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[cephalo]

how would one go about genning a world made of mostly flat deserts with flat volcanoes, aquifiers and an adamantine spire?
I've got a megaproject stewing in my head... such setup would take it from "no chance in hell" territory to "really hard and FUN" territory.

**also thank you for this mod, it's awesome!**

Well, the adamantine spires are due to a bug I'm pretty sure, to repeat it probably requires certain strange cavern settings. Also, volcanos tend to push up land, so it can be hard to find a flat one. You can maximize the likelyhood of this by making a world with lot's of volcanos. The 'min volcanos' variable in the world gen file will control this, the max is 200.

The deserts of course are the easy part, you just need low drainage and low rainfall.

[Lawrence]

well i'll just generate worlds till i get it. Unfortunatelly i highly doubt to reach my end without almost unending wealth and actually endless water and magma on hand...
but when i'll get it
it'll be GLORIOUS

thank you for your help!

[Zet]

Amazing! This looks like the tool for me.
I'll probably make a YT video as an alternative for the tutorial some time soon - I need to get used to it myself first

[Alluvian_Est-Endrati]

Having a lot of fun with this tool (while waiting on the next DF update). Been tinkering around with the image importer lately, creating fun worlds based off of various images.

Khorne would be pleased

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Anyways creating a world that is mostly flat deserts is pretty easy actually; you could do that within the normal DF advanced world parameters. You would want to set the Rainfall & Drainage parameters such that they fell mostly within the range of Desert biomes. Check out the following link on the wiki for those ranged
Link: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Biome#Generating_a_Biome

[cephalo]

Ok, I placed a new WorldGen.xml file for DF 34.01!

My attempt at predicting the future was not perfect however, PWDF does not handle the new alphanumeric seeds, and will error out if you import a world_gen.txt file with alpha chars in the seed paramters.

Let me know if you have any unforseen issues.

[insanityseanboy]

Thank you cephalo for creating this awesome program 



For some reason the whole ocean became haunted/terrifying. That sounds about right though, so I've left it.

[Alpha Dwarf]

Thank you cephalo for creating this awesome program 

For some reason the whole ocean became haunted/terrifying. That sounds about right though, so I've left it.

Nice map. Would you be nice enough to put it on here: http://dffd.wimbli.com/index.php

[Alpha Dwarf]

You buddy post that Australia map ------- And I mean the map file in Perfect World and the world gen file so I can get the temperatures you used.

[Alpha Dwarf]

BUMP for clarity.

[insanityseanboy]

Nice map. Would you be nice enough to put it on here: http://dffd.wimbli.com/index.php

Yeah sure, what do I put up there? The height map, the pwset or the simulated world?

I simulated it until 2012, which turned out to be a bad idea; humans are extinct and there are only two single-tile dwarf civs that survived. I'm going to simulate it again with the new DF version.

[Alpha Dwarf]

I would just need the pwset, thanks. Does the map have default temperature ranges, 25-75?

[insanityseanboy]

I would just need the pwset, thanks. Does the map have default temperature ranges, 25-75?

Originally yes, I did not notice that you could change them For the v0.34.02 generation I used 45-95 and increased the variance to 500. Those are average values for a Tasmanian winter and a Darwinian summer. I'm not sure if game uses them as a hard minimum and maximum or if the variance can push them beyond it.


Here you go: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=5725

Enjoy.

[PTTG??]

Anyone know if this is still compatable with DF? I'll try it out tonight, I'm just trying to figure out if anyone's had problems yet.

[nickbii]

Anyone know if this is still compatable with DF? I'll try it out tonight, I'm just trying to figure out if anyone's had problems yet.

I'm using it with 34.02

IIRC some minor things related to new features might be problems, but in general it works fine.

Nick

[Dienes]

If you download the new xml file this works fine with 34.04.