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[kelumhi]

my question is what are the requirements for pregnancys. below is what i considere the key components of my fortress, but they dont seem to matter.

Its, to what i beleive, year 23 in my current fortress of 7 dwarfs i havnt achieved a single pregnancy. i have 2 males, 6 females of which there have been 2 couples (lovers) since year 1. my baby cap in the INI file is 100:1000 and pop cap is at 100. wealth at 71k, food is at 250 and drink at 300. everyone has a "great bedroom" and has been in happy or better since the start.

help?

[silhouette]

marriage.
they need marriage.

[kelumhi]

thanks for your fast reply, i guess the next step for this project is to... create eternal love?

[Imp]

What I've seen of my dwarves marrying and breeding - periodic free time is essential.  If I keep them constantly busy, they dont marry (or make friends/so on).  I celebrate caravans with a few days to a couple weeks of 'free time for everyone', and marriages frequently occur during these weeks.  Births are not uncommon after the first year and a half.

[khantin]

I did a generational/last dwarves in the world fort, and by year 20 one of my couples had 15 kids, and the other 2 couples had about 4 ot 5 combined.  The very happy couple were my permanent military dwarves as shooting arrows into wave after wave of orcs made them champs pretty quick.  I guess they like to celebrate like champions too?

ps. first postage

[Arrkhal]

The more dwarves socialize, the faster they fall in love, so make sure you have only one meeting area, and that your two couples are in it as much as possible.

[wagawaga]

I noticed that working dwarves do talk as long as they are working near. My two glassmakers in my last fort, working non-stop form the beginning of fort in two adiacent furnaces, got married in second year.

[Fishbulb]

When will dorfs learn? Workplace romances do not work!

[silhouette]

especially in the butchery...

[sunshaker]

In the creatures_standard file in the dwarf entry find the line

Code: [Select]

[CHILD:12][BABY:1][MULTIPLE_LITTER_RARE]
and replace it with

Code: [Select]

[CHILD:6][BABY:1][LITTERSIZE:3:5]
stand well back.

[monkeyfetus]

The above will make dwarves have three to five children every time they give birth, and children will become adults at 6 years instead of twelve.

[Durin]

I did a generational/last dwarves in the world fort, and by year 20 one of my couples had 15 kids, and the other 2 couples had about 4 ot 5 combined.  The very happy couple were my permanent military dwarves as shooting arrows into wave after wave of orcs made them champs pretty quick.  I guess they like to celebrate like champions too?

ps. first postage

ROFL!  Awesome

[kelumhi]

7 years of constant partys and i finally have a child, so its looking good now. thanks everybody

especially in the butchery...

 

[Lord Dakoth]

"Urist, I think we're going to have to break up... as much as I try, I can't see past your fascination with tentacle demons..."

[Quantum Toast]

"Urist, I think we're going to have to break up... as much as I try, I can't see past your fascination with tentacle demons..."

Was he engraving them on the bedroom wall again?