I have started a slightly modded fort.
The year is 236. Dwarvenkind is extinct (0 dwarves in the world).
I modded the game so that dwarves only live 1 year.
So, on the 1st of Granite, if they age 1yo, they die. If they age 0 yo, they will die next 1st Granite.
To make the return of dwarves feasible, I have also modded females dwarves to lay eggs. They lay 5 to 20 eggs.
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Let's go !
I set up honeymoon rooms from my starting 7. Two of them have married in autumn, and started laying eggs.
My 2 migration waves were bad. No married, nor matching couples. Got pretty unlucky here.
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Dwarven babies have hatched.The eggs have hatched right before winter ! Yes !!
I now have 30 babies in their mother's arms...
Wait ? Babies ? Why Babies ?!!
Ho nooo ! I forgot to change the CHILD and BABY tags in the raws... Babies are not adults ! Damn it !
* Saves and changes the raws *
* Babies are still babies... *
I'm screwed !
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28th Obsidian
Say goodbye to all the 1yo dwarves ! =D
Urist has been found dead. x16
Okay.
3 Adults are still alive.
They are all female ! So no more honeymoon...
The fort is screwed.
I have 3 nurses taking care of 30 orphean babies, who crawl in the fort near the bodies of their parents, hopeless.
The nurses give food/water to the babies so they don't die.
Just try, if you can, to picture the situation. Dead bodies everywhere. 3 helpless girls trying to appease 30 crying babies, laying on the empy corridors...
I don't know why, but it makes me smile.
But I have no way to produce more dwarves.
Civ is dead. So no migrants.
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I won't resign yet !
I'm waiting for winter to see if the babies turn adult. If they do, maybe I can do something.
I also set up a tavern to hopefully get something. The tavern is called "The last hope". Very fitting.
Next Spring, the fortress dies... I'll tell you if life found a way