Talk:Harpy

No Children

Supposedly, the Premium graphics originally contained Harpy Child graphics but they were removed because Harpies are born as adults. Except they aren't because they have [CHILD:1] which means they're born as Children and then become Adults after 1 year. But again, since Harpies are all female, they're not actually capable of reproducing, so there will never be any children anyways (unless the game somehow decides to spawn one as-is, which I don't think ever happens). --Quietust (talk) 13:50, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

Could it be able to spawn child units in the beginning? If it spawns in year 1 at age -1 (with that bug), then it will be age 0 in year 2, and age 1 in year 3. I think the youngest-world possible to play in is year 2. Not sure if the negative age bug is present on harpies, though. Jecowa (talk) 15:25, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

The child harpy graphic was removed in 0.50.08 - aka the plants and child/baby graphics update. This update also removed the blood from child graphics of most/all creatures, even for creatures that aren't intelligent (e.g. kea), but that was probably just a side effect of switching the dead children versions of those graphics to use the new child graphics instead of the old versions that were smaller versions of the adult sprites. And the blood/gore looks like it was unique for each creature, and not just a layer added below that would have been easy to preserve.

Outside the wiki page, I haven't been able to find any reason given for the removal of the child harpy sprites or even another mention of it, official or unofficial. I think the comment about "because harpies are adults at birth" is likely conjecture. Jecowa (talk) 17:18, 18 October 2024 (UTC)