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Virtz

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Another fine loop :S
« on: August 12, 2006, 06:43:00 am »
One of my dwarves recently gave birth to a baby. Apparently as soon as they come, they try to crawl away from their mommy. Now, the mother is stuck in a loop, she's hungry, but needs to go search for her baby and so she's standing there in the food storage torn between going after her baby or eating a plump helmet for 2 seconds... she's gonna starve. :\

A party made her move, now she's in a loop between drinking and finding the baby and the baby even walked right past her. Insane woman. :S

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Re: Another fine loop :S
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2006, 10:32:00 am »
That's one of those reqs, since I had this happen too.  There's also a req to stop the baby from being left to die after the mother does.  You'll soon experience this if you haven't already.  Wonderful world.
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Re: Another fine loop :S
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2006, 10:34:00 am »
Strangely enough, the baby grew to be a child without his mother... although he was rather bitter about his mother not getting proper burial at first. Rather traumatized because of seeing his mother die, too.
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Re: Another fine loop :S
« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2006, 11:01:00 am »
Perhaps the child will be making the next evil artifact.
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Re: Another fine loop :S
« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2006, 01:19:00 pm »
"This is a stack of 15 dwarf bone bolts."
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Re: Another fine loop :S
« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2006, 11:03:00 am »
Same thing just happened to me, my Fisherdwarf gave birth to a fine young lad (who needs alcohol to get through the working day, incidently) who, while his mother's head was about to explode from deciding whether to take a drink from the well she's next to and seeking her newborn... wandered straight outside to play in the mining stockpile.

Care of children should be communal, or enveloped in health care somehow.

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Re: Another fine loop :S
« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2006, 12:14:00 pm »
The babies should request food/water when they get hungry (which only happens when they are wandering around), though nobody will currently pick them up and keep them from crawling into the lava.

I've went over the code once a while ago, and haven't yet figured out why the mothers try to balance the drink/seek jobs instead of picking one.  I'll get it at some point.

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