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[Jude]

I'm sure we've all seen IRL places that would rule to embark on. ITT discuss them

Mine are:


Mt Tabor, Israel

(seen from Nazareth, 10-15 km away)

Plusses: Extremely defensible position, commanding view of surrounding area, awesome scenery, plentiful wood.

Minuses: no interesting wildlife or magma, no running water (possible aquifer although I don't think it extends that far north)

Now let's see yours.

[JohnLukeG]

Mississippi River area. 

Moderately Forested
Abundant water/fishing
Alligators (For taming)
Unnamed Redneck Civilization

[I am Leo]

We went for a picnic on box hill near me last week. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Hill,_Surrey

It's ideal for a fort, nearby river, calm goodly surroundings, abundant trees.

As proof it's such a good site toi embark, there's even an old ww2 fort on there, tucked away in the forest.

It is only ruined by one thing, on a door to the fort is graffiti of someone fighting an elephant, and I don't want any similarities with Boatmurdered.

[style]

Bastei, Elbsandsteingebirge, Germany, Elbe River near the Czech border.


Smoothed and fortified it looks like this

[Sulphuratum]

style, the first picture is exactly what i seen when i was there
It would be pretty awesome to ´dwarf´ there^^

[Sphalerite]

This place:

http://www.vacationideas.me/asia/the-door-to-hell-burning-gas-crater-darvaza-turkmenistan/

Pluses:  Glowing HFS pit exposed on the surface.
Minuses:  Glowing HFS pit exposed on the surface.

[Old-one-eye]

Yucatan Peninsula:

[SkyRender]

 Definitely the Cliffs of Dover.



 Just look at all that chalk, waiting to be used as flux for steel manufacturing...

[Starver]

Yucatan Peninsula:
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Now, that's obviously a civilisation that's dug out way too much stone.  Of course, what's most interesting about there is the geology.  Aquifers and cave systems.

(Won't put up any pictures, as when Googling I'm spoilt for choice...)

((Oh, go on then...  Here's one that's not so pretty but very Dwarfy))

[Starver]

Definitely the Cliffs of Dover.

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 Just look at all that chalk, waiting to be used as flux for steel manufacturing...

I've been thinking about asking for a while now (and always forgetting to scout around my generated worlds in via the embark screen or Adventure mode, when I'm at home and free to do so...) but does Worldgen generate sea(/lake)-side cliffs like that?  I'm rather partial to deep river gorges and steep hillsides and the like, but have never seen anything approaching a "0000*0100"-type situation on the steepness indicator of the embark chooser, where there's water (or even marsh/flat plain, actually), cliff, then relatively flat plateau.

Worldgen is good at drilling rivers down through strata (including obvious course changes leaving dry canyons), for Grand Canyon style situations but I've never seen an obvious sign of the kind of lateral cliff-forming erosion that you need for the likes of the WCoD...


Actually, thinking about it, I've seen plenty of low examples of this where two rivers meet, leaving a concave triangulr lake at the conjunction, usually with waterfalls on each of the two upstream legs, but still nothing that shouts "shoreline", and for more than half a dozen Z-levels.


But I've definitely carved out slopes into cliffs, and I'm fairly sure that with enough effort I could have drawn in a lake/sea-shore towards one, by channelling the shoreline into it, as long as it wasn't so flat a coastal plane to start with that there wasn't a rise to encliffify.

[smigenboger]

Looks like there's a lot of features, but the FPS would be terrible

[MaDeR Levap]

http://www.vacationideas.me/asia/the-door-to-hell-burning-gas-crater-darvaza-turkmenistan/
(...)Minuses:  Glowing HFS pit exposed on the surface.

BIG minus: utterly retarded comments under linked article.

Looks like there's a lot of features, but the FPS would be terrible

Then Mars. Being much smaller, FPS would be more bearable. If you want even smaller world after successful HFS invasion, take moon of Jupiter, Io. If your dwarves can take about -175 degree of C, welcome at (m)ethane lakes and very seasonal rivers of Titan. There are very many asteroids that their surface area is equivalent to 4x4 embark, but unfortunately scenery is less interesting.

[Jude]

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Bastei, Elbsandsteingebirge, Germany, Elbe River near the Czech border.


Smoothed and fortified it looks like this

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This post is made of win. If anybody gens a world that has cliffs like this, I want it.

[Lokii]

And I could walk there easy. Limestone FTW.

[chewie]

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