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I just had 6 dwarves killed by a single troglodyte.  ...What.

Advice for how to figure out where to place tags--search for the exact tag on the wiki, and it'll give you .txt results for creatures that have those tags in their raw.  You can then check where that creature has the tag placed, and imitate that in your raw.

I always do the same as Sphalerite--I add [SHELL] to horns, hooves, and scales, which is more useful than adding shells to creatures that don't have them because apparently it works better without needing a regen (read that adding shells to creatures that didn't have them without a regen can lead to crashes.)  I added it to scales because at the time that I most needed shells, my refuse pile was absolutely full of dead crundles, so it was an easy source hehe.

Of course, the moody dwarf still went crazy, because "he likes turtle shell."  : P

I duplicated a ton of raws this time, including stone layers, body_default for some reason, and some creatures.  Let's see.

Civilizations: Bronze Colossus, Cyclops, Minotaurs, Ettins, Giants.  Not quite as amusing as unicorns and hydras, but eh.

Then I tried to look at a fairy megabeast, and the game crashed.  Woooo.  Legends Viewer works better anyway.  This fairy breathes dragon fire and is still at large, undefeated.
Had two brook lamprey megabeasts.  One died of old age without doing anything, the other spent all its time letting opponents escape and then died of old age.

Embarking with bronze colossi, with some blind cave ogre children as pets.  Iron men are fish.  All sand is generic "rock."

Upon embark... every ground tile that's not covered by grass is rapidly zooming through every possible type of stone in a strobe-light effect, wooooo.  Walls are generic "rock" in some places, and regular stone/gems in others...  ....that is a lot of galena.  The entire top half of the mountain is almost solid galena.

Trying another embark location for somethin' possibly more intriguing than galena mountains, in a terrifying black-sand desert, we get... well, my wagon puller is a cap hopper.  That's fun.  Other than that, though, more "rock" wall and disco floors.

After regenning until I got a world that didn't have disco floors... I had two layers of native platinum.  :3

I know from my last game that Krundles like to eat my farm crops.

Not possible.  Crundles have [CARNIVORE] and no [CURIOUS] tags, so they can't steal food and they won't eat plants.  Something else must've happened to your crops while the crundles were keeping you busy.

I enjoy playing with ASCII.  Never actually tried a tileset, so I can't say if I'd enjoy it as well.  I like that ASCII makes my creature-modding efforts easier; just have to assign it a symbol and I'm done, instead of worrying about drawing an image...

I've considered tilesets just for the fun of it, but every time I look at a screenshot of someone with one, inevitably they do something I don't like.  Like making the ohm (vanilla statue) symbol into an actual statue.  I use the ohm symbol for some modded creatures because its shape to me evokes cape-like wings folded over a figure (thus I use it, for example, for a humanoid dragon species.)  I don't want it being replaced by statues.  Hard-setting my ohms into statues removes that bit of creativity from my tile-assigning.  I mean, I could just draw them their own creature tile, but that's just a random example.

Plus I've seen places where parts of the actual text get changed into symbols too.  Like a [ getting turned into a shirt, so you have random little shirts scattered amongst the text.  Someone claimed to me that doesn't happen anymore, but I keep seeing things like that pop up in screenshots, so it can't be all that fixed.

Once full graphics support is in so I don't have text getting confuse'd with descriptive tiles and all that, I'll worry about tilesets more.

As far as I remember Toady gave their mouth the grasp-tag to stop the annoying cat bug from the 40d versions.

Nope.  That was the work-around that players used to stop it.  Toady just fixed the bug at its source, presumably.  Cats use the same mouth as all other animals in 2010, and it does not have [GRASP].

Your 4th dimension key is ".", the one-step-forward key while paused.  And save-scumming is the closest you get to a "backwards" key.

Being able to fast-forward and rewind would be amusing, but fast-forward wouldn't be able to combat FPS loss because it couldn't make the game not have to calculate everything that it calculates anyway.  Rewinding would be an alternative to save-scumming, but seems like it'd be pretty unfeasible to hack in.