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[Dante`]

I've played like 10-20 forts now through 5 years (shut up.) trying to keep their biomes as varied as possible.  On each map I seem to experiance a problem in that I get no wild-life.  Occasionally I've gotten the starting creatures (Oh look 3 mountain goats) But they left the map pretty quickly and were never heard from again.  Whats up with this? Anyone else getting this?

So recapping,  10-20 times i've not gotten creatures entering my map within 5 years of settling there.

[Proteus]

Seems to be normal in DF2010
(with normal == more or less buggy)

[culwin]

I've started 4 or 5 forts on a new world each time and always have plenty of wildlife.
I usually start with a 6x6 map

[Dante`]

 Two replies allready, both different though, more input?

[bmaczero]

I have also had plenty of wildlife on my fort.  I have to mass produce cages to keep the three cage traps in my entrance loaded (camels keep wandering into them...)

I think the amount of wildlife you get is less dependant on the biome and probably more dependant on the savagery.

[Vercingetorix]

It seems heavily tied to worldgen.  I had similar situations with both above-ground and underground wildlife in one world, but then genned another and this time it was pretty much identical to 40d, if not more abundant (except for fish).

I imagine I'd have to test it more, but maybe it had something to do with the fact that the underpopulated world was an island and the populated one a regular region.  Both were Medium.

[Dante`]

So ideas on steps I can take to solve my problem? Also it seems 7/10 of the map has aquifier... each time i gen now. 

[Vercingetorix]

So ideas on steps I can take to solve my problem? Also it seems 7/10 of the map has aquifier... each time i gen now.

What type of world are you genning?  I noticed that regular regions (i.e. 40d-style) tend to have far fewer aquifiers compared to the new island types (which makes sense, but it's still a pain).  Fiddling with temperature might have an effect as well.

[Dante`]

Well for the most part I had been using the default(?) "Gen new world"  Wasnt using paramaters,  After a while I started using the "region" setting wich seemed to help a small bit,  Maps are pretty boring though.

But it did teach me alot about how to sustain a large ammount of dwarfs on plump helmets alone. >_>

[Shrike]

I have had plenty of wildlife on my maps. I've not genned as many as you have, though, so I might have just been getting lucky.

I swear there was a queue line for sasquatches on one fort... as soon as I dealt with one, another would show up. and another. and another.

[Astarch]

I've had a pretty even split between absolutely no wildlife, and way more than I want.

[haywire]

I have the opposite problem, too many wild animals.  Mostly these fucking never ending herds of camels.  Trying to build an outer wall is a goddamn nightmare.  Sending the military doesn't do much good, because as soon as the last one is killed, a whole new herd comes rolling in.  I wish there was a little bit of time in between one creature spawn to the next.

[Dante`]

So I hear alot of talk about camels.  Getting other animals too?

[haywire]

Sometimes a jaguar, giant jaguar, giant desert scorpions or a nightwing will spawn.  But there are one and two hump camels, so that doubles their numbers.

[Eric Blank]

I usually settle in cooler, more hospitable climates (where dwarves won't melt in the rain) and see plenty of groundhogs, hoary marmots and mountain goats, or elk in tundras. A couple fortresses get some deer or horses. No idea why, but deer, wolves and the other more common animals in reality  seem to be the least common creatures in the game. See more giant eagles than them.