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One thing I experimented with for a while was to set only one X or Y variation value to max and the other to 0. So something like volcanism X 3200 Y 0, and then elevation X 0 Y 3200. Then same thing with rainfall and drainage. The idea was that by doing this I could specifically bias the map generation to form intersections of regions that could be spotted from the world map.

Also, to modify that, you want to edit the entities_default.txt Each civilization has starting biome tokens, and you can just change dwarves's to be the same as Goblins (which spawn nearly anywhere) for a quick and dirty edit.

I just wish you could stack the PSVs onto world generation... Apply custom map tiles only to one part of the map, rather than it being all or nothing.

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Voting 2, potentially along with providing the save for bystanders to debug. The more eyes combing over this, the higher the odds of diagnosing and fixing the inevitable hiccups. Actual eyes with some kind of comb-like appendage may be involved.

Insanity can always easily fit into any given fortress.

Poonoki cancels joke: interrupted by swear filter.

If we go back to the OG SMB manual, I recall backstory being given about Bowser imprisoning all the Toads into bricks, and that's why Mario gets coins (gratitute) out of them when they break, which frees the Toads. So clearly some kind of conversion of migrants into building materials is ideal. We have the technology. We can rebuild them. Fastened to the floor. Stronger. Better for making some kind of stupid art project.

Bones being what they are, it's best to severely and thoroughly mangle those involved. Plastering the vicinity in migrant-salsa is the goal then. Since they can't be assigned labors or simply drafted, if I interpret the reports correctly, burrows and stationing won't work either.

I would love to make a deathtrap properly, but being unable to shepherd them like unwanted dwarves usually could be is a wrench in the gears. I actually drew up schematics for a lever and pressure plate hallway fork, relying on pathfinding exploitation plus an attached drawbridge, to fling the migrants up into the air in order to go splat. Another idea was simply a giant thresher made of impulse ramps in a circle with a door on either side, and use of burrowing could send all unwanted slobs into the lead-minecart-carrying-boulders meatgrinder.

I think the thresher idea will work if you designate a tavern on the other end of it and keep all the actual productive members of society locked inside in a burrow, so all outsiders would march into the minecart murder donut on their way towards The Baited Idiot's Bar & Gulag. I'll happily design deathtraps, but I need to know how these wonky broken migrants work.

God I wish that metallization worked. Imagine vermin getting into the food stockpile, killed off, and then being melted down into usable bars. Throwing rats into the smelters for a renewable iron supply. Or alternatively, the most literal source of Pig Iron ever. Hamzo Steel: This bacon has been folded over a thousand times.