Choosing an Embark Site

When searching for a good site, I mostly follow the suggestions in the quickstart guide: no aquifer, yes flux, multiple shallow metal, yes deep metal. I don't worry about soil/clay, because it's not too difficult to drain a murky pool into a cavern to get some mud on the stone tiles for farming.

After looking around at the results, I found a fairly promising site. It's a temperate broadleaf forest bordering a temperate savanna. Heavily forested in the hills, but sparse down below. There's also a brook for unlimited access to water. It has some soil, shallow metals, deep metals, and flux stone! Most of the time I'm unable to find a site that has both types of metals + flux stone and isn't completely devoid of trees. This site should do nicely.