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[FleshForge]

That's already pretty specific   Reading the info on the new release of DF, rivers have been adjusted a lot and large rivers should be more randomly distributed, which is a good thing, there may be some hope that you can roll something like this without a thousand hearbreaks before you find it.

[Trigonous]

I'm looking into Perfect World as well, I haven't used it as of yet but it looks promising for specific features like this.

[LemonFrosted]

To increase the odds of Terrifying/Joyous Wilds, you need to increase 3 parameters: Savagery, Good Tiles, & Evil Tiles.

I don't generally fiddle with Savagery all that much, but it shouldn't be too hard...

Taking a look at a default param set, it looks like "Minimum Number of Mid-Savagery Squares" defaults to approx one quarter of the maximum value, while "High-Savagery Squares" & "Low Savagery Squares" split the same number of tiles (these on the 2nd page from the bottom, easiest way to get their is pgup twice after going into the params), swapping the High & Mid values is probably the safest approach to what you're after.

The same param set designates less than ten percent of the tiles on map as being Good or Evil (combined) ["Desired Good/Evil Square Count"], when fiddling this, I tend to be a little extreme, I set the "Desired Good/Evil Square Count in Large Sub regions" to approx one quarter of the maximum (each), then for Medium & Small I halve the next larger value. This gets seriously aligned maps, gives me both Good & Evil to choose from depending on mood (ok, I've only intentionally embarked evil once to date, but it might happen).

Spoiler: An Example of the changes proposed above (click to show/hide)

[WORLD_GEN]
   [TITLE:SAVAGEALIGN]
   [SEED:2168643764]
   [HISTORY_SEED:3258258546]
   [NAME_SEED:943449938]
   [CREATURE_SEED:2057532420]
   [DIM:65:65]
   [EMBARK_POINTS:1274]
   [END_YEAR:98]
   [BEAST_END_YEAR:2:-1]
   [REVEAL_ALL_HISTORY:1]
   [CULL_HISTORICAL_FIGURES:0]
   [ELEVATION:1:400:202:202]
   [RAINFALL:0:100:101:101]
   [TEMPERATURE:25:75:101:101]
   [DRAINAGE:0:100:101:101]
   [VOLCANISM:0:100:101:101]
   [SAVAGERY:0:100:101:101]
   [ELEVATION_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [RAIN_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [DRAINAGE_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [TEMPERATURE_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [SAVAGERY_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [VOLCANISM_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [TITAN_NUMBER:4]
   [TITAN_ATTACK_TRIGGER:80:0:100000]
   [DEMON_NUMBER:12]
   [GOOD_SQ_COUNTS:261:522:1054]
   [EVIL_SQ_COUNTS:261:522:1054]
   [PEAK_NUMBER_MIN:3]
   [PARTIAL_OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:1]
   [COMPLETE_OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:0]
   [VOLCANO_MIN:1]
   [REGION_COUNTS:SWAMP:66:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:DESERT:66:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:FOREST:264:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:MOUNTAINS:528:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:OCEAN:528:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:GLACIER:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:TUNDRA:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:GRASSLAND:528:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:HILLS:528:0:0]
   [EROSION_CYCLE_COUNT:250]
   [RIVER_MINS:25:25]
   [PERIODICALLY_ERODE_EXTREMES:1]
   [OROGRAPHIC_PRECIPITATION:1]
   [SUBREGION_MAX:2750]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_COUNT:3]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_OPENNESS_MIN:0]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_OPENNESS_MAX:100]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_PASSAGE_DENSITY_MIN:0]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_PASSAGE_DENSITY_MAX:100]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_WATER_MIN:0]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_WATER_MAX:100]
   [HAVE_BOTTOM_LAYER_1:1]
   [HAVE_BOTTOM_LAYER_2:1]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_GROUND:15]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_1:5]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_2:1]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_3:1]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_4:1]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_5:2]
   [LEVELS_AT_BOTTOM:1]
   [CAVE_MIN_SIZE:5]
   [CAVE_MIN_SIZE:5]
   [CAVE_MAX_SIZE:25]
   [MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:6]
   [NON_MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:12]
   [ALL_CAVES_VISIBLE:0]
   [SHOW_EMBARK_TUNNEL:2]
   [TOTAL_CIV_NUMBER:24]
   [TOTAL_CIV_POPULATION:15000]
   [PLAYABLE_CIVILIZATION_REQUIRED:1]
   [ELEVATION_RANGES:528:1056:528]
   [RAIN_RANGES:264:528:264]
   [DRAINAGE_RANGES:264:528:528]
   [SAVAGERY_RANGES:264:264:264]
   [VOLCANISM_RANGES:264:528:264]

Spoiler: The Geography thereof (click to show/hide)

Sorry, no specific embark sites, as I only ran this up as an example of what I was suggesting (Note: All Races have Civs if you use the above seeds & civ settings).

