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dakenho

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unushal number of children
« on: May 31, 2012, 11:34:55 am »
so for some reason some of my agreements are bringing an unusual number of children to my fortress for example out of 72 dwarfs 34 are children
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From the description of the event, I think that your copy of Dwarf Fortress was on drugs when this happened. That's surely the only logical explanation for a human werewolf with deadly farts dying from it's own excrement after slaughtering some goblins comrades.

Garath

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Re: unushal number of children
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2012, 12:05:12 pm »
heh, I think you had a typing accident, I'm sure you meant migrants. But yes, it happens, though not in my last 5 forts
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Re: unushal number of children
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2012, 12:17:10 pm »
This is the new normal.  Immigrants arrive in families now, sometimes bringing their children, and almost always bringing their spouse.  Since most of your immigrants are now married, that means you get a wave of children 9 months(?) after the wave of immigrants.

In d_init.txt you can set the BABY_CHILD_CAP values lower to limit the number of births you get from all of your married couples.
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