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Can you give me a ballpark figure of how much was meant by "large amounts"?

1. I modded my game to hopefully make some (I didn't bother with all of them) mega- and semimegabeasts more common. I did so by slightly increasing the number of generated non-mountainous caves, giving them a littersize tag that wasn't too over the top (like 3:5) and increasing their cluster_number (I went with something like 5:7 for dragons and 12:24 for things like giants).

This has worked well in adventure mode in that in most caves it didn't take long to bump into a giant or minotaur, as there were usually several or even in excess of a dozen of them there. I found that littersize, contrary to what I've read somewhere on this forum, might have been an important factor. Creatures which I remembered giving that tag were far more numerous than the others (there were no or very few ogres, despite having the same cluster_number as giants which turned out to be ubiquitous with my modifications). Of course, this might have also been related to biomes, but I digress.

Now, this has so far had next to no influence on my dwarf mode games. Only once, after embarking in a terrifying biome, was I attacked by over a dozen semimegabeasts right off the bat. Other than that, when I embarked on a cave, there were ettins or giants all right, but I have yet to see roaming mega- or semimegabeasts in a non-evil biome. Is that the problem? Am I screwed if I play on something that's neutral or good?


2. Playing in a freezing environment, I did what appeared to be the obvious way of melting my frozen river: I pumped magma into a channel one level below it. The water melted all right, but froze again mere days (of in-game time) afterward, despite there being a 7/7-deep reservoir of magma below it. What did I do wrong?

if you search the forms, you will find a guide on how to make them breed able *I know I know, my hopes and dreams were smashed on this one as well*

Sorry, but why would this smash your hopes and dreams if it were possible to mod in?

I've always found this table helpful for seeing what can be found where.

Large and small clusters both showing as "C" on that table isn't very helpful. I'm wondering what the fuck the maker was thinking.

Quote from: Christes on December 13, 2009, 11:19:47 pm

Just use burrows. 

Assign you good miners to burrows on ore veins and bad miners to burrows in your future bedroom areas.

Ok, just let me use your time machine.

Maybe he's playing a mod? In which case I guess we're all interested in what that mod is called.

I probably should've just cut out the undesirable stuff and been done with it.

Let me reiterate: that probably wouldn't be enough. I refer you to the following part of my previous post:

2. Change the environment of your most desired minerals to all_stone and their size to cluster.

The second step is important in that it positively makes aluminum or gold or whatever you want as common as microcline. Merely getting rid of the useless minerals might not be enough to give you shitloads of ores, as you might end up with only your "layer" stones and a couple of veins or small clusters of the good stuff.

It might seem like going over the top, but as I said, merely reducing the number of useless stone from the mineral file (or even removing it altogether) doesn't strictly equate to getting more ores. You might merely end up with more andesite, granite, marble or whatever your layer is made of.

tin foil hat dwarf?

To me that sounds more like "social phobic dwarf".

Also, DO NOT toggle them as available. This has nothing to do with training, and all to do with adoption. And, as you have probably found out by yourself that way, adopted pets will not be trained.