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Life found a way !
My 30 crawling babies never grew up. I locked them in a room to starve to death. They were still babies, but ate way too much for the nurses to handle.
The tavern was useless.
But one nesting box of my dead married female had some eggs left in it. Fertilized eggs that that female laid before her death !
The eggs hatched and fully grown dwarves came out of it !!
Manies babies have hatched !11 fully grown adults.
They are ready to procreate.
And I just happen to have 3 unused nurses. Good !
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So, I arranged marriages between less than 1 month olds, and mature females.
I don't even feel bad about that.
I managed to set up two married couples out of the hatched
babies adults.
The nurses laid eggs, which hatched by winter.
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So, as it stand now, almost everyone in the fort is from the same family :
- I have the 11 adults hatched without their mother. They are all siblings.
- Two of these 11 married two of the nurses.
- Each nurse gave one "house" of dwarves (house A, of 15 souls; and house B, of 18 souls)
-> Dwarves of the same house are siblings.
-> Dwarves of different houses are cousins.
* Reads wiki *
I can make marriage happen amongst cousins !
* Sets up honeymoon rooms *
And eventually, this happens !
Urist Mc House A and Urist Mc House B have married ! Congratulations !And soon enough, more marriages, and more
babies adults happen.
At year 3, I have 140 dwarves in my fortress
So, I believe, I have successfully revived dwarvenkind at this point
I just have to be carefull to mix houses enough so I can always breed more dwarves through consanguineous shenanigans, and I should be OK.
Except, maybe, for the 140 coffins I will have to get for next Spring.
Many dead dwarves in this mod... It could be Fun to play in a succession game maybe.