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[Sorcerer]

So I've been playing DF all day... only.. i haven't done any actual playing.. I've just been generating worlds and searching for "that perfect site", the side that has everything i need, in the right spot, with a nice open ground for welcoming sieges, room to build my fortress upwards without having 20+ levels of nothing but ramps. And ofcourse, magma, water and a pit to throw it in afterwards... and flux would be cool.. and maybe some sand?

Anyone have any good ideas how to just... you know.. get started? instead of trying in vain to find the perfect spot? i seem to recall this is what made me eventually stop playing the last time

[Jim Groovester]

Well, there's the Dwarf Heaven site. That has pretty much everything.

Alternatively, stop fussing over finding the perfect site and find a site that will give you an interesting challenge instead. Like a desert, or a glacier, or a mountain full of skeletal chasm critters.

[Byakugan01]

Heh, I never seem to able to get a glacier with a volcano-which i understand is basically a precondition for a glacial fort.

[Albedo]

Well, there's the Dwarf Heaven site. That has pretty much everything.

Except flux, iirc.  Dwarf purgatory.

The vanilla worldgen are kinda weak. Try this one - plug it in at the bottom of data/init/world_gen.txt

It generates a "medium" sized world.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 [WORLD_GEN]
[TITLE:GORANS MED, MODDED]
   [DIM:129:129]
   [END_YEAR:1050]
   [BEAST_END_YEAR:250:50]
   [REVEAL_ALL_HISTORY:1]
   [CULL_HISTORICAL_FIGURES:1]
   [ELEVATION:240:305:1600:1600]
   [RAINFALL:0:100:100:100]
   [TEMPERATURE:50:80:100:100]
   [DRAINAGE:0:100:200:200]
   [VOLCANISM:0:100:1600:1600]
   [SAVAGERY:40:100:1600:1600]
   [ELEVATION_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [RAIN_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [DRAINAGE_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [TEMPERATURE_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [SAVAGERY_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [VOLCANISM_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:20]
   [GOOD_SQ_COUNTS:25:251:503]
   [EVIL_SQ_COUNTS:25:251:503]
   [PEAK_NUMBER_MIN:0]
   [OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:0]
   [VOLCANO_MIN:100]
   [REGION_COUNTS:SWAMP:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:DESERT:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:FOREST:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:MOUNTAINS:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:OCEAN:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:GLACIER:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:TUNDRA:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:GRASSLAND:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:HILLS:0:0:0]
   [EROSION_CYCLE_COUNT:50]
   [RIVER_MINS:800:800]
   [PERIODICALLY_ERODE_EXTREMES:1]
   [OROGRAPHIC_PRECIPITATION:1]
   [SUBREGION_MAX:5000]
   [CAVE_MIN_SIZE:5]
   [CAVE_MAX_SIZE:25]
   [MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:200]
   [NON_MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:200]
   [ALL_CAVES_VISIBLE:0]
   [SHOW_EMBARK_RIVER:2]
   [SHOW_EMBARK_POOL:2]
   [SHOW_EMBARK_M_POOL:2]
   [SHOW_EMBARK_M_PIPE:2]
   [SHOW_EMBARK_CHASM:2]
   [SHOW_EMBARK_PIT:2]
   [SHOW_EMBARK_OTHER:2]
   [SHOW_EMBARK_TUNNEL:2]
   [TOTAL_CIV_NUMBER:25]
   [TOTAL_CIV_POPULATION:20000]
   [PLAYABLE_CIVILIZATION_REQUIRED:1]
   [ELEVATION_RANGES:0:0:0]
   [RAIN_RANGES:0:0:0]
   [DRAINAGE_RANGES:0:0:0]
   [SAVAGERY_RANGES:0:0:0]
   [VOLCANISM_RANGES:0:0:0]

[kg333]

Well, there's the Dwarf Heaven site. That has pretty much everything.

Except flux, iirc.  Dwarf purgatory.

I have found a site with HFS, a magma pipe, sand, a forest, a brook, an underground river, a bottomless pit, flux stone, a chasm, and an underground pool!

It's pretty much got everything you need, I think.  It is kind of a canyon shape, though, so it may not be what you're looking for to kill sieges.

KG

[Albedo]

<double checks>

Ah, my bad - I did not remember correctly.

No sedimentary layers. No coal, no bauxite.

So, pretty much everything, except what you need for any serious magma or steel approach. Same same in my book.

[Martin]

You don't need coal - there's a ton of trees to cover that. And if you want bauxite, add the stone tag to the humans and they'll bring bauxite.