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[EmperorJon]

Right. I'll see if I find any in my current world.

[S31-Syntax]

I like totally flat areas with easy access to water, magma, flux, and sediment shaped sediment... trees and soil aren't needed... buts lots of water is. I like to make underground tree farms and the first thing I do when I embark is decon the wagon(s) and channel out the things under the start. Then I floor over the hole and seal myself in...

[jei]

I found one good embark with all 3 savage environments in 2x7, major river and volcano.
Babbling also in: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=47986.msg1660820#msg1660820
World: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=3312
Worldgen file: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=3327

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A volcano... with major river... on the same map?! That's Awesome Beyond All Repair.

Not so. I've got hundreds if not thousands of such. Such sites are quite easy to make, so easy, that I won't even post maps about it anymore:
Just set your rivers to 800 on start (or maybe more with text editor) and 400-800 to finish and your volcano numbers to 24000 in world_gen.txt by some text editor,
then load up DF and generate the world/game. You'll easily find lots of river sites with nearby volcanoes within very playable range. (Why is the volcano maximum only 300 anyway?)

What remains challenging is getting the biome that you want, the right climate, the sea or the lake shore that is so coveted and the physically beautiful location that will please your aesthetics, that won't be just dull flatland or one giant hillside.

One word of warning though: You might get rivers (one or 2 tiles in embark screen length) that both start and end in the same lake and within one embark area. Starting on such a map seems to crash the game.
Or I dunno if .17 crashes for other reasons too on embark, but all such tried embarks crashed for me. (Tried to embark on them out of curiosity to see what such perpetual motion river-lake systems would look like.)

Anyways, River+Volcano+Shore is the best combo for fortress games, imo. You can usually let some magma on the lake/sea and build your fortress on top of it.

Also savage/joyous combo didn't seem to work for me on .16 as all the game area seemed to be just one type, despite embark screen showing various types.

[Dariush]

I did exactly like you said (but used 8000 volcanoes), but the worldgen refused to make any more volcanoes and after about several THOUSAND rejects I went and fetched your worldgen file. It had all those strange parameters near the very end, about which I asked, and even though it took about 2,5 hours and 30 rejects (you can guess the speed at which worlds were genned, and I have a pretty powerful processor with 4 gigs of RAM), I finally found ONE such spot in the whole world. I can't fathom how much time would I need to get

hundreds if not thousands of such.

[Korva]

Soo. Has anyone found any good worlds in 31.18 that they want to share?

[canon]

My floating brooks in future land.

[TDSS02]

Yea, anyone get any good embarks in 31.18?

[Korva]

I got one of those messed-up embarks today where the red spoiler extended through all levels of the map and lots of stuff hung unsuspended in midair. Amusing, but unplayable.

What I'm looking for in 31.18 is the following: a nice big steep canyon or cliff made of stone layers (not 5+ z-levels of soil), with an optional waterfall and blue upright spoiler, and with magma not too far from the surface. Flux should be present, sand is nice but not a must. Goblins and kobolds should be alive and active.

Alternatively, any nice non-flat embark with magma and water (no necessarily on the surface) on glacier, taiga, desert or tropical forest would nice since I'm a bit tired of flat or almost-flat embarks. Terrifying, Joyous Wilds or plain Untamed Wilds are best.

[Sir Crashalot]

I have a reasonably nice, FPS friendly 31.18 embark if anyone is interested.

Ground level volcano
River
Reasonably flat
Heavily forested (Tropical)
Untamed Wilds (Elephants and Alligators)
Flux (Marble) about 11 layers down.

On my initial embark there was a pond emtying into the volcano which caused the game to pause a few times with the collapsed message but as it emptied straigt down the pipe it caused no FPS/choppiness issues after. When I reembarked to test if my saved parameters worked the lake wasnt there.

