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[lorduberspaz]

Is it just me or are migration waves now mostly children?

On the plus side,  they are all out in the meadow being trampled to death by giant musk oxen.
I just saw a young child cause bruising to a tendon and punching  no fewer than 17 teeth out of the oxen's mouth before finally succumbing...

[Broseph Stalin]

What year is it?

[Thisfox]

Warrior kids!

I had the same thing, and it was year 450, so it wasn't the "well, the poor bastards have had no time to grow up yet" problem. Also, interestingly enough, my child pop cap is at 1/1, and I already had plenty from the last migration... so if I had a giant musk ox child threshing machine I would have used it too...

[smeeprocket]

so... my fortress has been going on so long, one of my children actually grew to adulthood.

This is the first time I have ever had that happen.

[lorduberspaz]

Not sure what the year is,  I normally let the world gen get to an arbitrary 101 years and then embark.  So I presume the year is 102?

Anyway I need to submit my dwarf child punching 17 teeth out of a giant musk oxen to one of those I'll mspaint  your story threads...

[Broseph Stalin]

Warrior kids!

I had the same thing, and it was year 450, so it wasn't the "well, the poor bastards have had no time to grow up yet" problem. Also, interestingly enough, my child pop cap is at 1/1, and I already had plenty from the last migration... so if I had a giant musk ox child threshing machine I would have used it too...

I vaguely remember a thing where there was some mathematical reason that years divisible by 5 had a lot of children.

[lorduberspaz]

Just had another!  2 adults,  6 children. 
Or maybe I have an unfriendly rng?

[Melting Sky]

On the bright side, when children show up in migrant waves they usually aren't newborns so you don't have to wait that long for them to grow up and become more useful.

[Thisfox]

On a 1/1 child and baby pop cap, I have a total pop cap of 75 dwarves... so the one percent should be a fraction of one child.
And I have no less than 20 children, all of them migrants. And three babies.
....I guess the child cap stuff appears to be broken then....

[taptap]

Is it just me or are migration waves now mostly children?
On the plus side,  they are all out in the meadow being trampled to death by giant musk oxen.
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On a 1/1 child and baby pop cap, I have a total pop cap of 75 dwarves... so the one percent should be a fraction of one child.

Get over it, they will grow up. (+ Child cap is meant to regulate "contraception" not to influence migrants. Turn down pop cap and you will be happy about the children.)

[bluephoenix]

For me it is quiet the opposite, now in the new version I have had very few children in the migration waves.
Year is 550 (554 now). I'm sure everything is working as intended.

[tonnot98]

All of my children keep dying to the trace amounts of FB extract that I keep finding on gauntlets.

Well, children AND small animals.... and draltha....

[Thisfox]

Is it just me or are migration waves now mostly children?
On the plus side,  they are all out in the meadow being trampled to death by giant musk oxen.
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On a 1/1 child and baby pop cap, I have a total pop cap of 75 dwarves... so the one percent should be a fraction of one child.

Get over it, they will grow up. (+ Child cap is meant to regulate "contraception" not to influence migrants. Turn down pop cap and you will be happy about the children.)

It isn't an issue. I've already trapped many in the catacombs next to the tombs which they will soon occupy. It's just a nuisance when the entire migration wave is one adult dorf, and four kids. I'll just have to make more tombs.

In previous forts, the migration waves were child free when I had the child pop cap turned down. I guess I was lucky back then.

[lorduberspaz]

If the great toad delivereth me one adult and twenty children then so be it.  I shall span the burrows and excepteth the burden and praise be that I dwelleth not within blockbusterxbox

[utunnels]

Is it just me or there are lots of traders among the migrants?