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[Kaos]

This project major fail, according to the experiments that some people did somewhere around this thread, was that the child wouldn't have a moment of peace, so they weren't able to eat or sleep and they ended up dead...


What about putting them in a small room 2x3: 1 bed, 1 table, 1 chair, 1 quantum food/booze stockpile, 1 tile with path-able 3/7 water, and in the middle a 1x1 meeting zone where the animals are also pastured. This way the child and animals get attracted to the meeting zone, where they brawl, when the child has needs can get out of the meeting zone and sleep, eat, drink and even clean self.

[bukitodinos]

you sir, deserve a medal. this is the dawn of a new age of child trauma.

[MarcAFK]

the problem with fleshballs is they can still shove skulls through brains, but they make amazingly resistant punching bags.
I think all i did was change their tag to common domestic or something.

[Putnam]

Yeah, that makes them domestic, not wild. You still can't mod in taking wild animals on embark.

Exact wordings kill.

[Urist da dwarfy dwarf]

I personally leave my children in a small hovel and wait for them to go insane. I make a aquad of these insane dwarves once they reach of age. still locked insde their 'homes' I realease them onto a seige. they take out 5-10 goblins each as they rampage with a huge battle axe severing the poor goblin's face off.

Back fired on me once when the siege went early.

They were left there in the open and once a trade caravan came they killed the humans manning it. I eventually needed to kill them using ballistas because 12+ years of torment is too much for them.

Still it is viable. you just need to put some engravings in (which I forgot)

[DanteThanatos]

Hmmm...Insane dwarfs afaik cant drink or eat...how you kept your children alive for 12 years?

[werty892]

The biggest issue seems to be size.  A 1x1 room would allow for maximum child desecration

Sigged, you asked for it.

[Tirion]

I recently started experimenting with hardening dwarves in every possible sense, confirming attribute gains with the help of Splinter's Dwarf Therapist version. So far, the attribute gains caused by almost all jobs are verified, and I routinely assign everyone to pump air in the gym until they are legendary pump operators. However, that doesn't raise Agility... but swimming does, and even children can do that!

So, creative members of the Bay 12 community, I present thee a challenge: design a setup that raises every dwarf's swimming skills to legendary in (preferably much) less than 11 years, without causing unnecessary casualties or too many bad thoughts- I prefer having a buffer of happiness between their pets death&decay (danger room for dwarf-owning cats and assigned war dogs, and any other useless pets, cleaned once a year- 2 Tragedy

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:List_of_Dwarven_Thoughts

thoughts for the prize of one! ) and insanity.

[Sutremaine]

Meeting zone over a repeating retracting bridge over 6.25/7 water. The 6/7 tiles prevent drowning of unskilled dwarves and all dwarves under the bridge, and the 7/7 tiles allow dwarves to climb out of the pool eventually. Build some sort of draining mechanism for the pool -- dwarves can occasionally be injured by being thrown off a bridge one level into water, and if somebody gets an injury (or death) that traps them in there somebody else is going to have to pull them out.

[Tirion]

Meeting zone over a repeating retracting bridge over 6.25/7 water. The 6/7 tiles prevent drowning of unskilled dwarves and all dwarves under the bridge, and the 7/7 tiles allow dwarves to climb out of the pool eventually. Build some sort of draining mechanism for the pool -- dwarves can occasionally be injured by being thrown off a bridge one level into water, and if somebody gets an injury (or death) that traps them in there somebody else is going to have to pull them out.

The captain of the guard's head takes the full force of the impact bruising the muscle jamming the skull through the brain and tearing the brain!
The captain of the guard has been knocked unconscious!
Tosid Aralast Clothier has died after colliding with an obstacle

Perhaps a more advanced setup with the water coming up, instead the dwarves falling down/getting flung around... now, to calculate how many screw pumps are needed, and how it can be automated to take only a lever-puller to operate... When they are covered by anything less than 7/7 liquid, only stuff thrown into the air (by bridge or Colossus) can go through fortifications, right?

[jcnorris00]

I have a swim school - a 10x7 room with a 10x5 chamber above it, separated by a retractable drawbridge.  This is generally set up in the two layers above the aquifer.  The top chamber is completely filled with water, usually via a two-pump stack drawing water from the aquifer, while the room below is filled with unsuspecting dwarves.  Once everything is ready, I lock the doors and open the drawbridge.  The water falls and spreads out to a nice even 5/7 depth, and swimming commences.

This system trains a lot of dwarves at once, but I see no way to automate it.  You also have to repeat it many times.  My no-skill dwarves are only novice swimmers before I have to drain the pool and let them out to eat, drink, and sleep.  The wiki has some hands-off swim training systems, but I don't see how they could be combined with girlinhat's original childcare concept.

[Broken]

Just lock all the children of the fort in a nice swimming pool, with beds and a quantum food stockpile. when they reach twelve they will
be legendary in all social skills and swiming.

[darkgloomie]

Just lock all the children of the fort in a nice swimming pool, with beds and a quantum food stockpile. when they reach twelve they will
be legendary in all social skills and swiming.

do they go to sleep in a tile with water? Because to me that seems like something liable to kill them all.

[Berossus]

I have a swim school - a 10x7 room with a 10x5 chamber above it, separated by a retractable drawbridge.  This is generally set up in the two layers above the aquifer.  The top chamber is completely filled with water, usually via a two-pump stack drawing water from the aquifer, while the room below is filled with unsuspecting dwarves.  Once everything is ready, I lock the doors and open the drawbridge.  The water falls and spreads out to a nice even 5/7 depth, and swimming commences.

This system trains a lot of dwarves at once, but I see no way to automate it.  You also have to repeat it many times.  My no-skill dwarves are only novice swimmers before I have to drain the pool and let them out to eat, drink, and sleep.  The wiki has some hands-off swim training systems, but I don't see how they could be combined with girlinhat's original childcare concept.

Wouldnt it be easier to submerge your main hallway in water?
Channel out a 3x20 walkway, leave ramps at the exits and fill it to 5/7 to have everyone passively train swimming whenever they go somewhere?

[jcnorris00]

Dwarves never enter deep water willingly.  If they did, automated training would be just as easy as you suggest.