Detailed World Building ... advice on settings?

[wombatvvv]

Hey guys,

I tried to make my own world by using the "detailed settings", but I'm not sure what a lot of the numbers mean.

The one I'm most concerned about is the "mineral scarcity". I could set it between 100 and 100,000 - but I have no idea what that means but "lower = more".

I set it to 50,000 thinking that would be "in the middle". I usually like to play with the setting on "scarce" in the basic settings.

Anyway, I dug down about 20 levels and hit gold (literally) ... a LOT of gold and magma. Now my fortress is overflowing with gold bars!

Did I get lucky or did I mess up the settings?

[Koningkrush]

I would like to know what numbers correspond to, like what number equals "very rare" vs "frequent"

[Kasa]

Originally posted by wombatvvv:

Hey guys,

I tried to make my own world by using the "detailed settings", but I'm not sure what a lot of the numbers mean.

The one I'm most concerned about is the "mineral scarcity". I could set it between 100 and 100,000 - but I have no idea what that means but "lower = more".

I set it to 50,000 thinking that would be "in the middle". I usually like to play with the setting on "scarce" in the basic settings.

Anyway, I dug down about 20 levels and hit gold (literally) ... a LOT of gold and magma. Now my fortress is overflowing with gold bars!

Did I get lucky or did I mess up the settings?

From the wiki:

"The options "Very Rare", "Rare", "Sparse", "Frequent", and "Everywhere" in the basic world generation menu use the values 50000, 10000, 2500, 500 and 100 respectively."

The main problem with this game is that it's undergone 20 years of dev with the comunity following along the way, so all these tips and tricks are known by us but not new players and the game does nothing to explain this.

Minecraft has the exact same issue, so with that in mind w/e you are not sure of something your best bet it to check to wiki.
If it's not there or your unsure what it means please ask like you did just now as I'd like to think we are happy to help when we can.

Now with that said according to your setting, you just hit a gold vein that's all.

[AlP]

See here:

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Advanced_world_generation

[Helios]

Originally posted by wombatvvv:

Hey guys,

I tried to make my own world by using the "detailed settings", but I'm not sure what a lot of the numbers mean.

The one I'm most concerned about is the "mineral scarcity". I could set it between 100 and 100,000 - but I have no idea what that means but "lower = more".

I set it to 50,000 thinking that would be "in the middle". I usually like to play with the setting on "scarce" in the basic settings.

Anyway, I dug down about 20 levels and hit gold (literally) ... a LOT of gold and magma. Now my fortress is overflowing with gold bars!

Did I get lucky or did I mess up the settings?

if 50000 is the same as everywhere setting it is too much i used that setting and it took the fun of finding ore i had "iron ore magnetic ect " messing up my fortes build because it was everywhere also gems if i ever start a new game i would go down one level or 2.

[wombatvvv]

Originally posted by Helios:

Originally posted by wombatvvv:

Hey guys,

I tried to make my own world by using the "detailed settings", but I'm not sure what a lot of the numbers mean.

The one I'm most concerned about is the "mineral scarcity". I could set it between 100 and 100,000 - but I have no idea what that means but "lower = more".

I set it to 50,000 thinking that would be "in the middle". I usually like to play with the setting on "scarce" in the basic settings.

Anyway, I dug down about 20 levels and hit gold (literally) ... a LOT of gold and magma. Now my fortress is overflowing with gold bars!

Did I get lucky or did I mess up the settings?

if 50000 is the same as everywhere setting it is too much i used that setting and it took the fun of finding ore i had "iron ore magnetic ect " messing up my fortes build because it was everywhere also gems if i ever start a new game i would go down one level or 2.

It appears I actually have it in on "very rare"... so all good I guess.

Yeah, now you mention it, I've dug down about 30 levels from the top of a mountain and only seen a two or three gem clusters!

[Helios]

Originally posted by wombatvvv:

Originally posted by Helios:

if 50000 is the same as everywhere setting it is too much i used that setting and it took the fun of finding ore i had "iron ore magnetic ect " messing up my fortes build because it was everywhere also gems if i ever start a new game i would go down one level or 2.

It appears I actually have it in on "very rare"... so all good I guess.

Yeah, now you mention it, I've dug down about 30 levels from the top of a mountain and only seen a two or three gem clusters!

if you play with fey moods on dont cut gems because they allways want uncut.

[AlP]

Originally posted by Helios:

Originally posted by wombatvvv:

It appears I actually have it in on "very rare"... so all good I guess.

Yeah, now you mention it, I've dug down about 30 levels from the top of a mountain and only seen a two or three gem clusters!

if you play with fey moods on dont cut gems because they allways want uncut.

They will want both cut and uncut gems.

[Pogey-Bait]

Originally posted by Helios:

Originally posted by wombatvvv:

Hey guys,

I tried to make my own world by using the "detailed settings", but I'm not sure what a lot of the numbers mean.

The one I'm most concerned about is the "mineral scarcity". I could set it between 100 and 100,000 - but I have no idea what that means but "lower = more".

I set it to 50,000 thinking that would be "in the middle". I usually like to play with the setting on "scarce" in the basic settings.

Anyway, I dug down about 20 levels and hit gold (literally) ... a LOT of gold and magma. Now my fortress is overflowing with gold bars!

Did I get lucky or did I mess up the settings?

if 50000 is the same as everywhere setting it is too much i used that setting and it took the fun of finding ore i had "iron ore magnetic ect " messing up my fortes build because it was everywhere also gems if i ever start a new game i would go down one level or 2.

50000 is the same as "very rare". The lower the number, the more frequent. Weird, but the way it's set up.

[NimrodX]

This is one of those things that requires the wiki, and if that doesnt answer the question then: experiment and ask on official forum.