Sweet, this was exactly what I was looking for. Just had to up the map size to medium and tune for personal preferences in caverns.

Should I embark to The Terror-Jungle of Doom, The Wastes of Blame, or The Jungle of Plagues? Who am I kidding? The Terror-Jungle of Doom of course!

[FleshForge]

Welcome to WATERBOARDED, where we have:
- Warm climate
- Sand
- Magma pipe
- A nice little brook
- Plentiful trees, ALL DEAD
- Terrifying tropical coniferous forest, so probably (definitely!) undead elephants (in great abundance!), with part of the area also Untamed Wilds/Mountain; it also gets regular elephants!
- Sedimentary layer (chert)
- NO FLUX
- Plus a friendly bunch of neighbors downstairs!

Embark:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Map:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Worldgen Parameters:
http://cid-b233dcaeefa9709c.office.live.com/self.aspx/Public/DwarfFortress/Waterboarded/Waterboarded-params.txt

Save file (between embarks so you can pick embark size):
http://cid-b233dcaeefa9709c.office.live.com/self.aspx/Public/DwarfFortress/Waterboarded/Waterboarded.zip

[hornback]

Is there any way to increase the likelihood that a volcano will spawn with a sedimentary layer? I'm trying to do an embark that has it all. I want to be able to have a volcano, trees, flux, sedimentary, and a river/brook right next to each other. I can usually get close after a few attempts at playing with the parameters, but by far the largest issue is the lack of a sedimentary layer. It is very rare that I get a volcano next to one.

[Gearheart]

I think that is more or less down to luck.

The chances of a sedimentary biome and a volcanic one overlapping are rather slim, but you should find one if you keep trying for a while.

[FleshForge]

I actually posted an embark earlier in the thread that has what you're looking for (Doomhouse).

[Gutanoth]

Does anyone have a Very small embark area (2x2 or 2x3 pref, but can cope with 3x3) with:
a volcano (or magma pipe very close to the surface)
Flux
surface fresh water source
Would like
sand
chaotic
Sedimentary layers
Edit:Funnily enough, no longer needed. I have one! With all those things. only in 31.13 though

[NKDietrich]

Excellent thread. I've grabbed a couple nice embarks out of here. Thanks to everyone who has added something.

[NKDietrich]

Has anyone had any success getting a volcano near a river or major river? It doesn't seem to happen, even with 200 volcanos in wet river infested areas.

[JAFANZ]

Closest I've ever seen was a couple of Magma Pools that topped out 2 or 3 z-levels below the river level, but I don't have that embark or the world gen params for it any more. Sorry.

[FleshForge]

I don't think it's possible to get any type of river mid map tile to overlap a volcano tile, although yeah I have gotten magma pools that are very near rivers.

edit: woops, that's not exactly what you said of course - it's possible to get a river nearby, yes.  TBH just turn up rivers and volcanoes to maximum and roll some maps, you'll get that eventually.

[JAFANZ]

By "nearby" I assume NKDietrich means "on the same region tile", personally I've only ever seen Brooks in Regions with Volcanos.

But the dual-Magma Pool embark I mentioned did have the Magma Pools sticking about 7 levels above the 1st Cavern, unfortunately it was less than 30 from the top of the 1st Cavern to the Magma Sea.

[NKDietrich]

By "nearby" I assume NKDietrich means "on the same region tile", personally I've only ever seen Brooks in Regions with Volcanos.

But the dual-Magma Pool embark I mentioned did have the Magma Pools sticking about 7 levels above the 1st Cavern, unfortunately it was less than 30 from the top of the 1st Cavern to the Magma Sea.

Yeah, that's what I meant. Unfortunately it doesn't seem possible. Getting lucky with magma pipes seems to be the only answer. I think FleshForge posted an embark here with a readily accessible magma pipe and a stream or river. I'll have to look.

[FleshForge]

Yeah both of the big river canyon maps I posted have magma pools somewhere on them iirc.  The desert one is pretty spiffy but I hope you like camels; the jungle one's friendlier but the terrain isn't quite as cool.