The first thing you’re greeted with when you start to play Dwarf Fortress is the World Generation menu. With a huge array of options and even advanced options in Detailed Mode, it can be hard to know just what settings to generate a world with. Below we’ve described the Best Dwarf Fortress world generation settings and given you some ways to improve your game!
Top 5 Dwarf Fortress World Generation settings
High performance
Use these settings if you want a quick world generation or the game to run as quickly as possible.
Advanced options: Cull Unimportant Historical Figures = Yes
Expansive
This is a long generation that will take even high-spec computers 15 minutes to half an hour to complete.
Easy Mode
This easier embark will allow you to quickly set up a fortress. Most Megabeasts will also be dead, although there’s always a chance that some survive. Other threats will still exist.
Advanced options: Embark Points = 3000, Percentage Beasts Dead for Stoppage = 100, Year to Begin Checking for Megabeat Percentage = 80.
Falling Civilizations
A large world with few civilizations fighting over limited resources with lots of monsters. This is a great kind of apocalyptic world. There’s also a high chance that at least one of the major races (Elves, Humans, Goblins, Dwarves) may be extinct in this world!
Pocket Battle Royal
With just five years of history and little to compete with but themselves, this start will give you almost instant conflicts as the civilizations involved quickly clash and war.
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