Will animal offspring impregnate their own parents when they grow up?

[Uncle Nastyfingers]

Wolves etc, will their children mate with their mothers upon reaching maturity?

[Stormsong]

Yes, AFAIK.

[Monoxide]

They will.

I believe there are, or at least were, plans to remove this, but has not been implemented yet. Now that 1.0 is out, it may not be added for a long time, if ever.

[Slye_Fox]

Originally posted by Mike Aruba:

They will.

I believe there are, or at least were, plans to remove this, but has not been implemented yet. Now that 1.0 is out, it may not be added for a long time, if ever.

Animal incest was actually removed in A14, but this change was reverted in A16.

[Angela™]

Originally posted by Slye_Fox:

Originally posted by Mike Aruba:

They will.

I believe there are, or at least were, plans to remove this, but has not been implemented yet. Now that 1.0 is out, it may not be added for a long time, if ever.

Animal incest was actually removed in A14, but this change was reverted in A16.

Yup.
https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/6f0fsc/animal_incest/

[esculapio]

Don't worry you won't see genetic diseases.

[Vulpetrem]

Yes, and there are no in game punishments for letting it happen

[Bouncer]

Originally posted by Vulpetrem:

Yes, and there are no in game punishments for letting it happen

Thankfully. Animal keeping is annoying enough as is without incest micromanagement added to it.

[Razaah !!!!]

Now i want a mod where i can play around with the genes of incest offspring before they are born to create disgusting balls of fur that are riddled with diseases.
Those get stuffed into transport pods and send to the more annoying neighbors.

Ho ho ho merry christmas motherfk'er

[Rio]

Inbreeding in the wild happens a lot. Some animals even have a great resistence against the negative effects multiple generations of it can cause.

Heard a story last month about a bird blown to an island by a hurricane. Only one of its kind there. Was able to still attract some native birds and have viable offspring. But the offspring's mating call was ignored by the native species. So the new species became entirely inbred and stayed that way.

I played rimworld when you couldn't inbred and it was ultra annoying. Specially if you got rare animals not from your biome via mad animal group/migration/trader. Like in one playthrough I was raising timber wolves and cows. And having to get new males all the time was so annoying. It would be even more awful for hard to tame stuff like thrumbo or vargs I'd imagine,

Like every trader that visited was like (Do they have cows/timber wolves?)

[KalkiKrosah]

Animal incest is alive and well. I checked out my huskies social tab and there's a bunch of them with 3 or 4 relative relationships where the mother is also the grandmother, niece and cousin of the husky in question.

[UFO]

This discussion reminds me of this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_Spain
Look at his family tree and try not to laugh or shake your head in empathy. I do a little of both.

[AquaX]

Yes or else most harder lvl animals will be impossible to raise due to the lack of males. Like my entire husky and muffalo group are mostly inbred from the original 2-4 I got from self-tame events.