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[accoro]

Or rather... inbreeding.

Would dwarves inbreed? Thinking of a fort with a male & female and seeing if I can spawn a large enough pop to have a monarch. I am away this would take very long.

[Sphalerite]

I am fairly certain that siblings cannot marry.  Other than that, there's no restriction on inbreeding.  You'll need two pairs to start your fortress.

[accoro]

So dwarves will marry and breed with their cousins? Interesting.


Off-topic: this is a funny thread to make when your girlfriend is reading over your shoulder.

[HorridOwn4ge]

So dwarves will marry and breed with their cousins? Interesting.


Off-topic: this is a funny thread to make when your girlfriend is reading over your shoulder.

So yeah, it's like your in Alabama or any other hillbilly state.

[orrey]

Starting with three might work; the odd dwarf can couple off with one of your children, and then in the next generation they'll be cousins with the rest of your fortress, which might work.

However, most of it comes down to luck.  Dwarven romance is rather inscrutable, unreliable, and slow.  You can go ten years without dwarves ever moving beyond friends, and five more without a romantic acquaintance turning into a marriage.  I've had dwarves die of old age before pairing off in a fort of eligible individuals before.

[accoro]

Is there anyway to sort of speed up the courting process in the raws?
[SPINSTER_ANYDORFWILLDO]?

[MrShovelFace]

i think siblings can marry
or at least that would be the dorfy thing to allow for more wtfs

[Sphalerite]

You can probably modify dwarves to be incredibly social, friendly, and agreeable by changing the ranges in the MENT_ATT_RANGE and PERSONALITY tags in the dwarf creature file.  Make all the dwarves have essentially the same personality, and love socializing with each other.

Also, if you remove [MULTIPLE_LITTER_RARE] from the female dwarf caste, they'll give birth to 1-3 children at a time.  You could even use the LITTERSIZE tag if you want larger litters.

[Urist Da Vinci]

i think siblings can marry
or at least that would be the dorfy thing to allow for more wtfs

No, it's been established via a 200+ year fort that siblings don't marry. Cousins DO, however.

[Lytha]

Nephews marry their aunts, nieces their uncles. This is quite funny actually, because the relationship will still show the spouse as "aunt/uncle" in one direction, and as "husband/wife" in the other. Makes it a bit difficult to find the married couples (in the case that you are like me and like to give them a common name or number)

[accoro]

Nephews marry their aunts, nieces their uncles. This is quite funny actually, because the relationship will still show the spouse as "aunt/uncle" in one direction, and as "husband/wife" in the other. Makes it a bit difficult to find the married couples (in the case that you are like me and like to give them a common name or number)

This fine, I usually dont mind about any of that. As long as my dorfs stay industrious!

[Lytha]

Starting with three might work; the odd dwarf can couple off with one of your children, and then in the next generation they'll be cousins with the rest of your fortress, which might work.

I've never seen a member of the starting 7 (or the first two invasion waves of immigrants) fall in love with one of the grown-up children. And I've given them plenty of time to socialize with each other; I even locked them into a small room for some years once.

You'll need 2 breeding pairs, really.