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[Strik3r]

So, i was screwing around with color patterns and discovered that

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[COLOR_PATTERN:PATTERN_NONE]
[PATTERN:STRIPES]
[CP_COLOR:NONE]
Will not crash DF but will actually produce a text such as, and i quote: "His tail fur is striped " in the creature description and

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[COLOR_PATTERN:PATTERN_NONE]
[PATTERN:NONE]
[CP_COLOR:NONE]
Will produce NO TEXT(yes, literally nothing) in the creature description. The only side effect of this is the errorlog spam and Dwarf Portrait crashing when attempting to draw a creature wth such a pattern.

Also DF is totally fine with a pattern with only a single CP_COLOR such as:

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[COLOR_PATTERN:STRIPES_WHITE]
[PATTERN:STRIPES]
[CP_COLOR:WHITE]
Which will produce "His tail fur is striped white" for example, in the creature description.

So it seems that DF handles bad tokens pretty gracefully. Just the fact alone that this works in patterns already has quite a few applications but it makes me wonder whether there are other unexpected tokens where something like this works...

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Yes, you could probably use anything except a valid token in place of NONE...
I suspect the trick with CP_COLOR:NONE will only work if there isn't a color named NONE defined.

[Putnam]

Could also define a color whose name is the empty string for this.