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Tcei

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3x3 Volcano in the middle of a flat 5x5 plain!
« on: November 21, 2010, 12:29:45 pm »
So just got around to downloading .18 and I start looking for a nice haunted region to start my fort full of ghost on.  During world gen I noticed several volcanoes that looked to be in viable areas. Excited I start poking around and find this nice little gem.

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Its an entire volcano surrounded by flat plains if you extend to 5x5 embark size. Its about 43 z-lvls from top to bottom
Unforunately there's no running surface water, but I've never lucked out and managed a full mountain like this before. There are however a handfull of murky pools around the bottom. 
For those interested here's the dfmap showing it in all its glory.

Going 3x3 you get a bit of the plains surrounding the entire thing but the top and right most edges has ramps right on the edge of the map.
4x4 will get you pleanty of space aroudn the the mountain if you extend to the top and right of the 3x3 :D

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Re: 3x3 Volcano in the middle of a flat 5x5 plain!
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2010, 12:46:25 pm »
Is it just me, or does the mountain look like a tooth on z-level 77?

You could build an awesome fortress by making the only passage to it over the volcano.
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Re: 3x3 Volcano in the middle of a flat 5x5 plain!
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2010, 01:12:53 pm »
I got these a lot in .16. nice to see they are still possible. Thanks, Tcei!
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Re: 3x3 Volcano in the middle of a flat 5x5 plain!
« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2010, 01:25:36 pm »
I remember getting one of those in 40d
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Re: 3x3 Volcano in the middle of a flat 5x5 plain!
« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2010, 02:00:48 pm »
I found quite a few areas like this in a world I genned recently. All very steep mounds surrounded by natural terrain, flat or not. Basically all you need to do is gen a world with high volcanism and elevation variance and minimum 200 volcanoes. I'd make minimum 800 river start locations too just to aid in finding one with a running river.
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