a place for things that would only exist in a fantasy world--DF being set *in* a fantasy world.

[Cheshire Cat]

@othob rithol -

i like your idea about the general worldgen feature thread. it feels a little like we have allready talked the death out of the underground, and we cant keep suggesting new things till we find out exactly what toady is sticking in the next version. in addition, a lot of things that have come up have had to be excluded as they do not fit the underground.

also, you have done an awesome job organizing and policing this thread. much appreciated.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

Speaking of Mountain Hearts and such, we could have Troll/Trog Kingdoms deep in the mountains.
Essentially giant caves containing absurdly large buildings that either contain living civilised troll/trogs that may prove either hostile or friendly depending on our friend the RGN, or empty halls with a few degenerate descendents remaining.
Trade should be possible, indeed, opening it up could allow you to reveal this lost race to the world once more if they don't combust in sunlight.
I realise that this is actually quitwe unlikely, but cool nonetheless.

[SirHoneyBadger]

I like the idea of the trolls who fight alongside goblins, being a degenerate race. Maybe the lowest order of troll?

That way, other varieties of troll could exist, with unknown strengths, abilities, skills, etc. keeping things unpredictable.

Maybe if you discover the "long lost kingdom of the trolls", you start getting the reverse of the current situation, where smarter trolls are seiging you, and leading hordes of goblins.

[Belteshazzar]

Perhaps the goblins eventually and imperceptibly grow into trolls... or perhaps they are merely yet another, more ingrained conquest of their kidnapping enterprises?

[SirHoneyBadger]

I kind of like the idea of trolls having been the original empire, having been overtaken/supplanted/replaced by goblins, when some sort of cataclysm or other event degraded the trolls (or just separated the lesser trolls from the ubertrolls), and then with the possibility of the ubertrolls coming back and reclaiming what was originally theirs.

[Granite26]

I kind of like the idea of trolls having been the original empire, having been overtaken/supplanted/replaced by goblins, when some sort of cataclysm or other event degraded the trolls (or just separated the lesser trolls from the ubertrolls), and then with the possibility of the ubertrolls coming back and reclaiming what was originally theirs.

Neat


Alternately, 1 in 100 gobbo's is born extra large and sterile.

[Footkerchief]

Alternately, 1 in 100 gobbo's is born extra large and sterile.

That'll be possible to mod in the next version, I think.