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[Leonidas]

Is there any efficient way to determine which dwarves are pregnant?  I really don't want anybody giving birth in the middle of an active danger room.

[Patchy]

If they are married, they are pregnant unless you have passed your child cap in the init settings.

[Comrade]

I don't think you can, you could throw them into 2/7 magma and see how long it takes for them to get out. Just use my table.

.1sec - 1sec : NOT PREGNANT
1sec - 2sec : PREGNANT
2+ sec : DEAD

[vassock]

If my pop cap is passed, will they still get pregnant?

[Quietust]

If my pop cap is passed, will they still get pregnant?

Absolutely - if you want to stop that, you'll need to change your BABY_CHILD_CAP in d_init.txt.

[Leonidas]

OK, then how do I tell how pregnant they are? 

My goal here is to use danger rooms to train up all my dwarves as super melee fighters.  I'm assuming that a woman could get grumpy on seeing her baby impaled on a danger room spike.  The options I see right now are:

1.  Lower the baby cap to prevent pregnancies.  Would that affect adult immigration?

2.  Make all the women marksdwarves and await the inevitable sex-discrimination lawsuit.

3.  Somehow know when a woman is likely to give birth, and pull her out of the danger room during that time.

Another other ideas?

[dsi1]

OK, then how do I tell how pregnant they are? 

My goal here is to use danger rooms to train up all my dwarves as super melee fighters.  I'm assuming that a woman could get grumpy on seeing her baby impaled on a danger room spike.  The options I see right now are:

1.  Lower the baby cap to prevent pregnancies.  Would that affect adult immigration?

2.  Make all the women marksdwarves and await the inevitable sex-discrimination lawsuit.

3.  Somehow know when a woman is likely to give birth, and pull her out of the danger room during that time.

Another other ideas?

1. No

2. But babies are great meatshields...

3. You can't know besides that "They are married" and "They are not married".

[Xenxe]

Only males in the military problem solved

its what i do anyway and many others I hear

[MaDeR Levap]

You cannot detect if anything is pregnant or not. Currently does not exist any difference between pregnant and non-pregnant state (except most obvious thing - poping out baby, but this will not help you). No drawbacks or penatlies to movement or whatever.

[UberNube]

I don't think you can, you could throw them into 2/7 magma and see how long it takes for them to get out. Just use my table.

.1sec - 1sec : NOT PREGNANT
1sec - 2sec : PREGNANT
2+ sec : DEAD

This is so sigged!

[Patchy]

OK, then how do I tell how pregnant they are? 

My goal here is to use danger rooms to train up all my dwarves as super melee fighters.  I'm assuming that a woman could get grumpy on seeing her baby impaled on a danger room spike.  The options I see right now are:

1.  Lower the baby cap to prevent pregnancies.  Would that affect adult immigration?

2.  Make all the women marksdwarves and await the inevitable sex-discrimination lawsuit.

3.  Somehow know when a woman is likely to give birth, and pull her out of the danger room during that time.

Another other ideas?

Once married they pop the kids out like clockwork. Every 9 months or so. Easiest way to tell about how far along they are is to look at the age of their youngest child.