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[tommy521]

What is an ideal embark to you? Does it have to have many layers of soil for easy storage? Do you prefer mountains of hard rock? Does it need a river, a volcano, an ocean? What areas do you prefer, and why? (Basically a little discussion on what really "chooses" an embark for you)

Personally, I prefer tall mountains where I feel like a classic "mountain home". A river is preferred, but I can do without. A few trees at the bottom is always good, but is also not needed.

[Loud Whispers]

Desert. Just 'cus it's completely flat, and it means I have to build my own mountain (I don't allow digging for anything but quarrying).

My two favourite fort's arose from deserts, one with a beautiful and bloodied Colosseum (overrun with wild giant badgers) and one which bordered on a savage scorching biome and a haunted scorching biome. That was INCREDIBLY !FUN!, literally every day something was nommin' a dwarf.

[Biag]

My favorite embarks are split by massive rivers, preferably with a waterfall or two in there. My absolute ideal embark would have a huge river (20+ tiles) running through the bottom of a desert gorge, with metals for bronzemaking easily accessible near the surface.

[Mitchewawa]

Terrifying volcano'd, oceanic, half desert, half savanna, flux, iron, the first 2 levels being dirt.

I havn't found an embark like this. I've gotten close; half terrifying ocean, half untamed forest. I even managed to capture a Zombie Whale!

[Khenal]

I like flat, heavily forested embarks with lots of stuff for steel.  Not too terribly hard to find, guess I'm easy to please.

[Specter513]

My favorite embark involved a mountain at the bottom, leading up into a river valley.

It allowed for plenty of hunting, traps, and fishing.

[King DZA]

lots of metals, and flux is always nice. Other than that, as long as it doesn't have an aquifer two z-levels down that covers the entirety of the embark area, I'm good with it.

[krisslanza]

I like flat embarks the best, and thats mainly what I look for - and shallow metals. I would prefer having copper/tin, iron is nice but not required with those two (for me anyway, makes iron seem more valuable if you're not swimming in it).

Although lately I've been trying to find kaolinite, just because I want to try making a bunch of porcelain.

[Cyprinus]

Plenty of metals, especially iron ores, along with flux. I like to have a bit of running water on a map that's 2/3 mountain and 1/3 thick forest.

[DrKillPatient]

Freezing tundras spewing violent blizzards! No matter what game I'm in I always take a liking to severe weather conditions, especially snow. So pristine, yet also dangerous. Plus, it serves my mild OCD well by making the map all one color. Sometimes I go to tropical areas for the more dangerous wildlife (with plans of training them into war animals), but I've recently modded in snow leopards, sabre-toothed tigers and mammoths as alternatives to their tropical brethren, so I haven't left the frigid climates recently.

I like to have iron ores and flux (and bituminous coal/lignite, although I don't strictly require it because it's oddly rare-- also, why isn't there Anthracite!). I tend toward flat areas (for towers) or areas with a sheer cliff face against a flat plane (into which I dig my fortress).

[ullrich]

As many biomes as I can fit into a 4x4 embark with:
-warm or higher temperature
-volcano & river (having lake/ocean as well being a +)
-flat surface & caverns
-cavern water source
-sand & clay
-flux & iron
-2 layers of dirt (1 layer for undergound green house for surface plants, 1 layer for cavern plants)
-evil forest with phantom spiders
-human, elf, and golblin civs all present

I've had an embark pretty close too this once, but because of modding the world was corrupt and needed to be purged, having a flat embark and dirt is porbably the most important thing to me, since if need be I can use tools to add magma and water as needed.

[i2amroy]

My embarks need to have a river/stream and no aquifers. I usually go 4x4, though every once in a while I go 5x5 (so much space!). Height-wise I prefer to at least have a little bit of hilliness to build my fortress entrance into, though I am cool all of the way up to huge mountains. I also like to have at least one layer of soil to grow crops in.

[jamesadelong]

Flat, with a river one or two Z levels down, for the sole purpose of having dozens of little bridges running backwards and forwards across the gap. If theres a waterfall, I like to use it as a shower in front of the meeting hall. Power is easy, as is defence. Metal isn't so large an issue, although, if my civ has no access to precious metals, James is a little sad.

[Deus Machina]

Mine current one has a couple very low hills on the east side, with a plateaued mountain taking up most of the west. The first half-dozen Z-levels of mountain are split between stone and sand, and the stone is swimming with iron.

Found it speckled all the way down to the third cavern, too, but am unaware of any major deposits except the ones I've been building the fort in.
Not as much, but a few good pockets of marble.

If I could find coal, it would be perfect.

[Newbunkle]

I like to play different things, but I prefer it to be as flat as possible. I hate trying to follow combat occuring across z-levels. If I do have a mountain, it's usually on one side with plenty of flat space elsewhere.