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[Daveorock]

After my fort hit around 75 dwarves (pop cap set to 50, but everyone knows that's currently broken), my the fort started seeing it's first babies. A few was fine, then more were born, and more, and more and more and more... About 5 months after the "invasion" started, I now have 30 natural residents! Worse than migrants!!! I can't figure out what to do and almost every dwarf is now lugging around their offspring! I can't have the game unpaused for 1 minute before another is born, it's insane!

What should I do?!

[Broseph Stalin]

This problem has already been solved by the community. I'll give you a hint: It starts with M.

[Daveorock]

Don't have that (yet), I want to keep this fort though, doing that would cause... undesirable...ness.

[Daveorock]

Also, since the time I last posted, I have gotten 3 more babies, so I'm now at 33, just to give you an idea of how rapidly these things are taking over.

[Crustypeanut]

Feed them to the zombies and be overwhelmed with zombie babies!

[ASCIt]

Surgically remove the ovaries?

[Girlinhat]

init or d_init (can't remember) has a place for the child cap.  By default, it's at 100.  Once you reach 100 children and babies combined total, they'll stop birthing.

In the meantime, use the search bar at the top.  "Dwarven Child Care"

[Krelm]

What should I do?!

Weaponize.

[miauw62]

Surgically remove the ovaries?

Arr, from you i would have expected something including slade.

[Montague]

Say, do danger rooms with wooden training spears kill off children? Or just babies? If so, it sounds like it would be the ideal way to optimize your fortress population.

I've usually turn off births in my forts and just ignore the handful of migrant children that might show up, so I don't know much about them.

[Girlinhat]

Training spears will kill fully grown dwarves.  Great way to train your doctor, not a good way to train babies.  However, young turkey seem to be small enough not to do damage except for extremely lucky hits.

[Weylyn]

Training spears will kill fully grown dwarves.  Great way to train your doctor, not a good way to train babies.  However, young turkey seem to be small enough not to do damage except for extremely lucky hits.

I think he wasn't so much talking about training the babies, as he was suggesting that the danger room might be used to peel the baby off of the mother.

...which would probably work, yes.

[Girlinhat]

Oh, well in that case yes.  A solid 4-5 training spears given one thrust should suffice.  Every creature on the tile will take the hit, and babies will be hit much harder, so you should very effectively remove the children (to the refuse pile) and train your doctor because the mother will have some wounds and maybe a broken bone or two.

[Daveorock]

I knew of the child cap, and I had already set it to 25 but it didn't stop the babies. Also, for now, it has seemed to stop (don't know why, if it's cause of some cap or if I'm lucky), if it starts again, babies to the danger room.

Update: It seems that it's been 2 years since the baby invasion started, now they are all starting to become children.. yay for fps death!

[ASCIt]

I'll be honest, there isn't much use for slade in birth cont-
slade condoms.