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An embark site for your ice-based megaproject
« on: November 07, 2009, 04:12:33 pm »
Found a pretty good site right on the edge of a glacier, if you need to build that ice skyscraper.

The site:

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The data, using vanilla DF:

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Has sand (with a nice little space under an otherwise-stony hillside for farming), a magma tube, HFS, a pit with lots of webs (GCS? I haven't checked..), and a short stretch of underground river. Lots of tasty hooved wildlife roaming around. There's an aboveground stream, most of it is frozen year-round, but a section does thaw in the summer, which might allow for some Fun. A central plateau which can be isolated fairly easily for ambush-free construction. Flux (limestone) which conceals one good-sized vein of bauxite. Lots of gems, lots of copper and iron, and at least samples of every kind of metal except, evidently, gold. Also no coal that I can find, and not a whole lot of aboveground trees. Full access to all other civilizations, so you can trade for the missing stuff.

I would recommend going with a five-by-seven embark and getting more ice from the glacier, or more limestone/trees to the north. Also gives you a keen place off to the east to dig out to and use as a forced wagon-path.
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Re: An embark site for your ice-based megaproject
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2009, 08:12:34 pm »
Wow, that looks awesome. I'll have to give that a try for my next fortress.
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Re: An embark site for your ice-based megaproject
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2009, 08:18:42 pm »
'Tis a shame it's not a Terrifying biome.
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Re: An embark site for your ice-based megaproject
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2009, 10:00:21 pm »
Quote from: Lord Dakoth on November 23, 2009, 08:18:42 pm
'Tis a shame it's not a Terrifying biome.
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Re: An embark site for your ice-based megaproject
« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2009, 01:18:57 am »
How did you ever manage to find this? You putting this up made me search for areas similar, and I can't even find magma next to glaciers at all! I can find HFS, Chasms, underground rivers, and everything else, all together, but the only magma I've found next to a glacier (out of five maps) had nothing else next to it, not even wood. So my options on my own search were magma and ice, or everything else and ice.

So, yeah. Good find!
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Re: An embark site for your ice-based megaproject
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2009, 03:17:08 pm »
Sadly, I'm one of these people who quickly gets bored with actually building a fort, and I spend a lot of time searching for The Perfect Embark Site. Haven't found it yet; probably doesn't exist. (My one try at using Dwarf Heaven started/ended with Instant Massacre. Sorta soured me on the site :)) So, I can't remember how I happened across Icyblot, but I probably just got lucky with a completely random world-generation.
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Re: An embark site for your ice-based megaproject
« Reply #6 on: November 25, 2009, 03:40:45 pm »
I've done it! I found a cool site!

Magma, underground river, and a lot of glacier! Also, HFS if you choose to make it a 5x7 or 6x7
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Umm... If someone wants the seed, then let me know how to get it. Not sure what to do to get it.

-edit- Oh, and it's haunted!
« Last Edit: November 25, 2009, 03:43:17 pm by stolensteel »
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