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Orc mod.

Yes, gen a new world.

That really doesn't answer my first question.

... and... this is the "Mode" forum, not the "Modding" forum...
Shoot.

Quote from: MoatMan on June 16, 2009, 12:32:05 pm

By suitable of course I mean it has a magma pipe, flux stone, bauxite, sand, a sedimentary section, a water source, and relatively steep slopes within three tiles with most of these features being within the slope. With allot of practice and forum surfing I can find these with some effort but they never have enough trees. hence this query.

Still I guess my question has already been answered and perhaps I should take this to a world generation thread.

How about Dathaecomo?  A 4x6 area has everything on your list (with the exception of a magma pool instead of pipe), plus HFS and both an underground river and pool.  You can trim it down to 3x5 if you don't mind losing the underground river and the HFS.

You can check out Bridgeslaughters, the fort I made on that site, if you want a better look around.  Even after the better part of an in-game decade, I still haven't managed to use all the Magnetite I've found

  I'm on an old mac laptop so I really only go up to 3x4 with a 36 population cap but I really appreciate the submission.

Areas with high volcanism and high elevation adjacent to areas with low volcanism and lower elevation should do the trick, given appropriate rainfall and drainage.  You could increase the variance on volcanism and elevation, which should help.  Also make the number of rivers as high as possible, and use minimums for number of forest squares to reject worlds without many trees.

But I've given up on random generation and just use the world painter now.  Paint tiles of 95 volcanism and 320 elevation alternating with adjacent tiles of 0 volcanism, 150 elevation, 90 rainfall, 10 drainage, normal or warm temperature.

Thanks for the tip.
My elevation variance is jacked up pretty high  and rivers are at max, but I'm not sure my volcanism variance and forest square min is what it should be.

Thanks as well for the painting tip. I was considering it if this didn't work out but its always daunting to try a new aspect of DF without any knowledge.

Quote from: loopoo on June 15, 2009, 06:36:58 am

Are you trying to do a challenge? Build a fort completely out of wood or...?

that sounds positively elven....

  Or MAYBE some of us are good enough miners to get a metric ton of iron that we'd like to turn into steel and are tired of having to trade with tree huggers to get a couple logs for charcoal. I know I can trade for charcoal but its not enough. Not to mention I have an obsidian short sword fetish (oh shush) AND I'd prefer not to use my iron to make useful things. Like steel.

 Its the same old story really, Man tries to find perfect location and finds perfect location -1. I'm still messing around and seem pretty succesful with the dense forest but whenever I find a suitable place it only borders WOODLAND. This happens consistently.

Anyone know whats going on?

    I've been playing with world generation for a while now and it seems like the higher
the rainfall and the lower the drainage the denser the forest but I'd like to confirm.
    In short how do you generate a world with really dense forest? What determines forest density?

So I looked up Tarn Adams on wikipedia and I was surprised to find he didn't have a page.

So lets make one! I've made a really basic mock up to get the ball rolling but I'm sure there are those far more knowledgeable or stalking Toady One that could add and improve.
I mean I've only listed Dwarf Fortress among games and haven't even mentioned Scamps

So lets get to it.

The .init has an option you can turn off which automatically makes your character in  adventure mode not set off traps but I'm not sure if pressure plates are considered traps.

if you're dead-set on not having idlers, you could set a really low population cap

I used to but I'm more ambitious these days

That'd be nice, if you could set 'do X job immediately whenever available, but do Y job whenever X job is unavailable.'

EXACTLY. As long as the job is halfway useful it doesn't matter what it is AncientEnemy. People have already suggested it but Tarn says it was a pain in the ass so he put it on the back burner.