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This would be a great feature. It's very rare that I care how far away the materials are. I care about how they look and what the finished product is made out of.

Hello,

then i am totally confused.   the PW is medium sized,  But...  works perfectly fine in .06.   

Bit confused with suggestion.  I am going to make a few guesses.  In pw savage tab, 

red = savage,
light green = good
dark green = neutral

and not sure how to count mountains in my map.  right now there are "mountain" zones... surrounded by
desert/plains/water body/etc.  I even created "river channel" in middle of one mountain zone
(therefore what i thought is fourth and fifth zones)... not sure if this count as 1 or two zones.

based on suggestion, I viewed savergy map and noted two mountain zones is not "touched" by red. 
however those same two 'zones without red' shares either light green or dark green.
So clearly I am lost.

HELP...  do i need to attach this file?

R

edit:  I unchecked savergy map and created new world_gen.txt and tried...  getting different result.   keeps on
rejecting regions when it starts trying place civilization.

Keep in mind that savagery is something different than good/evil. The savagery map controls how tough the animals are in the area. It is possible to have a region that is savage and good, or savage and evil. Here's a handy chart http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/40d:Region#Surroundings. Good mountains are yellow, evil mountains are purple. You want white/gray mountains in a non-savage area, that is next to land (not ocean).

You can adjust good/evil in the world gen parameters. The wiki explains how to do that.

Wow, why put up with tantrum spirals and pathfinding oddities when you can make a fine fort and your own masterwork equipment in adventure mode?

All those extra dwarves are usually up to nothing productive anyway.

Hello,

not know if anyone got this problem.  I generated new map using the PW utility for .06  (and run ... play having fun.)

Later i upgraded to .08 and ran new PW instance (using same world_gen that was created by PW), and it pop up error
saying no room for dwarf civilization, need good zones, gave with bunches of options.

Anyone run into this kind of problem with PW created world_gen?

R

Dwarves need neutral alignment, non-savage mountains to settle in. One thing that PW can do sometimes, especially if you use mountain borders, is connect all the mountains to form one really big mountain range. If you have a tile count for large good and evil areas, this one mountain range might become good or evil, which dwarves will not settle in.

Personally, I always use 'zero' large good and evil areas, because I find it too hard to control those. Sometimes you can get away with setting those to 1, but you have to make sure you have three mountain ranges and possibly three oceans if you want to be sure to have neutral mountains and oceans.

Hm, am I the only one whose dwarfs suddendly refuse to eat prepared meals?

(the bug tracker won't let me register for some reason, can't check there, sorry)

Once dwarves have to buy their food, they tend to avoid ones that are valuable. Are they starving themselves before eating them?

Not sure if this is new but when i try to embark somewhere with an aquifer and i get warned about it, if i try to cancel by pressing ESC it just brings me to the menu and i have to abort the whole embark

Actually, that's the only way to back out of that screen then correct?

Got it to work. It was a -windows- bug!!!!


This is how you get the bug:

Change your resolution to 800x600. Reset the computer. No, you don't -have- to, according to windows, but do it anyways.

Try the program. It (should, if my hypothesis is correct) no longer work. Change your windows resolution back to some absurdly high amount. In windows, your resolution is now clearly high again...but -not- in your program!

Reset the computer.

When you try the program again, it should match the windows resolution.

I'm not sure I understand... but it's not my fault yay!

So, a while back you changed your resolution back and forth without restarting, and then later, when you tried PW it was messed up by something you did long before, correct?