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titans are not generated per region, they have their own variable number. To get more megabeasts simply up the megabeast cave count. however if you set this to high your not likely to advance in ages

while its true you do not need to use volcanism meshes to to achieve max volcanoes it will reduce headaches in getting there and also it will better allow volcanism next to sedimentary which is the real tricky part.

hmmm i have armadillo men on my map...

Game FPS will not affect miner death. its just the "max number of calculations" that can be done in a second. graphical fps there is no point in setting it higher than your monitor's refresh rate.

its a bit exploity but what i do is use the bridge breach method to get inside a magma tube from below the top level.

o.......
^bbb
o.....
o

o is the obsidian, b is the bridge and ^ is a channel ... are floor tiles

if i have drawn this right then you have your main floor underneath it a tunnel with a bridge and below it another tunnel.
you block off access to the bridge layer and order your miners to channel the obsidian directly next to the bridge. the miner will then do this from beneath the bridge. the magma will then ruish over the bridge but not through it allowing your miner ample time to escape even if the bridge is not magma safe.


EDIT: and yup magma mist can be nasty

Mainstream: You're the guy that was foretold in the prophecies that will save the world!
DF: You're a common person that suddenly pulled off a global genocide. Or at least a local elven one.

fixed

do you have a well that breaches the caverns?

No problem dude. NEXT VICTIM!

your a bit nuts trying to make an embark over 1: such a stupidly large place and 2: such a stupidly large space including ocean tiles. ocean tiles love to kill processors with the wave simulation. any ways the reason why it is crashing is likely do to the fact that as a 32 bit application that embark would require more than 2 GB of RAM. you might want to look up the Large Address Aware patch which will allow it to use up to 3.5 GB of RAM. Although i think BLurghh's solution is more elegant.

pretty sure what animal populations are present in a region is determined ipso facto in world gen.  for when your actually playing though i think it just pulls from the table of possibilities and will decide which to spawn.