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[Krash]

I've run my current fortress for a loong time now (10 years) and the amount of dwarf children is beginning to cripple me.  Out of a population of 122, 40 are children, and this is taxing to my cpu and my food.  

I got to 90 dwarfs before the pop limit, so thats thirty or so little buggers that have been born since.  Now, considering that dwarves can live to be 120 (and accouting for the pretty high accidental death rate), that still seems way too much.  Maybe contraceptions all around (and with that I mean a lowering of the birth rate) is needed?

[Torak]

You could just kill off a bunch of them by killing them.

[BurnedToast]

simply drown every peasant who immigrates to your fort. Only married couples will have children, and when a married couple immigrates one will always be a peasant. So if you drown all peasants, you end up with no children.

[JoRo]

I never had one that bad, but one of my forts had over 30 children out of a pop of about 150.  It suffered some insanity, and now it's 9 children out of a pop of 15, though that'll probably hit 8 pretty quick because nobody seems to care for the single surviving baby.
Another fort with a similar population has only a couple children the same length of time into the game.  I wonder what makes a fort attractive to children and married couples?
I didn't know that there was always a peasant in a married couple.  That would explain why my guards and soldiers are constantly giving birth; I draft most peasants the instant they show up on the map.

[Krash]

quote: You could just kill off a bunch of them by killing them.

Lol, yeah I suppose.  I'm a little worried about tantruming champions though.

[Helmaroc]

Dump the peasants and children into a chasm...we don't know if they died, they just fell, according to the messages.  

[Greiger]

Maybe kill off all the kids while having yer military in little specialized individual grieving rooms with food, water access, plenty of expensive statues, engravings, a masterwork bed and plenty of stuff to fling around?

I built a similar set of rooms with ceiling food and water hatches after being inspired by a topic, but I haven't had a need to use them yet so I dunno if it will work.

[Jezebeau]

Pick up Foreman and set them to menial tasks in true child-labour fashion.  Small item and food hauling, animal caretaker, planting, and weaving are good traditional ones.

[Torak]

quote:Originally posted by Jezebeau:
<STRONG>Pick up Foreman and set them to menial tasks in true child-labour fashion.  Small item and food hauling, animal caretaker, planting, and weaving are good traditional ones.</STRONG>

Have them make nothing but shoes.

[ERoberts]

Find a way to set up an outdoor play-area, called the "Goblin Market"
 

[Karzack]

quote:Originally posted by ERoberts:
<STRONG>Find a way to set up an outdoor play-area, called the "Goblin Market"
  </STRONG>

I know I'm always happy when I get the message that a child has been kidnapped.  That'll teach 'em...

[kamikazemoose]

The children are evil!

But at least he became a legendary bone carver.

[Helmaroc]

quote:Originally posted by kamikazemoose:
<STRONG>The children are evil!
   
But at least he became a legendary bone carver.</STRONG>

...Dwarven Chuckie...lol.