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[oso]

Undwarfy... very undwarfy indeed...

[neil_v]

Indeed...

[Eagle_eye]

It should probably just block you from embarking somewhere without a 3x3 plot of land...

[Fayrik]

It should probably just block you from embarking somewhere without a 3x3 plot of land...

Have you ever tried embarking entirely on an ocean? Land is good stuff.

There is actually a way to stop it from Blocking sites, just look at the end of the "Embark Anywhere!" thread and you should be able to work it out.

[oso]

I found some threads talking about embarking anywhere but the conclusion was that it's impossible without a utility and one doesn't exist for this version...

[Shoku]

You get that mountains are supposed to be too difficult to travel with a wagon right?

[Organum]

Oh, it's a realism thing? I always just assumed it was to prevent us embarking somewhere where resources were too scarce.

[Namfuak]

Oh, it's a realism thing? I always just assumed it was to prevent us embarking somewhere where resources were too scarce.

Nah, it's realism.  I personally think that we should be able to create paths, but it would be hard to implement.

[Organum]

Since we are eventually going to have a greater effect on the world outside of our fortress, I can see how that might work. Send out a team of miners, masons, and carpenters and have them make a certain 1x1/2x2/etc. spot accessible to the outside world...

This thread makes me want to abandon my current fort and start a new one at the peak of a mountain.

[Dariush]

Ahem. But if you embark on a 9x9 plot consisting of nothing but mountains with one non-mountail tile in the corner, the wagon will appear in the middle, thus travelling four tiles diagonally from that non-mountain tile. So what realism could prevent it from traveling two tiles to the middle of 3x3 embark that doesn't include aforementioned tile?

[Vehudur]

I made a 2x16 embark once that had a major river, two brooks, swamp, forest, and mountains in it that spanned a total of like 200 z-levels.  Bad idea, though it WAS awesome.  It was weird keeping track of everything.

[jei]

Oh, it's a realism thing? I always just assumed it was to prevent us embarking somewhere where resources were too scarce.

If so, what are dragons, titans and megabeasts doing in this game? Not to mention a whole bunch of other stuff.

Stopping fun because of realism is stupid.

[AngleWyrm]

I protest against any form of 'realism' that involves dwarves being unable to navigate through mountains. They're called mountainhomes for a reason, and dwarves are probably much better than humans at getting around in the mountains.

[Shrugging Khan]

I embarked on half a mountain and it killed my wagon 

Another problem I see with mountains is that you'll have 500 to 600 z-levels to murder your FPS.

[Dwarf]

Toady could impose a weight limit when embarking on mountains, to simulate the absence of a wagon (stuff is transported on muleback)