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[miauw62]

I have too many babies. Over half of my 120-dorf fort is babies. Whenever a dorf dies, he is almost instantly replaced by babies. It is too late to change things in the init, but is there any way to just delete all of these babies? A DFHack script, perhaps?

(Setting the adult age to 1 will not help, a lot of skilless adult dorfs is only marginally better than a lot of babies and children)

[Dirst]

I have too many babies. Over half of my 120-dorf fort is babies. Whenever a dorf dies, he is almost instantly replaced by babies. It is too late to change things in the init, but is there any way to just delete all of these babies? A DFHack script, perhaps?

(Setting the adult age to 1 will not help, a lot of skilless adult dorfs is only marginally better than a lot of babies and children)

Magma.

Dealing with the resulting tantrum spiral is left as an exercise for the reader.

[miauw62]

I have too many babies. Over half of my 120-dorf fort is babies. Whenever a dorf dies, he is almost instantly replaced by babies. It is too late to change things in the init, but is there any way to just delete all of these babies? A DFHack script, perhaps?

(Setting the adult age to 1 will not help, a lot of skilless adult dorfs is only marginally better than a lot of babies and children)

Magma.

Dealing with the resulting tantrum spiral is left as an exercise for the reader.

How do I magma babies to death without magmaing the mothers?

[Dirst]

I have too many babies. Over half of my 120-dorf fort is babies. Whenever a dorf dies, he is almost instantly replaced by babies. It is too late to change things in the init, but is there any way to just delete all of these babies? A DFHack script, perhaps?

(Setting the adult age to 1 will not help, a lot of skilless adult dorfs is only marginally better than a lot of babies and children)

Magma.

Dealing with the resulting tantrum spiral is left as an exercise for the reader.

How do I magma babies to death without magmaing the mothers?

You want to do this safely?  Fine.

DFHack has a command called exterminate.  Select the creature you want to die and type exterminate him.  It is a "him" regardless of the creature's gender (if any).  It makes the creature actually die in game, rather than just vanish from everyone's memory.  So you'll still have to deal with a tantrum spiral.

[miauw62]

Now there's probably going to be thousands of engravings of children dying all over my fortress, but at least it's better than renditions of a well-designed image of a mink and laboring dwarves.
Thanks!

E:
There are dead babies all over my legendary dining hall and my population has halved. Thank you.

E2:
My population is now one tenth of what it used to be, because in the middle of the miasma and some managable tantrums, a webbing FB that I thought was safe in the second cavern layer found its way up to the first, webbed my dorfs, exterminated my military and then the rest of my fort, except for the wereskink speardwarf (That I was keeping in a bridged-off room to throw onto silver spikes once that was finished) and a few wounded soldiers, and two other dorfs stuck in cages.

[Findulidas]

Well you have dwarves left.

[Orange Wizard]

This is what DF is all about. Aggressive population control results in civil unrest, and that makes an opening for invading forces.

[RailroadRider]

There are dead babies all over my legendary dining hall and my population has halved. Thank you.

Sigged.