Virtual Villagers: The Lost Children Tips & Tricks

Welcome to the Tips and Tricks for Virtual Villagers: The Lost Children, an exciting new game from Last Day of Work and Big Fish Games. Following are some basic strategies to incorporate into play, as well as solutions to the puzzles. So, read at your own risk!

BASIC STRATEGIES

Organization
The first thing to consider is the importance of organization, and naming each villager helps. Select a villager, click the Detail button and change their name to one you can easily remember (like someone you know). This helps you remember who's who so you can stay on top of each villager.

Exploration
Explore early and often! The map's not very big, but there's much to be found. Drop your villagers onto anything that looks interesting. Even if it says they don't have the right skills or skill level, at least you know something is there! Just about every part of your land holds some sort of secret. Keep notes of everything you discover for easy reference later.

And, in case you didn't know, you can use the number keys to zip around the island. Keys 1-9 correspond to nine different sections of Isola. You can even pick someone up and quickly whisk them to the desired location.

Villager Aptitude
Stay on top of your villagers and their skills -- Farming, Building, Research, Healing and Parenting. Initially, make sure you have at least one person working on each of the skills. Some puzzles require a specific level of skill, so you always want to be ready.

Villagers need to be taught to perform a job. So, keep an eye on them at the start of their "career." Some have short attention spans and will wander off. Eventually, as they learn their job and reach Trainee level, they will become more automatic at performing it.

Also, remember to assign skills to each of your villagers on the Detail screen. Note that some children are actually born with an aptitude in one or more skills, inherited from their parents. Keep that in mind when making your assignments, as they will advance more quickly in a skill for which they already have a propensity. You can use this to your advantage, too, by playing matchmaker. If you need more builders, introduce a Master Builder to that special someone.

Some villagers have certain likes and dislikes, as well. These can effect how your character works. For example, a villager who loves to run around would not be good at researching. In some cases, you may need to experiment with a villager to find their niche vocation.

Developing Skills
Skills in Farming are developed by gathering food for your community. At the beginning of the game, you start by dropping a villager into ocean on the west side of the map where they learn to fish. This initially keeps a decent supply of food in the camp. Ultimately, your villagers will learn to climb nearby trees for yummy coconuts, and to plant and harvest crops.

Building is fairly straightforward. As you progress in technology, new foundations will appear on the map. Just drag and drop a villager onto these and they will begin building. Builders can also repair structures. One of the huts you start with is dilapidated, so repair it when you get a chance. In addition, many secrets are scattered across the map that only Master Builders can uncover. Keep an eye out!

Research is the easiest skill to develop since it involves just the research table. But, knowing where to invest your points can be tough. Use them on science early because tech points will accrue faster. This way, you can progress in all the other technologies sooner!

Healing can seem a bit tricky at first, but a few easy ways exist to increase this skill. The first is obvious -- heal people! When someone is sick, they wander over by the fire and sit on the ground. You can also tell if someone is sick if you hear them cough. Simply drop your healer onto them and they will be cured. If no one is sick, you can still develop this skill. Around the edge of the map are six plants to study. Drag a villager onto one of these plants and they will begin examining it. The more they study, the greater their skill. These herbs, by the way, comprise one of the main puzzles and are used to create stews (see below).

Parenting is the final skill, but an important one you need to manage correctly. If your population grows too fast, your villagers may starve. If it grows too slowly, workers will take a long time to develop. So, try and find a healthy medium. Also be aware that a mother nursing a baby will do nothing else for the equivalent of two game years!

Initial Play
You begin the game with three workers (two adults and a teenager) and several young children. Assign one each to be a farmer, builder and researcher. Parenting can wait a bit (but, not too long), and healing can be done by one of your main villagers as the need arises. Once several more workers come of age, add another builder, researcher and farmer, and train someone as a Master Healer.

Game Speed
In regards to game speed, if you're going to actively manage your village, keep it on Normal or 2x Speed. If you're going to be away for several hours or all night, put it on ½ Speed. If you're leaving it unattended for a day or more, Pause it. You don't want to came back to find most or all of your villagers dead of starvation or disease.

Events
Occasionally a "random" event will occur that gives you a choice to make. For example, a crate may wash up on shore and you'll have to decide whether to open it or not. It could contain food supplies or diseased rats. So, pay attention to the details and think carefully before you make a decision. The obvious choice may not always be the best one. Choose incorrectly, and you could end up in dire circumstances. Choose wisely, though, and you may receive a reward!

Collections
Occasionally, special items appear that only children can collect. Mushrooms add to your food supply, while other objects are part of special collections, specifically Butterflies, Shells, Beetles and Pebbles. Most of the time, children won't pick them up automatically. You need to physically drop a child onto them. So, it pays to continually peruse the little island looking for these objects. If you already have a collectable, get it anyways as duplicates add to your tech points.

