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[ScriptWolf]

i still really want to build a fortress on the side of a volcano but i still can find one, and i dont want to dig 100 Z's down to try and find the magma sea.... I suppose it does not help that i dont know what im looking for , could someone post a screenshot of what i should be looking for please ? ( i am using maydays tileset ( but i think theres not much difference if i was shown Vanilla graphics would still give me some idea of what i was loking for ).

[Max White]

^

How does I make text red?

[ScriptWolf]

You Mean Like This? and why did you ask that??.

[Frogwarrior]

A red ^ on the world/region map is a volcano; on the local map it will show up as a red whatever-that-symbol-is-for-liquids. The two squiggly lines.

[ScriptWolf]

Ahhhhh ok then.... mhe i have had no volcanos in any of the world i have generated then

[Max White]

Yea, look for a ^.

You learn something new every day.

[analog]

Generate a new world with specific parameters. Look for the minimum volcano number in your adjustable variables and set it to max. It might generate some error messages about too little mountain ranges (especially in small(er) regions) and stuff like that but just ignore it. It's become standard practice for me because I love volcanoes! Although they're not really realistic the HUGE magma pipes that stick out several z-levels aboveground are very handy for magma-defense-projects.

[celem]

just incase.....I dont remember if it was the mayday tileset, but anyway...

One of the tilesets shows volcanos as a red bear-trap symbol rather than the caret (^)

Also, by default I think even large worlds only contain a maximum of 15 volcanos, many of which end up as islands or locked in mountain ranges.  To get some worth embarking on you will probably want 150-200 max flagged in the world parameters.  Be aware the making your land very volcanic can make it almost impossible to find sedimentary layers

[EvilJawa]

i think thats ironhand tileset

[Frogwarrior]

Standard pocket maps, in my experience, always have exactly one volcano. Just make sure nobody died out during worldgen.

[harborpirate]

I generated at least 50 maps in an effort to get a specific set of conditions. The standard map gen parameters create exactly one volcano per world map almost every time. As was mentioned before, the Mayday graphics pack uses a red trap symbol for volcanoes.

[Urist Imiknorris]

All tilesets use red trap symbols for them (because the display symbols are hardcoded).

Volcanoes are ≈ on the embark map, ^ on the region map, and almost never show up on the world map.

[twilightdusk]

Standard pocket maps, in my experience, always have exactly one volcano. Just make sure nobody died out during worldgen.

The default worldgen settings has "Minimum number of volcanoes" set to 1, so any world, pocket sized or maximum size, is guarenteed to have at least 1 volcano under default settings. In advanced gen you can raise this to other numbers, I find that setting it to 100 on a medium region gets a good variety of volcanic locations to choose from.

[Grumbledook]

Just want to say thanks to everyone who posted:
VOLCANO TIME!

[Sirdrake]

Easy way to do this is Edit World gen to 5 minimum Volcanoes and then they easy found