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Hahaha damn, i love how DF totally colors your idea of what you'll find if you ever go digging somewhere. I know absolutely nothing about geology yet i'd prolly totally go into a lecture about whats in the ground and everyone would listen and believe. You know if i was rich i'd buy a hill then totally hollow the thing out and make it a house--is that legal? or would everyone try to stop me?(goblins/police same thing!).

I'm totally for more creatures regardless of how original they are, as long as their extremely hostile or useful to my dwarves(or they can be extremely useful and hostile like GCS's!).

Carps were dangerous because they'd always pull your dwarves into the damn water where they would drown regardless of how they fought. Hell i know i'll prolly go through the raws and mess around with all of the races birth rates and life spans so if any of them let me down i atleast wont have to worry about them dieing off before i get there and them getting slaughtered off the map without a fight.

Those of you with modding talent be sure to mod in like 600 more critters that breed like rabbits and live to kill dwarves, i wonder if your in an evil area will their be undead in the underworld? Haha capturing entire sieges of orcs only to release them into the underworld to get torn apart by the undead ravening horrors, it will take some work but you could funnel the entrances/exits ensuring theres no peaceful running off the edge of the map.

Its going to be so fun exploring and building up an army purely to be fodder for the underground monsters--i really hope building destroyer got spread around because i dont want a mere door blocking the horrors. I hope they have long life spans and breed alot because i dont want a recreation of current chasms/bottomless pits where everything dies before you've even dug out the dining hall.

Can you imagine one of the critters killing every other creature then breeding like mad? haha your 5 man hammerdwarf squad turns the corner to meet 120 cavespider men.

I tried setting the erosion thing to super high and got alot of good results but all my maps were friggin grand canyons haha. I went from 800 to 2 and got some nice locations that werent horrible to work with.

I just made a 129x129 world with all the variances at 1600(the important ones), 200 volcanos, removed ocean regions and increased desert regions. I have 4 spots that are 4x4 or smaller with HFS/magma/sand/bottomless pit/chasm/water source so the key is smaller maps make more areas. The only problem is the goddamn Z level variance--its fucking huge with my dwarves starting like 14 z levels up the side of this tiny mountain but its a small price to pay for an awesome start area.

I now realize what you pay for magma, i revealed one area without magma and gaped at the huge variety of metal and gems then revealed a place with magma to discover i barely had any metal or gems. I might just give up on magma entirely at this rate.