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Ephemeral 2 Feb, 2023 @ 2:44pm
[Mod request] Children limit per marriage
There is a limit to number of children and it's really sad when 2 pairs produce all of them. 10 children per couple is way too much. 4-5 should be an absolute max. Because of this other couples usually have no chance to have offspring before reaching child cap. This sort of mod shouldn't be challenging to make, probably just changing some value but it would be huge improvement for making generational fortresses. Currently at some point when migrants stop coming due to number of dead you end up relying on visitors mostly. Also dwarves only marry dwarves that are around their age and not close relatives so if 2 pairs produce all children then making generational fortress becomes impossible later on because everybody becomes one big family. PLEASE
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zeeb 6 4 Feb, 2023 @ 5:46pm 
Currently there is no way to implement laws afaik. (I really hope it will be in the future, that would be dope)

So you can't restrict your dwarves the China way, you don't control them, you just give them tasks and they make the decisions to do them or not. If they want to have 10 children, they'll have 10 children. They could even theoretically get an infinite amount of children, which is why it's a good thing vampires can't reproduce. It's also probably one of the reasons why they're not allowed to reproduce.

I'd wager this mod is currently impossible to make, but might be possible in the future, even without having to be a mod.
Last edited by zeeb; 4 Feb, 2023 @ 5:49pm
Ephemeral 16 Feb, 2023 @ 9:26am 
I am not sure about there not being any limit at all. I have never seen any couple having more than 10 children at once

otherwise that's too bad :/
Nautilus 6 24 May, 2023 @ 11:51am 
Send them all to the 3rd cavern layer and let them back in when you have the right amount left.
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