Life and Generations

⚡ Features

🍼 Births – Adult couples (one eligible male, one eligible female under 40) have a configurable daily chance of having a baby together, once per in-game day per couple.

👤 Aging – Villagers age along with the in-game calendar, growing visually from a small baby to their base adult size by 16 years old — and some keep growing a little taller after that (see Adult Growth below).

🧒 Baby Carrying – Newborns under 3 years old are carried by their mother instead of wandering the map on their own, and don't need to eat, drink, or stay warm while carried.

🧬 Family Resemblance – A baby inherits its type from its parents: two villagers of the same kind will always have a baby of that same kind, and two different kinds have an even chance of either.

💪 Age-Based Abilities – Children and elderly villagers have reduced max health and work efficiency compared to adults in their prime, and children too young to fight will automatically flee from combat instead of standing their ground.

📏 Adult Growth – Adults can keep growing a little taller over the years, so your settlement ends up with some natural size variety instead of every adult looking identical.

⏳ Death of Old Age – Starting at 65, villagers have a small and gradually increasing yearly chance of dying of old age, modeled on real-world mortality curves. This can be turned off entirely.

💾 Save-Safe – Every villager's age, gender, and life data are tied to a stable ID stored directly in your save, so everything survives reloading without resetting.

🛠 Installation

Download Life & Generations.

Place the BepInEx folder into your ASKA game directory.

You can edit the config file at /BepInEx/config/LifeGenerations.cfg with any text editor to change the settings listed below.

Launch the game. Villagers already in your settlement are registered automatically as adults; from then on, aging and births happen on their own.

⚙️ Configuration

A config file is at BepInEx/config/LifeGenerations.cfg, with the following options:

YearsPerDay – How many age-years pass per full in-game day (midnight to midnight).

BirthChance – Chance of a birth per in-game day per eligible couple, expressed as a percentage. Example: 15 = 15% chance per day per couple.

MaxPopulationPerSettlement – No birth will occur if the settlement has already reached this population count. 0 = unlimited (no population cap).

OldAgeDeathEnabled – If true, adult villagers can die of old age starting at 65. Set to false to disable death by old age entirely.

📝 Notes

Female villagers stop being eligible for births past 40 years old; there's no equivalent age limit for males.

A couple can only have one baby per in-game day, no matter how high BirthChance is set.

Children under 16 will always flee as soon as combat starts near them, regardless of any other setting.

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