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[Zenatsu]

So while I'm planning my fortress out all decorative like and after slaughtering a few harassing cave Douc--Monsters, One of my children decided to seclude them self from society (The "secretive" fey mood). So he goes along and takes siege of my crafts-dwarf building (wasn't using it anyways). So he goes along and grabs something from my giant storage cave, and starts building Armok knows what.

Then BAM all of the sudden he makes a sweet legendary artifact and becomes a legendary craft's dwarf, and he hasn't matured yet!

Feast your eyes upon the lulz!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I don't know why it is a hydra, but from reading stories, the future doesn't look too good to me.

So I dunno if this is some sort of witty bug, or this kid in my world is completely psychotic (and a genius)

Anyone have any similar experiences?

P.S Bonus for me, I don't haft to train a craft-dwarf now! until the kid grows up...

[Biag]

Yeah, this happens from time to time. Unfortunately, your fortress will probably fall to spoilers long before they mature.

Anyone ever had this happen to a baby, by chance? Is it possible? Can we force it with Runesmith?

[Zenatsu]

If a baby would become a legendary craft-whatever.


I'd put that bitch to work! And yes, in my fortress I support Child labor. Only thing holding me back is "A child dose as he pleases"

my fucking dwarven manure they do. If they can carry an item, pick, or weapon they can bet I'll put em to work! Damn free loaders...

[Pukako]

Took down a constructed wall today, and it was a 1 year old child that turned up and did it.  Was a reasonable mason by that stage.

Ran out to play tag with a troll invasion later, though, so no idea if kids can grow up...

[Laurin]

It seems to be quite common.
I had at least two children making artifacts , I have read about a baby recently somewhere in the forum.

[koruth]

Yep, happens from moods.  Don't think I've ever seen a dwarven *baby* get a mood before though.  I think that usually you'll also see most kids' social skills get up around legendary-ish by the time they mature, since all they do is mill about and throw parties.

Useless little skunks until they're 12, but what (short of modding) are ya gonna do?

[Flaede]

They can grow up. The age is even controlled in the raws.
As per wiki: Baby for 1 year, child until 12.
So keep your fort going for another 12 years (or 12-however many it's been since s/he was born) and that child will grow up.

[Valkyrie]

Since children won't have skill in any mood-able professions, they'll always get one of the craft workshop profession's moods - either Bone Carving, Wood Crafting, or Stone Crafting.  Since you're liable to wind up with plenty of legendary bone/wood/stone crafters anyway (either through adults without mood-able profs, or from a plethora of children, or the old-fashioned way by just making so many of the products), having a mooded child always seems like an unfortunate thing to me - but one that happens a lot

At least in 40d they got super-stats from it, which made them more immediately useful upon reaching adulthood - or at least, better able to dodge arrows and goblins to give them more of a chance of /getting/ to adulthood.  With 31.x stats not seeming to be earned as easily, the legendary kids no longer even get insta-strong/fast/durable, either :/

[Proteus]

In my last fortress I had 3 legendary kids,
all from the same family (3 of the 8 children the parents had)

[jei]

They can grow up. The age is even controlled in the raws.
As per wiki: Baby for 1 year, child until 12.
So keep your fort going for another 12 years (or 12-however many it's been since s/he was born) and that child will grow up.

Ehh, as I've understood it, children grow up faster if you make them toys to play with. Not to mention they learn useful skills in the process.

[Proteus]

This is "Dwarf Fortress", not "The Sims 2"

[Sheb]

He's right, as long as toy are gobs, shields and hammer. :p

[zagibu]

The stats thing has been re-added in the latest patch and I've got some mighty kids walking around.

Also, [CHILD:9].

You mean: [CHILD:20] and [JUVENILE:40]. We are talking about dwarves, here, remember?

[The Grackle]

He's right, as long as toy are gobs, shields and hammer. :p

I once tried to make a legendary child by dropping crippled gobbos into his room for him to wrestle.  It was harder than I thought.  If the room was too big, he'd run around and eventually starve.  If the room was too small, the gobbo might land on him and not get injured enough for a three year old to eye-gouge to death. 

[Sheb]

What about crippling the goblin first (Using upright spears) and then send him into the room?