Family News

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Disclaimer: This page contains speculation and may contain outdated/inaccurate information {Page Last Edited - February 7th, 2025}

Families are a new meta-object coming to worldbox. It's probably the simplest meta-objects being added.

What are Families and Genealogy?

Families and Genealogy will be a way for you to look into the current state of units' ancestral lines and relations. You'll be able to see origin and offshoot families of living units (if those other families have someone still alive in them) and various stats of families such as how many adults and children are in them and how many family members have died. This can help to make tracking world history much easier, in-depth, and accurate. You will also be able to edit family pictures, frames, and names if you'd like similar to other meta-objects.

Some players dislike that families will most likely only track living units and would prefer if everything is tracked. This is unlikely to be implemented to a full extent because of how much it would clutter and enlarge world saves, especially older ones.

Families and File:IconClanList10x.pngClans are different. Families track how would you expect them to, displaying grandparents, children and siblings of units while clans are for succession purposes within a kingdom. All units will be part of a family but only some will be a part of a clan.

The difference between Family and Genealogy screens: Families are tracked to display family relationships such as siblings and parents. Genealogy tracks the path and distribution of genes in groups (such as packs and flocks). The difference between these two systems has not been widely described but Maxim has mentioned how they are used for different mechanics.

Revealed Icon Gallery (Names for the icons pictured below are all speculative)

• Children

  Children

• Workers

  Workers

• Genealogy Menu Icon

  Genealogy Menu Icon

• Male

  Male

• Female

  Female

• Healthy

  Healthy

• Sick

  Sick

• Sleeping

  Sleeping

• Starving

  Starving

• Relaxing

  Relaxing

File:HeartSymbol10x.pngTeaser History

Image	Caption	Date	Source
File:BabyDwarfImage Sep2.png	"baby-dwarf has been severely enhanced"	Sep 2, 2023	Imgur
File:SteamNews Ingame4th.png	"To represent families and their banners, we ended up using picture frames, which you can also customize and change colors. As usual you can also change family name"	Dec 26, 2023	Steam
File:SteamNews Ingame5th.png	"From the family screen, you can see which family members are currently alive"	Dec 26, 2023	Steam
File:SteamNews Ingame6th.png	"You can explore family history and see the ancestral lines associated with it"	Dec 26, 2023	Steam
File:SteamNews Ingame 7th.png	"And in unit window you will be able to to view generation and the genealogy of your people and animals"	Dec 26, 2023	Steam
File:SteamNews Ingame8th.png	"In the subspecies menu, you'll be able to see which families exist in the world that are related to them. Similarly, this applies to the kingdom/city view"	Dec 26, 2023	Steam
File:BaaaImage Feb2 2024.png	[Genealogy Screen]	Feb 2, 2024	Imgur
File:MetaObjectIcons7.png	[second to last button is the family layer]	Feb 5, 2024	Steam