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This seems like a difficult question because the two modes are like two different types of games. I mean one is kind of like RTS, the other is turn based. In one you walk around and kill stuff, in the other it's resource management etc. It's like comparing a 1st person shooter to a RTS game or something.

Don't know if a mist generator will compensate for a lack of bedrooms, but if not you can create some pretty opulent 1x2 or 1x3 bedrooms if you throw a gold cabinet in them. Maybe even 1x1 bedrooms would be good enough. Not sure how well extremely fancy dorm rooms work but since not all dwarves sleep at once you can get by with fewer beds.

You guys think too hard. I create squads of all archers, and squads of all axedwarvres, stick them in a danger room for a while, and they kick everything's ass after that.

Actually I don't even bother to force the axe guys to use axes. I just leave them set to "individual choice, ranged" and most of them end up using axes because I make lots of axes and most recruits have no weapon skill to make them want to pick anything else. Sometimes 1 or 2 per squad end up with some other weapon but as long as they have better skill with that weapon then who cares.

I do make everyone wear a breastplate, at least one mail shirt under that, mail leggings, a cloak, and greaves. That's about the limit of my customization.

Did you try rebooting just in case system memory got corrupted or something?

I created a world with history ending at year 2. Kobolds still around. An ambush comes along and they immediately start laying eggs in my nest boxes.

Try creating a pocket world with 10,000 megabeasts. I did that a while back thinking that maybe this would cause my fort to get attacked by lots of megabeasts, which it didn't really, and then later abandoned the fort.

So I decide to try out adventure mode in this world and I could barely walk 2 tiles in any direction without stumbling upon a lair of some sort.

I manage to track down my old fort and scavenge an adamantine battle axe or two, and I go around kicking ass for a while until I decide to actually check out one of the lairs.

Well, I walk into the first random lair and turns out it had like 10 dragons in it. Amazingly I managed to kill maybe 6 or 7 of them (no doubt the adamantine battle axe helped quite a bit) but finally one of the remaining dragons managed to bite me in half.

So if you're feeling a bit lacking in megabeasts, try creating a pocket world with 10,000 of them. They'll have some serious population density and housing problems, adding to the fun. Never knew dragons could be so chummy.

You can get a parameter set generating utility called Perfect World that will make it easier to paint biomes. Actually it might help with some other stuff too, but I usually just set params so I seldom use that tool.

I guess the point is moot, but I genned a new world and that seemed to fix the problem. I figure it must have been related to having a pocket world with unusual amounts of megabeasts and civs.