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− | When children are born, | + | When children are born, the game will pause and announce the arrival of the child. The mother will cancel whatever task they are in the middle of (even sleep) to seek their infant. They will immediately resume whatever task they were doing before the child was born. |
− | If babies are separated from their mothers | + | Babies are looked after by their mother, who will continue working with their baby. Babies usually share a tile with their mother. Babies do not have to be born in [[bed]]s, but are born wherever the mother happens to be; the birth will interrupt the mother's current action. If the mother is [[sleep]]ing, however, the birth may not wake her, and the baby will go about business as if it were a child. Often this means crawling to the dining hall or attempting to harvest plants/deconstruct walls. |
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+ | If babies are separated from their mothers (say, for example, the mother gets put in jail, goes for a swim, gets injured and gets carried off to the hospital), the baby will crawl around aimlessly. It will be fed and watered{{verify}} as requested (rather like a semi-mobile injured dwarf), and as long as it's not within reach of a hostile creature, then no harm will be done to it. 'Job cancellation spam' can be generated as the baby is seen by the game to be 'insane' (example: "Urist McBabyname, Dwarven baby, cancels Clean Self: Too Insane"), but once it reaches childhood (at 12 months), that will stop, and they shall go about their business like any other dwarven child. | ||
==Labor== | ==Labor== |
Revision as of 05:56, 13 August 2010
This article is about an older version of DF. |
Most creatures, including Template:L, start out as infants, then after a certain number of years become Children, and then finally attain adulthood. For Template:L, childhood starts after reaching 1 year of age, and continues until they are 12 years old.
In fortress mode, some migrant dwarves are married and may bring children. Children who immigrate to your Template:L might be any age from 2 to 12. You can determine the age of any child by viewing their thought screen, which will give you the child’s exact age as well as their date of birth. You can see this information regardless if the child was born in your fortress or came to it as a migrant with its parents.
"Resident" dwarves may also give birth to children. This can be stopped or reduced by editing the BABY_CHILD_CAP setting in the init file. Dwarves even can have miscarriages, which causes an unhappy thought for the mother but not for the father. Talking to a child causes a good thought.
Babies
When children are born, the game will pause and announce the arrival of the child. The mother will cancel whatever task they are in the middle of (even sleep) to seek their infant. They will immediately resume whatever task they were doing before the child was born.
Babies are looked after by their mother, who will continue working with their baby. Babies usually share a tile with their mother. Babies do not have to be born in beds, but are born wherever the mother happens to be; the birth will interrupt the mother's current action. If the mother is sleeping, however, the birth may not wake her, and the baby will go about business as if it were a child. Often this means crawling to the dining hall or attempting to harvest plants/deconstruct walls.
If babies are separated from their mothers (say, for example, the mother gets put in jail, goes for a swim, gets injured and gets carried off to the hospital), the baby will crawl around aimlessly. It will be fed and watered[Verify] as requested (rather like a semi-mobile injured dwarf), and as long as it's not within reach of a hostile creature, then no harm will be done to it. 'Job cancellation spam' can be generated as the baby is seen by the game to be 'insane' (example: "Urist McBabyname, Dwarven baby, cancels Clean Self: Too Insane"), but once it reaches childhood (at 12 months), that will stop, and they shall go about their business like any other dwarven child.
Labor
In Template:L, children cannot be assigned any labor, but they will perform a few simple tasks on their own:
- socialising;
- removing Template:Ls (such as Template:Ls, Template:Ls, Template:Ls);
- eating, drinking, and sleeping as necessary;
- Template:L Template:L, if the 'All dwarves harvest' order is on. This will also increase their Template:L skill;
- Arranging Template:L;
- filling designated Template:L;[Verify]
Children may not be assigned to the Template:L. However, they can be assigned bedrooms.
Dwarven parenthood
As an oversight in programming, children's parents can become so preoccupied with finding their children that they can die of thirst.