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Bacc

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Finding the rare expansive cavern
« on: May 03, 2010, 10:24:47 pm »
Hey guys, what are your tips to gennig/finding those huge, open caverns I see on DFMA?

For example, the fantastic Sinkfurnace!
http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-8619-sinkfurnace

I've tried embarking in different biomes, different rock layer etc but I still just find the normal, crowded caverns. Like a maze of twisty passages, all alike.

Any tips? Tweaking the worldgen? Specific things I can look for in the embark profile? Or just keep digging?

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Re: Finding the rare expansive cavern
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2010, 10:28:05 pm »
There should be a worldgen option you can tweak to increase the cavern openness.
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Re: Finding the rare expansive cavern
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2010, 11:04:33 pm »
Yeah except I for one can't figure out whether high numbers make the cavern more open, or vice versa.
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Re: Finding the rare expansive cavern
« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2010, 11:16:54 pm »
You need high openness and low passage density. Openness controls how much the cavern cover the layer and passage density determine whether the cavern is made from a bunch of maze-like passages or open areas.
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Re: Finding the rare expansive cavern
« Reply #4 on: May 03, 2010, 11:23:36 pm »
Keep embarking til you start with 30 fps instead of 100, it means there's a cavern full of water draining somewhere down below.  Unless you just always start at 30 fps, I hear that happens too :(
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Re: Finding the rare expansive cavern
« Reply #5 on: May 03, 2010, 11:25:27 pm »
just as alexwazer says, 0/0 Cavern Layer Passage Density and 100/100 openness will get you wonderful big caverns
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