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[Rhenaya]

... beware of the dukeplosion!

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[Glacies]

Two things.

A) Yeah. The duke comes married so the duke and his consort start sporing right away.

B) You may have messed up your raws.

[Walliard]

If only succession disputes were implemented...

[Rhenaya]

Two things.

A) Yeah. The duke comes married so the duke and his consort start sporing right away.

B) You may have messed up your raws.

A) yes i know this but: i actualy NEVER saw them in a bed together, they even dont spend their idle time in the same meeting zones. and still she keeps poping babys like a rabbit. NONE of my other dwarfs do this

B) i play vanilla, no mods

[Teh Zip File]

Why do nobles always have tons of children but normal dwarves only have one or two?

Do they have nothing else to do or something?

[forsaken1111]

... beware of the dukeplosion!

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Good lord she was productive.

[E-mouse]

Why do nobles always have tons of children but normal dwarves only have one or two?

Do they have nothing else to do or something?

Pretty much.
Though I don't know how much effect that has on DF's actual reproduction mechanics, if any.

[martinuzz]

I'm breeding my way to a king right now.
Started with population cap at 60.

As of now I have 128 dwarves, of whom 38 are still children.
I lock up all lovers together and try to get them married. Succeeded 2 times so far.

My countess has 12 children. One of my normal dwarves got 9. She got elected mayor because of that.

It's a long wait, though. FPS dropped to 15-25 already. Next time I'll change the raws so the children age sooner.

How many dwarves again are needed to get a king?

[Refar]

There should be something like a nursery where you can lock up children to prevent them from following around.
My Major had 9 children. After not getting re-elected he became hauler (because all tho others learned real jobs, while she was pretending to be Noble...).
But these children allways following him caused a lot of lag in my corridors.
Fortunateley 3 of them went into strange moods. One grew up. So she's down to 5 now.

[martinuzz]

Actually, I think it is kinda funny to see those gangs of children marauding through the fortress.

@Refar: how wide are your corridors? Mine are always at least 3 wide, which reduces pathing lag.

[Refar]

My are 3 wide as well.
But 9 children is a 3x3 cluster - sure they don't allways wander as "cluster" - but there are also other Dwarves (and they children...) - so it does add up.

[QuantumSawdust]

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And oddly enough, I have a wrestler/bone carver pair which has 16 children. Partially because my consort died and I suppose their family took up the profession of mass maters. I had assumed that the countess always had all the kids because they never did anything else (except issue demands), but I don't know how to explain the wrestler/bone carver pairing.

[Pilsu]

What's a "Doctor"? He's brown so he has some manner of skill

[Duke 2.0]

 I resent this thread. Very much.

 But yes, reproduction through spores is a bit odd. I can imagine the Duke going "Oh, I need another son!" and then instantly he is surrounded by a cloud of... nevermind.

 *Brain bleached*

[Rhenaya]

What's a "Doctor"? He's brown so he has some manner of skill

its a peasant with only health care job enabled (and custom profession name), due to farming as all dwarves allowed to gather crops, he got some planting skills thats made him brown.
as i am playing without traps and ignore some mandates, i have lots of injurned and imprisoned dwarfes that need health care, and the docotors are here to carry water and food, so they wont die because every other dwarf is in a fulltime job (i have 30000 stones marked for dumping, so at least the cleaning task make quite a mess and i need specialized dwarfs that sit arround and do nothing until someone needs water)