Am I misunderstanding the "allow child raider" option?

[Atasuki(NotPro)]

I tick the option and triggered dozens of raid through dev, and among the hundreds of raiders the youngest one was 13 years old while I saw posts reporting 4 years old raiders. Does this option means that sometimes there will be a raid consist of purely child raiders, instead of spawning child raider among adult ones?

[Garatgh Deloi]

3-13 is a child using the games code.

As i understand it the setting simply allows pawns that young to be rolled for raiders. Its still random (and i think a lower %, but don't quote me on that) if you get anyone that young.

That said you can get a raider group of "only children, drop podding down, with hand grenades, into the middle of your base" according to a amusing forum post i read recently. No idea on the % of the game rolling everyone young.

[Atasuki(NotPro)]

Originally posted by Garatgh Deloi:

3-13 is a child using the games code.

To be exact, pawns aged past 13 is count as adult, so I didn't get a single child raider among the hundreds. And I wonder if that's a matter of possibility.

[Radiosity]

It's absolutely possible to get child raiders with that option active. Mister Streamer (probably the most well-known and popular RimWorld Youtuber for reasons that will become obvious after watching a few of his series) has had it happen many times. I've seen it a few times in my own games, but it seems fairly rare. Given that Mister Streamer has thousands of hours in the game, it's not surprising he's seen it happen a lot, heh.

[Atasuki(NotPro)]

Originally posted by Radiosity:

It's absolutely possible to get child raiders with that option active. Mister Streamer (probably the most well-known and popular RimWorld Youtuber for reasons that will become obvious after watching a few of his series) has had it happen many times. I've seen it a few times in my own games, but it seems fairly rare. Given that Mister Streamer has thousands of hours in the game, it's not surprising he's seen it happen a lot, heh.

Thanks, and by the way is there a way to make child raiders spawn more often?

[Juggalo Furry]

Wait till you get a wave of almost entirely child raiders, how you gonna deal with it?
The people who do will give everyone a child killing debuff and then be hated for it lol.
I watched them trudge across snow to get absolutely shredded by a firing line only to see the real impact of the raid after i stopped laughing

[ybabobd]

I have 2000+ hours in the game and I've had that box checked the entire time. Never seen a single child raider. I kind of assumed it was a mod conflict issue, but I just tried turning off all my mods and spawning raids with dev mode. I gave up at 42 max-raid point spawns because my framerate was too bad too handle, but I saw zero children in any of those. It seems like even if the spawn-rate was incredibly low, I should see any children out of the thousands of raiders I spawned. Anybody have any experience in being able to spawn them at all without mods (e.g., what dev-mode settings you use)? The child-shamblers seem to work fine, I get those somewhat regularly.