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[ReverseWill]

Excluding my experiments with world-gen temperatures, I think the weirdest site I've had was one back in 40D. There was a sheer, completely vertical cliff face in a rough box shape extending halfway across the map, while everything else was dead flat. Naturally, I made the boxy cliffs my home.

[Untelligent]

This one's from 40d. I'll let the 3Dwarf snapshot speak for itself.

http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff76/untelligent/DFIcon/DFOther/1e84af49.png

[DarthCloakedDwarf]

I embarked on a freshwater ocean once.

[Mohreb el Yasim]

I embarked on a freshwater ocean once.

wasen't it a lake?

[Osdeath]

Excluding my experiments with world-gen temperatures, I think the weirdest site I've had was one back in 40D. There was a sheer, completely vertical cliff face in a rough box shape extending halfway across the map, while everything else was dead flat. Naturally, I made the boxy cliffs my home.

I experimented with those settings the other day, spontaneously combusting dwarves, desert worlds, beer freezing instantly, very good fun.

[Snook]

How do you people get these sheer cliffs? I've been trying to find one of them for a while now, and the best I've seen was 2-3z levels of cliffside, and then steep ramps up to the tops of some mountain. And there's never a river, so no canyons, which is another thing I'd love to find...

[UmbrageOfSnow]

Turn "Periodically Erode Extreme Cliffs" to NO.  I like maps better that way anyway.

[Snook]

Turn "Periodically Erode Extreme Cliffs" to NO.  I like maps better that way anyway.

Do you mean from =1 to =0?

[albatross]

Current fort started at the edge of the bottomless pit. It was kinda scary. And bit titillating. The thought that if a fight occurred at the edge, and if a dwarf dodged in the wrong direction... The pit is almost completely surrounded by the mountain, and there's 2-4 tile wide path running along the edge. One side: wall, four steps from that: endless fall. At a later point I gave the bottomless pit a bottom and filled it with water. Took a good few years to fill that baby up. Too shame nothing swims through z-levels in water <.<

[nil]

How do you people get these sheer cliffs? I've been trying to find one of them for a while now, and the best I've seen was 2-3z levels of cliffside, and then steep ramps up to the tops of some mountain. And there's never a river, so no canyons, which is another thing I'd love to find...

Mountains next to oceans + few-to-no erosion cycles + what Umbrage said.  An old screenshot of the best cliffs I've ever made:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[AxisKiller]

I somehow ended up with the wagon inside a volcano. Needless to say, everyone and everything immediately exploded or was otherwise immolated.

[UmbrageOfSnow]

Also, cranking up the X and/or Y elevation variability may help (in conjunction with erosion change).  I've had good luck with cliffs both with either a LOT of erosion cycles, or very few like Nil said.  I think canyons may require more, and sea cliffs less, but I'm not sure.

[zane314]

I wanted to embark next to a lake/ocean, so picked my embark spot carefully...

The wagon was generated _on_ the ice of the frozen lake. I assume that I've misread something and that it's a glacier or something and I can just tunnel under it...

One season later, everything thaws. Wagon, and most dwarves drown quickly. The two dwarf miners who were downstairs make a very impressive escape attempt, but water pressure does them in.

[AtomicPaperclip]

How do you people get these sheer cliffs? I've been trying to find one of them for a while now, and the best I've seen was 2-3z levels of cliffside, and then steep ramps up to the tops of some mountain. And there's never a river, so no canyons, which is another thing I'd love to find...

Mountains next to oceans + few-to-no erosion cycles + what Umbrage said.  An old screenshot of the best cliffs I've ever made:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Still have gen info?