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I try (usually in vain) to find an area with [all my desired map features] and non-major evil/ terrifying spawns (since I haven't been able to find any elephants since 2d...) - I'm looking for were/creature/men, not hordes of undead.
I bring along (I used to bring 4x miners to get underground quick, but dropped it to 3 dedicated miners):
3x miner 5 with various other personality or medical skills
4x axe-user 5 with:
 1x stone-crafter 5
 1x carpenter 5
 1x mason 5
 1x woodcutter 5

3 picks, 4 axes
Load up on a bunch of booze and 1 of as much of the cheap meat as I can get (for extra barrels)
Get some economic stones if I can afford them to satisfy moods
Anything left over, animals.
Set my stone-crafter to non-stop stone crafts so I can trade for food from the 1st caravan and mason to non-stop doors/ tables etc, carpenter and wood-cutter (after building 8 beds) to accomplish anything else I may need until the 1st wave of immigrants arrive while the miners mine for eternity.

How do you all do it??
Whatever I am doing it messes everything up. I usually wind up building on a aquifer scary level (non-undead) I usually wind up stuck above an aquifer (it does not matter if I encounter an aquifer, I still encounter the same pathfidnig bugs) and am forced to dig out a couple of non-stone levels before engineering a drop since freezing does not seem viable anyomre to pass the aquifers - but even before all of the aquifers, all pathfinding is destroyed.  _ before this I usually have a 3 wide ramped path going down 3 - 5 levels before expanding into rooms and long hallways and the stupid dwarves can not find anything even when messing with all types of warrens and none -

This is the same on non-mountainous maps as well?

When I have graphics = on (no other options different in init) I crash when selecting any of the first start screen options.
Works fine with graphics off.

bug report re: apartments & building manager office

It looks like an unlocked building manager's office is getting generated in the same location on every floor.


And while I am at it, I would like to add one more "at least give us secondary item slots!" to that side of public opinion.

World gen always seems to go reasonably fast for me, but this would be something majorly cool - maybe only some one-on-one fights or something. It would definitely make world generation more interesting if we were able to witness some of the fights - Maybe these represent the tales we have been told (only we get to actually see whatever it is that generated the story) by our grandparents or somesuch. Plus whatever other goodness we could witness - maybe the leader of some site submitting to his conqueror. This is definitely not necessary and I would much rather have some new features I can actually interact or be affected by myself, but it would still be very cool.

swarms of undead, magma, underground water, iron & flux & sand - everything else is optional ..... so where are the seeds of all these crazy locations that people are posting about?

this is what I am playing now:

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this is a 4x6 - but can be a 4x5
It has a magma tube, cave river, chasm, tons of iron & flux, other metals, werewolves, ice wolves & musk ox herds, - no aquifer, no demons, no sand, no vegetation

I have been searching for some extreme cliffs against the ocean (I need to build on cliffs!! flat ground sucks) after searching up and down a bunch of coastlines I did find one that had 4-5 level cliffs and the waves lapping right up on it - but I abandoned it pretty quickly for some reason