Creating a Map where the Mountains and Ocean shore meet?

[ArchMagister]

I really want a map where I can have a river/stream flowing down a mountain into the sea, and where I embark on a map with the following - 1. beach/sea, 2. mountain, 3.river/stream, 4.woodland.
I have loaded maps over and over again, no luck. And tried again and again on advanced maps regen - and no luck.
No amount of Google, or Reddit or bay12 forums helps.

Is there anyone that can share an up to date seed, or give me exact formula for map generation!!!

I will be greatly in your debt!

[kheftel]

You could try asking in the worldgen thread here: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=180805.0

[ArchMagister]

@kheftel I have seen every post there - and cannot find something worth aforesaid prerequisites. sigh. thank you.

[Panzerechse]

Does waterfalls even exist in this version of DF?

[ArchMagister]

@Panzarechse
They most defnitely exist! and look extremely beautiful!

[kheftel]

Originally posted by ArchMagister:

@kheftel I have seen every post there - and cannot find something worth aforesaid prerequisites. sigh. thank you.

I have seen people ask for specific worlds and veterans answer with seeds, maybe it's worth making an account and posting a request?

[Whimpy]

Originally posted by Panzerechse:

Does waterfalls even exist in this version of DF?

I'm on a map with a riverfork that's got the different river arms on different z-levels. Only 1 level though but enough to make a current.

[faelyn]

i have a map with a double waterfall, not 2 but a double one 10 levels followed by another. Plus a side river with rapids leading to the pool just above the second waterfall. I wish I could embark in the mountains, but hey...can't have everything.

[djinnxy]

It does happen, but I don't know how random it is. I had a gen once where a river flowed down a mountain and made a nice bay that I made a bridge across. Sorry no insight on how to make it happen intentionally.

[Dracupuncture]

Originally posted by Panzerechse:

Does waterfalls even exist in this version of DF?

absolutely, be sure to check elevation around rivers when selecting an embark, the height map will show you if there are waterfall "drops" there.

most commonly i find them adjacent to large mountain regions (but not exclusively, I'm just lazy)

[Bralbaard]

Cliffs next to the water are possible. In vanilla maps you will often find them when lakes are generated in the mountains. Cliffs at the seashore are more difficult to get. You probably need to learn to work with perfectworlddf, which is an old but still functional third party tool like dfhack. If you paint really high mountains next to or in the sea, and fiddle with erosion settings (switch them off, most likely) it is definitely possible.

Waterfalls often generate where two rivers meet in steep terrain. If you know what to look for on the height map they should be easy to find.

[DoubleG]

I've spent years searching for the perfect embark! So many worlds visited. Kinda like "eveything, everywhere, all at once". :P

I wanted a split biome volcano embark with one of them an evil, reanimator biome. Brook, maybe with waterfall if I'm lucky. Or water or lake. The evil biome couldn't be in mountains as I wanted to grow Sliverbarb. All within a 4x4 or 3x3 embark. Not a lot to ask. :P Took a lot of worlds to find something close.

I got pretty good at speed genning worlds. Trick is to pause soon after you start doing history, have a look around, see if there's any geographical features that look like they might be close to what you want. If it was possibly good finish history gen and check it out.

If they geography was good but towers or civs or something wasn't you could regen using some seeds, leaving the stuff you wanted changed as random.

[captainamaziiing]

I know it won't happen, but I would like to see a 'Dorf Fortress Lite' that lets me define the area I want to build in. I have no interest in anything outside my fortress map, and embarking is a huge chore. A world map where I have no interest in 99% of it is a waste of CPU. Being able to define the parameters like the OP did, and having the game mock up a map based on those parameters would be nice.