any good guides for world gen?

[Kalisa]

I'm trying to make a world with several small islands but cant seem to get it right, just not nearly enough water and not sure the best way to adjust things, or if anyone has a good place with premade map configs i could look at and put into my game that would also be great.

In general trying to get a small island map with allot of cliffs and rivers with very deep cavern layers

[Haethei]

The DF wiki will help a lot, it's a lot of text but it's got information on everything https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Advanced_world_generation

My steam guide for world gen doesn't really touch the more complicated settings like terrain or weighted ranges, so that might not help very much

[DoubleG]

Deep Cavern layer is easy. I

n the detailed woprld gen there's Z Levels before first cavern layer. Its near the end of a very long list. Might be easier to find it if you open it in text, makes it easier to go through.

You can specify a minimum of how many layers you want before each cavern layer, so you could have the first one really close and the otehr two really deep. The number you give is a minimum though, so it may be more. I like to give myself plenty of room with my world gens, but the 10 levels I give myself sometimes turns out more than needed.

Islands are a bad idea. No civ has boat technology, as far a I know. Best maps are Pangea style supercontinent.

For cliffs you'd have to mess around with erosion. Not really my forte. Rivers and suchlike is water and drainage. Should be guides on that.

Good luck!! I've been trying to spawn a world with similar shape to Robert Jordens "the wheel of time".. Sea on the south and west, evil north, savage eastern mountains. But its hard to get the right shape world, no matter how many times you crunch teh beginning history.

[Kalisa]

thx for the tips, is there a good way to get more ocean though? i know islands can be bad (im fine with establising "bridge" colonies as long as the distance is not too far) just like more ocean biome, but if i try to turn it up it seems to just stick to the edges, I tried to force more ocean and just got mass failiures of world gen.

[DoubleG]

Oceans on edge is another setting. You can insist that your map has any number of "partial ocean edges" or "full ocean edges". To get lots of small oceans scattered around I would probably go with making biomes smaller and messing with their weighting. There's probably lots more you could do but it would take some invistigatiojn and experimentation to find out.

[Bralbaard]

Also you could use perfectworldDF, it is a very old utility, but it still works with the steam version. It even allows you to hand paint the maps, or specific details.