Reproduction/Family Tree

[Chumble_Juice]

I think you should be able to start off with your starter settlers and set their relationships (for example husband, daughter, brother) And that 2 Adult Hearthlings should have to reproduce in order for you to obtain new settlers, and add a family tree / old age system (where hearthlings die after a while, and young ones grow up) so that the new generations go onto make even more generations. Implementing a family tree tab to see whos related to eachother would be a great idea.

[Stmpnk]

Hi there @Chumble_Juice ! Welcome to discourse .

This method of gaining settlers/hearthlings had been suggested and been brought up for countless of times.(I’m not saying they should stop, just keep the ideas flowing )

Here are some of the threads that talks about procreating and something along the lines:

Marriage & Housing System, A PRIEST?! oh and children

Ok so i have an idea of a marriage & housing system, a priest and oh lord, children. I know that there may have been suggestions for most of these in the past but lemme just suggest them one more time Of course a relationship system must be established before this, but it’s up to you Devs if you will make it or not. EITHER WAY it is not this thread’s intention XD Marriage: Ok so the process goes like this, 2 villagers fell for one another and blah blah blah, you get the idea. The…

Married on stonehearth

i think it be so cute seeing 2 halfings getting married 2 boy or 2 girl and mix and later there can have kids

And here is real long one that goes way back…(I have stumbled upon it, in the dusty ruins of the ancient archives of the long forgotten Phoenix Empire…)

Thoughts on Children and Population Growth

Continuing the thoughts related to the pictures I have posted in the “Voxel Pirate´s Qubicle Creations”-Thread… What if there would be 3 stages of your workers life? Stage 1 - Baby: www.stonehearth.de/storage/family_small.png While you could exchange a specific resource for a new settler (like food as mentioned in the last Live-Stream), the new fellow might not appear as an adult. Why not having a Stork fyling in and delivering a baby? Sure, is sounds like a stereotype… but might look funny …

But I really like your idea of a family tree ! Really makes it that hearthlings in your world can have connections with one another, and give a sort of “history” behind their surnames .

[WarLink]

yea that would be intresting, but there would have to be a option in the start menu cuz some people dont want there hearthlings to die

[Chumble_Juice]

Had no idea! Whoops

[WarLink]

no i dont mean me but ssome people get attached to stuff like that so death should be a option,just in case

[Logo]

I know folks keep suggesting this, but it’s not gonna happen. They’ve already explained why on the Stonehearth Desktop Tuesday: Hearthling Customization video on youtube in the comments.

We aren’t adding children to SH because it would require us to do a LOT more work to get a family friendly rating. It turns out you’re not allowed to kill children in games, or set them on fire! But if you’d really like to see this, perhaps a modder can oblige you.

So ya might wanna toss this in the modding area as a suggestion to the modding community. The only way I can see it as a possible feature is if it were only enabled in peaceful mode where no combat happens.