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[veok]

Have we tried stuffing more than one dwarven child in each cell? More crowding, more food needed, but it should solve the mental attribute loss (b/c of communication skills).

It means each child gets one *best* friend, which might be undesirable. (And I think this route practically guarantees legendary social skills)

[Musashi]

What, you want (future) soldiers to have friends?
Do you know what happens to a dwarf when their friends die? They trigger tantrum spirals, that's what.

[Wannazzaki]

What, you want (future) soldiers to have friends?
Do you know what happens to a dwarf when their friends die? They trigger tantrum spirals, that's what.

Not if your force feed them delicious roasts and alcohol like some vast force-feeding machine ultimately ending in the mass production of the finest dwarf liver pate...i think i'm missing the point.

[Sroge]

Instead of reading through 26 pages, I'm just going to ask:

Has this worked yet for anyone?

[Oliolli]

What, you want (future) soldiers to have friends?
Do you know what happens to a dwarf when their friends die? They trigger tantrum spirals, that's what.

Not if your military force has spent their entire lives in a small box constantly full of creatures dying, utterly traumatizing them.

[Captain Mayhem]

What, you want (future) soldiers to have friends?
Do you know what happens to a dwarf when their friends die? They trigger tantrum spirals, that's what.

Not if your military force has spent their entire lives in a small box constantly full of creatures dying, utterly traumatizing them.

Well we wouldn't want out soldiers to be mentally healthy* thanks to having company, now would we?

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* - I know that's a bit of a stretch, but relatively healthy, at least.

[monk12]

Instead of reading through 26 pages, I'm just going to ask:

Has this worked yet for anyone?

Limited success thus far- we've got a proof of concept and some interesting side effects, but nobody has achieved significant stat and skill growth yet.

[sackhead]

Im going to try this but for the first 6 years or so i will have them in a room with automatic spike traps (training speers posibly) so they will gain doging skills befor meating animal.

[Broseph Stalin]

Im going to try this but for the first 6 years or so i will have them in a room with automatic spike traps (training speers posibly) so they will gain doging skills befor meating animal.

Probably not going to work, I used a danger room in my 0 metal stoneage fortress and it killed six out of ten dwarves. Without hard armor to cover the torso a training spear eventually bruises a lung and then eventually bruises the other. I imagine it'll just be worse with children.

[Oliolli]

Im going to try this but for the first 6 years or so i will have them in a room with automatic spike traps (training speers posibly) so they will gain doging skills befor meating animal.

Probably not going to work, I used a danger room in my 0 metal stoneage fortress and it killed six out of ten dwarves. Without hard armor to cover the torso a training spear eventually bruises a lung and then eventually bruises the other. I imagine it'll just be worse with children.

So in other words... *Taps calculator* around 2-3/10 children will be legendary fighters at adulthood, and around 1-2/10 will have trouble breathing.

[Broseph Stalin]

So in other words... *Taps calculator* around 2-3/10 children will be legendary fighters at adulthood, and around 1-2/10 will have trouble breathing.

I only used that danger room for a minute or so at a time, two bruised lungs causes suffocation very reliably.

[krenshala]

Im going to try this but for the first 6 years or so i will have them in a room with automatic spike traps (training speers posibly) so they will gain doging skills befor meating animal.

Probably not going to work, I used a danger room in my 0 metal stoneage fortress and it killed six out of ten dwarves. Without hard armor to cover the torso a training spear eventually bruises a lung and then eventually bruises the other. I imagine it'll just be worse with children.

So in other words... *Taps calculator* around 2-3/10 children will be legendary fighters at adulthood, and around 1-2/10 will have trouble breathing.

Don't you mean that around 8-9/10 will have trouble breathing?

[Oliolli]

Don't you mean that around 8-9/10 will have trouble breathing?

Depending on your point of view, yes.

[BastiBasti]

This is basically makeing a mini sparta. I like it.

[Kheto]

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but why not train the dogs they were trapped with into war dogs, then assign them to the released warrior?