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[Kamudo]

Well, this is my first post on the forum, and I only have internet on my cell phone, so I will try to keep this short. Kay, like I want to settle a fort in a zombified dead area, but every time I try to settle in an evil, haunted or sinister area, its just a normal looking place with normal creatures. Is there anyway to make my chances of what I want more accurate, or is it complete luck?

[Smew]

It's luck, though I think that the more terrifying it is the better chance you have of zombies/undead, but I am probably wrong on that one.

[Kamudo]

Ah, thanks. I'll give that a try next.

[Untelligent]

Once in a while I hear that (in regions that aren't deserts, mountains, or water features) red/grey areas tend to have undead, while purple areas tend to have evil beasties like harpies and dark gnomes.

[Tcei]

If you up the evil regions in when you gen to make a world thats 50% or more evil, you're almost always gaurnteed evil/undead creatures.

[Shadowex3]

That and go for Terrifying surroundings.

[Kamudo]

I found a partly dead area on my world with skeletal groundhogs. I'm avoiding them at the moment. I settled on an undead beach once but was murdered by a skeletal make shark. So yeah. I think I've got what I wanted. Though, whenever I edit the gen thing for lots of evil regions, it just endlessly rejects them.

[Smew]

I found a partly dead area on my world with skeletal groundhogs. I'm avoiding them at the moment. I settled on an undead beach once but was murdered by a skeletal make shark. So yeah. I think I've got what I wanted. Though, whenever I edit the gen thing for lots of evil regions, it just endlessly rejects them.

After a while it will stop rejecting them and pop something up telling you that it can't do this or that because of something you've changed, if you want to gen the world no matter what, you can just hit 'p' at this screen and the next world it makes will gen no matter what.
The time it takes for this to happen varies for the size of the world, I think it's around 1000 attempts for a 'large' sized world

[Kamudo]

Hm. Im gonna give that a try. It wont interfere with the game will it? Like being too evil in which nothing lives?

[Smew]

Well, you need to have a good mix, the more docile races(Dwarves, Elves, Humans) will not settle in evil areas.

[Kamudo]

Yeah. I figured. The world was made with the higest evil settings. So.. Theres nineteen goblin races and thats it. I'll test the generater a few times to figure it out. But first Im gonna play as a human adventurer in a world of complete evil. The only human. O:

[Tcei]

Let me look around, I've got the params for a mostly evil world here somewhere... it'll create w/o the rejects.. tho elves tend to die out early.

Edit: Reposting from my post in the Worldgen cookbook..

Here's the params  I use normaly, its roughly 90% evil.

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[WORLD_GEN]
   [TITLE:TEST1]
   [DIM:257:257]
   [END_YEAR:200]
   [BEAST_END_YEAR:300:-1]
   [REVEAL_ALL_HISTORY:1]
   [CULL_HISTORICAL_FIGURES:1]
   [ELEVATION:1:400:1600:1600]
   [RAINFALL:0:100:400:400]
   [TEMPERATURE:0:100:400:400]
   [DRAINAGE:0:100:400:400]
   [VOLCANISM:0:100:1600:1600]
   [SAVAGERY:0:100:400:400]
   [ELEVATION_FREQUENCY:1:5:15:25:75:25]
   [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:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [GOOD_SQ_COUNTS:100:1000:2000]
   [EVIL_SQ_COUNTS:10000:25000:50000]
   [PEAK_NUMBER_MIN:4]
   [OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:4]
   [VOLCANO_MIN:200]
   [REGION_COUNTS:SWAMP:1032:7:6]
   [REGION_COUNTS:DESERT:1032:7:6]
   [REGION_COUNTS:FOREST:4128:13:12]
   [REGION_COUNTS:MOUNTAINS:8256:9:9]
   [REGION_COUNTS:OCEAN:8256:7:6]
   [REGION_COUNTS:GLACIER:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:TUNDRA:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:GRASSLAND:8256:13:12]
   [REGION_COUNTS:HILLS:8256:13:12]
   [EROSION_CYCLE_COUNT:0]
   [RIVER_MINS:400:400]
   [PERIODICALLY_ERODE_EXTREMES:0]
   [OROGRAPHIC_PRECIPITATION:0]
   [SUBREGION_MAX:2750]
   [CAVE_MIN_SIZE:5]
   [CAVE_MAX_SIZE:25]
   [MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:100]
   [NON_MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:200]
   [ALL_CAVES_VISIBLE:1]
   [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:100]
   [TOTAL_CIV_POPULATION:20000]
   [PLAYABLE_CIVILIZATION_REQUIRED:1]
   [ELEVATION_RANGES:8256:16512:8256]
   [RAIN_RANGES:8256:16512:8256]
   [DRAINAGE_RANGES:8256:16512:8256]
   [SAVAGERY_RANGES:8256:16512:8256]
   [VOLCANISM_RANGES:8256:16512:8256]

Note there will be no evles on this.
If you want elves change this:
[EVIL_SQ_COUNTS:10000:25000:50000]
to this:
[EVIL_SQ_COUNTS:5000:10000:25000]

It creates a world thats about half evil. This increases the chances of there being elves.

For a medium sized world I thnk all the params need to be dropped in half or something close to avoid endless rejects.

[Kamudo]

Well thanks! I'll copy all of that when I have time. On my phone, so Its gonna take a while. This human adventure is fun. I've been spending my time running from zombies, naked in a forest. This would make good story material.

[Grendus]

In my experience, Terrifying tends to yield monsters (ogres, harpies, werewolves). Sinister usually has undead. Haunted are generally kind of boring, though they can sometimes have interesting things in them. I don't think I've ever seen both undead and monsters, though I could be wrong.

There are always exceptions, of course. As a side note, if you want to deal with lots of zombies be sure to settle in an evil biome that naturally has a lot of wild animals, if there's nothing to zombify you won't see any undead.

[Lord Dakoth]

Once when I embarked on a haunted region, all the creatures were "normal."
By the time a year had past, all of them had been replaced by undead counterparts.

Same thing happened to my brother... So I think that it just takes a while for the wildlife to be "corrupted" by the biome.