paper geneology is definately going to be a great help to those who feel like it. i find if i have paused the game for a few days i have to re-figure out everyone's geneology if i am not careful. putting it on paper(or excel, etc) would help a lot.

I had one male parent all the children inhereted buildings skills, as when I got back to my game in the evening the food almost gone as the next genaration were all builders, so the next time I made sure it was a master farmer that I put to parenting, so my next genaration all farmers. Then a few days later the food was down again and I had another genaration of builders, so then I had to put all builders on farming. Now the food is up and now my next genaration is a mixer of farmers and builders.

I once had 5 elders alive at the same time

I searched and I searched
but no match could be found
to equal my runner
fast as a hound.

I'll try and I'll try
to pass on this skill
I'll try and I'll try
till she's over the hill.



Ok, here's what I've found: once you reach level 2 of parenting
the child will usually inherit the skill of the predominant parent. Therefore, if you match two farmers (or whatever) they'll have a kid who's a farmer (or whatever). If both are masters in the same field, the kid will generally have enough skill to become a trainee right away and an adept faster than most.

I've only had 1 tribe with multiple (2) runners, I paired them often (6 kids total) but NONE of them were runners.

I don't even try to match hair color etc, that's too much bother for me.

I always mate villagers with the same skills, eg: farmer with farmer. I also have one of each villager having a baby/babies. Like farmer, builder, scientist and healer. that way you get a steady flow of children. It's helpful when they get to 14yrs and when they pass on. I use children to help healing and I make a stew to help with building skills.

ROTFL! I think some of mine are swingers. Two or more couples go in the breeding hut all at the same time every once in a while LOL.

I've noticed that some of my young kid villagers have a tiny bit of a skill bar filled... some even at two years old! Most are farming or building. I had one kid who liked medicine, so when he got old enough, I made him a doctor.

Yes! That is their parents inheritance!!

I had a kid who was an apprentice parent!!!!
Never seen that before.

There is an event who gives parenting skills to the kids!
Spoiler: The mother Parrots and the Prettiest Girl may give some parenting skillsbut to an adult End of spoiler