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[Raging Mouse]

A strange thing just occurred in my fort;

Two different dwarves gave birth exactly at the same time. Seriously, the game paused only once for the two of them. A boy and a girl infant saw light for the first time (well, glow from the magma anyhow), and got my imagination spinning. Clearly these two are fated to something great. Perhaps a divided soul?

To keep an eye on them I gave them nicknames; Ziksis and Etas, or Split and Joined. Provided my fort (and my interest) survives for that long I shall keep you posted.

Have you ever seen simultaneous (non-twin) births?

[Jim Groovester]

A boy and a girl? As their births are blessed, just think about how blessed any children born by them must be.

You should see if you can get them to marry when they're of age.

Have you ever seen simultaneous (non-twin) births?

Never had any twins, and I don't think I've seen any simultaneous births either.

[Karnewarrior]

One must be a Swordsdwarf, and the other a Hammerdwarf.

Any children born will be normal. Blessings aren't hereditary.

[SethCreiyd]

One must be a Swordsdwarf, and the other a Hammerdwarf.

I personally feel one must also be a miner, and the other a mason.  Dunno why.

[smjjames]

Heh, how about three at once? I think it happened one or two other times (for different dwarves then), it was during the early part of a baby boom I was having in the current fort. It only paused for one of them and I only noticed when I went to the announcements screen.

[NW_Kohaku]

Have you ever seen simultaneous (non-twin) births?

Frequently.  Especially when I have multiple types of animals giving birth.  I have several cows and cats with the exact same birthdays.

The cause of this seems to be that impregnation and birth seems to occur only at the tick from one day to the next.  Since there are only 336 days in a dwarf year, with births occuring every year, a certain amount of overlap will occur, especially when most births are occuring at the same time, thanks to many of these cows or cats or horses or dogs being purchased from a caravan at the same general time of year, and getting impregnated at around the same time of year, as well.

[Danjen]

To keep an eye on them I gave them nicknames; Ziksis and Etas, or Split and Joined.

I seriously just did a google translate to see what language those names are from. Then I realized, it's Dwarven.

[Raging Mouse]

Frequently.  Especially when I have multiple types of animals giving birth.  I have several cows and cats with the exact same birthdays.

The cause of this seems to be that impregnation and birth seems to occur only at the tick from one day to the next.  Since there are only 336 days in a dwarf year, with births occuring every year, a certain amount of overlap will occur, especially when most births are occuring at the same time, thanks to many of these cows or cats or horses or dogs being purchased from a caravan at the same general time of year, and getting impregnated at around the same time of year, as well.

Really? I could have sworn the animal births were more evenly dispersed. Time to do some SCIENCE!!!

[Imp]

I rarely have simultaneous births, but I definately have animal 'birthing seasons' in my forts.  And one of my forts part of the story was a rivalry between my narrating character and the first immigrant family, with my narrator's firstborn arriving very soon after that already pregnant family's mother giving birth to the first baby born on the map.  The next year my narrator's child was born before that immigrant mother's was, by 4 game days or so.  So there is a little bit of variation possible, but I've definately seen 'waves of births' quite often.