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Quote from: TherionChilde on September 09, 2014, 01:46:23 pm

Evil worlds and non-breeding dwarves.

You can't edit the randomly generated effects, but you can disable them and create your own. There are options in the advanced world generator to set the amount of randomly generated rains, clouds, and many other things. Setting them to zero will disable them, while still using the player created ones.

Civs can be prevented from spawning in a few ways. Go into the file called entity_default.txt, that's where all of the entities are. You could outright delete non-dwarven raws, but it may be easier to instead remove certain tokens that control where the civs spawn or what site types they like, what their populations are, or what creature belongs to the civ.

Necromancers are a bit more difficult, as towers aren't controllable in the raws. You could make more necromancer secrets, and give them more spheres that just death so that more gods can grant that blessing though.

To help you figure out how to make the weather and necromancer interactions, check out the folder within the raw folder called 'interaction examples', which has files to show you how to make things such as were-creatures, vampires, necromancers, and evil weather.

Thanks for the detailed response...While I have many follow-up questions, I understand this is more of a modding issue, so I'll try discussing in another sub-.  Thanks for getting me looking in the right direction. 

Thank you for your swift and direct, if somewhat wit-free response, Witty. 

Zombie-bird horde, this time you're going down!

Well, I deconstructed the Depot and, after another two wagons showed up from off-screen, they all finally left...  Any ideas on the cause of glitch, and/or ways of preventing similar problems in the future?

On a side note; so... much... slag...  and it all smells of human.

15 years into my first 'accessible' fortress and a human caravan has apparently moved in to my trade depot.  The Summer that they arrived, they never finished unpacking, so no trading during the whole season they stank up my halls with their Stetson cologne.  Then, after I hear 'the blahbleh have begun their journey...'  ...well, they didn't.  Fall's almost over, and these scrawny half-wits won't pack up their little shanty town and leave.  Worse still, I KNOW they brought booze and they're not sharing.  Any advice for getting rid of the freeloaders, or should I just wall off the trade depot and build a new one while these hairless chimps go all kinds of Donner Party in my former entryway?

First, if you want to avoid this hassle entirely, use dfhack.  You can type "prospect" while on the embark screen and it will tell you approximately what is going on geologically and otherwise.

*FACEPALM*
I use dfhack constantly, and never knew abt this function.  Brucemo, you're my hero... 

Danke for the information, brothers.  A couple of re:'s

2) Search my posts on this forum - I've responded to that fully in the past week.

Thanks, I am perusing your post listings right now.

Basically, alter the volcanism weights to something like 10-1-1-1-1 or something to get low volcanism widespread but still have volcanoes. Editing it to something like 10-5-3-2-1 would add more variety into the world, which will help with more variety of minerals/stones in any embark (I think). Make sure to keep the X/Y variance fairly low for this to work, though. If you want higher variance, you need to set the absolute volcanism maximum to something lower than 100, but this will preclude volcanoes, if you care.

I'm fairly good at affecting volcanism and igneous layers, what I was hoping for was a bit more info on mutability between metamorphic / sedimentary layers, and if there were any filters / parameters to directly or indirectly affect their spread on a map.  Good volcano pointers, tho; I'm sure I'll use them when I feel like fiddling with a volcano map.

3) Reduce starting points, jack up savagery, jack up megabeasts/titans/werewolf curses/secret books/vampire curses/etc, increase evil biomes to be everpresent almost, but I don't know how you've played a fortress for 250 years without need of a military, or how you even managed that period.

