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If you think about it, simulating a spreading fire has some potentially unwanted consequences that would be tricky to handle. For example, if the game let you start a fire and burn down a whole forest region, it would have to realize and store exponentially more territory than it would if it was just a player walking around.

I suppose you could mark a forest tile as 'burned down' and procedurally generate it that way instead of the normal way, but then you have to decide whether to kill off all the populations in there and whether their burned bodies would be lying around. It would be a very complex system just for completeness sake of correct fire simulation.

Does he have a goblin name or a dwarf name?

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Nobody wants to play without good and evil in the world I think.

I despise both good and evil areas. They are gaudy, cartoonish eyesores with fairly limiting (less variable), unimaginative content.
The fact that that's not at all how good and evil actually work doesn't help, either. I'm an adult, who signed up to play a dark, sophisticated game. Not to watch a disney movie.

But yes, if you like them, that's true - you can just set it to zero for large areas only.

I think there's a lot of fun stuff in those regions. Good areas have some rare creatures that you can craft with. It's fun to decorate your weapons with unicorn horn, or watch waves of mountain gnomes try to guzzle your alcohol.

Evil regions are definitely a challenge in most cases. I'm not masochistic enough to build a fort there, but they make for interesting decisions in adventure mode when you target happens to be hiding in one, or if you want to risk crossing it quickly or go the long way around.

Make crowns wearable.

If you really wanna get specific requirements in your world genning, check my sig.

What exactly do you mean by 'dried up' oceans? Do you mean evil oceans?

I would love to see toady fix the "claims to be married but has no spouse in the fortress" issue.

Who says two vampires cant get married? Even better if they keep each other's secrets.

Throw in some vampire toddlers, and you have the makings of some real fortress fun.

Are you sure that's not possible? I think it's just unlikely. They get married before they become vampires. In my case the vampire's spouse was a real histfig who died a hundred years ago. I only know that by cheating with legends mode though.

Rather than just lock them in a small room you could lock them in an office and make them bookkeeper/manager. I've even just had the idea to give them a pickaxe and have them make their own mini fort and train up skills like mason and weaponsmith to get an immortal legendary craftsman or something.

That's an idea. Just have the fort revolve around them. Migrants are just food.

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You need to install a new migrant drowining chamber. Then deal with those that don't start drowning when submerged in water.

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Also, vampires never eat, or drink. If you fear water, you can also subject all new migrants to a period of fasting. Then deal with those that don't get hungry or thirsty. All you need is a room with a door, you can use this method very early.

Like everything else, it's all about the proper infrastructure. Good tips! I haven't played in a while. This was my first vampire...