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[Haika]

o.O is that a haunted area near a volcano up against the ocean I see in the lower left? Because that would be AWESOME.

[TolyK]

o.O is that a haunted area near a volcano up against the ocean I see in the lower left? Because that would be AWESOME.

GIVE US NOOOOOWWWWW!

[Thief^]

o.O is that a haunted area near a volcano up against the ocean I see in the lower left? Because that would be AWESOME.

Two areas actually (on adjacent region tiles):
Terrifying swamp, next to ocean.
Volcano surrounded by "wilderness" forest.
Both have aquifiers.

Pity it's not all in one.

[TolyK]

the volcano would be better, make sure to cut down lots of trees (for ballistae )

[Thief^]

There's also a terrifying forest by a lake (purple arrow in a mess of rivers), but with an aquifier it'll be damn difficult to get underground.

Volcano sounds good to me though, will be a great way to puncture the aquifier:

[TolyK]

hmm seems like not that many minerals...  only deep metals
***
ah well.

digging ~3 squares from the volcano is almost guaranteed to have dry stone.

[Yoink]

I love the volcano/haunted forest idea! I was actually going to post that, when I saw the picture.
Could always change the embark size, to get a good mix of forest and volcano.

[Thief^]

I love the volcano/haunted forest idea! I was actually going to post that, when I saw the picture.
Could always change the embark size, to get a good mix of forest and volcano.

Unfortunately the volcano and terrifying swamp are on different region tiles. Can only have one or the other.

[TolyK]

I guess we should make it a 4x4 with the volcano (the embark you showed).
Actually, is there any flux nearby?

[Thief^]

Nope.

[Yoink]

Are there still plenty of trees around the volcano, then? If so, it's cool!

Also... I'm sure I once embarked on a really large area, including a volcano and a couple of human towns...
But I used DFusion's 'embark anywhere', so that might have had something to do with it.

[TolyK]

question: will your computer handle a 3x7 embark at ~150 dwarves at more than 50 FPS? just wondering.

[Thief^]

Never tried. Why 3x7?

EDIT: I have access to a Core i7 pc if I need it.

[TolyK]

Never tried. Why 3x7?

There might be some good biomes, we can get the volcano splat in the middle, 3.5 (local) tiles are good range for ballistae, and it's just fun 

[Haika]

hmm, 8x5 would get us volcano and a tiny bit of ocean if I'm reading that right. I take it the swamp is to the north?

Either way, Volcano is a wonderful idea. Very dwarfy, gives you access to things like magma smelters and such.

Very Deep soil is good for artificial pasture caves, dig out a ton of dirt to level up your miners, then discover a cave to start filling all the soil areas with moss, shrooms and cave trees.