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[Cespinarve]

Or, at least, I don't like how shallow the are. I like building deep, multi-level forts, and I'm always running across stupid caverns, full of crap I don't care about until later on in the game. If they were much further down, it wouldn't be a problem. I'm curious, who here agrees, and who wants more?

[abculatter_2]

You can change how far down they are in the world parameters.

[opsneakie]

Yeah I've dug down about 20-25 levels so far and shouldn't strike caverns with my current world for another 20-30 more. Setting how far down they are can lead to huge potential for multi-level forts

-ops

[grufti]

I'd love even more caverns, I like the fun stuff coming up from the deep.

I could also imagine that one day underground folks are besieging your fort from below and goblins from above. That would be awesome! 

[Cespinarve]

I think part of my problem is that, as the miltary screen continues to be pretty frustrating, I have a hard time setting up forces to deal with caverns

[grufti]

To note - I won't breach caverns (wall em off), till my magma steel production is running (which is usually around 1 1/2 years). Then I will create a squad of 5 dwarfes and dig down a second pathway down to the caverns from my defendable entrance hall. From there my militia will take any monster coming up from the deep. (except elk birds which always seem to pass through into my fortress :-/ )

[TheyTarget]

I got a cavern that was 50z levels down, and stretched down about 30 z levels. The other two caverns were only like 3 z levels though, and both about 15 from the magma sea.

[buzz killington]

Caverns are cool.  The fact that the magma sea is 140 levels down is not

[Hyndis]

I got a cavern that was 50z levels down, and stretched down about 30 z levels. The other two caverns were only like 3 z levels though, and both about 15 from the magma sea.

What worldgen params did you use for the caverns?

[Labhras]

In my opinion, when I'm working on something big, caverns just get in the way...then they invoke my wrath and are flooded with magma. Troglodytes love magma.

If i'm playing on an ice map though, I kind of rely on underground caverns.

[Fastler]

Caverns are kinda cool, but what I don't like is the way all my caverns seem to be these bunched up passages, with no wide open spaces. I want massive caverns with the glint of gems in the walls, the ceiling obscured in darkness. I want an Orzammar, I want a Moria. I want CAVERNS.

[Richard]

I think part of my problem is that, as the miltary screen continues to be pretty frustrating, I have a hard time setting up forces to deal with caverns

This and unkillable visitors are my number 1 frustrations.

Caverns are kinda cool, but what I don't like is the way all my caverns seem to be these bunched up passages, with no wide open spaces. I want massive caverns with the glint of gems in the walls, the ceiling obscured in darkness. I want an Orzammar, I want a Moria. I want CAVERNS.

That's easy to get by fiddling with the world gen parameters,

[Virodhi]

Caverns are kinda cool, but what I don't like is the way all my caverns seem to be these bunched up passages, with no wide open spaces. I want massive caverns with the glint of gems in the walls, the ceiling obscured in darkness. I want an Orzammar, I want a Moria. I want CAVERNS.

[CAVERN_LAYER_PASSAGE_DENSITY_MIN:0]
[CAVERN_LAYER_PASSAGE_DENSITY_MAX:100]

Tweak those. 0 is open spaces, 100 is vertical honeycomb from hell. So scaling back DENSITY_MAX should do the trick.

[Daetrin]

I play with zero density, and it makes for nice open caverns. Also I'd suggest bumping min water above zero to avoid barren caverns. If you want a lot of room to dig, increase levels above layer one to, say, twenty if you want to dig above the caverns, or layer four if you want to dig below. Or tweak all of them if you want to dig between. I advise aganst reducing cavern layers, as you will never get magma pipes or spoiler tubes above the magma sea.  Note that if you embark in a single-biome area that's relatively flat with zero passage density you'll mostly avoid absurdly deep magma sea issues. However, tweaking up layer count pushes it down again. 

[DarthCloakedDwarf]

Current default worldgen puts the first layer of caverns like, 30Z-levels down.