so.... colonist...babies? (pawns?)

[Kruniac]

I extremely doubt kids will appear, since there'll never be enough time for them to be useful by growing up unless you're butchering em for meat, and by that point that would be pretty useless...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+kill+children+dwarf+fortress

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=91093.0

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=38863.0

It's not about why, it's about why not.

Nothing you just linked excuses not having children in a survival simulation involving a colony.

In fact, as you can see, Dwarf Fortress implements it both nicely and hilariously.

Did I phrased it wrong? What I meant is that child is absolutely useless but fun to slaughter nonetheless.

Also they breed like crazy, so if you don't slaughter them fast enough you just can't play any more! that or you just mod them so you can't have child.

My mistake. I didn't know we were on the same page with the child bone factories.

[joeloverbeck]

Maybe colonist children could grow at a normal rate, but you also can research and build some sort of "growth pods" that lets you assign a child to it, has a feeder for nutrient paste or something to that effect, and it accelerates the growth rate tremendously.

[keylocke]

I extremely doubt kids will appear, since there'll never be enough time for them to be useful by growing up unless you're butchering em for meat, and by that point that would be pretty useless...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+kill+children+dwarf+fortress

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=91093.0

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=38863.0

It's not about why, it's about why not.

cave johnson! can't believe they missed the portal 2 reference..