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[WORLD_GEN]
   [TITLE:Tropical Volcano]
   [SEED:2433876368]
   [HISTORY_SEED:1583005712]
   [NAME_SEED:2638259984]
   [CREATURE_SEED:2377943328]
   [DIM:129:129]
   [EMBARK_POINTS:1274]
   [END_YEAR:200]
   [BEAST_END_YEAR:200:80]
   [REVEAL_ALL_HISTORY:1]
   [CULL_HISTORICAL_FIGURES:0]
   [ELEVATION:1:400:401:401]
   [RAINFALL:0:100:200:200]
   [TEMPERATURE:25:75:200:200]
   [DRAINAGE:0:100:200:200]
   [VOLCANISM:0:100:200:200]
   [SAVAGERY:0:100:200:200]
   [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]
   [MEGABEAST_CAP:40]
   [SEMIMEGABEAST_CAP:100]
   [TITAN_NUMBER:30]
   [TITAN_ATTACK_TRIGGER:80:0:100000]
   [DEMON_NUMBER:28]
   [NIGHT_CREATURE_NUMBER:45]
   [GOOD_SQ_COUNTS:25:251:503]
   [EVIL_SQ_COUNTS:25:251:503]
   [PEAK_NUMBER_MIN:12]
   [PARTIAL_OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:1]
   [COMPLETE_OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:0]
   [VOLCANO_MIN:100]
   [REGION_COUNTS:SWAMP:260:1:1]
   [REGION_COUNTS:DESERT:260:1:1]
   [REGION_COUNTS:FOREST:1040:3:3]
   [REGION_COUNTS:MOUNTAINS:2080:2:2]
   [REGION_COUNTS:OCEAN:2080:1:1]
   [REGION_COUNTS:GLACIER:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:TUNDRA:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:GRASSLAND:2080:3:3]
   [REGION_COUNTS:HILLS:2080:3:3]
   [EROSION_CYCLE_COUNT:250]
   [RIVER_MINS:100:100]
   [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:30]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_WATER_MIN:0]
   [CAVERN_LAYER_WATER_MAX:100]
   [HAVE_BOTTOM_LAYER_1:1]
   [HAVE_BOTTOM_LAYER_2:1]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_GROUND:30]
   [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_1:13]
   [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_MAX_SIZE:25]
   [MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:25]
   [NON_MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:50]
   [ALL_CAVES_VISIBLE:0]
   [SHOW_EMBARK_TUNNEL:2]
   [TOTAL_CIV_NUMBER:40]
   [TOTAL_CIV_POPULATION:15000]
   [SITE_CAP:1040]
   [PLAYABLE_CIVILIZATION_REQUIRED:1]
   [ELEVATION_RANGES:2080:4160:2080]
   [RAIN_RANGES:2080:4160:2080]
   [DRAINAGE_RANGES:2080:4160:2080]
   [SAVAGERY_RANGES:2080:4160:2080]
   [VOLCANISM_RANGES:2080:4160:2080]

[Korva]

That looks good, I'll give it a whirl!

Anyone got that rocky cliff/canyon embark I'd love to give a try, seaside or inland?

[DwarvenScience]

Hey guys I was wondering if you could give me a hand. Im looking for an embark with sheer cliffs (about 20 or more z-levels high) with a river at the bottom and ideally some trees somewhere. The sheer cliff however has to be made completely out of rock with no soil or loam as I plan to carve a fortress into the cliff face.

I have occasionally found successful locations with my own worldgen attempts, but there are never any other civilizations nearby and whats the point in carving a massive fortress into the side of a mountain if you wont get sieged at all.

If anyone could help me out with a location (or give me some tips on increasing the number of hostile civs in the world) I wold call you a king among men

[Korva]

I found a terrifying moist broadleaf forest with a stream that forms an 18 z-level waterfall. Magma is at -36 from the top of the cliffs. No blue upright spoiler, sadly, and the top stone layer is dolomite which isn't the best yielder of useful stuf, but it does have sand. There are two other very similar embark sites next to it. All races are alive.

[TolyK]

Hey guys I was wondering if you could give me a hand. Im looking for an embark with sheer cliffs (about 20 or more z-levels high) with a river at the bottom and ideally some trees somewhere. The sheer cliff however has to be made completely out of rock with no soil or loam as I plan to carve a fortress into the cliff face.

I have occasionally found successful locations with my own worldgen attempts, but there are never any other civilizations nearby and whats the point in carving a massive fortress into the side of a mountain if you wont get sieged at all.

If anyone could help me out with a location (or give me some tips on increasing the number of hostile civs in the world) I wold call you a king among men

ok, here's how you do it:
in worldgen, set erosion cycles to min (0?), turn off erosion, make medium volcanic activity with lots of variance, igneous extrusive up, soil down (it erodes a lot), lots of rivers, turn off rainfall "imprints/images", try no weather (d_init i think) to be safe, x-variance for mountains, y-variance for... deserts (I think?), large world, and optimize for smaller caverns.

hope it works, I made a whole fortress in a 43-high almost-sheer cliff once using something like that (though I might have forgotten some details...), and it shipped WITH a volcano. AND 2-layer easy aquifer. pure win really...

have fun!

[ninja137]

How do I gen one of these?

[TolyK]

in the main menu go to "design world with advanced parameters" and make a new thing. don't forget to press F6 to save stuff later.