FOR MODDERS, need help changing age in the game!!!

[ZombieLiveGame]

I need help from those who know how to change the age of consent in the game and make it higher or lower. I also need help with romantic relationships so that they are available from an earlier age as well as a later age. I am trying to create a race of dwarves and goblins. For dwarves, I need an age of at least 28-32, where childhood will be almost up to 14-16 years old, adolescence from 14-16 to 28-32, and then adulthood at 28-32. Similarly, for goblins, childhood should be literally 6-8 years old, adolescence from 6-8 to 12, and adulthood at 12. My knowledge on this subject is very limited. I know that in 00_defines there are lines that correspond to reproductive age and marriage age, but I can't figure out how to change this in the way I need, so if anyone knows how to do this, please reply or provide a file with a possible solution to this issue. If anyone knows how to do this and can help, but has questions for me about the conditions of all these interactions so that they are not just bare strings from the base game, but traits or conditions that I want to create, please write to me and I will be in touch very often.

[csirke128]

2 hours ago, ZombieLiveGame said:

I need help from those who know how to change the age of consent in the game and make it higher or lower. I also need help with romantic relationships so that they are available from an earlier age as well as a later age. I am trying to create a race of dwarves and goblins. For dwarves, I need an age of at least 28-32, where childhood will be almost up to 14-16 years old, adolescence from 14-16 to 28-32, and then adulthood at 28-32. Similarly, for goblins, childhood should be literally 6-8 years old, adolescence from 6-8 to 12, and adulthood at 12. My knowledge on this subject is very limited. I know that in 00_defines there are lines that correspond to reproductive age and marriage age, but I can't figure out how to change this in the way I need, so if anyone knows how to do this, please reply or provide a file with a possible solution to this issue. If anyone knows how to do this and can help, but has questions for me about the conditions of all these interactions so that they are not just bare strings from the base game, but traits or conditions that I want to create, please write to me and I will be in touch very often.

 

Hi, changing the age of consent is probably not a good idea. There is a mod here, I think uneven adulthood, that does similar things (characters can marry before 16), but you will run into issues that you cannot go around. The game wants adult characters to be around 18, and there are probably some hardcoded stuff that is assuming that. Maybe its possible, but you would need to change a lot of files. Also, these changes are global, so cannot do it differently for goblin and dwarf.

Also, forum has rule against underage nudity, idk how that applies to different races.

(I would guess its based on if the character looks like a child or not, so one more reason to not mess with age directly, as a lot of blendshape settings are set with the idea that adulthood is at 18 years old)

 

I think you would probably be better of trying going with tricks, like you can just change the gui to show a different age (something Warcraft mod does for certain characters), or change the script value age to start later or similar, not sure how it works, but LOTR does something like that, so elves and dwarfs age slower. Even those are a lot more effort than just changing some numbers. (they touch a lot of files to make it happen)

 

Unless you are trying to make a big overhaul mod, at the scale of Warcraft or LOTR, its probably not worth it, and you are probably better just changing your head cannon, that dwarfs and goblins mature at 18. Or make a submod for LOTR, since they already dealt with the issue.

(and we are not even talking about death here, which probably also would take a lot of effort to make sure, characters die naturally at earlier or later than default)

[simsfucker2000]

2 hours ago, ZombieLiveGame said:

I need help from those who know how to change the age of consent in the game and make it higher or lower. I also need help with romantic relationships so that they are available from an earlier age as well as a later age. I am trying to create a race of dwarves and goblins. For dwarves, I need an age of at least 28-32, where childhood will be almost up to 14-16 years old, adolescence from 14-16 to 28-32, and then adulthood at 28-32. Similarly, for goblins, childhood should be literally 6-8 years old, adolescence from 6-8 to 12, and adulthood at 12. My knowledge on this subject is very limited. I know that in 00_defines there are lines that correspond to reproductive age and marriage age, but I can't figure out how to change this in the way I need, so if anyone knows how to do this, please reply or provide a file with a possible solution to this issue. If anyone knows how to do this and can help, but has questions for me about the conditions of all these interactions so that they are not just bare strings from the base game, but traits or conditions that I want to create, please write to me and I will be in touch very often.

As above check out the way the Lord of the rings Mod called Realms in Exile does their Ages. The Dwarves can only marry at age 70-80 I think. But they come of age normally at 16 so it might help you might not but atleast it will be in the right direction
Also as above check out Uneven Adulthood lowers coming of age for girls from 16 to 12 and boys to 14 so that might help a lot with your stages you want. Out of curiosity will this Mod you working on be a Standalone add to Vanilla with a race of Dwarves etc and Goblins or will it be like a conversion mod would like to play it either way.

[ZombieLiveGame]

On 9/21/2025 at 8:07 PM, csirke128 said:

 

Hi, changing the age of consent is probably not a good idea. There is a mod here, I think uneven adulthood, that does similar things (characters can marry before 16), but you will run into issues that you cannot go around. The game wants adult characters to be around 18, and there are probably some hardcoded stuff that is assuming that. Maybe its possible, but you would need to change a lot of files. Also, these changes are global, so cannot do it differently for goblin and dwarf.

Also, forum has rule against underage nudity, idk how that applies to different races.

(I would guess its based on if the character looks like a child or not, so one more reason to not mess with age directly, as a lot of blendshape settings are set with the idea that adulthood is at 18 years old)

 

I think you would probably be better of trying going with tricks, like you can just change the gui to show a different age (something Warcraft mod does for certain characters), or change the script value age to start later or similar, not sure how it works, but LOTR does something like that, so elves and dwarfs age slower. Even those are a lot more effort than just changing some numbers. (they touch a lot of files to make it happen)

 

Unless you are trying to make a big overhaul mod, at the scale of Warcraft or LOTR, its probably not worth it, and you are probably better just changing your head cannon, that dwarfs and goblins mature at 18. Or make a submod for LOTR, since they already dealt with the issue.

(and we are not even talking about death here, which probably also would take a lot of effort to make sure, characters die naturally at earlier or later than default)

 

Thank you for your constructive response. It appears that we will first need to determine how rigidly programmed this is if we rely solely on basic lines without crutches and other workarounds. Thank you also for the advice regarding LoTR and Warcraft. I believe it would be beneficial to examine them and see how they are structured. As for the mod for earlier marriage, I've seen it, but it only works for marriages that don't make sense, because even though they are technically adults, they don't do anything.

[ZombieLiveGame]

On 9/21/2025 at 8:20 PM, simsfucker2000 said:

As above check out the way the Lord of the rings Mod called Realms in Exile does their Ages. The Dwarves can only marry at age 70-80 I think. But they come of age normally at 16 so it might help you might not but atleast it will be in the right direction
Also as above check out Uneven Adulthood lowers coming of age for girls from 16 to 12 and boys to 14 so that might help a lot with your stages you want. Out of curiosity will this Mod you working on be a Standalone add to Vanilla with a race of Dwarves etc and Goblins or will it be like a conversion mod would like to play it either way.

 

As for how I wanted to see everything, it would most likely be an independent modification where, to begin with, there would be a race of gnomes and goblins as a start, a long-lived race within reasonable limits and a short-lived race, and then others, but without any elves and those who live for thousands of years (well, except for dragons as single and very rare specimens that could destroy half the world with a snap of their fingers). And it would also be a separate mod for vanilla, only with a more detailed map divided into baronies, at least twice as many provinces as the original, and a maximum of 3-4.