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[CriticallyAshamed]

Hey guys, just genned a vair sexy random map and found a PERFECT embark spot, at least for me, is there anyway to ensure I can reuse it? Because as I understand it if I abandon, my fortress (or attempt at) will still be there. And, knowing me, that first fortress would probably be on fire whilst frozen, being raided by goblins and covered in rats. Apart from that, I'm also worried that all the civs mightn't yet be well set up enough because I genned the world without any history. I'd like to be sieged.

tl;dr
How do I keep an unblemished copy of the map and is it possible to age it further?

[Eoganachta]

If you want to save the map just copy the save's folder to another location. DF-Saves-Region X. Copy and paste it to somewhere like my documents. Once it's backed up you can play on the origional and then if you want to start again on the same embark spot just change over the folders and start again.

But sadly, once the world gen is finished you can't continue the genning.

[Acperience]

If you want to save the map just copy the save's folder to another location. DF-Saves-Region X. Copy and paste it to somewhere like my documents. Once it's backed up you can play on the origional and then if you want to start again on the same embark spot just change over the folders and start again.

But sadly, once the world gen is finished you can't continue the genning.

the world gen parameters are usually saved in the main directory as a .txt file.

you can tack on a few years to the gen cycle and use the same seeds and it probably won't affect geography 

[kotekzot]

You can export worldgen parameters in legends mode. Check the wiki.

[JAFANZ]

The world gen params, history, sites & population, & map(s) are only saved in the main game folder if you hit "p" to export them at the end of world gen.

To get the world gen params (including seed numbers, which is the main bit you need) most people do something in "Legends" mode, but I don't know what 'cos I've never done, instead what I do is (in an existing fortress), use "Esc" to access the menu to export an image/map of a level of my fortress/embark, when this is done, the world gen data is also exported.

Once the world gen data has been exported, you want to paste the contents of the file (less the first line) into your main world gen parameters file which is found by opening "<main game dir>\data\init\world_gen.txt".

I hope that helps & wasn't excessively insulting (I generally try to give complete instructions because I don't know how much any given reader is going to already know, & not just the OP but anyone who comes along later looking for the info).