Miscellany
In-game tips can be accessed by clicking the mask on the main game screen (lower left). These are the same tips that randomly appear when the game is loading.

Villagers who are sick should be healed as soon as possible. They will continue to grow weaker and die if not treated. If any of your villagers show a condition of weakened health, switch their job to something less demanding to aid in their recovery.

Curiosity is often a clue to the location of the game's main puzzles. So, watch where your villagers go and see what they're interested in.

PUZZLE SOLUTIONS

The following is a list of solutions to the game's puzzles, 16 in all. So, don't read further unless you need help solving them. You've been warned!

Most of the game's puzzles are dependent on a mixture of technology and villager skills. Plus, some puzzles need to be completed before you can accomplish others. Also, don't be fooled into thinking that they're completed in the order displayed, as that's not necessarily the case.

Fire
The first puzzle to be solved is starting a fire. Drop a villager on the wood pile in the southwest corner of the island and they will carry wood to the fire pit in the center. Then, take them to the pink flowers west of the coconut trees to collect some dried grass. Once the wood and grass are in place, drop them onto the fire pit and they will start a fire. Make sure to add wood occasionally to keep the fire from going out.

The Dam
Once you reach Level Two Engineering, drop a builder on the rocks just above the pool of water in the southeast corner of the island. They will construct a dam to irrigate the fields to the immediate left so that crops can be planted. This will also uncover an ancient mosaic on the ground, the site of a later puzzle.

The Scarecrow
This puzzle requires the completion of the dam above. Once you plant your crops, you need a scarecrow to keep the parrots away. Drop an Adept-level (or better) farmer on the twisted pieces of wood and vine just below the rock pile in the north center of the map. You'll need to do this twice.

The Cutting Tool
You need a cutting tool to clear the vegetation that covers the entrance to the cave in the north and the vine wall to the east. After you acquire Level Two Exploration, drop a Master Scientist on the sharp stones just above and to the right of the twisted pieces of wood and vine used for the scarecrow. When he's done, take him back for a second trip for the wood and vines necessary to finish the tool.

Herb Mastery
This puzzle is easy to complete early in the game. Six herbs are located around the edges of the map. Each one will be identified as a "strange plant" when a villager is held over it. Have a healer examine each one of them until they master it to complete this puzzle. The location of each herb is as follows:

1. The green plant in the upper left hanging over the wall of stones.
   
2. The blue flower at the top center just to the right of the cave.
   
3. The lavender daisy at the far top-right above the sacred area.
   
4. The black chain of flowers just above the waterfall on the east.
   
5. The bright red flowers southeast of the dam.
   
6. The large orange flower to the south of the village.

Sustainable Fishing
When the ocean to the west is over-fished, it develops algae. To eliminate the problem and restore fishing, special algae-eating fish must be transported from the pond to the ocean. This requires Level Three Farming and a Master Farmer or Master Scientist. Take them to the pond and drop them in. Once enough algae-eating fish are transported to the ocean, the algae will clear.

The Vine Wall
Along the east wall are a number of vines that conceal some strange markings. To uncover these, you must first complete the cutting tool and purchase Level Three Culture. Drag a villager to the wall and release them. They will use the cutting tool to remove the vegetation.

The Stew
In order to make stews, you must first recover the cauldron from the wood pile in the southwest. It will appear after you purchase Level Two Exploration. With the fire burning and the cauldron next to it, drop a villager on the cauldron three times. Once each to put it on the fire, fill it with water and add food. Then, drop a villager on any of the herbs you have mastered adding a total of three to the mix in any combination (you can use multiples of the same herb).

Of course, different selections of herbs will have different results. Keep track of the ingredients in all the stews you make. You want to avoid duplication and don't want to recreate a bad stew (it can make your villagers sick). If you treat your villagers to the best, they will stay healthy and remain happy.

Here are some recipes to get you started. The numbers for each herb correspond to the herbs as listed and identified under Herb Mastery.

1+2+6 = Your villager feels healthier after eating.
1+5+6 = This stew gave your villager a burst of energy.
2+3+4 = This spicy stew clears your villager's nose and throat.
3+5+6 = This stew gives off a very sweet smell.
4+5+6 = Your villager feels healthier.
4+6+6 = Strange stew...your villager feels no need to breathe.

The Ancient Ruins
Once you've completed the dam and reached Level Three Engineering and Exploration, you can drag a villager to the ancient ruins in the southeast corner of the map and they will start uncovering the site.

The Hospital
Obtain Level Three Engineering and Medicine, and a foundation will appear in the south central portion of the map. This lets your villagers build a hospital.

The Sewing Hut
Once you reach Level Two Culture, a foundation become visible for a sewing hut just east of the wood pile in the southwest corner of Isola. This allows your villagers to change clothing, but at a cost of 5,000 tech points each. Ouch! Where's Thurston Howell III when you need him?

