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[Bedsheet]

  Can anyone find, help me find, or suggest world gen settings to find such a place?   I'm looking for 2 rivers, hopefully major, that meet, both ends in water falls.  At least tall enough to make copious amounts of mist.   
  Thank you

[tps12]

Next question: how to get a dwarf to climb inside a barrel.

[Bedsheet]

   tehe.   It would be epic!   How about an elf in a cage?

[Squirrelloid]

Pretty sure you cannot have two rivers both with waterfalls.

It seems the way the world generation works, *a* waterfall only occurs where two rivers (all types) meet, with the one that's higher needing to fall down to the one that's lower.  Note that the output river from the meeting may be dictated by the size of the one doing the falling, but the end height seems to be dictated by the other river.

I have not seen a waterfall which didn't happen where one river input met another.

[NecroRebel]

Very occasionally, you can get a map where multiple rivers/streams/brooks meet in a small area. This can make it so that one of the rivers is in a gorge, and several other rivers then come over and dump into it as waterfalls.

To generate such a place, you'll want to set "Periodically erode extreme cliffs" to No, set the "Erosion Cycle Count" low, and increase the 2 "River Start Locations" parameters. That'll make it so that there are more big cliffs (so rivers that meet are more likely to be on radically different z-levels) and more rivers (so there are more rivers to meet, naturally).

For 40dx, there was a map which did have 3 or 4 minor rivers and streams and brooks falling into 1 major river where they could be put into a single playable map, though it was very big. I'll see if I can't dig it up. Even if you're playing 31.0x, you can still use the worldgen parameters as inspiration.



Edit: While it wasn't the one I was thinking of, I did find this little place. Apparently, it has a 47-wide (!) major river that goes over a waterfall, and after its waterfall another river comes and joins with it (no waterfall on the minor river that I can see from the pics). Still, I would think that the 10-z-level, 47-tile-wide waterfall would be more than sufficient for most purposes.

[Bedsheet]

  excelent!  I'll give those a go.  I've been trying with max rivers and no oceans. 

[Squirrelloid]

  excelent!  I'll give those a go.  I've been trying with max rivers and no oceans.

No oceans is a good idea.  That's how i've been looking for truly massive waterfalls.

Haven't seen two major rivers meet yet, although that would be awesome.

[BigD145]

Very occasionally, you can get a map where multiple rivers/streams/brooks meet in a small area. This can make it so that one of the rivers is in a gorge, and several other rivers then come over and dump into it as waterfalls.

Occasionally? Just about every world I've generated has a dozen+ meeting points with multiple inputs meeting in one spot. Many of those have been waterfalls.

I'd suggest moving this conversation over to the other topic that has been on the first page for the past few days: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=54569.0

[Bedsheet]

  Sorry, didn't mean to clutter up the place.  I'm not looking for his site.  Though I think I have the info I need.  I'll not reply here anymore so this can fall off and not offend you anymore.

[BigD145]

I'm not offended so much as confused as to why you would start another topic when there's one titled "Massive Waterfall" right in the first page or two of DF Dwarf Mode Discussion.

[beorn080]

Be a Dwarf, not an elf. Split that river in twain and reshape the very earth to accommodate your whims.

Incidentally, you would need to increase the amount of water flowing through the river if you did that. I would recommend pump stacks from the underground, and put the pumps into the  river one the z level right below the ground, with nothing showing on the surface.

[Bedsheet]

  hmm, I had not really considered that route!  Just a thought, could pumping from an aquifer produce the required amounts of water? 
  To the question above:  I'm not looking for a single massive waterfall,   I want many, preferably at the same spot from different directions.  I can get plenty of big waterfalls but only 1.  That and i'm having issues pictureing the embark site from the embark screen.  It usually looks different from what i'm imagineing.  ie, the river is moving a different direction and such.

[Ottofar]

At first I saw the first letter as a 'V'.

[Bedsheet]

At first I saw the first letter as a 'V'.

  See older guys play this game too!

[wrajjt]

Dat waterfall

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If I found a waterfall that size, that froze during the winter, I would probably construct an artificial "cliff" in the middle of it, hanging out over the edge... which would serve as my fortress entrance.