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[AzureAngelic]

I swear to god, babies are hardcore.

My woodworker randomly crapped out a baby while making cages. The baby, immediately after being born, took off. The mother followed it only for it to make a U-turn, throwing her off. It then ran down 30 flights of stairs to the metal workshops and climbed into the magma forge before the mother caught up and extracted it.

The baby attempted to jump in magma. Hardcore.

[Repulsion]

  In my third or fourth fort, one of my legendary miners had a baby, and then that baby immediately claimed a masons workshop and got to work one something. He made a really cool artifact which I can't really remember, but it was a chair and had all kinds of shit and metal all over it. He was a legendary mason at like, three days. Then later, when he was a kid, I used Dwarf Therapist and enabled labor on him and I made him a weaponsmith, and then later he became legendary in that and when he was all grown up I made him into a hammerdwarf, and he slaughtered 3 megabeasts all by himself. Although they weren't the strongest megabeasts, it was still quite an accomplishment.

[FleshForge]

I also had a baby pop out of the oven and almost immediately craft a 77k artifact (I think it was actually a toy).

[NW_Kohaku]

Dwarven babies are like Mindy or Baby Herman - unless clinging directly to their mother like the child of an ape, they will walk directly into the nearest pit or dangerous situation to commit suicide, and only some kind of quick rescue by a caretaker will save them.

This is presumably to get rid of babies that have no mother, but obviously, if the mother fails to pick one up, the code can kick in prematurely.

[carebear]

I guess the womb wasn't warm enough for him. Time to move!

[Nyxalinth]

  In my third or fourth fort, one of my legendary miners had a baby, and then that baby immediately claimed a masons workshop and got to work one something. He made a really cool artifact which I can't really remember, but it was a chair and had all kinds of shit and metal all over it. He was a legendary mason at like, three days. Then later, when he was a kid, I used Dwarf Therapist and enabled labor on him and I made him a weaponsmith, and then later he became legendary in that and when he was all grown up I made him into a hammerdwarf, and he slaughtered 3 megabeasts all by himself. Although they weren't the strongest megabeasts, it was still quite an accomplishment.

You sure that the father wasn't Armok himself? Only explanation I can think of for such awesome.

[rknewell]

Actually I've had orphaned babies wander around my fort, being periodically fed and watered by random dwarfs until they hit child status. Perhaps I didn't have any good suicide spots, although I usually use a patch of open magma for an incinerator...hmm.

The baby's father seemed completely unconcerned through all of this and completely ignored the child as far as I know.

[monk12]

Actually I've had orphaned babies wander around my fort, being periodically fed and watered by random dwarfs until they hit child status. Perhaps I didn't have any good suicide spots, although I usually use a patch of open magma for an incinerator...hmm.

The baby's father seemed completely unconcerned through all of this and completely ignored the child as far as I know.

I had that, except it didn't seem like any of the dwarves were feeding him so much as he hung around in the statue garden drinking out of buckets of water. He ended up joining the military, but quickly tantrumed and killed the mayor, who was also his father.

Was a good fortress. 40d.

[shadowform]

Actually I've had orphaned babies wander around my fort, being periodically fed and watered by random dwarfs until they hit child status. Perhaps I didn't have any good suicide spots, although I usually use a patch of open magma for an incinerator...hmm.

The baby's father seemed completely unconcerned through all of this and completely ignored the child as far as I know.

"Hey Urist, aren't you gonna do something about your kid?  I mean, I know that your wife died, but..."
"Nope.  Kids gotta learn somehow that magma ain't safe."

[Zaik]

Not exactly a hardcore baby thing, but apparently my militia commander wanted to get her new baby started on his military training early by bringing him into my 4x training spear trap room with her to train.

The baby, having no clothing, was promptly shredded into ribbons and sent dwarf blood flying all over the room.

Oddly, she is still ecstatic. Thinking poor little Rorod Grigfeb might have been an accident to begin with >.>

[Tsarwash]

I'm sure that this is very common, but I had one baby cling to her mother while the parent single handedly killed eighteen goblins and trolls.

[Halykan]

I'm sure that this is very common, but I had one baby cling to her mother while the parent single handedly killed eighteen goblins and trolls.

Dreadfully common - at least she didn't use the kid as a shield.

[FleshForge]

Worth checking if the little tyke picked up any combat skills from seeing all that first hand...