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The basic idea you mention here is kind of like Strong Bad's typing, but your particular suggestion, is an interesting way to implement it. I think that having visible labels might be a nice way to display them. Other versions suggest that labels would be read using the k look command. Sooner or later, one of these might possibly get partially considered to be slightly implemented.

It also might be nice if legendary was somewhat higher than it is now, for two reasons;
-Miners and Bookkeepers become legendary faster than you can say 'Hail Armok, god of Blood'
-Since Moods are more difficult to achieve, the rewards should be a little bit better.

The problem with aquifers is that they have too much power; for flow calculations it seems as if they are an infinite 7/7 square of water. What would be more realistic is if various aquifers could have different levels, so that a shallow aquifer was just 1/7 and would thus never fill an adjacent tile more that 1/7 full of water. Then you can get somewhat realistic aquifers and semi-flooded corridors.

[ALT_FORM:X:Y] is the idea I have here; a tag that can be added to creatures to allow them to use the creature gloss of annother creature, where X is the target creature and Y is the trigger. Why is this a big suggestion? because a proper implementation of this tag means that the game has to translate an arbitrary combination of wounds and items and equipped items from one creature gloss to annother in a sane orderly system, and be able to examine a large number of possible triggers, such as age, health, time of day/year, actions, items nearby or consumed, ect., ect.
The point of all this is to add a powerful new tag to DF. This tag can be used for every thing from turning an egg to a dragon, a child to a man (in this case, they would finally grow in size, instead of dwarves giving birth to full-grown dwarves), to have were -wolves, -bears, -carp, and olms, possibly to have wizards turn a barbarian warrior into a weaker female, or have a gell-creature that grows as it absorbs victims. And, of course, many, many more creatures can work.
I'm sure that many of these elements are in the bloats and cores, but I encourage this to be tackled soon, because this could have far-reaching ripple effects as other tags and game elements get added.

First item: Although advanced world-gen control is sometime in the future, apparently up there with bump-mapped hi-def texturing, I theorized that at least the filter numbers, i.e., the minimum and maximum numbers for world rejection, could be changed with an external program, right? with those changed, we could 1: force the game to accept more worlds, or b: change the ranges to include stranger worlds, such as ones having ten times as much glacier.

Second item: If the above proves impossible, what can be done to mod biomes? Can temperature or foliage be changed? It seems that rock (or at very least soil) type can be changed.

Any thoughts?

"This is an image of a dwarf and a deer in pixel. The dwarf if cowering. The Deer is striking a menacing pose."

Sounds good. Don't forget boiling oil sieges!