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[Foamybeard]

Alright, I've got a... Strange issue. The last migrant wave brought three babies to my fort. The babies are not being carried by their mother, and are just wandering around. Right now, I've got three of them rolling around in the dirt outside my fortress, and I've got no idea how to get their mothers to collect the little brats angels. I'm a little worried about them being kidnapped - While I like to take part in the glorious FUN stuff happenings in my normal fort, and wouldn't give a crap if they were normally stolen, for this one I'm going a little more... Seriousness - I'm basically using the stuff that is happening for some story I'm writing.

Is there any way I can get these idiot kids back into the fort?

[Baffler]

If you have a meeting area they should bring themselves there. If you do and they're still faffing about out there try burrowing them in the dining area or something. If that doesn't work you can try assigning them a bedroom/dining room somewhere in the fort, where they will sometimes go to idle. If that still doesn't work try undermining them, the fall should get them injured and taken to the hospital. If nothing's killed them by the time all of that fails, you'll pretty much just have to keep them alive to childhood (they should do so on their first birthday I think.) Their lot in life is better than abandoned infants in older versions in that other dwarves will feed them and bring them water, and passing wildlife might not even murder them on principle.

[Foamybeard]

The burrow did the trick. Thank you very much, baffler.

Also, you taught me a new word. 'faffing;. Sounds very dwarven, I like it!

[Thisfox]

Babies don't report to the hospital (or get taken to the hospital) until they become children. I've never noticed a dwarf baby going to their own bedroom on their own, as well. No idea why. Their parents can put them to bed there though.

I've had a few emancipated babies, and they always survive. One was dropped by the Outpost Liaison and became my youngest migrant ever, as her mum didn't seem to want her. Another emancipated dorf baby crawled around outside until a werebeast came, then lured the beast into a crop of stonefall traps, kiling the werebeast!

[pisskop]

At least no 'knappers exist in the new versions, so I'd give them fair odds at surviving.

[Baffler]

Babies don't report to the hospital (or get taken to the hospital) until they become children. I've never noticed a dwarf baby going to their own bedroom on their own, as well. No idea why. Their parents can put them to bed there though.

Really? That's good to know. I just assumed that unattended Dwarven babies acted like children who don't deconstruct buildings and help harvest the crops and whatnot. I didn't know that parents will put their baby to bed either (I just assumed that they carried them 24/7, awake or asleep,) but it really makes you realize just how much thought has gone into the Dwarf AI, however silly they might act sometimes.

[Foamybeard]

At least no 'knappers exist in the new versions, so I'd give them fair odds at surviving.

Oh. Damn.

This actually makes me really disappointed - One of my favorite uses of capture Child-Snachers was as a live training dummy. Get ten of them, take all clothes and weapons from them, then sic a squad on all ten of them Gladiator style.

Ah well.

[Eldin00]

I don't believe they were intentionally taken out, since they are still active in worldgen and adventure mode. But snatchers seem to be entirely absent from fortress mode, for whatever reason.

[Bumber]

At least no 'knappers exist in the new versions, so I'd give them fair odds at surviving.

*Imagines a goblin sharpening one child against another*
It was inevitable.

[TheFlame52]

If a baby is orphaned in one of my forts, I give it a room and it hangs out in the dormitories. People feed it until it grows up.

[mineforce]

Alright, I've got a... Strange issue. The last migrant wave brought three babies to my fort. The babies are not being carried by their mother, and are just wandering around. Right now, I've got three of them rolling around in the dirt outside my fortress, and I've got no idea how to get their mothers to collect the little brats angels. I'm a little worried about them being kidnapped - While I like to take part in the glorious FUN stuff happenings in my normal fort, and wouldn't give a crap if they were normally stolen, for this one I'm going a little more... Seriousness - I'm basically using the stuff that is happening for some story I'm writing.

Is there any way I can get these idiot kids back into the fort?

Here's what you can do with them.

-dwarven atom smasher

-fun with magma

-arranged accident

-good for the lions

-insanity pit

-Death pit

-dwarven daycare (effective)

-human slingshot

-drowning chambers

-goblin siege sacrifice

-dwarven atom smasher

[Foamybeard]

Alright, I've got a... Strange issue. The last migrant wave brought three babies to my fort. The babies are not being carried by their mother, and are just wandering around. Right now, I've got three of them rolling around in the dirt outside my fortress, and I've got no idea how to get their mothers to collect the little brats angels. I'm a little worried about them being kidnapped - While I like to take part in the glorious FUN stuff happenings in my normal fort, and wouldn't give a crap if they were normally stolen, for this one I'm going a little more... Seriousness - I'm basically using the stuff that is happening for some story I'm writing.

Is there any way I can get these idiot kids back into the fort?

Here's what you can do with them.

-dwarven atom smasher

-fun with magma

-arranged accident

-good for the lions

-insanity pit

-Death pit

-dwarven daycare (effective)

-human slingshot

-drowning chambers

-goblin siege sacrifice

-dwarven atom smasher

Lemme quote half of my post back for ya.

While I like to take part in the glorious FUN stuff happenings in my normal fort, and wouldn't give a crap if they were normally stolen, for this one I'm going a little more... Seriousness - I'm basically using the stuff that is happening for some story I'm writing.

So I can't do that.