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Set ore frequency to Everywhere if you do Create New World or set it as low as possible if you Design a  New World with Advanced Parameters.

You too can have ore out the wazoo!

In my own experience, this tends to result in a lot of variety... but not really a lot of quantity. Just my own experience however.

If I ever had the materials, I'd probably use silver or gold in an aboveground construction. That or bauxite, because that blood red looks awesome. The best I ever got was a wall made of bauxite, before an invasion of goblin lashers killed everyone in my aboveground fortress.

There's also the option to pave the roads with gold too. Make a dorfen El Dorado?

There is a difference between sadistic and dwarvenly actions?

Finding out you can't build constructed walls on a constructed floor, AFTER putting the first layer of roofing over my fort's outer walls.  I was so looking forward to murder holes and a garrison to rain death down on invaders .  I guess I could take out select pieces of floor and rebuild them as walls, but I was rather bummed with my finding all the same

Yeah this was pretty sad to find when I make my aboveground towns. It makes the process a bit more time-consuming as I have to either remember to omit the spots for future walls, or just roof it all then remove the floor tiles and then put the walls up.

I could do it, too, I would just need to know how to get the info for shear strength, tensile strength, etc.

This right here is pretty much what is preventing me from trying to mod in new metals into my mod. I thought of doing Cobalt, but I can't seem to find all that info... and then if I try to use magical/mythical metals or something, I'd be going in blind!

I've done a few fortresses long term, but lately I seem to have this thing of playing them for a short time, and abandoning them for some reason. Usually it has to do with looking at the stones and just being disappointed in general (I'm still hoping one day to find some amazing, flat land just loaded with all the ores I could ever want!)

Although I think most of the time it has to do with the layout and design. Considering the amount of time it takes to make an aboveground building (what with that roof and all) I try really hard to minimize wasting space. Yet I want to kind of give it some kind of logical layout.

Then there's farms, with all those random aboveground stone patches that seem to be everywhere. I read in the wiki you can desiginate a pond to muddy tiles, but that seems to only work if you do it over an area that is channeled, which isn't really aboveground anymore (even if it is for game mechanics).

Anyway, long rant short... any suggestions on a layout or something? I'm half-tempted to look at old games or something, see how those towns are laid out or something... I just wish there was an easier way to make a roof, instead of always having to make staircases everywhere to get up there.

Due to some modding in my custom race, I have a much larger variety of animals to pick from embark. My favorite is when I get a civ with access to rhinos and/or elephants however.

I just got one actually - rhinos only - but in my previous embark I did try cave crocodiles. While I did forget to actually unforbidden the eggs, I did notice in my stocks they do crank out an insane number of eggs. Which would you think is actually better to have at embark? I know from experience you can't request them from the caravan.

EDIT:
I forgot an important detail. I modded elephants and rhinos to no longer have problems feeding themselves. They will not starve to death.

I've tried using Runesmith to remove a mood myself, but it seemed to have no effect at all. Does it only work on dwarves? That is, even if you change the race it is modifying, will it actually work?

I tried to un-mood the only thing I had left - the other three were all injured (two since the start of the fort for some reason) - but I couldn't get the mood canceled. In the end he went berserk, and the three all died of thirst. I knew I shouldn't have made that hospital! The only one in there from actual battle only went there once I made it... she was fine going back to duty before I made that darn hospital.