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I am absolutely terrible at using the advanced parameters so could someone please advise me on how to make a small evil jungle world. Thanks, help is greatly appreciated.

You don't need to change too much.  Put lots of weight on highest rainfall and drainage (necessary for jungle/forests).  Make the mesh for these 16x or 32x I think.  But also give a little bit of weight (maybe 1/10th of that given to highest rainfall) to lowest rainfall so that there will be plains for the humans to settle on.  Without that, it won't be able to gen probably.  Be sure to turn off all params about "minimum x" and so on, since it can be hard to predict what kind of terrain will appear... but you can be pretty sure that you will have lotsa forests/jungles if you do this.

I made some big worlds like this... its kind of interesting for a bit, but the elves basically pwn the whole planet.  THe landscape is dotted with the ruins of human, dwarf and goblin cities, and the massive jungles are just overidden with frigging elf hippie communes.

Maybe there should be a picture of a dwarven groin clad in a granite thong menacing with spikes of alderwood, inlaid in copper and decorated with images of a giant cave swallow killing a dwarf in gibbon leather.  Just the hip area, two thighs, and the artifact thong in all of its glory.

Or maybe better would be a dwarf holding said artifact above his head triumphantly?

So I was walking around on a beach in Adv Mode, and I decided to travel away.  When I went to the world map, I was standing on an ocean tile.  As I tried to move away, I was forced into a random encounter.  As it turned out, it was a shark.  Unfortunately, the shark spawned on dry land very far away from the water.  Oh, and it stood up too.



Anyways, sorry if this is an old bug (surely someone has seen it before)... I couldn't find it by searching the forum though.

Those of us who played adv mode before the Z-level update remember all the fun ruins and the like that used to exist in the world map.

What I proposes is that history begins with a "pre-history" phase that lasts say five hundred years.  At this point, people do not hunt megabeasts, they only worship them.  Human, goblin and kobold sites are dominated by huge pagan temple-like structures (like the ruins from adventure mode in early versions of this game) dedicated to a powerful megabeast.  Then, at some point in history, all of these megabeasts run amok and destroy their own cultic areas (they are not threatened at this point, because no one fights back), leaving behind ruins with weird artwork that hints at the megabeast that used to live be worshipped there.  All history from these civilizations is erased, more or less.  These ruined pre-history cultures supply the world with fun places to explore and loot in adventure mode, and perhaps might contain a sleeping or otherwise dormant megabeast guarding a huge pile of loot.

Then the world is re-seeded with more stable, non-beast-worshipping people who build the regular towns, retreats, fortresses, caves, etc. that we recognize now.  From this point on, history is recorded, and the older destroyed sites are either forgotten or remembered in vague legend.

The point being, I miss those wacky old undead infested pyramids, and would love to see them return in some form that meshes well with the current world-gen system!

...not a f$#!ing ZOMBIE giant!



Does this happen often?

Got what you deserved.  Shoe thief.

I also noticed that if you have good squares set to none, it does not seem to gen evil ones. So set good squares to something like 10 50 100 or something.  Bug?