Children

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Children are smaller, useless pawns added in the Biotech DLC.

Acquisition

Children can be gained through several different methods:

  1. Naturally, through pregnancy.
  2. Technologically, through growth vats.
  3. Petty theft.

Mechanics

Natural Pregnancy

Note that Pawns in the character selection menu can begin the game already pregnant.

Artificial Pregnancy

Development

Children naturally age four times faster than adults do, so in one year, they can go from a 4 to an 8 year-old. Once they are 18, they'll become an adult. Before then, you'll probably want to give them the skills to be capable adults. Although they can perform most tasks for any skills, they start at very low skill levels, with few passions. Luckily, they have several ways to develop these over time. If children are taught well, then they will progress through growth tiers, and they will gain new traits and passions during several growth moments, which come at age 7, 10, and 13. This works through a new need for children--Learning. Viewed in the needs tab, you can see what learning-related activities a child wants to do next–the options are skydreaming, radio talking, floor drawing, nature running, work watching, and lesson taking. When children are scheduled to do Anything or Recreation, they will fulfill these needs, although they need the participation of an adult to accomplish work watching or lesson taking. With a fulfilled learning need, children will raise their growth score (shown at the bottom of the screen when a child is selected). Their score can pass through 8 tiers of learning, and each will grant more rewards during a child's growth moment. Tiers give you more flexibility in choosing a child's next trait and allow you to give them passions. Once a growth moment has passed, the child's growth tiers will reset to 0, and you'll need to keep them learning to gain more rewards.

Growth Tiers and Rewards
Tier Points Traits Passion
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8 162 1 from 6 options 3 from 6 options

Growth Moments

Children experience growth moments at 7, 10, and 13. At 18, they become adults. When a child hits the right biological age, a notification will pop up that allows you to choose new traits and passions, if you have been raising them well. A random assortment of choices will be presented, which you can choose from, aided by a window showing the child's Bio and Health stats. If you realize you want to choose the traits later, you can dismiss this window and choose again, within 48 hours of the birthday.

When a child turns 13, you will receive the notification: "Child" became an adult. They are not full adults yet, but now wear adult clothing, dropping their too-small child's clothes if wearing any. They will also gain the ability to smith and research. Unfortunately, this is also when some pre-existing health conditions take effect, like go-juice dependency.