It might be interesting to incorporate the Pre-Adult-But-Big-Enough-To-Help-Out stage into the Apprenticing Workers Concept. An undifferentiated young Hearthling grows into a Worker, but one that is apprenticed gets a leg up on the career he eventually enters. The size of the boost (or even an XP gain rate boost) would be dependent on the skill of the teacher. This way, a home-raised Hearthling will have an advantage over a random immigrant that stumbled out of the forest. The downside could perhaps be that the Player cannot pick what the kid apprentices in… giving more of a feeling of the Hearthlings having their own will on the situation (one of my favorite things about Stonehearth).
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