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[Akkristor]

So, I was using Dwarf Manager to help me organize my influx of new Dwarves, but i messed up.

Normally, Peasants are at the bottom of the list, right?  Well, I didn't notice I had a few Children come along with the Migrants.

Dwarf Manager let me assign the kids labor.

I have 4 Kids running around my fortress smoothing all my stone.

[Airpi]

Good. Give those worthless brats something to keep them busy in between trips to the booze pile.

[Reasonableman]

Personally, I'm thinking child labor should be a sort of on-off option for your fortress as a whole; depending on your race and culture, it could cause severe unhappiness. This probably belongs in a suggestion thread, but this seems fairly appropriate.

This is a rather ingenious solution for the short term, though.

[Walliard]

Expect any engravings they make to be heavily censored from the original version

[ousire]

i see this and think of engravings of barny and my little pony


*shudder*

[beorn080]

I always make my children work. Hunting or fishing tends to toughen the little blighters up, and hauling stone back and forth builds muscle's. Of course, if there is a GCS, they get to build up their agility harvesting webs. They also need to learn just how hard it is to make the booze they drink, so they get to work in the still that only has the occasional magma fall on top of it.

All in all, children are an important slave volunteer work force.

[kefkakrazy]

I think this works, by the way, because children function as adults with all labors turned off, which is why they can fey mood/harvest/pull levers/deconstruct. Just as an aside. DM lets you forcibly enable their labors via hackage.

[Time Kitten]

I prefer just using their natural bucket hauling talent, and locking them in the walls for that hand filled waterfall in every room (and they get to learn how to run from wagma too, as I flood various areas by those tunnels as well.

[Hagadorn]

...


You?... You can make those useless little pieces of &^%* WORK!?

HALLELUJAH!

Suddenly, those horrible, useless, mood stealing, friend making, fragile, stupid, annoying pieces of dross can suddenly be useful!?

YAY!  

I'm so happy!

[Mister Thou]

I've been doing this for a while.

I think it makes sense for children to have to do menial or horrible tasks like butchery, tanning, health care and smoothing. They have to be exposed to death and maiming on a regular basis or they have happy, carefree childhoods, which is unacceptable.

(plus if you have even a few children on health care, no one will ever die because no one feeds/waters them)

[Enzo]

Expect any engravings they make to be heavily censored from the original version

This is an image of a dwarf. The dwarf is drinking dwarven wine applejuice. I'm glad I'm not the only only who immediately thought of something else when they saw 4 Kids on a forum...

[Zangi]

Yea, DM is lovely in that way. could even put the damn nobles to work...  fishing is a common passtime for my nobility. 
Keeping em busy... and... keeping their yaps shut... the culling is not so... 'heart-wrenching'.


I rather Toady work on more important stuff then add lil nuances to what children can and cannot do... and what special conditions they can or cannot make. 

*Glares at barney + 'apple juice' engravings with a frown.* >.> 

No dwarf, baby or child should be forced to drink such blasphemy as apple juice.  Leave that to the elf hippies.  'In mah fortress you drink real liquor... or armok help your soul... water.  None of that elven juice...'

[Albedo]

Little stone boxes with stone straws of mogjuice.

Just put the little blighters into the pump gym.  Train them early for the military, Sparta-style.

[zchris13]

Is it okay if I smash the apples to make the juice with a goblin's femur?

[Time Kitten]

Only if you ferment it into hard cider afterwards.