reaching adulthood

[bullers]

When children become adults (18?) do they stay in the same house with their parents or do they need a house of their own?
If you build them a house of their own can you put a male and female that has just reached adulthood (not brother and sister, of course) in the same house so they can start their own family?

[🎮AliveSince1961🎮]

Like today, they don't want to leave. I have a 30-year-old virgin boy who still lives with his mom and dad.

As you said, build them a house, pair them up and let them populate your village.

[Morri]

They'll stay until you move them. Once you move them out, you can't move them back in with their parents though.

[bullers]

Thank you, that is good to know.

[The REAL chris]

Originally posted by Morri:

They'll stay until you move them. Once you move them out, you can't move them back in with their parents though.

UNLIKE real life :)

[Dreadstone]

We've got some frustrated parents in this thread.

[Foxglovez]

Couple more questions along that line.
1. Can you move the parents and one younger child out of a house (big one) into small house and leave it for the 18 or older child to have?
2. Two unrelated village kids can marry one another?

Cautionary tale
I decided to give everyone a big house. They kind of spread out first births pretty well except for the usual suspects - Roland... There was peace in the village then within two seasons of third year after first births they all managed to get knocked up again. The place is awash with kids and cooing babies and 12 of us are keeping 30 fed and watered. First 9 births 8 boys, one girl. Luckily there are a few more girls now but still going to have to do some matchmaking from outside.
Am thinking of knocking down half of the big houses eventually or only building small ones to at least get a handle on population should I keep this village that long.

Laugh's on me though. I was feeling pretty smug for a bit.

[Dreadstone]

Originally posted by Foxglovez:

Couple more questions along that line.
1. Can you move the parents and one younger child out of a house (big one) into small house and leave it for the 18 or older child to have?
2. Two unrelated village kids can marry one another?

Cautionary tale
I decided to give everyone a big house. They kind of spread out first births pretty well except for the usual suspects - Roland... There was peace in the village then within two seasons of third year after first births they all managed to get knocked up again. The place is awash with kids and cooing babies and 12 of us are keeping 30 fed and watered. First 9 births 8 boys, one girl. Luckily there are a few more girls now but still going to have to do some matchmaking from outside.
Am thinking of knocking down half of the big houses eventually or only building small ones to at least get a handle on population should I keep this village that long.

Laugh's on me though. I was feeling pretty smug for a bit.

I found a slight workaround for the pregnancy / population problem.

1) Don't over-recruit at the beginning.

2) Since you're limited on buildings early on, and the easiest solution is to pair up M/F with the guaranteed ensuing pregnancies AND four YEARS of no labor (*) from the mother (figuring two pregnancies), go young.

By "young" I mean the men (age is actually irrelevant) are in their early 20's, and the women, without exception are 19, or 20.

You're still going to be looking at sub-40% workforce problems (my record is 28%), however, long-term you'll gain up to a decade more productivity from the women if you recruit them at 19, versus 29.

(*) I'd really like this to be a slider option.

[Shoot the Spam]

Can you prevent the second baby boom by keeping parents with one child in Small Simple Houses for a few years so they don't have space for the second baby until you want them to have more kids?

[Foxglovez]

Yeah Shoot, that was the cautionary part of the tale. I would from now on, at most make a few big houses and then probably really only for the special folks. Then if I feel a need for more babies can always give them bigger digs.

II try to get youngish fillies for my boys (Ugh, sounds wrong on several levels) but sometimes stats rule over age as I would rather have a 25yo with four 3s and two 2s than some crappy stated 19 yr old that will grow old and toothless long before she is worth much. But that's just me. Quality over youth, so in life and in game I would hope. lol

Giving the Moms 2 yrs off is rather strange and certainly not at all how folks had to make do as peasants. But it's a game so dem's da rulez.