Oh hey, a reply from the modder! Sweet.

I cannot say whether it functions currently on 1.6, but it does throw an error on load. I haven't had any situations yet where my children were in danger (they're both still babies, so) but it doesn't actively break the game.

Yes I''ll see if I can get it going today

can we get 1.6 ver? thx

Is it possible to add at least a setting to only have children by targeted if they are drafted and holding a weapon by raiders? I usually give my kids pistols in case they are attacked and my defenders are either busy,dead or dying

Oh boy! I cant wait to strap vest to my child army and them being able to get close enough to be effective. Thank you your contributions won't go unnoticed.

Skyrim ahh moment

Understandable. I kind of figured that would probably be the case.

@Velvet I do agree, but unfortunately it's something that would be a lot more complicated. Something better suited for its own mod as this a lightweight mod.

This might have been asked before, but would it be possible to implement a minimum age for raiders rather than it just being split between children / not children? Rimworld decides you're no longer a child at 13, but I'm not really too comfortable with being forced to fight people younger than 16-17.

I'd completely understand if that's too difficult or just not really feasible though, its a lot different from the "child / adult" divide that already exists in vanilla I'd imagine. Still, if possible I'd appreciate a slider that acts as a cutoff for possible raider ages, and I'd imagine I'm not the only one.

Updated for 1.5

It'd be interesting to have this added with an ideological or faction-based approach. As what Bread and others said previously, rough enemies, outlanders and imperials would likely stay "reasonable" compared to cannibal tribes and pirates.

Thank you for this.

So glad someone made this. <3 Thank you so much! I really hated the kids getting hurt aspect of gameplay and am glad I'll be able to enjoy my favorite game more now!

Would it be possible to have it divided by faction?
I would like it if the permanent enemies, pirates and savages, targeted children.
But rough enemies that start with -80 relations, or neutrals wouldn't.

Honestly this is just realism, what raider (keep in mind these guys will charge into a burning building just to kidnap a pawn) would see a baby in a crib and go "I should shoot this thing so it doesn't shoot me!"

Really, really like this. Kids and pets are the one thing I don't hurt in this game. And I'd imagine even the most hardened raider would at least think twice before offing a defenseless child.

Great mod, glad this exists. Would it be possible for you to also add an option that lets players turn off kids showing up as part of the beggar groups?

I needed this before this DLC came out. I can't tell you how many times Enemies dropped into the nursery.

Honestly I think I shouldn't use this. Because the only thing that keeps anyone safe when they enter my base (not attacking) is I don't want to hurt the kids. This I would do what I always did. Mostly "Refugee free slaves or food! Got a head shot 10 points!" besides I already torture the kids enough with my genetic experiments.... and using their brains for mechs... or flesh for combat golems... Huh seems death is the best outcome going agents me.

There is kid in the word kidney, harvest their kidney off!

This is the start of great things.... i'll use this for rules of engagement.

I love this mod so far, I originally was gonna thumbs up and award because hell, I know the child deaths and stuff bother a lot of people, but the general change involving children is actually awesome. I'd like to think that the people raiding me are doing so because they need stuff, not because they're child-murdering monsters. So kudos!

Thank you for that last update! I got this mod originally specifically trying to avoid that, had to anesthesize them the day before their betrayal to capture without violence, glad I don't have to worry about that again haha

Update 1.2
Added an option to prevent the Royalty Refugee quest kids from betraying/assaulting the colony.

Very big thanks for the mod!

@turkler Ah you're right I had made a change in testing that accidentally removed the check on the setting. I've pushed an update.

Update Notes:
Fixed slave trader setting not applying
Added a few safety checks on better flee.

fyi the option to prevent slavers from selling children seems to be broken. I've disabled it and even made sure to up the storyteller pawn limit and I couldn't find find any children for sale in the 50ish slavers I spawned in. could replicate it with just vanilla and this mod but the log doesn't print any errors.

"So a man in black will come recuse the children." this is friggin righteous, what a great idea!

Thank you for the update. I just had it happen the other day, where the ten y/o 'feral child' I rescued years before was left on her own after a raid went bad. I was surprised there was no Man in Black to come. I had to use the money her guardian had saved up to purchase a new adult companion. Then after he died from our lack of psychite, buy another.

This will be helpful! Thank you for your hard work!

1.1 Update
-Added a Better Flee option for children, they will run to their parents, their room, or an adult in that order depending on how safe its.
-Added option to prevent slavers from selling children
-Added option to make man in black appear when all adults are downed rather than all pawns. So a man in black will come recuse the children.

Cannibal Pirates don't like this mod.

I have been called out lol
I apologize
It stems from me being frustrated about Bethesda shoving this stuff down our throat
I can empathise with people uneasy with childs being destroyed

but this is RibWold
things happen
but the globe keeps spinning

I'm not going to use this myself but I appreciate that you took the time and effort to make this, considering it's already subbed by >500 people. always extremely weird when people come out of the woodwork to crap on or downvote something like this in spite of the effort into making it work, those people are big lame nerds lol

fugg dem kidz yo!

So serious question. Has anyone tested if invincible children are good mobile cover?

actually really cool :) not for me, but I appreciate you making it (and explaining why) and also doing it in a way where you can have this mod installed and still have children be targeted if you give em an lmg.

i used to post edgy shit, but ever since i turned 15, i cringe at night tbh. Genuine thanks for the mod, sorry bout the comments

@OdysseyLotus For real.

Damn, why does everyone feel the need to be the edgiest shithead around when they see a mod that tones down some aspect of the game? We get it, you're hardcore and edgy and shit, move on, the joke isn't original and nobody cares that you kill children

奉劝各位做个人

I made a human leather chair from child skin. We ate the meat too

murder the kids

What I always prefer to do is just limit the truly evil punishments to people that DARE harm children. I always keep my children away from action to protect them (I have an emotional attachment to my Pawns). Defending children is perhaps the most important thing I do in RW, and it makes me happy to see the kids grow and thrive.

I don't even execute or organ harvest child enemies , nor do I put them in harsh jail conditions or enslave them. I always wait until a child is of age before I do that, and in most cases, I just recruit them.

The Virgin Make Their Kids Fight Raiders

The Chad Keep Their Kids Inside the Home Zone So They Cannot Get Hurt

-and then there's you

THE GIGA-CHAD

but if you play as exclusively children would nobody attack you at all? no raids nothing

I would like my children in bits thank you very much

Could you make a lite version where it just makes it so raiders will target adults/armed children first and if all the adults/armed children are downed/dead they go after the unarmed children? Right now this mod basically makes it so your colony cant ever be destroyed if you have children.

Though the violence against children (hopefully) won't bother me too much, because RimWorld seems to basically be a somewhat comedic game about the horrors that we as a species are capable of, I completely understand why you made this mod. I might sound weird in saying this, but it's sweet of you, considering all the jokes the community makes about finding new modded ways to commit war crimes. So while I probably won't use it unless I start feeling particularly upset, thank you for making this an option.

Hold up, there is some humanity in my war crime simulator. lemme get rid of it real quick aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand done, back to nuking kids.

Thank you for making this Mod.
Its a honor for me to gettin to Know, that there is a Human beeing on this World, in this life, making the thoughts you did.... Live long and prosper