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beefsupreme

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Fourteen year old child
« on: April 07, 2012, 05:22:07 pm »
I've got a 14 year old Dwarven child running around. He's an immigrant from a few months ago, so he didn't age past 12 in the fortress and turn into a peasant. Is he going to age to the 150-170 ceiling age, still a child? Is there any way to make him grow up? I really don't want to go into the raws and change the Dwarven growing up age to 15, because if I do, there's about 3 other kids who will hit 12 by the time he's 15, and I'll get stuck with even more.
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Re: Fourteen year old child
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2012, 05:44:54 pm »
If several years go by and he still doesn't become an adult, he might be a Vampire.
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Re: Fourteen year old child
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2012, 06:18:28 pm »
Quote from: Quietust on April 07, 2012, 05:44:54 pm
If several years go by and he still doesn't become an adult, he might be a Vampire.

He's with 3 siblings and his parents. And he was born in the year 67. I thought vampires were created at world gen?

Edit: Yeah, not a vampire. Just saw him eating.
« Last Edit: April 07, 2012, 06:22:49 pm by beefsupreme »
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Re: Fourteen year old child
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2012, 06:22:53 pm »
Quote from: beefsupreme on April 07, 2012, 06:18:28 pm
Quote from: Quietust on April 07, 2012, 05:44:54 pm
If several years go by and he still doesn't become an adult, he might be a Vampire.

He's with 3 siblings and his parents. And he was born in the year 67. I thought vampires were created at world gen?

I think the gods can curse anyone to be a vampire.   I read a thread where a newborn soon began drinking blood from its mother.
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Re: Fourteen year old child
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2012, 09:19:46 pm »
to what year did you set worldgen and did you abandon previous forts?

I had something similar happening with women who were carrying 5 year old babies. They did turn into children in the end but it was a bit weird. I was guessing they were migrants from an earlier fort and since worldgen ended the children didn't automatically grow up anymore but had to be at a fort for that. As I go further into the game that might cause 30 year old babies to show up at my fort... Fun, just like reality.
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Re: Fourteen year old child
« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2012, 09:22:48 pm »
I believe it only checks whether they should be "leveled up" when they actually get older. He should become an adult on his next birthday.
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Re: Fourteen year old child
« Reply #6 on: April 09, 2012, 05:24:21 pm »
Absentia is correct. I had a 16 year old child show up at a new fort (in a fresh world) but he became a peasant at the start of the next year, as did another child that was 14 when he showed up.
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beefsupreme

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Re: Fourteen year old child
« Reply #7 on: April 09, 2012, 06:34:41 pm »
Yeah, it's weird. I've gotten a couple new old children, but they've grown up into peasants at their next birthday.
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