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[treczoks]

Those Dwarfs keep amazing me...

This time, a dwarven child went moody, claimed a workshop and made an artifact left sock.

Whats next? Legendary babies?

[KaguroDraven]

It happens. Just wait until you see a dwarven mother go into combat for a full year, giveing birth as it started, and the kid being a legendary dodger from somehow surviveing that entire time.

[Miko19]

Those Dwarfs keep amazing me...

This time, a dwarven child went moody, claimed a workshop and made an artifact left sock.

Whats next? Legendary babies?

How unlikely that seems, it CAN happen

[Smackinjuice]

The babies need more things to do.  But one time one of my dwarves went mad, picked up a baby; then set him down in the ale room.  now I don't know if i read it right but i'm pretty sure when i hit "U" i saw that the baby was drinking.  Again i could of been wrong and maybe that was a child but it had the baby icon.

What can babies do as it is right now?  And can you make a dwarf manually pick up a baby? if a baby seems weak can you drop him off a cliff?  my dwarfs believe in SPARTA!  I always hear about adventure mode people using dwarfs to kill other children and use there body parts as weapons.  Can you use a dwarf baby as a weapon? toughening it up for it's bright future of mining?

[Aspgren]

Hey OP.

You know how a dwarf can throw tantrums and kill people? Imagine your legendary child doing this. He'll break some skulls ... and children are above the law. They cannot be punished! (this was the case in 40d anyway)

I've had a tantrum spiral in a very ... virile fort. Children were wrecking EVERYTHING. Mostly kicking over chairs and destroying cages (and thus releasing all the zoo animals) but also murdering their parents and siblings, become even more depressed and murder some more!

Those kids of today!

if a baby seems weak can you drop him off a cliff?  my dwarfs believe in SPARTA!  I always hear about adventure mode people using dwarfs to kill other children and use there body parts as weapons.  Can you use a dwarf baby as a weapon?

Throw them off a cliff? No. but you can drop a mother into water. she'll abandon her baby and swim for safety. the mother will have little trouble getting out of a pond, but the baby drowns very quickly.
Weapon? No. but any mother in the military will carry her baby and it will function as extra protection.

[slothen]

i believe you can make children work by turning on jobs in DT

[Uzu Bash]

i believe you can make children work by turning on jobs in DT

Which DT itself lampshades would be cheating.

[Drakeero]

Children going on a rampage and murdering people?  Wow, that's uh.... different from my fort.

Some little brat got a failed mood and went beserk.  Ran out of the workshop and hit a hauler a few times doing absolutely nothing.  The hauler [peasant] goes running off down the hall with the kid after him.  A hunter is walking by doing nothing when the little kid runs up and starts beating on him with no effect.  The hunter just kinda shrugs, pops him once with his wooden crossbow killing him with a spray of blood on the floor and walls, and walks off to do whatever it was he was in the middle of doing.

If I was less lazy I'd put that on the face palm thread.  Seriously... some little twit trying to beat up full grown dwarves?  In a way I laughed when the hunter taught him a valuable lesson about not attacking things bigger and tougher then you.  Too bad the kid didn't survive.

[NewSheoth]

I've had a few children getting moods and making marginally useful artifacts. It's not all that bad - when he grows up, you get an instant legendary! If he gets a chance to grow up, that is.

[Eugenitor]

I get a lot of legendary kids, some grown up by now.

I've also had some minorly-dangerous monster get punched by a baby before my military got there.

[nordak]

Mother goes beserk, baby kills mother... long stretch but it could happen...  I've had children kill in a tantrum spiral, usually from a thrown item.

[Alogism]

I had about 10 in my one fort, Lasted over 10 years, And due to siege mods I never got any migrants aside from the first two waves. So after all 17 of my adult dwarves had fey moods, They started hitting the 40 some children I had running around

[LealNightrunner]

Mother goes beserk, baby kills mother... long stretch but it could happen...  I've had children kill in a tantrum spiral, usually from a thrown item.

I had a child go berserk from a failed mood and beat down 4 war dogs with her bare hands once.

[cog disso]

I enjoy it when the dwarven child organizes a party that lasts for over a year and goes through several thousand barrels of dwarf booze. The second he becomes an adult, he becomes mayor.

[Pinstar]

It would be pretty funny if they melded the dwarven 'mood' system with dwarven pregnancy?

Every pregnant dwarf would fall into a mood, she'd take over a room and gather materials (always food, sometimes booze) and the 'artifact' would be the baby.

They'd have to mellow out the downside and take out the insanity from a gameplay part though, maybe just make them really unhappy if you can't supply them with what they're craving.