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[100Rads]

Hello everyone!
I've been playing DF for 2 years, but I've always had problems with the embark. I have genned thousand of worlds and I could never find one with a 4x4 or a 5x5 embark that has:
-a river
-a volcano
-flux
-iron ore
I always get embarks with low amounts of tetrahedrite or low amounts of iron or useful metals, and if I get iron I never get flux.
I was wondering if someone could upload a world with an embark that has everything I listed above.
Thanks in advance!

[slothen]

Flux, flux, flux.
Flux, flux, flux.
Flux, flux, flux.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done.
Nothing you can dig that can't be dug.
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game.
It's easy.

Nothing you can build that can't be built.
Nothing you can forge that can't be forged.
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time.
It's easy.

All you need is flux.
All you need is flux.
All you need is flux, flux.
Flux is all you need.

All you need is flux.
All you need is flux.
All you need is flux, flux.
Flux is all you need.

Nothing you can know that isn't known.
Nothing you can grow that isn't grown.
Nothing you can kill that isn't what you're meant to kill.
It's easy.

All you need is flux.
All you need is flux.
All you need is flux, flux.
Flux is all you need.

All you need is flux (and a volcano!)
All you need is flux. (we want no aquifers!)
All you need is flux, flux.
Flux is all you need (flux is all you need).

And sand!
Oh yeah!
He'll crush you, yeah yeah yeah.
He'll crush you, yeah yeah yeah.

[Sir Crashalot]

Hello everyone!
I've been playing DF for 2 years, but I've always had problems with the embark. I have genned thousand of worlds and I could never find one with a 4x4 or a 5x5 embark that has:
-a river
-a volcano
-flux
-iron ore
I always get embarks with low amounts of tetrahedrite or low amounts of iron or useful metals, and if I get iron I never get flux.
I was wondering if someone could upload a world with an embark that has everything I listed above.
Thanks in advance!

I come across these combos quite regularly, are you using advanced parameters etc?
Check the world gen cookbook as there are a few in there. One of the ones I posted is completely flat with surface magma, 17k Hematite and the tail end of a brook, I could find more easily but I usually search out flat embarks. You could just copy the world gen parameters if you don't like flat embarks as there are many other locations in those worlds with volcanos, rivers, iron and flux. The last two worlds I posted are heavy in good/evil and savage biomes if you like that.

Marble doesn't always show up as flux on the embark screen so just "prospect all" on the location before embarking and you can check for yourself.

Have a look through the last 10 pages or so of that thread to see what others have posted, don't bother going too far back as you will get older versions which wont generate as well.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=101280.570

[TripJack]

perfect embark needs some bituminous coal veins too

[Bloodyharbinger]

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=125365.0
See my thread here. While I like the embark, I will admit it doesn't have everything. It does however meet your requirements.

[joeclark77]

I just found it: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=101280.msg4231703#msg4231703

[EvilBob22]

Nice Beatles reference slothen...

[Sanctume]

here ya go http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=6966

Generated in 34.11

Diverse Metals? Check
Enough iron and flux to build a steel temple to armok? Check
(Or made out of lapis lazuli, apparently, for that matter. I'm not sure what's going on with that)
Wilderness, Haunted, and Joyous Wilds biomes? Check
Substantial candy cane to mine out? Check.
Three cavern layers with water in each one? Check.
All of this in a 3x3 area for those of us with FPS issues? Check.

I know what you're thinking.
"That's not so great. There's no sand or fire clay, or even coal."
How are you going to start war with the elves if you use coal instead of live trees as fuel? And if elves could figure out magma, they'd probably make glass and pottery. This embark isn't about wasting time with green glass windows. This embark is about forging your steel empire to defend yourself against infernal gloom zombies. That's right.

Non-contagious (I think, I didn't see any sort of vapor or dust covering) infernal gloom zombie clouds? Check plus.
Clown car? Check plus.
Volcano? Check plus.

If you're not dwarf enough to dig straight into the caverns, there's a brook to the northwest if you extend to 4x4 and forget about the wilderness biome. You'll still hit the clown car and the nice candy cane. The volcano is anything but flat, but there are some nice flat areas surrounding it for those above-ground fort types. You know who you are. The clouds shouldn't reach the flat, non-evil parts of the map (I think).

[100Rads]

Thanks for the replies. Found a world with lots of flux and iron, a volcano and other important thingies.
The biggest problem I had was that a military with copper armor doesn't stand a chance against goblins with iron/bronze, and smelting goblinite is a pain in the ass.

[Jaredus]

I find that a fairly easy way to handle goblinite is to make sure the orders are set to automatically forbid it, then make sure you set up a garbage dump next to your smelters, then go to your stocks menu, and dump everything that's forbidden. The you just have to unforbid the pile of stuff once it's dropped off.