Babies

Babies are human pawns up to age 3. By default they age at a 400% speed.

Acquisition

Babies can be born either by natural or artificial means. They can also be choses as a starting colonist, as long as at least one other pawn is chosen that is at least 3 years old.

Summary

Babies are helpless creatures that cannot yet do anything themselves. They only have three basic needs: play, sleep, and food.

Food

Babies have different options when it comes to food. The easiest way to feed them is by having their mother breastfeed them. However, if you have multiple lactating pawns they can feed the baby too. Another option is to feed them milk or insect jelly, or to cook baby food from regular ingredients.

Sleep

Once babies are tired, they will automatically go to sleep.

Play

Babies need to be played with. As long as there is a pawn with a high priority on child care, this will happen automatically once the needs bar is almost empty. There are diffent activities that will fulfill the baby's play need.

Giggling and crying

Babies can giggle and cry which gives a mood boost or penalty to other colonists up to (?) tiles away. The ratio between giggling and crying is directly related with the baby's mood.

//insert graph here

 <MentalFitDef>
   <defName>Crying</defName>
   <label>crying</label>
   <mentalState>Crying</mentalState>
   <developmentalStageFilter>Baby</developmentalStageFilter>
   <mtbDaysMoodCurve>
     <points>

(0, .083)

(0.25, .166)

(0.50, 1)

(0.75, 4)

(1.00, 8)

</points> </mtbDaysMoodCurve> </MentalFitDef> <MentalFitDef> <defName>Giggling</defName> <label>giggling</label> <mentalState>Giggling</mentalState> <developmentalStageFilter>Baby</developmentalStageFilter> <mtbDaysMoodCurve> <points>

(0, 8)

(0.25, 4)

(0.50, 1)

(0.75, 0.5)

(1.00, 0.25)

</points> </mtbDaysMoodCurve> </MentalFitDef>