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Foul_Soul

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How can I get a spawn like Boatmurdered?
« on: September 17, 2011, 01:57:46 pm »
I love that  spawn point, a bit of ground on the outside but a HUGE hill/mountain etc to dig into without damp stone making me all OCD >.< lol. Plus the river and lava on this inside.

Im just curious is there a place where I can find maps like that for this version of DF? I just started no to long ago so im pretty noob. Ive been looking for that kinda of spawn everywhere on generated maps but I cant seem to find a good one.

Thanks!!
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Re: How can I get a spawn like Boatmurdered?
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2011, 02:01:53 pm »
use a 2d version
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Re: How can I get a spawn like Boatmurdered?
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2011, 02:03:40 pm »
Im sorry im new I dont know what that means =(
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Re: How can I get a spawn like Boatmurdered?
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2011, 02:06:01 pm »
Boatmurdered was played on an older version of DF, 23a I believe. Such sites can no longer be found in modern versions, so if you want what Boatmurdered had, download an older version, such as 0.23.130.23a.

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/older_versions.html A link to download the older versions.
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Re: How can I get a spawn like Boatmurdered?
« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2011, 02:07:23 pm »
Boatmurdered was an older version where everything was genned on one Z-level. If you want to emulate that same kind of embark, you'll need to look for a volcanic tube next to an uneroded cliff with a river as well. I don't think it's going to be easy to do, but you could improvise: use cave water for the river, for instance, or a magma pumpstack to replace the lava tube.

If you really want this, I recommend using PerfectworldDF (google it) to make a map with many volcanos and uncheck the "periodically erode extreme cliffs" button to make sure that your rivers cut deep into the mountains. Check the PerfectworldDF thread to see advice on how to gen rivers beside volcanos.

When embarking, you know you've got a nice flat Boatmurdered exterior if you hit tab to go to the elevation check for embarks and see red asterisks '***' right next to blue zeroes '000'. The asterisks are extremely high cliffs and the zeroes are perfectly flat ground. Hope that you get a volcano/river in that location!

You'll probably have to gen a lot to find what you're looking for. OR just download version .40d and make everything easier for yourself!
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Re: How can I get a spawn like Boatmurdered?
« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2011, 02:10:41 pm »
Thanks alot everybody!!! Appreciate it.
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Re: How can I get a spawn like Boatmurdered?
« Reply #6 on: September 17, 2011, 04:42:32 pm »
.40d wasn't a 2d version...
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Re: How can I get a spawn like Boatmurdered?
« Reply #7 on: September 17, 2011, 05:26:40 pm »
Boatmurdered was pre .40d I think..
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Re: How can I get a spawn like Boatmurdered?
« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2011, 08:27:56 pm »
The latest, most stable version of Dwarf Fortress in 2D is version 0.23.130.23a. Any version newer than that is 3D.
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Re: How can I get a spawn like Boatmurdered?
« Reply #9 on: September 18, 2011, 02:12:36 am »
In addition to turning off cliff erosion:

1) Increase the X and Y variance for elevation, so that there's greater change in elevation over smaller distances.  Also increase the "Maximum Number of Subregions", since this will result in more sub-regions.

2) Turn the elevation frequency mesh to 2x2 in size, then increase the second weight (20% to 40%) and fifth weight (80%-100%) to make it more likely for high elevations to be next to low elevations.

See this wiki page for more details.
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