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Rover963

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Embark Site Wanted
« on: October 18, 2012, 09:39:22 pm »
Volcano and sedimentary layers. So, fire, flux, and iron. How the hell do I find this without spending hours searching? What parameters do I use
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Xob Ludosmbax

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Re: Embark Site Wanted
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2012, 10:52:52 pm »
You use DFHack's prospect command from the embark map and advanced worldgen.  I would set it to 250 mineral scarcity, 100 minimum volcanoes, and I think drainage is for sedimentary layers, but I don't remember exactly. 

See also: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=68377.0
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Re: Embark Site Wanted
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2012, 03:28:25 am »
Hi, I have an embark similar to what you seem to be looking for.
I generated this world with Masterwork DF, but it should also work with vanilla. Your minerals may differ, as the mod reduces the amount of different stones.

The volcano is on the top edge in the middle, I used a 4x3 embark field with the volcano in the very left middle tile. This gave me a rather flat site with surface magma, clay and sand.

You should have 6666 embark points left if you don't want to cheat or test stuff.

Insert this in your world_gen.txt:
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pr0d4u

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Re: Embark Site Wanted
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2012, 03:29:16 am »
sorry, world gen too big for 1 post (40k chars max). Here is the rest:

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Rover963

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Re: Embark Site Wanted
« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2012, 11:19:14 am »
Thanks for the help. I was able to get some nice embarks. Fooling around with the world gen, I got a volcano site with clay, an aquifer, shallow and deep metals, and sunberries. But I am mostly seeing tetralame minerals. Is there a way to go back to the ooold style of layer details that the embark screen showed. Instead of it saying shallow metals, it would say what type of layers there were, as well as how many aquifer layers there were.
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Rover963

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Re: Embark Site Wanted
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2012, 11:49:23 am »
Just used dfhack on my embark.. only ores are copper and gold.  :-\
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