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How does one do that? It would help me out immeasurably, as I have a thing for chasms and pits.

I've got a cave-heavy parameter set and I've found a nice little monstrous cave system I'm just dying to invade. Seven trolls, some giant rats and three giants.

My question, however, is; can they reproduce? Or, more broadly, what are the spawning critera for monsters nowadays?

Yep, it's me again. Starting a new thread might be redundant, but...

How can I increase the monster count (not difficulty, mind you) and get invasions with <20 dwarves? I turned off the Babysnatcher tag for Goblins, but I'm not sure if that's enough...

I crave violence! Help me, compatriots! Losing is fun and I want to LOSE!

Sincerely,

-A Bloodthirsty Kamikaze Dwarf

Found it and removed the babysnatcher tag - saved a copy of the original in case I need to reset.

Now that that's out of the way (and my current worldgen settings get me a decent amount of glaciers), how do I crank up the savagery without the game imploding during the legends-phase?

Alrighty, that helps. Can I alter these after starting/having saved the game (as you can with the .init changes)?

The goblin thing sounds promising, since I'm going for quantity more than anything else.

That said, I fiddled with the mapgen a bit and lo and behold - a beachside glacier with a frozen volcano!

How do I alter the goblin AI (delete the "babysnatcher" tag)? I don't remember seeing it in the .init file.

First-time poster, recent addict. And I do mean addict.

I'll come out and say it, I find parts of the game too easy. I've burned through way too many random-generated worlds trying to find a real challenge, only to quit once the population gets too bloated because defending fortress is no fun when there's nothing to defend against.

I want danger. I want my fortress to be a privelege, not a right.

I want to play Eskimo dwarves on a glacier map, fishing and hunting to survive, fighting off beasts and invaders and maybe even sieges with little more than the bone, leather and loot I took off the last thing I killed, praying for two or three immigrants to get to the fortress alive to replace the newest additions to the graveyard to bring my total population back up towards somewhere under twenty.

I'm not sure how to alter this game. The seed-parameters for custom world generation have some promise, but it's completely unexplained, and the thread on it is a bit thin. I figured out population cap with the .init file, but the massive assaults I want come at the price of a fortress that I can't manage without going insane.

Any help at all - even just how to bank the seeds so I can turn the thermostat way down and the invasions way up - would be thoroughly appreciated.

Thanks in advance, in case anyone decides to offer anything instead of laughing.

Sincerely,

-A Suicidal-Rambo-Eskimo Wannabe