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[drailgre]

I say When also Make Ancient Ruins in game as a new terrain, and it would have specials properties ( like Fertility, or artifacts lying round place and evil creatures that lurk the surface!)and stuff and parts of buildings, floors, walls, etc all around that area.

[Neonivek]

The problem is that we want these ruins to actually occur through history rather then through nothingness.

[Capntastic]

Dunno about currently, but ruins have been in the game before.   You fight skeletons and zombies on 'em, and obviously in the future it'll be expanded.   They've been brought up many times, and are addressed both in the dev notes and in DF Talk.

[Mel_Vixen]

Just out of curiosity which ruins do you mean stuff like temples of the elder Gods or ruined towns/mountain homes. THe later are already in the gameand you can embark on them.

[Hyndis]

Just out of curiosity which ruins do you mean stuff like temples of the elder Gods or ruined towns/mountain homes. THe later are already in the gameand you can embark on them.

You generally need to dig down a bit to find them, but yes they are in game already. 

[Funk]

ruined towns/mountain homes do happen after wars some time.

[Interus]

I had one game where I settled on an abandoned island with the intent of releasing about 50 dwarves into the wild(it worked, the legends said that a new band was formed when the fortress was abandoned, unfortunately I don't expect they'll do much) and while looking through the legends, it turns out there was an earlier dwarven civilization on that island with like one fortress that apparently just died out inexplicably.  I could find no mention of wars or anything in their history.  Maybe some more stuff like that?

[Farthing]

I would ideally like to see these implemented as a expansion of the existing world generation mechanics. If a Civ dies out their buildings could remain in place, get eroded, filled with lava, covered in vines, etc. Evil environs would allow for zombies no?

[612DwarfAvenue]

Could also have it affect player's fortresses that have been abandoned for several years. In addition to the moss, walls ands supports could erode, causing cave-ins or floods in some areas, floor tiles placed on soil could also erode, or have grass grow back over them, allowing for plants and trees etc. to grow. Basically, if you're gonna reclaim, do it quick, otherwise you'll have a harder time getting things working again.

[Capntastic]

I would ideally like to see these implemented as a expansion of the existing world generation mechanics. If a Civ dies out their buildings could remain in place, get eroded, filled with lava, covered in vines, etc. Evil environs would allow for zombies no?

Sans filled with lava, This is Already In the Game, as mentioned above.

[Farthing]

I would ideally like to see these implemented as a expansion of the existing world generation mechanics. If a Civ dies out their buildings could remain in place, get eroded, filled with lava, covered in vines, etc. Evil environs would allow for zombies no?

Sans filled with lava, This is Already In the Game, as mentioned above.

Many thanks. I have never embarked anywhere that had ruins before, so I didn't know if these things were possible. Sometimes Dwarf Fortress is so deep its just hard to know what can and can't happen.