Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

Author Topic: Embark place search  (Read 1733 times)

Dwarf

  • Bay Watcher
  • The Light shall take us
    • View Profile
Embark place search
« on: December 01, 2009, 12:37:30 pm »
G'day mates.

I'm in search of a special embark site. I'm not that proficient in parameter-fu and multiple regens haven't quite resulted in what I want.

I'm looking for:
Preferably cold, else freezing
Preferably woodland or heavily forested conifer forest, else broadleaf or mixed
A brook or river
A layer of soil
Must have Iron and Flux, if possible
Preferably magma pipe, or pool or not at all
Mountains are not necessary.

Basically I'm looking for an epic snowy pine forest :).

I'd be very thankful for it!
« Last Edit: December 01, 2009, 12:40:50 pm by Dwarf »
Logged
Quote from: Akura
Now, if we could only mod Giant War Eagles to carry crossbows, we could do strafing runs on the elves who sold the eagles to us in the first place.

Derakon

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Embark place search
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2009, 01:16:18 pm »
To get iron and flux with magma, you'll need to jack up the volcanism variance (since magma implies igneous rock, which implies no iron ore). Cold/freezing is straightforward; just tweak the temperature settings. If I recall correctly, freezing is somewhere around the 10-20 degrees range. To get trees, increase rainfall; to get more brooks/rivers, increase the number of river start locations. And of course, practically everywhere has soil.
Logged
Jetblade - an open-source Metroid/Castlevania game with procedurally-generated levels

bombcar

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Embark place search
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2009, 04:26:16 pm »
I have a glacier with a chasm and some forests. I'll try to find the parameters when I get home; I think it may have everything you want.

How do I find the details on an already generated world?
Logged

bombcar

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Embark place search
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2009, 04:35:01 pm »
Actually I think it's here.
Logged

Dwarf

  • Bay Watcher
  • The Light shall take us
    • View Profile
Re: Embark place search
« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2009, 04:51:29 pm »
Quote from: bombcar on December 01, 2009, 04:26:16 pm
I have a glacier with a chasm and some forests. I'll try to find the parameters when I get home; I think it may have everything you want.

How do I find the details on an already generated world?

That should work. Thanks.
Logged
Quote from: Akura
Now, if we could only mod Giant War Eagles to carry crossbows, we could do strafing runs on the elves who sold the eagles to us in the first place.

slink

  • Bay Watcher
  • Crazy Cat Dwarf
    • View Profile
    • Slink's Burrow Online
Re: Embark place search
« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2009, 05:10:22 pm »
Here's a site lacking iron, but you can always harvest goblins.  There is a cluster of volcanos in the general location, if that one isn't just right.   :)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Logged
There is only one cat, and all cats are that cat.
Almost losing is sometimes fun.

Firnagzen

  • Bay Watcher
  • [CURIOUSBEAST_INSANE]
    • View Profile
Re: Embark place search
« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2009, 08:41:34 pm »
...Something to do with Narnia?
Logged
Quote from: FreakyCheeseMan on April 29, 2010, 12:00:26 pm
Christ, are you dwarves or are you elves? If you think Hell has too many demons, then you kill them till the population reaches an acceptable number.

Dwarf

  • Bay Watcher
  • The Light shall take us
    • View Profile
Re: Embark place search
« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2009, 06:30:22 am »
Quote from: slink on December 01, 2009, 05:10:22 pm
Here's a site lacking iron, but you can always harvest goblins.  There is a cluster of volcanos in the general location, if that one isn't just right.   :)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

That works even better :)
There's flux, and the first wave of orc will bring me them irons.
I bow to you.
Logged
Quote from: Akura
Now, if we could only mod Giant War Eagles to carry crossbows, we could do strafing runs on the elves who sold the eagles to us in the first place.

Dwarf

  • Bay Watcher
  • The Light shall take us
    • View Profile
Re: Embark place search
« Reply #8 on: December 02, 2009, 07:31:57 am »
Quote from: slink on December 01, 2009, 05:10:22 pm
Here's a site lacking iron, but you can always harvest goblins.  There is a cluster of volcanos in the general location, if that one isn't just right.   :)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Uhh... unfortunately, I'm not quite capable of reproducing that. Upload, pwease?
Logged
Quote from: Akura
Now, if we could only mod Giant War Eagles to carry crossbows, we could do strafing runs on the elves who sold the eagles to us in the first place.

kobot

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Embark place search
« Reply #9 on: December 02, 2009, 07:51:43 am »
its easy, copy paste the second spoiler to the top of
dwarf fortress/data/init/world_gen.txt
open df, select create world with parameters
Snowy pines will probably already be selected if you pasted it to the top of the file, if not select it
generate world
use the picture in the first spoiler to find the site
embark... put together your team
and strike the earth
Logged

Dwarf

  • Bay Watcher
  • The Light shall take us
    • View Profile
Re: Embark place search
« Reply #10 on: December 02, 2009, 07:54:08 am »
Quote from: kobot on December 02, 2009, 07:51:43 am
its easy, copy paste the second spoiler to the top of
dwarf fortress/data/init/world_gen.txt
open df, select create world with parameters
Snowy pines will probably already be selected if you pasted it to the top of the file, if not select it
generate world
use the picture in the first spoiler to find the site
embark... put together your team
and strike the earth

I'm not that dumb, I know that.
But still... I don't get the same result with a pure vanilla DF, neither with Dig Deeper.
Logged
Quote from: Akura
Now, if we could only mod Giant War Eagles to carry crossbows, we could do strafing runs on the elves who sold the eagles to us in the first place.

Akigagak

  • Bay Watcher
  • Omnipimping
    • View Profile
Re: Embark place search
« Reply #11 on: December 02, 2009, 08:08:13 am »
It could be that Slink has the economic stone mod, that messes with world gen.
Logged
Quote from: Vector on March 29, 2011, 12:38:13 pm
But then, life was also easier when I was running around here pretending to be a man, so I guess I should just "man up" and get back to work.
Quote from: Duke 2.0 on July 15, 2011, 03:37:11 pm
This is mz poetrz, it is mz puyyle.

slink

  • Bay Watcher
  • Crazy Cat Dwarf
    • View Profile
    • Slink's Burrow Online
Re: Embark place search
« Reply #12 on: December 02, 2009, 12:58:12 pm »
Erk!  I forgot to include the seeds.  It's pure vanilla.  I personally play with lots of mods but I keep a pure vanilla copy for things like this.   :)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Logged
There is only one cat, and all cats are that cat.
Almost losing is sometimes fun.

Dwarf

  • Bay Watcher
  • The Light shall take us
    • View Profile
Re: Embark place search
« Reply #13 on: December 03, 2009, 06:35:17 am »
Quote from: slink on December 02, 2009, 12:58:12 pm
Erk!  I forgot to include the seeds.  It's pure vanilla.  I personally play with lots of mods but I keep a pure vanilla copy for things like this.   :)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Everything's fine then  :)
Logged
Quote from: Akura
Now, if we could only mod Giant War Eagles to carry crossbows, we could do strafing runs on the elves who sold the eagles to us in the first place.