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Hey everyone! I've been playing dwarf fortress for the past couple months, but have really gotten into it the past few weeks. I have tried to set up many fortresses, but i continue to run into a problem. Every time my population gets up to about 30 or 40 I start having issues. Mostly, I just run out of jobs for my dorfs to do. I always end up having roughly one fourth of my dorfs being a farmer profession and I never have enough seeds to keep a constant stream of planting and harvesting going. I end up having 15 or 20 ish dorfs just standing around doing nothing. Also, I sill sometimes run out of food what seems like in a matter of seconds. I will have a stock of 800, but when 15 new migrants all show up at once the stock is reduced to 80. I'm not really sure what I should be doing differently. So, if the veterans of DF could give me some tips, tricks, or mayhaps a guide, it would be greatly appreciated.

Hey everybody!  I want to create a world for adventuring/making a fortress. I have been messing with the advanced parameters of world gen and just don't get it. I want to create a world that has lots of cities and towns for all the races (dwarves, elves and humans), but i also want there to be some parts of the map that are evil with goblin fortresses and such.  Also some megabeasts and titans would be nice too. I have no idea if this is possible at all but would like to know more about it.  Any information is appreciated.
~Phog