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[Crossroads Inc.]

 I am sure many of us know the old speed "cheat" which effectively makes Dwarfs move SUperfast.
Something very useful in starting a Dwarf, and in combating FrameRate Destruction in later games.
Now, unless I am missing something in the raws, I no longer see "SPEED" in the creature rars to edit.
Where did it go?

[Sscral]

It still works, you just have to manually add [SPEED:1] to the dwarf entry, there's a default speed when no [SPEED:#] is listed for a creature.

[Dutchling]

IIRC [SPEED:0] was the fastest speed possible.

[Lectorog]

IIRC [SPEED:0] was the fastest speed possible.

Yep. The dwarves virtually teleport around.

[Trapezohedron]

IIRC [SPEED:0] was the fastest speed possible.

For maximum fun, set their swim speeds to 0 too.

If you keep a standardized speed for land and set the swim speed to 0, it looks like the creatures gain the ability to merge and reform on the other side of the 3/7 puddle of water.

[Girlinhat]

SPEED still has an effect, it just defaults to 900.  Every creature without a specified speed will have a speed of 900, not counting for agility and such.  To move it off the default, just add the tag and a number.

[BigD145]

It still works, you just have to manually add [SPEED:1] to the dwarf entry, there's a default speed when no [SPEED:#] is listed for a creature.

[Sadrice]

In my experience, [SPEED:0] has no effect, and the fastest possible is [SPEED:1], but I know [SPEED:0] used to work, so YMMV.

[dree12]

In my experience, [SPEED:0] has no effect, and the fastest possible is [SPEED:1], but I know [SPEED:0] used to work, so YMMV.

SPEED:0 works fine. The speed formulas are not changed since 40d, with Agility simply modifying the stat. Check the wiki.

[andyman564]

In my experience, [SPEED:0] has no effect, and the fastest possible is [SPEED:1], but I know [SPEED:0] used to work, so YMMV.

SPEED:0 works fine. The speed formulas are not changed since 40d, with Agility simply modifying the stat. Check the wiki.

so a perfectly agile dwarf with [SPEED:0] would be able to move back in time to correct  redo his past mistakes!

[Evergod41]

I've done [SPEED:0] before, and it's exactly the same as 1... every dwarf moves one tile per frame, no matter what.

[Sadrice]

 Huh, just tested it and it works fine.  I must have made a typo and broken the tag that one time or something.

[Girlinhat]

Well, judging by the title of this thread... tokens need a : in them when handling variable data

[Agent_86]

Well, judging by the title of this thread... tokens need a : in them when handling variable data

That's the first thing I noticed when I read the thread...