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invest in a spellchecker.  Firefox comes with one.

... which it only applies to <textarea> elements, not <input type="text">, like the title.

Anyway, give me a break, it was just a typo.  I fixed it.

Forgive me if this has been suggested before; I didn't see it in a cursory search.

One idea I've had for making the game more dangerous to occasionally have beasts that can tunnel through solid rock - not just destroy constructions.  Suppose a mindless sandworm or rock mole occasionally dug slow, meandering tunnels through the mountain.   If you dug into their tunnel, you might suddenly have a fight with a group of sandworm spawn.   But even better, if they breached the surface occasionally, they could make back-doors into your fortress for megabeasts.

The idea came to me because the only fortress I've lost (aside from a flooding accident) was when one of my exploratory tunnels breached the surface in a remote corner without me realizing it.  (Sloppy mining).    A season later, a bronze colossus walked up.  I closed my drawbridges, and he calmly walked in the heretofore unknown back door and proceeded to slaughter my entire fortress from the inside.

I have a suggestion for the voting system.

Let people spend money on voting!  Every user still gets 3 free votes.  But for each additional $5, you get another vote that counts as 5 votes for that feature.  So you can *really* influence something's priority if you care about it ... but only by supporting the company! 

I bet this would be a fantastic revenue model for Bay 12 games, much better than simply asking for donations from the generous-hearted.   Toady would have a great motivation to work on the most-voted items, because if people see the most-voted items getting developed quickly, they will be much more inclined to spend money on supporting their favorite feature. 

Everyone wins!

That all sounds great except for the "two squares part" -- why not just adjacent squares?  Veins are always contiguous.

Suppose you've dug an exploratory tunnel straight through, bisecting a vein.   This lets you continue to follow the vein across the tunnel, even if you start at another end.

And I actually have seen a few locations where there were disconnects in veins, I think.

Note that vein mining, while super-handy, would also create lovely possibilities for disaster!   If your vein intersects the surface, and you aren't paying attention, you will create an entrance into your fortress for that Bronze Colossus, and you'll never know it!

So, I played my first game until year 6, until I new the interface. 

Now I want to start a new one in a better starting location, so I can expore all the fun stuff the game has to offer.  Specifically, I want a magma pipe so I don't have to keep shutting down and rebooting my whole metal industry every time a coal seam taps out, and I want an underground river so I can grow tower-cap and play with water-driven machinery.  (all with some decent minerals as well).  Unfortunately, I've been totally unable to find  such a location, either with worldgen or with pregen worlds.  I'm wondering what the hell I'm doing wrong.

I've tried almost every single pregenerated world that has these features, and none of them actually have the features they claim to.  (Typical example: I finally find the location, it's definitely the same place on the world map, but the geological layers aren't the same as the entry on the wiki claims.)

I've tried worldgen and search, and usually i generate the world (5-10) minutes, then search it for both lava, underground river, and flux (another 5 minutes), and come up blank ... no hits.   So I've spent 15-20 minutes, find nothing, and start over ... this gets old really fast.

The weirdest thing, honestly, is how the pregen worlds claim to have features but then none of them actually match when I download them.   I'm on the mac version; is it somehow handling the world files differently?

Even the map I played my first game on ("Zaludoram, the future world") claims to have a magma pool on levels 147-150, which I was unable to find even when I completely riddled those levels with tunnels every 3 rows.

I tried tweaking the worldgen parameters to increase the amount of volcanism, hoping to find more sites, but if I changed the volcanism settings at all I couldn't get any worlds to develop successfully - all were rejected, and it would just run for hours trying to make a world.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here?