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[Namfuak]

I'm wondering though if anybody can fancy a guess as to why this happens? 

Here's my guess, which has a high probability of being correct:
1. The game builds lists of all creatures, plants, and inorganics, sorted by the order in which they appear in the raws (and the names of the raw files themselves). If an entity is duplicated, the index of the newest one gets used. These lists are then used as lookup tables.
2. Whenever a creature, plant, or inorganic is referenced by name, that name is converted into a numeric index using an appropriate table from step 1. However, the duplicate entities are deleted when you load the game. As a result, duplicate entities will cause everything after that entity to be shifted ahead.

Example:
Your creature raws contain definitions for [TOAD], [BEETLE, WORM], [DWARF, HUMAN, ELF, GOBLIN, TROLL], [FORGOTTEN_BEAST_1, FORGOTTEN_BEAST_2, FORGOTTEN_BEAST_3], etc. This results in a lookup table of TOAD=0, BEETLE=1, WORM=2, DWARF=3, HUMAN=4, ELF=5, GOBLIN=6, TROLL=7, FORGOTTEN_BEAST_1=8, FORGOTTEN_BEAST_2=9, FORGOTTEN_BEAST_3=10, etc.
You then duplicate the 2nd RAW file, adding duplicate entries for BEETLE and WORM. The lookup table is now TOAD=0, BEETLE=3, WORM=4, DWARF=5, HUMAN=6, ELF=7, GOBLIN=8, TROLL=9, FORGOTTEN_BEAST_1=10, FORGOTTEN_BEAST_2=11, FORGOTTEN_BEAST_3=12, but the actual creatures are still TOAD, BEETLE, WORM, DWARF, HUMAN, ELF, GOBLIN, TROLL, FORGOTTEN_BEAST_1, FORGOTTEN_BEAST_2, FORGOTTEN_BEAST_3, etc. because the duplicates got deleted.
Thus, you end up with mountainhalls populated by Elves (offset 5), villages populated by Goblins (offset 6), forest retreats populated by Trolls (offset 7), and dark fortresses populated by Forgotten Beasts (offset 8 ).

This is what I figured was happening too.

[Quietust]

Furthermore, whenever one creature is "transformed" into a different creature that has different materials (not sure if it's by name or just by quantity - e.g. it's probably more likely if a non-venomous creature turns into one with an extract), any "new" materials will instantly burst into flame and/or boil in a freezing cloud because all of the physical properties (melting point, boiling point, ignite point, etc.) are undefined. This is similar to what caused creatures to freeze to death in clouds of boiling leather back in 40d.

[OrbinDules]

Would this also explain that if you duplicate different raws every time, and you generated a new world, you would get incredibly similar worlds? I duplicated different raws five different times, and I all five times, got a world where Humans, dwarves, and elves were non existent, and we had kobolds, gremlins, goblins, trolls, and ogres playing as the Plains, forest, mountains, evil, and sulking entities respectively.

[Deviled]

When I embatked I got "The age of one"

[G-Flex]

Could "one" possibly be the name of a titan/megabeast? Maybe the language raws got a little messed up.

[thegoatgod_pan]

Age of one means there is one megabeast left, just as age of three means there are three, and age of legends means there are too many to count.

[MarcAFK]

Duplicating inorganic_mineral i found sites with cotton candy soil layers, but they didnt dump anything useful when dug.

[Urist McTaverish]

I am playing cave crocodile fortress after I copied the Creature_standard raws.

[Rex_Nex]

Age of one means there is one megabeast left, just as age of three means there are three, and age of legends means there are too many to count.

This must be new, because last time I checked it was "The Age of X" where X is the megabeast name, not the age of one.

[thegoatgod_pan]

Hmm...I got an age of one back in .13m do you mean like "the age of the bronze collosus" or the "age of so-and-so", vs the "age of one"?

[Crazy Cow]

My first raw duplicate was very tame. I played as humans instead of dorfs and fought gremlins instead of kobolds. Other than that, though, there were no noticeable differences.

[claer_runway]

unrelated to the glitch, but i once got "the age of nine" during gameplay

[abadidea]

Curiously, it seems the Genesis Mod means nothing terribly interesting happens for creatures_standard or creatures_temperate... although it did crash in Legends when I tried to load regions 

[Vertigon]

My olmmen used their plump helmet picks to mine some "dragon". The rock was just called "dragon" and it didn't leave anything when i mined it.


It's been forever since I've done this.

[UristMcDwarf]

My olmmen used their plump helmet picks to mine some "dragon". The rock was just called "dragon" and it didn't leave anything when i mined it.


It's been forever since I've done this.

Plump Helmet Picks?
What about when the miners get hungry?