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Do you have enough bolts stockpiled? I had ~500 bolts in a stockpile, but my archers wouldn't even pick up more ammo. It seems those bolts had been earmarked for use by another non-existant squad, so I had to make more for them to actually start training and shooting again.

Iron is a complete pain in the arse. The only 3 iron ores are exclusively found in sedimentary layers, flux bearing stone. They usually have aquifers as well, and using the finder is not much help since the finder will find marble in pretty much every site (its common as a deep stone layer).

Set drainage to medium, shallow metal to yes or multiple. Then use dfhack to prospect all to scan a biome, if there isn't any try a new area.

Ive done something similar in my world, its pretty easy if you look at the wikis advanced worldgen settings.

Cavern layer is the easiest to set, find this line:

[CAVERN_LAYER_COUNT:3] and change it to [CAVERN_LAYER_COUNT:1]

You now have only one cavern layer. Be warned that you don't always get every single type of cavern tree as a result (there are no nethercaps in my world, I do get bloodthorn though).

To have solid Z levels, find:

[LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_1:<number>] - its probably set to about 5, so set it to: [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_1:25]

This will give you roughly 20-30 z levels of stone+dirt above the first cavern layer for you to build in (it can vary quite a bit depending on location).

If you don't want your candy supplies nerfed, you can increase z levels for [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_4:<number>] and [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_5:<number>] - its not an exact thing but generally if you increase these a bit you make candy spires higher.

To get 80 z levels beneath your cavern and above the magma sea, its probably [LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_4:<number>]  you need to increase.


The wiki explains it all quite well: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Advanced_world_generation#Cavern_Layer_Number

the nearly constant "Clean Self" generates so many soapy bath happy thoughts Im hesitant to use it.

Do it. Dfhack clean the map, watch your dwarves tantrum and slaughter each other. Fresh blood for the blood god.

Im not sure I've ever really had a disaster. I either have a horrifically under trained or under equipped (or both) army of useless peasants that die nearly instantly, or a squad of uber godlike unkillable siege breakers.

Actually I can recall an instance where I sent a squad of 5 legendary masterwork clad steel axedwarves to face off a forgotton beast. It was a forlorn hope though and I knew it, as it had a rotting dust syndrome. Every single one of them rotted to death in the caverns, and I had to seal it off and not retrieve their corpses.

Sweet, I had to disable TWBT in 42.06 LNP r1 as it felt quite 'crashy' although I couldn't pin down how or when. With print mode on standard, its been rock solid apart from the aforementioned history details crash.

"I'll release it monday!"

*Releases it almost immediately*

You sly dog. Bravo.

If you aren't seeing megabeasts in DF mode, you need to carefully look at your world gen settings. Long world gens often see all megabeasts go extinct, especially as there are only a handful placed to begin with. Change worldgen stopping at <50% megabeasts dead and maybe edit worldgen to have more megabeast caves.

I can recall a number of forts where I checked legends and there was basically nothing interesting left alive.