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How does one maximize the availability of Adamantine in World Gen?

[vjek]

How does one maximize the availability of Adamantine in World Gen?

Best answer I know of, in this thread..

[FantasticDorf]

Been reading around, is elevation 103/104 still the preferred "shut-off" for water features like spontanous lakes across desert terrain? Lake/River generation is sort of hampering my highly arid PW generation based off my aquired heightmap Las Vegas, where the emphasis least for map & mod-use would be to use aquifers to outline survivable areas using well-water.

The largest concentrations are occuring inside my mountain-ranges, which is somewhat annoying without feeling like resorting to forcibly elevating the pre-sets, but even still there are splodges across the landscape of individual desert lakes.

[chaotic skies]

I'm looking to make the caverns as interesting to live in as possible. Any ideas on what would be good settings? I know lava tubes are neat, and I'd like some source of water for projects, but otherwise I'm not really sure what settings even affect the caverns.

[☼Obsidian Short Sword☼]

I would like an embark(5x5), That has a tropical-shrubland on the Right side, And a tropical Fresh-water swamp/marsh on the left side. In the center I would like a 15 z-level or higher cliff with a waterfall in the middle. Could you make sure that the waterfall lands on the surface? Because I don't like it when it ends under-ground.

[Garfunkel]

I'm looking to make the caverns as interesting to live in as possible. Any ideas on what would be good settings? I know lava tubes are neat, and I'd like some source of water for projects, but otherwise I'm not really sure what settings even affect the caverns.

You probably want to increase the openness a lot unless you love tight little mazes, in which case you want to go the opposite way.

[Maloy]

How would I specifically increase the number of dragons spawned during world gen?
I know how to increase the general number of beasts in advanced parameters, but I was imagining an adventure mode world where dragon-hunting is a common career rather than them being rare as they are

[Ziusudra]

How would I specifically increase the number of dragons spawned during world gen?
I know how to increase the general number of beasts in advanced parameters, but I was imagining an adventure mode world where dragon-hunting is a common career rather than them being rare as they are

That would be a raw mod - in the file raw/objects/creature_standard.txt, in the section that starts with the line [CREATURE:DRAGON], change the [FREQUENCY:5] to a higher number. 100 would probably be too much, and 50 might be, I'd start with 25 and see how that goes. Edit: Probably also need to increase Max Megabeast Caves

[redivider]

I am looking for a seed that has: reanimating glacier with iron ore, dead (or dying, preferably dead) but playable dwarven civ
generating a dead civ consistently seems to extremely hard.

[Schmaven]

I don't know about generating dead civs, but if you generate some low site / low population civs, you could finish them off in adventure mode, then go back to embarking.

[vjek]

I am looking for a seed that has: reanimating glacier with iron ore, dead (or dying, preferably dead) but playable dwarven civ
generating a dead civ consistently seems to extremely hard.

Two posts from this thread regarding dead civ generation:
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=175538.msg8325008#msg8325008
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=175538.msg8088881#msg8088881
and two embarks that might be related to what you're looking for.
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=175538.msg8212464#msg8212464
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=175538.msg8302993#msg8302993
If those don't get you moving in the right direction, let me know and I will be able to generate a matching world on Sunday.
Optionally, you can fill out the form here, and paste the results into a new post if any other features matter.  That javascript form doesn't submit anything or go anywhere, it just shows your results so you can paste them here.

[delphonso]

I don't know about generating dead civs, but if you generate some low site / low population civs, you could finish them off in adventure mode, then go back to embarking.

How dwarven of you.

[delphonso]

Grand Cartographer vjek, I'm quite happy with the generic options for world gen, but if I wanted to make a region map or change cavern parameters, I then have to do some guess work. Perhaps you know (or know where to look):

On a Small world 65x65, what parameters are changed when choosing 'very low, low, medium, high, very high' for savagery? Is it variance or minimum?

[muldrake]

Came across something today I haven't seen before, and wanted to check with everyone else to see if they've seen it.
Single cavern layer world.
Water in the caverns.  A lot of water.
Volcano on the embark.
Candy spire that reaches to 4Z above the top of the cavern.
As in, the candy spire starts in the SMR sea, extends up through the magma, through the first and only cavern, then keeps going another 4Z in normal stone layers.

Have you seen this before?

I have something similar.  Although it has three cavern layers, they're extremely close together, and there is a volcano (I used advanced worldgen to get a lot of these).  It also has a peak that goes up an absurd number of z-layers, and this is probably why the caverns are not only close together, but very near the surface.  The adamantine spire (which I have not found the bottom of but believe goes all the way to the very close SMR floor extends one z-layer above the caverns.

Unfortunately most of it is submerged in magma, although I'm working in fits and starts on an obsidian farming operation to get to it.  It isn't a particularly difficult embark to do that on but I keep being interrupted by dragons and the like.

[Ketsa]

I am looking how to limit the number of z-levels of a cavern layer ? is this possible ? I want 1 or 2 Z-levels.
Also I'd like the cavern more open and less small corridors, is this achievable ?
Thanks.