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[Rayc]

How many babies can a dwarf mom have?  And what should I do with all these kids?  Right now I'm going by their names and assigning them jobs related to them.   I'm wondering how many babies I can get from this one mother.

[kellen]

Set up the Parental Counseling and Family Planning industries.

But, it looks like the default is [BABY_CHILD_CAP:100:1000] unless you change it.  This is neither here nor there, but I'd imagine that a mother with so many babies on her back would be a fearsome warrior. For every swing of the mother's hammer/axe/whathaveyou, a dozen babies punch the target.

[Kilroy the Grand]

Set up the Parental Counseling and Family Planning industries.

But, it looks like the default is [BABY_CHILD_CAP:100:1000] unless you change it.  This is neither here nor there, but I'd imagine that a mother with so many babies on her back would be a fearsome warrior. For every swing of the mother's hammer/axe/whathaveyou, a dozen babies punch the target.

I never thought about it that way! And she even has ablative armor!

[thegoatgod_pan]

Odd, but true, my current fort had three or four "clans" like that, each with 19-20 children before accidents. They all started to come of age.  In the end I formed a new squad of miners, a craftsguild and a criminal gang from the working class dwarf clan. The gang was always headed by a matriarch, who brought her dozens of children into live goblin training, so they'd get dabbling combat skills at age 3. It was pretty sweet, 15 years down the line three of her children became named killing machines (the rest weren't as lucky)

[Lectorog]

Remove "MULTIPLE_LITTER_RARE" tag and you'll get even more dwarf, per dwarf!

I've never let forts live long enough to have more than 2 or 3 babies. Are high numbers common?

[Casp]

You know... there are some tricks that could help you... 'lower' the child population.

If you like.

[Lectorog]

now, time for a thermo nuclear babysplosion instead of a cat one...

Hey, you get 7 dwarves on embark...

[ExdeathV]

The answer is simple.

!!MAGMA!!

[RAKninja]

almost over a quarter of my fortress is made up of children now, by attrition.

once the king gets here, i'm closing off from the outside world for a good decade for some of these useless mouths to grow up.

still gotta worry about cavern stuff though.  might wall that off finally, too.  just had my first experience with a "noxious secretions" FB, and i cannot say i like the results (or that the goblins decided in honer of them actually making the scheduled late-winter siege, they should commemorate the occasion with a late spring siege)

it's gotten to where migrant waves are showing up "despite the danger", even when there is nothing hostile on the map.... and hadn't been in over two months.