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Challenge Thread: Super Savannah

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inaluct:
Okay, here's the premise of this thread: one of us posts some relatively simple challenge to be completed by the community, and people try it. Whoever completes the challenge first posts the next one, and so on. If the challenge is found to be impossible to complete, someone else posts a challenge. it doesn't matter who. If the challenge is way too hard, same thing.

Challenges can be almost anything, but keep it reasonable.

I figure this is a good way to bring interesting situations to your fellow DF players in an interesting way.

Here's the first challenge: Build a 30-dwarf fortress in the tropical region of this map. Easy. Look around the huge freshwater lake, there are tropics there. Most places are hot but suitable for habitation, however some are ultra-lethal. If you want to see all of your dwarves catch on fire on embark, reclaim the fortress that's name begins with a T.



The area pictured has an aquifer, but the surrounding areas mostly don't.

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=589

Triple Bonus Points for making a fortress on a square of tropical savannah. There's at least one near the bottom edge of the map.

Because some areas have insane temperatures, turning TEMP off for this challenge is perfectly acceptable.

This isn't much of a challenge, really, but I assume bigger harder things will show up eventually if this thread doesn't sink to the bottom of the page like an untrained recruit in 6/7 water.

Magua:
So, this is my first time trying to play a world that someone else genned, but I'm having a problem.  I put the world into df\data\save\challenge, and load it up.  I abandon the fort.  I then choose to start a new one.  Find a nice savannah, go through embark, but before it tells me to "Strike the earth", the game crashes.

I've tried in different places, with different embark setups...I even reextracted DF to a clean directory.  Am I doing something wrong?

inaluct:
I'll check. The world might have been screwed up in the upload.

inaluct:
Hmm. Yeah, something went wrong somewhere. Anyway, to avoid uploading it again and hitting the same problem, here are the world generation parameters:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)Created in DF v0.28.181.40d.

[WORLD_GEN]
   [TITLE:LARGE]
   [SEED:4003980612]
   [HISTORY_SEED:3714980828]
   [NAME_SEED:2159941524]
   [DIM:257:257]
   [END_YEAR:1050]
   [BEAST_END_YEAR:300:80]
   [REVEAL_ALL_HISTORY:1]
   [CULL_HISTORICAL_FIGURES:1]
   [ELEVATION:1:400:800:800]
   [RAINFALL:0:100:400:400]
   [TEMPERATURE:-1000:1000:400:400]
   [DRAINAGE:0:100:400:400]
   [VOLCANISM:0:100:400:400]
   [SAVAGERY:0:100:400:400]
   [ELEVATION_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [RAIN_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [DRAINAGE_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [TEMPERATURE_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [SAVAGERY_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [VOLCANISM_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
   [GOOD_SQ_COUNTS:100:1000:2000]
   [EVIL_SQ_COUNTS:100:1000:2000]
   [PEAK_NUMBER_MIN:1]
   [OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:2]
   [VOLCANO_MIN:40]
   [REGION_COUNTS:SWAMP:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:DESERT:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:FOREST:20:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:MOUNTAINS:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:OCEAN:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:GLACIER:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:TUNDRA:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:GRASSLAND:0:0:0]
   [REGION_COUNTS:HILLS:0:0:0]
   [EROSION_CYCLE_COUNT:250]
   [RIVER_MINS:400:400]
   [PERIODICALLY_ERODE_EXTREMES:1]
   [OROGRAPHIC_PRECIPITATION:1]
   [SUBREGION_MAX:2750]
   [CAVE_MIN_SIZE:5]
   [CAVE_MAX_SIZE:25]
   [MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:100]
   [NON_MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:200]
   [ALL_CAVES_VISIBLE:0]
   [SHOW_EMBARK_RIVER:2]
   [SHOW_EMBARK_POOL:2]
   [SHOW_EMBARK_M_POOL:2]
   [SHOW_EMBARK_M_PIPE:2]
   [SHOW_EMBARK_CHASM:2]
   [SHOW_EMBARK_PIT:2]
   [SHOW_EMBARK_OTHER:2]
   [SHOW_EMBARK_TUNNEL:2]
   [TOTAL_CIV_NUMBER:50]
   [TOTAL_CIV_POPULATION:20000]
   [PLAYABLE_CIVILIZATION_REQUIRED:1]
   [ELEVATION_RANGES:0:0:0]
   [RAIN_RANGES:0:0:0]
   [DRAINAGE_RANGES:0:0:0]
   [SAVAGERY_RANGES:0:0:0]
   [VOLCANISM_RANGES:0:0:0]

Just put them in world gen in init. Changing the name to something other than LARGE probably doesn't matter.

Magua:
Awesome.  I embark to my chosen savannah, and as the screen appears, the world catches on fire and  my dwarves take one step before crumbling to ash!

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