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[Sagabal]

I was looking at my unit list, and noticed that it only listed one child.  Normally I have two.  Then I got an announcement that a child has grown into a peasant.  I check my unit list again, and found no new peasant, and still one child.  An announcement let me know that a donkey foal bumped into a goblin snatcher, who was near the edge of the map.  And so I came up with this in the log:

code:

Minkot Bidokoddom, Animal Dissector cancels Hunt: Interrupted by hoary marmot.
*** STARTING NEW GAME ***
** Loading Fortress **
x2
DŒshmab Vucarmor has grown to become a Peasant.
Snatcher!  Protect the children!
A kidnapper has made off with the Peasant DŒshmab Vucarmor!
A human caravan from Quabbehal has arrived.
A human Guild Representative from Quabbehal has arrived.
** Loading Fortress **
Deduk Olinodur, Child cancels Sleep: Caged.
Snatcher!  Protect the children!
Tholtig Kosothlerteth has become a Recruit.

I didn't see this mentioned in the bug reports when I searched, and I couldn't find anything about it in the recent fix.

[Jothki]

Do goblin snatchers pick their target when they spawn and beeline for it, or do they wander around until they see a child? If it's the first, the code probably isn't bothering to check that the the child hasn't matured since then.

The most efficient place to put the check would probably be at snatch-time, though it might make more sense to the player to allow the goblin to pick a new target midway through.

[Griz]

I remember in one of the earlier versions, I didn't have any children, so the goblin grabbed a peasant who had grown up a few months before.

[Toady One]

Yeah, I think they just don't bother to check the state of their target once they've made up their mind (they'll refresh the target if it dies though).  I'll note it down.