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As far as Iceland goes there is little to no animals that can pose a threat and there is a small patch of forest hidden deep inside. It will probably end being an asylum where there is not much to do...

P.S. There are a lot of whales around tho, and some end up dead on the beaches...

Hello everybody!

I have a great desire to find an embark location with particular layout, but in Masterwork DF. Should I ask here or a separate post in MDF is a better idea?
I have tried using seeds from this thread directly, but results differ from original (my guess is that new races and like change how the world turns out) and there was no similar option in current thread.

Embark specifics and justification if anyone is willing to answer here below

tl;dr - a rich, rather easy embark with cliff

Embark (playable) race - dwarf
Size - 3*3 to 5*5 - big enough to dig around, small enough for decent FPS
Evil/savage - mild condition, but high savegery is ok. I am not that good at repelling attacks from undead, but taming huge animals is cool
Water source - fresh above-surface water with can
Elevation - a 10-15 tiles high elevation near the water source. That should give an overview of the area, and possibility of building ramparts/rooms with direct sunlight (maybe for RP only but still)
Flat land nearby (preferably near water) for cattle pasture with grass
Civilizations - humans/elves/gnomes/dwarves mandatory (so that caravans come), rest is less important. Invasion should occur now and then (this is a great place after all, so everyone should want a piece of it)
Temperature - warm (seasons as they should be - cold in winter, warm in summer, defrosting & freezing of open pools in spring/autumn)
Trees - mid or more dence (preffered) at least on 3 tiles of embark. These dwarves should have been smart enough not to settle in place with no logs for beds or giant corkscrews export options
Metals/flux/soil/clay/sand - all present, multiple,deep. The embark is supposed to be self-sufficient, prospected by forerunners of current expedition (not necessarily a fort reclaim, think expedition here)
Wildlife - abundant, something to tame, tho I have high hopes for elven traders in regard to pets.

Deemed unrealistic
Waterfall would be great, but likely it is too much
Volcano is also a great thing to have, but I would be surprized to find it with all the requirements above. Can it be manually added and used instead of elevatеd cliff?

Thank you for you time and answers!

Does magma flow follow anastomosis (joints of vessels) principle?
I made an experiment, in which it did not, but I want to make sure.

Let`s say that we have a volcano, and an empty cistern , connected with it by the bottom tube (picture below).

**VVVV***********
**VVVV***xx******
**VVVV***xx******
**VVVV***xx******
**VVVV***xx******  <-- will this and further up levels of cisternfill?
**VVVVxxxxxxx*****
**VVVV***********

* - earth
V - volcano with magma
x - dug out earth (tube + cistern)

Is it possible the in some time or with some condition lava will flow upwards?
The whole idea is about transferring a portion of lava from volcano to aqueduct for future fill of magma moats, magma forges and traps.

thank you for replies, I think it covers all my concerns. As of question two, it was about giant joining fort as a soldier in the tales of Nist Akath, but I guess it was a hoax for storytelling sake.

vjek, running this worldgen in Masterwork Dwarf Fortress (v2h) gave me different, but still interesting result. The number of squares that fit search criteria is way over twenty (if not times more), so I will will look them over with prospect at least (plenty of volcanoes!) .
No Raw adamantine whatsoever so far though, which contradicts with Wiki saying that adamantine must be generated on 3x3 embark, and I checked 16x16 ones.

Could you point out, what was the most vital for such map configuration (high elevation/low elevation extremes)? Short erosion cycle?

Also, built-in search shows no flux, dispite a great deal being there according do prospect, but this should probably be said in other thread.

I would say 5x5, as I ran some fortresses earlier, and it was fine with up to 200 dwarfs with no screw pumps.

As of the river and peak - a peak I am looking for is about 15-20 squares circle at the bottom, reducing by 1-2 squares to the top, going up about 7-10 levels or more (a cone of sort). I managed to get some of these, but not the whole bunch together.
A way cooler option (my guess - also rare) a mountain/hill (about 50-70 squares at the bottom - less ok, bigger probably will be an issue design-wise) over the river, with river running some distance underground. I have seen some places like that, mostly when two rivers meet, but sadly with no savagery of needed level. Then a fortress can sit atop the mount, with walls circling it, a cool entrance directly into the side and the whole nine yards.

Nevertheless, if the river is not solely by the side or corner of the embark, it would be good too.

The idea is a tower overlooking a valley, with a bunch of bridges over the river (this is why brook is not that fun, anyone can cross it, so why pay taxes?). If a boook can be made into a river by channeling that would work too (have not researched the matter yet, just got the idea)

Edit:

If an embark is on a mountain, one can build Minas Tirith

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Fewer levels of peak seems also to work out.