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Ayeohx

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Adoption : Orphans Suck
« on: December 16, 2009, 09:30:49 pm »
Seriously, please implement some sort of adoption scheme.  Watching an orphan baby crawl around dying of hunger and thirst sucks.  I'm sick and twisted but I've got a soft spot for my wee dwarven babies. In short of an official fix is there a way to mod the babies to some sort of self sufficiency?
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Re: Adoption : Orphans Suck
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2009, 09:35:33 pm »
delete the [BABY] tag in the .raw
all dwarves will be born as "independent" children that can feed and water booze themselves.

[probably won't require a newly generated world, but if your dwarves keep giving birth to babies and not children, then you probably will need to generate a new world]
« Last Edit: December 16, 2009, 09:37:19 pm by Mechanoid »
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Re: Adoption : Orphans Suck
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2009, 09:38:03 pm »
Ignoring how common this was during the 1400 time frame and any culture-based issues related to it that could come up, this could be nice to have.
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Re: Adoption : Orphans Suck
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2009, 11:26:50 pm »
Deleting the baby tag works well.

I am fairly sure I did not have to regen my world when i did so, and I am also fairly certain I did not even have to start a new fort.

Dorf children also grow in 1 year...

But since I have disabled births its kinda redundant to have that there.
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Re: Adoption : Orphans Suck
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2009, 12:34:37 am »
This is a pretty good idea; thus, it's already been had :C
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Req137, ORPHANED BABIES, (Future): Handle orphaned babies less cruelly. At least bring them to a bed and feed them or something. A dwarf could be selected to adopt one.

It does seem like it'd be something pretty straightforward to implement, that might result in some neat worldgen stories.
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Re: Adoption : Orphans Suck
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2013, 12:58:49 pm »
I know this is a very old thread, but nothing else came up for adoption.  From the looks of it there used to be a request for adoption, but it was not on the current "DF Eternal Suggestion Voting" list.  I added a new entry there, as follows:

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Create a way to assign orphan children and babies to new parents. Depending on the adult's personality they could either get happy or negative thoughts from the event. Also allow this feature to be used to take children/babies away from still living parents and make them orphans (useful for military mothers).
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