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Aspgren

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Hunting babies
« on: August 10, 2009, 10:46:57 pm »
Do babies sever on break?

I seem to recall a baby being shot in the hand and it coming clean off. My brother was surprised at this so I thought that maybe my memory was jagged. I decided to go out baby hunting.

... but I can't find any babies. I put all my skill points into archery and searched two entire human towns to find them - no result. Do babies even exist in adventure mode? The map I used has been used before, so did all the babies have time to grow up? Does the wheels of time stop spinning after the world is generated and thus NPCs don't procreate? is this why I didn't find any babies?

Does that mean that a world in which a fortress survives 12+ years is completely free of children?

I looked around for a long time so I don't have the energy right now to generate a new world and start all over. Please, does anyone here have the answer to my question? Find me a baby ... and shoot it!
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Re: Hunting babies
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2009, 10:51:34 pm »
You could always just make a fort, breed a few dwarf babies, abandon, and hunt down the former workers. It's fun, really. Just do it on a small island.
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Re: Hunting babies
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2009, 02:50:27 am »
Quote from: Haven on August 10, 2009, 10:51:34 pm
You could always just make a fort, breed a few dwarf babies, abandon, and hunt down the former workers. It's fun, really. Just do it on a small island.
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Re: Hunting babies
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2009, 07:33:49 am »
I found that stopping world gen after 1 year will have a lot of babies crawling around. Though I havnt noticed and sever on breaks from them.
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Aspgren

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Re: Hunting babies
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2009, 12:44:14 pm »
Quote from: Grimlocke on August 11, 2009, 07:33:49 am
I found that stopping world gen after 1 year will have a lot of babies crawling around. Though I havnt noticed and sever on breaks from them.

Couldn't do that. Can only stop on year 2. (i suppose I should change something in the .ini?) and there wasn't a single baby.

Quote from: Haven on August 10, 2009, 10:51:34 pm
You could always just make a fort, breed a few dwarf babies, abandon, and hunt down the former workers. It's fun, really. Just do it on a small island.

I abandoned an old one and tracked down the dwarves. I killed a baby but the rest of the population ganged up on me... god and damn. I give up.
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Quote from: Deus Machina on May 22, 2011, 06:14:35 am
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Rakonas

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Re: Hunting babies
« Reply #5 on: August 13, 2009, 01:55:14 am »
edit the files for when a baby becomes a child, then stop before then.
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