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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: How the hell do we choose a good starting location?
« on: January 25, 2008, 01:10:00 am »
your going to have a hell of a time finding a flat map with admantium, magma, a river AND stone because you only find admantium (as stated before) in mountanus regions, if your looking for a flat map tab to the cliff mode thingy and look for all 0's use regional prospecter for magma/water and on a flat map your gonna get at lest 2 levels of soil, so your going to have to dig down to find stone (can be problematic with an aquifer) so your either going to have to live with it or find a mountainus region with limestone, so you can dig straight into the mountain and only have you farms below ground (in a soil layer look for trees theres always soil below them0 while in the limestone you can find ore,coal and limestone is flux. that is the best your going to get. you can also have it all on one layer and have magma... look for surface magma in the mountains, you dig in 2-3 Z levels below it in the limestone and you still get the magma. (it works well if you only have small cliffs). you will have to make do about water unless you look for a river down below the mountains above where you'll be farming.