Ambaire posted:

What's the secret to getting coal/lignite to generate though? The profile I've been using is all forest so I tried adding swamps but that didn't help any. I know it only generates in sedimentary rock, but how do you get it? Do you need an ocean? I found the perfect volcano river embark, but without coal, it's useless for me.

Urist Da Vinci posted:

I recently did some research and statistics-gathering (with DFHack) on what causes sedimentary layers in DF, and made some interesting discoveries:

world.world_data.geo_biomes[].unk1 is an "enum" for the type of layers as follows:

code:

0 NORMAL
1 VOLCANIC
2 DEEP OCEAN
3 DEEP OCEAN VOLCANIC
4 SHALLOW OCEAN
5 SHALLOW OCEAN VOLCANIC
6 SAND DESERT
7 SAND DESERT VOLCANIC

- NORMAL geo-biomes are the default for land areas. You get several random soil layers. This is followed by a sedimentary (~80% chance), metamorphic (~10%), or intrusive (~10%) layer. The remaining layers below are metamorphic (~50%), or intrusive (~50%), except that the bottom-most layer above the magma sea is always intrusive.

- VOLCANIC geo-biomes are like normal, except that the first stone layer under the soil is always extrusive, and the random subsurface layers are ~33% each of extrusive, intrusive, and metamorphic. Volcanic geo-biomes occur when the volcanism of the biome is over 90 on a scale from 0-100.

- DEEP OCEAN geo-biomes have a few layers from the ocean soils subset, then a layer of a deep ocean sedimentary (or extrusive if volcanic), then random layers as per normal (or volcanic). Deep ocean geo-biomes occur in oceans of elevation 0-49.

- SHALLOW OCEAN geo-biomes have a single sand layer, then a layer of a shallow ocean sedimentary (or extrusive if volcanic), then random layers as per normal (or volcanic). Shallow ocean geo-biomes occur in oceans of elevation 50-99.

- SAND DESERT geo-biomes are rare, as they only occur in sand desert biomes. They are like normal (or volcanic) biomes, except that there is always a single layer of a sand instead of several soil layers.

As far as I can tell, the chance of getting a particular layer stone is otherwise purely random. There does not appear to be any evidence of other logic/code which determines the type of layer stone in a biome.

scamtank posted:

Dwarven science

Ambaire posted:

What's the secret to getting coal/lignite to generate though? The profile I've been using is all forest so I tried adding swamps but that didn't help any. I know it only generates in sedimentary rock, but how do you get it? Do you need an ocean? I found the perfect volcano river embark, but without coal, it's useless for me.

GorfZaplen posted:

Here is a save where there is a demon vault right next to a starting city. You'll want to start as a human of Iroanthath and head east, right after the river. The creatures inside are made of ash so they die in one hit to pretty much anything. I was killed by the big beast at the bottom, and it happened so fast that I couldn't find out if it was also made of ash. Good luck!

Verviticus posted:

i thought vaults were at the bottom of goblin cities?

Jazzimus Prime posted:

It sounds like maybe your Ubuntu installation is missing a QT library, or can't find it?

Maybe you could try running something like sudo apt-get install libqt5 or sudo apt-get install libqt5widgets5 or something to try to install the library?

Or maybe the library is there, but its location isn't in the default library search path?

_{I'm kind of pulling this out of my rear end here, I've never used Ubuntu but I've used several other Linux distros and seen similar errors before.}

GorfZaplen posted:

Angry Diplomat posted:

This is delightfully succinct and should really go in the OP.

my dad posted:

It is in the OP.

scamtank posted:

Let me drop some science bombs:

dragon_pamcake posted:

I'll field this one because I have been playing with this world a LOT.

1) Lower the mineral scarcity to >1000. The default setting of 2500 means there is no iron ANYWHERE, if that's what it means when you can't buy hematite or iron bars at embark.

2) You can boost the number of volcanoes without losing the river one. I genned the same world with five.

3)There are no forests on that map, so there will NEVER be elves.

4) Without DFhack I can't tell if there's iron on the map. There is an aquifer practically right next to the volcano 2 levels below the lava surface on the east side of the map. Plenty of Galena though.

Ambaire posted:

Well, goons, I think I've lucked out with the absolute loving perfect volcano embark ever... it's 3 wide, 4 high, on a river bank with your wagon literally 3 blocks from the volcano. The only downside is that I still can't figure out how to get goblins to spawn, so it's quite peaceful besides the wildlife.

I didn't get the seed, sadly, but I uploaded the save to mediafire and here's the link. Enjoy!

Angry Diplomat posted:

So it is. I don't remember seeing it there last I looked, but that's probably just this piece of poo poo phone not loading images.

Toady One posted:

I fixed many of the stack problems today (there's still a few I'll probably do tomorrow). I also fixed some hidden-area announcement problems.

• shell/etc. crafts no longer use up the entire stack
  
• decorations with bone/etc. no longer use up the entire stack
  
• bone greaves can use a single large stack now
  
• automated jobs (rendering/butchery/etc.) no longer use every workshop at once
  
• rendering a stack of fat now yields tallow stacks rather than several individual items
  
• lye stacks now produce the correct amount of potash
  
• hidden items no longer show up in the room list or lever menus
  
• hidden underground births are no longer announced
  
• military item assignment no longer shows hidden items
  
• item thefts of hidden underground items are no longer announced

TheCIASentMe posted:

Change the following tokens in entity_default for elves:

[START_BIOME:ANY_LAND]
[BIOME_SUPPORT:ANY_SWAMP:3]

And then regen the map. That SHOULD give you elves but it might change enough of the map that the specific volcano/river site might not be there.

Faithless posted:

Whats the best tileset?

nielsm posted:

Dear mayor Lorbam Munèstnish,

Your recent demand for a "frosty metal bed" in your bedroom may not be possible to fulfill. I would like to lead your attention to two facts. First of all, our small outpost is not currently in a position to obtain divine metals, which may as well only be fairy tales. Second, we have no means to build beds from metals, usually. Only dwarves caught by moods have been known to ever produce beds from materials other than wood, and it would be unwise to depend on chance to produce such a unique bed.

On these grounds, I would like you to reconsider your demand.

-Your overseer

nielsm posted:

Dear mayor Lorbam Munèstnish,

Your recent demand for a "frosty metal bed" in your bedroom may not be possible to fulfill. I would like to lead your attention to two facts. First of all, our small outpost is not currently in a position to obtain divine metals, which may as well only be fairy tales. Second, we have no means to build beds from metals, usually. Only dwarves caught by moods have been known to ever produce beds from materials other than wood, and it would be unwise to depend on chance to produce such a unique bed.

On these grounds, I would like you to reconsider your demand.

-Your overseer

Mu. posted:

Also, I noticed that one of my dwarfs has a preference for "liquid darkness." Does anybody happen to know what that is?

Gus Hobbleton posted:

Met posted:

Why are they always called Bronze Colossus if they can be made of slade? Can't it just be renamed to a Colossus?

Mu. posted:

Also, I noticed that one of my dwarfs has a preference for "liquid darkness." Does anybody happen to know what that is?

A human heart posted:

Is it possible to get the divine metals into fort mode?

my dad posted:

By means of adventurer migrants, yes.

Spoggerific posted:

Is there any point to designating a dormitory?