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[flarn2006]

When my fortress's population gets high enough, babies are born quite often. However, I hardly see this as an event worthy of not only pausing my game, but changing my Z-level. How can I get Dwarf Fortress to just announce births at the bottom of the screen, but not pause the game or change Z-levels?
I'm not one of the parents—I don't care about babies being born. If anything, I'd like them to stop pumping out babies like there's no tomorrow. Babies just sit around, not doing any work, and sometimes go missing and cause dwarves to stop working to find the damned thing. Not only that, but they fill up my Dwarf Therapist screen with tons of useless rows that take up space. It takes twelve Dwarven years before they do anything useful.

[Urist Da Vinci]

Change the following in (df folder)/data/init/announcements.txt

from this:
[BIRTH_CITIZEN:A_D:D_D:P:R]

to this:

[BIRTH_CITIZEN:A_D:D_D]

EDIT: this removes the pause and re-center.

[flarn2006]

Thanks a lot; I'll have to do that. It still announces them at the bottom of the screen though, right? That I don't mind.
Also, I assume it's impossible to make them have babies less often without editing raws (and therefore arguably cheating since it affects gameplay), right? Have dwarves never heard of contraception?

[Veylon]

Keep them busy or avoid giving them a meeting area. No socializing = No pairing up = No kids. Just say no.

[strongrudder]

There's also changing the baby cap in the init file, which is what I do. My fortress maxes out at having 5 babies/children at a time. You can also do percentages if you want.

[Shash The Stampede]

Change the following in (df folder)/data/init/announcements.txt

from this:
[BIRTH_CITIZEN:A_D:D_D:P:R]

to this:

[BIRTH_CITIZEN:A_D:D_D]

EDIT: this removes the pause and re-center.

Will this work for "X has reverted to wild state"? It's killing me.

[BoogieMan]

This is relevant to my interests.

 Thank you.

[swordsmith04]

Change the following in (df folder)/data/init/announcements.txt

from this:
[BIRTH_CITIZEN:A_D:D_D:P:R]

to this:

[BIRTH_CITIZEN:A_D:D_D]

EDIT: this removes the pause and re-center.

Will this work for "X has reverted to wild state"? It's killing me.

Yes; [TRAINING_FULL_REVERSION:A_D:D_D:P:R] It's the fourth line from the bottom.

[blaster339]

Change the following in (df folder)/data/init/announcements.txt

from this:
[BIRTH_CITIZEN:A_D:D_D:P:R]

to this:

[BIRTH_CITIZEN:A_D:D_D]

EDIT: this removes the pause and re-center.

I agree with this, if you fel annoyed in those pauses, do it

[Hughgee]

Thank you! The days of getting shunted from fiddling around in the cavern systems just to find that another squalling meat shield has been born are over!

[TheKaspa]

So, P is for Pause and R for Zoom?

[Trouserman]

Yes. There is an explanation of the codes at the top of the announcements.txt file itself.