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So i happen to be in the process of making a DF map of the Moon, as if it were terraformed. I have the heightmap and everything, but, in the resize, to maintain its aspect ratio, it would be 257 by 129. stretching it out makes it look ugly, so my first though would be to put some filler northern and southern oceans of a sort. However, I feel that would look silly. Has anyone here encountered a similar problem? (If so, what did you do)

Also, once i finish this thing, anyone interested in me uploading it or something?

Hmm, you should be able to import a 257x129 map without stretching if you set the size before you import. Is that not the case?

Been a while since playing DF and just getting interested again.

Is it possible to load a biome / land-type map into PW?

I can't remember if this is possible. Tried searching and couldn't find any posts about it.

I found this:

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This is not possible out of the box, but someone earlier posted an idea of importing maps as altitude maps, and then copying the text output into the other maps like rainfall etc. In your case, it sounds like too much work. You would have to convert that data to grey scale for each map you wanted to alter.

Great tool, I really love it!

But I got one problem, I generated a Map I really like but I only get 1-2 dwarven civs with only one mountain hall, which would cause problems with migration waves I guess.

Can anyone tell me what I have to take care of to get bigger dwarven civs? Thanks!

Dwarves need neutral non-savage mountain ranges. Make sure you have plenty of mountains in the non-savage zones.

I'm sure I'm asking something thats already been asked before, but I'm trying to create a world where there are lots of volcanoes in the highlands, but not mountainous regions (and especially not in the middle of the ocean).  Tips?  I've been playing around with the cusp settings, but it seems that its hard to narrow in on that elevation without permitting mountainous or ocean volcanoes.

I usually try to put my volcano cusp right near the altitude where mountain meets non-mountain. Is that what you mean? Also, the lower cusp controls whether volcanoes come up from under the sea. You should be able to bottom that out.

All this talk of tracking everything that moves reminds me of when fluids were tracked around. It created a huge amount of data for this one facet of the simulation, enough to impact the games performance significantly. Do contemporary computers have the resources to record every movement that happens in a DF world so that it may be tracked? Are we going to need terabytes of HD space to accommodate this?

I think the idea behind storage is to make the player's time more efficient. You probably need less lye storage once you get a manager and can count on scheduled tasks to be completed. When your only lyemaker wants to take a nap and then go on break when you need soap, it's nice to have it stored up.

Quote from: cephalo on June 17, 2012, 09:11:01 pm

Lye used to be stored in the food stockpile with Misc. Liquids enabled. I can't for the life of me find that option any more.

It's still there - you just need to scroll down to the 2nd page in the middle pane. When Toady did adjust a bunch of the viewscreens to take up the entire window, the Stockpile screen seemingly wasn't one of them.

Ha! Thanks. That never occured to me in the least!

I have a world gen question.

For the tile counts in designating good/evil regions, for a given map size, what exactly is a small, medium or large region?

I'd like to see that configurable actually, maybe even with a cap on the large region size so it isn't always the ocean. Large evil mountain ranges are hard to come by because of that.

Hmm, the dev log makes me think we have hit another plateau of version stability. Is it time for a massive, months long fort project?