Haven't tried starting points, good on the rest, was looking for any more subtle options that could influence variety of threats.  As far as my bicentennial fortress, it's from 31.25, small embark (to help FPS) on a peaceful island w/ no connected civs other than dwarf; pump up the allowable ratio of children to 500:1000 and bury civ underground immediately.  pierce caverns and re-seal to gain underground flora, and grate a well from above-ground river.  Then, just cull dwarfs when FPS diminishes.  It was my testing ground for anything that I wanted to work into another map--  make functional alterations, test their effect long term, and tweak build schemata until they work as anticipated.  Actually, I've been playing for almost 2 years and have never been in an organized combat situation in DF on any of my maps; I've just kinda 'sim-city'ed my fortresses and scurried away from battle.  That's kinda why I'm looking for diverse ways to enhance gameplay outside of pacifist civ-building.

4) play around with the controls, then go into legends, export maps to check how things are. I've noted a bunch of stuff lately about this. There's just so much balancing to go through to get things how you like them, the only way is to spend hours experimenting for yourself really. There's the worldgen cookbook thread that should help a lot...

Adding 'worldgen cookbook' to tabs for perusal.  ...my keyword searches didn't turn up any of this.  Thx for directing me to centralized boards.

1) 1725, is what I use.  LucasUP's Newb World generates using the max metal variety of 500!  I agree with you, TherionChilde, I think it crams out the FLUX space, like ya said.

Yeah, it's a documented problem w/ 0.34.x world gen.  I've gone as low as '1250' and still had fair flux stone dispersal, but have had trouble mapping out the break-off where flux no longer gen's.  Honestly, was hoping to profit from another's experiments and avoid hours gen'ing worlds with decremental mineral values.

I gradually dial back the subregion total, from 5000 to something in the 2000s, until I find a suitable spread for a 33x33 world.  This removes my dependence on the automated filter.

I'll give that a try, thx.

What I find most fun in fortress play, is if I stay in the Age of Myth forever.  Jack Semimegabeasts up through the roof.  And if ya like the cloak and dagger game, increase the non-mountain caves.  On that note, I'll mention, I don't care for 'these' stealth parameters, as I never see my dorfs improving their Observation skills...  So they cannot keep up with the Kobold advancement trend.  I keep my caves, like I keep my Undead on 0.  The best way I find to spice things up in Fortress mode is to place Goblins in the second place, in the Neighbors list, and try and get a Civ, if more than one Dorf Civ exists, that is in WAR with either Goblins or Elves.  That is how I spice it up faster, without experiencing a CSI:Armok crushing, and wondering how I failed.

Om nom nom nom...  Delicious knowledges.  I'll try out the non-mountain caves.  War and sieges I'll probably get to, but only after I've had a few skirmishes...  Yes, my dwarves are cowards, and combat still seems a bit too messy for my violent OCD to control.

I haven't had any problems with this. It essentially goes just under the surface, then horizontally for about 50 blocks, then down a vertical shaft about 30-40 blocks, through water wheels, then into a reservoir (feeds water supply through pressure release) with an overflow. I have spent 30 minutes watching it, and the bottom layer of the reservoir is only 3/4 out of 7 full... 

I wonder how I can use this water other than power, fishing (fish falls 40 blocks down into rock floor, through water wheels, into water supply), and drinking... (that's the cue for someone to chime in  )

Having clean water (which is accomplished via pumping into a cistern) is also essential for hospitals:  w/o clean water for wounds & doc's washing up (also soap, btw)  dwarves will often succumb to infection. 

You will also need a fairly sizable, controllable water supply if you intend to start an obsidian industry.  Build an overflow chamber w/ floodgates at entry and exit points for when/if you channel a water tunnel down to magma for obsidian reactions.

Also moats above or below ground with retractable drawbridges for dumping invaders / enemies into.

And water-based dwarfputing logic-systems if you are industrious and bored.  (check wiki for more)

I think contaminants don't pass through grates, even if you make them retract, but make sure you have enough shoes and only toddlers and pets will be exposed.

So, how can one successfully quarantine such hazardous residues to eliminate probable accidental contamination / infection?  Accepting, of course, that in a game such as DF, probabilities will never reach a zero, and someone's eventually going to contract Evil-Dwarfish-MRSA, what containment procedures have proven successful for anyone?