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[Shagomir]

Cool. Looking forward to trying out the new region.

I get very interesting results with Civilization Forge.

I am particularly pleased that in the worldgens I keep, Greenland seems to always be a Haunted or Terrifying glacier. It's Fun!

EDIT:

I made a mistake with the Volcanism map, and there were no sedimentary layers. This has been fixed, so make sure you are using the most recent version from DFFD (v2.3).

[Mazonas]

This tool is awesome!  But I am utterly lost when using it.  I can follow the instructions with it, but when I try to make my own custom map I cannot fore the life of me figure out how to increase volcanism and the number of volcanoes!  Possibly I am just being an eedjit, but my poor rum-addled brain cannot wrap itself around it.

[cephalo]

This tool is awesome!  But I am utterly lost when using it.  I can follow the instructions with it, but when I try to make my own custom map I cannot fore the life of me figure out how to increase volcanism and the number of volcanoes!  Possibly I am just being an eedjit, but my poor rum-addled brain cannot wrap itself around it.

The actual fixed number of volcanoes is set in the world-gen params you can choose 0 to 200. On the volcanism map, all of the red areas have the possibility of being a volcano. So first you must set the number of volcanoes that you want, then you must make sure to have enough red squares to fit them to avoid map rejects. Does that clear it up?

[Mazonas]

The actual fixed number of volcanoes is set in the world-gen params you can choose 0 to 200. On the volcanism map, all of the red areas have the possibility of being a volcano. So first you must set the number of volcanoes that you want, then you must make sure to have enough red squares to fit them to avoid map rejects. Does that clear it up?

It does!  Thank you so much.  Massively volcanic fortress, here I come!

[Lemnx]

Thanks for creating such an awesome tool for making that perfect map I would have spent hours of normal world-genning trying to find! I used the trick to get a volcano next to sedimentary layers and it turned out rather well. Before it took me 20 medium region generations and hours of looking to find a volcano next to a brook with trees and soil layers. I got a volcano, brook, aquifer, soil layers, plenty of marble, and even sand in one go! Not to mention the skeletal life running around...

Something really interesting happened that I thought others might be interested in. After a few minutes of gameplay I received a notice saying that there was a cavern collapse. The screen was centered deep below my fort, however. Using the DFhack toolset I revealed the underground. To my surprise, an aquifer was draining into an underground magma pool and cavern. The water and magma were combining to create unsupported obsidian floors, collapsing through the pool and making magma mist. Heh! I guess having so many contrasting layers in one map was doomed to have an odd effect.

[cephalo]

Thanks for creating such an awesome tool for making that perfect map I would have spent hours of normal world-genning trying to find! I used the trick to get a volcano next to sedimentary layers and it turned out rather well. Before it took me 20 medium region generations and hours of looking to find a volcano next to a brook with trees and soil layers. I got a volcano, brook, aquifer, soil layers, plenty of marble, and even sand in one go! Not to mention the skeletal life running around...

Something really interesting happened that I thought others might be interested in. After a few minutes of gameplay I received a notice saying that there was a cavern collapse. The screen was centered deep below my fort, however. Using the DFhack toolset I revealed the underground. To my surprise, an aquifer was draining into an underground magma pool and cavern. The water and magma were combining to create unsupported obsidian floors, collapsing through the pool and making magma mist. Heh! I guess having so many contrasting layers in one map was doomed to have an odd effect.

Ouch, I think that's gonna kill your framerate unless you can stabilize it.

[Rose]

just putting the middle earth heightmap I use out here.

not as good as an already posted one, but useable

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Lemnx]

Ouch, I think that's gonna kill your framerate unless you can stabilize it.

@Cephalo
The entire cap of the pool is sealed now so no more cave ins. I'm still at my 100FPS cap even though the water is only halfway through filling the cavern. *Shrug* I guess my processor can handle it, although I'm sure if I were to let my FPS cap go freely as high as it can I would notice a decrease compared to similarly sized and featured maps.

@Japa

Heheh... "wall upon wall, battlement upon battlement, black, immeasurably strong, mountain of iron, gate of steel, tower of adamant...Barad-dûr, Fortress of Sauron". Sounds like something straight out of DF.

[omglazers]

I cannot for the life of me seem to get sediment/flux near volcanoes.

I have no desire to dig down due to the huge FPS hit; anyone know how I can maximize my chances of getting a 'perfect' embark?

I'm following cephalo's directions but having zero luck regardless

[Inigo Montoya]

Excellent, thank you.

[cephalo]

I cannot for the life of me seem to get sediment/flux near volcanoes.

I have no desire to dig down due to the huge FPS hit; anyone know how I can maximize my chances of getting a 'perfect' embark?

I'm following cephalo's directions but having zero luck regardless

My instructions are more difficult on smaller maps. On a huge map you should have an easier time.

[omglazers]

My instructions are more difficult on smaller maps. On a huge map you should have an easier time.

Alright, I'll try using a larger map

[Mayara]

I might have missed this reading through the thread but i noticed alot of my gens end up with large evil oceans :3. Any idea how to avoid that?

[Keuran]

In the elevation tab there's a bar to control how much of the world is below sea level. Move that down to about 10% and there won't be much ocean. You can't really control the evil, though.

[nil]

I might have missed this reading through the thread but i noticed alot of my gens end up with large evil oceans :3. Any idea how to avoid that?

If you have "0" for "Large Evil Region Count" or whatever the exact wording is, large regions should never be evil.