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(thanks Sirmaril!)

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I made a highlighting mode for Notepad++!

A sample:

The download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bmor3vsz5nf6c1k/df_raw_lang_npp_0.2.zip

To install:
Download the archive and unzip it somewhere.
Start up NPP, open the languages menu, and select 'Define your language':
In the language dialog, select 'Import':
Select the extracted xml file and hit 'Open':
Reboot notepad. Now, you should see something like this:
Select that option when you're working with a raw file and boom, highlighting!

It's supposed to highlight only tokens built in to DF, so as to still work with total-conversion mods. If something is highlighted and shouldn't be, or isn't and should, either you're missing a bracket somewhere or I missed some tokens; if you can't find the problem, post in the thread and I'll try to fix it.

Original post:

I'd also be interested in a play turn; I've been playing with the most recent raws from Zanzetkuken's turn, and I realized I might as well contribute 

Some random quibbles:
Formics are extremely weak to eye hits; eye attacks pretty much always open major arteries, and then they bleed out pretty quickly.

There does not appear to be any way to manufacture quivers. You can spawn with them in adventure mode (silk quiver) but aside from that they are nonexistent. I think this may be interfering with hunting; my halfling hunters generally refuse to hunt, even if there are animals, bows, and arrows available (and they don't appear to use rocks to hunt).

On embark, if you pick 'prepare for the journey carefully', you start out with no points available, as they are all invested in a 400-coin iridium anvil. You can get rid of it, but it's still initially disconcerting. Also, some odd items show up for purchase: 'nothing leather' and 'tarnish stalk cloth cloth', if I remember correctly.

I'm also getting 'unrecognized inorganic token' spam in the errorlog:
And I've just started getting these errors:

This universe is coming along great though. Pitting dragons against swarms of dirigible antelopes in the arena is hilarious

I generally try to be nice to my dwarves, but I've done quite a lot of horrible things to them by accident. 

In my first really functional fort, I had an drawbridge that opened outwards; my original idea was to have it double as a catapult in case enemies got uncomfortably close. Well, it did. A herd of zombies showed up and started lurching at me so I had the bridge raised... right while a mother and her new baby were running across it. They got flung right into the middle of the zombie pack. The mother died on impact, but the baby wasn't so lucky (he got torn to shreds). This of course happened right in front of the baby's father, an archer hiding behind my fortifications, so he immediately started tantrumming, and everything went downhill from there. That was pretty terrible...

But what really sealed the deal for awfulness was, going through the combat logs afterwards, finding this:
"The head of Urist McDeadBaby latches on firmly to the sleeve of Urist McBabyDaddy! Urist McBabyDaddy has gone berzerk!"