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[xp194]

Hi, new poster, vaguely long time lurker here.

I recently decided to try out the new version of DF and was somewhat surprised when I was checking for a good location for my fort that Aquifers seem to be everwhere on soft ground. Is this actually the case? Because if so, it's just made setting up a decent fort a heck of a lot more 'Fun' for me, as I have little to no experience dealing with these things. Is it just including the rivers or something?

Help appreciated.
xp194

[Mush]

It's the island format (the new standard), try gen'ing a region world. There's presets built in.

The island format seems to make nearly the whole land an aquifer.

[xp194]

Awesome, I'll give it a go now. Thanks!

[Particleman]

Go to the Dwarf Fortress\raw\objects folder and remove the brackets around all the AQUIFER tags in  inorganic_stone_mineral, inorganic_stone_layer, and inorganic_stone_soil files. This won't affect any existing worlds, but it'll keep any new worlds you gen from having aquifers anywhere.

[xp194]

Regions worked. I don't want Aquifers gone entirely... juts not where I'm trying to dig right now! :-p

[existent]

Regions worked. I don't want Aquifers gone entirely... juts not where I'm trying to dig right now! :-p

It's not impossible to have no aquifer and several soil layers, even without tweaking the settings- try looking just beside a mountain range. Generally, there's rock regions, then one soil layer with rock below regions, then several soil layer regions before you hit aquifer.