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[AzuredreamsXT]

The little bastards keep getting mad about being naked and causing trouble. I can't order my hammerdwarves to cave in their skulls, so i figure forcing them outside the fort to greet the next siege as naked as the day they were born will have to do.

[Loud Whispers]

1. Yup
2. Not the babies though

[Girlinhat]

Sometimes they do, most times they do not.  When they do, they're slow to respond.  They do respond to military alert burrows though.

It won't work for keeping them inside, but it would work well enough to help you detect ambushes early!

[FrisianDude]

The little bastards keep getting mad about being naked and causing trouble. I can't order my hammerdwarves to cave in their skulls, so i figure forcing them outside the fort to greet the next siege as naked as the day they were born will have to do.

Orrrr you produce some clothes and then the problem is gone?

[Girlinhat]

Producing clothes will only prolong the issue.  It's like getting stitches.  It's entirely more straightforward just to amputate and then there's no wound left!

[KodKod]

The little bastards keep getting mad about being naked and causing trouble. I can't order my hammerdwarves to cave in their skulls, so i figure forcing them outside the fort to greet the next siege as naked as the day they were born will have to do.

Wouldn't it be better to donate the children to medical science?

Construct a bridge over a nice little pit, force the children inside, and then drop them 3 or so Z-levels. Rather than simply getting rid of the problem entirely you can turn it into an advantage. The survivors will need intense medical care, preventing them from causing any trouble for quite a while, giving your doctors precious experience in the process.

Any who survive the whole ideal and recover from their wounds? Get ready for round two! Hell, some of them may even make it to adulthood.

[geail]

Wouldn't it be better to donate the children to medical science?

Construct a bridge over a nice little pit, force the children inside, and then drop them 3 or so Z-levels. Rather than simply getting rid of the problem entirely you can turn it into an advantage. The survivors will need intense medical care, preventing them from causing any trouble for quite a while, giving your doctors precious experience in the process.

Any who survive the whole ideal and recover from their wounds? Get ready for round two! Hell, some of them may even make it to adulthood.

That is pretty much word for word as my use of children.  Get them over bridge, drop down pit, if they die oh well, if they survive, to the medical bay!

[rampagingfrodo]

I've had mixed results. For instance, if you assign them to a burrow with no food or drink they'll starve or dehydrate. Similarly, if they do have access to food but not a barrel stockpile they'll spam you with "cannot haul barrel" because the dropoff is inaccessible.

But on occasion I'll see them ignore burrow restrictions and follow their mothers above ground and outside, usually when the mother is dumping something. However, I haven't seen them follow mothers outside burrows for underground tasks.

[Khym Chanur]

In previous versions of the game I've been able to keep children from wandering by assigning each child a private statue garden, which causes them to hang out at their statues.  Don't know if this works with the current version.

[Broseph Stalin]

In previous versions of the game I've been able to keep children from wandering by assigning each child a private statue garden, which causes them to hang out at their statues.  Don't know if this works with the current version.

Idle dwarves hang out in meeting areas or owned rooms, children generally have neither so they hang out in idle swarms.