The Sunken Gong Piece
One piece of the gong is located in the pool on the eastern edge of the village. This sunken gong piece is obtained by making a special magic stew consisting of one of the black flowers near the waterfall and two of the large orange flowers to the south of the village (herbs 4+6+6 as indicated above). Have a villager eat the stew, and then drop them in the pool.

The Inlaid Gong Piece
Once one of your villagers has become an Esteemed Elder and been honored with a totem and after you've completed the ancient ruins puzzle, drop a totem on the mosaic in the center of the ruins to retrieve another piece of the gong.

The Boxed Gong Piece
This piece of the gong is inside the crate on the beach to the west. Three Master Builders working together are needed to open it.

The Overgrown Gong Piece
After you purchase Exploration Level Two and complete the cutting tool, your villagers can clear away the vegetation blocking the cave to the north (the Gong Encasement). Doing so reveals a piece of the gong.

I didn't read all of it. Gonna try to solve it on my own! I'll read a little if I need help though! :)

so is everyone still posting at the review? when will they post here?

NICE!

what do you do if you pick up the villager with the cauldron and he drops it and loses it?

If ur villager collects the pot and u pick them up and they drop it quit the game and re open continue playing the pot should be back in the woodpile.

Eating stews seem to decrease their skills. My masters all became adepts after eating the energy stew. Anyone encountered this?

hey someone will you be posting here now? now when i said someone i meant the guy who helps out people with their problems of the game;)

Whatch out for the algae! It's best to develop the tree climbing and crop planting early in the game and not rely too much on fishing. If your villagers do mostly fishing from the start, soon they'll be cursed with algae in the sea and won't be able to fish until it's cleared. This can quickly lead to starvation because it takes too long for the crops and coconuts to replenish. To clear the algae, you need a master scientist and level 3 farming (90000 tech points!). Therefore, to keep your villagers from starving, teach them to plant the crop ASAP; protect the crop immediately with a scarecrow otherwise the birds will keep on eating it and your villagers will be done! I got the game before it came out as an exclusive from Big Fish Games so I learned the hard way when I lost all my villagers the first time I played it because of the algae and birds. My new villagers are thriving now. However, I wish they walked a bit faster since it takes the adults a bit too long to get from point A to B. Additionally, it takes a long time to achieve high tech points even at level 2 and for the villagers to achieve "master" status. Otherwise, it is much fun.

I figured out if you're trying to get someone to be a master parent quickly, choose an older woman (the yougest one i tried it with was mid 50's) and keep having her go indoors and they'll quickly advance without getting her pregnant!

Does any one know at what age to the women stop having babies even though they can still become master parents

Does any one know at what age to the women stop having babies even though they can still become master parents

Has anyone noticed this object flying past in the top left corner behind the stone wall?
Occasionally when you drag a villager into the top left corner something will fly by (large bird?) Has anyone noticed this? What is it?

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Last Day of Work Puzzle & Strategy Guide - The Lost Children

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got as far as building hospital. tech points are soooo slow. any ideas how to speed this up?

Hey,
How do you carry on getting your Building status up, when theres nothing left to build? All houses are built so far, and all the vines are cut, so Im unsure how to get more.

Thanks

Will

It looks like women stop having babies around 50, but I can't be certain...that's when most of my women stop having babies and just "go indoors".

ellarc, yes i will. oh, and you mean "girl who helps, right? ;)

nor, there is no age limit!

Erwyn, yes, they are birds. they are part of the game (that is, after you have gotton crops). ;)

antone know how to dig at the ancient ruins. do i need a master builder as noone else wants to dig?

I found the 4 pieces of the gong.
Is the game over now?

I did not complete the collection yet, do I have to?

Jitske

Thank you someone, but I don't think you read my post right. I am well aware of the birds that take my crops. In fact I have solved all 16 puzzles and have been ringing the gong for a few days and am only 1 pebble away from having everything and still need to get level 3 on exploring and tech. BUT I keep seeing this thing fly by (only a shadow) behind the stone wall in the top left corner. I can't figure out what it is or whether it is of any importance to the game.... Any suggestions? Just drag an adult villager into the top left corner behind the stone wall and you will see what I mean...

I can't figure out the order of herbs in the Mastery y section to make stew. Every order that I've tried has been nasty. Does anyone know the correct order?

women stop having babies at age 50.

you don't have to complete the collections if you don't want to, but doing so gives a nice little surprise.

RE: Building status

I read on the Last days of work website that there are alternative ways of getting your building status up, but haven't been able to figure it out so far.

Anyone?

Well, I then have to wait for the surprise then.

Getting Building status up by fixing the huts just lift a villager close to one of the buildings and he or she starts fixing.

Jitske

If you change the time on your clock on the computer, by adding about 15 minutes each time, it will "speed up" the progress of the game. But be careful because if you are low on food or something, it will kill your village.

Erwyn, oh, sorry. i don't think they're important, i think they're just there to make the game seem real. :)

Jitske Brouwer, you don't have to get all the collections, but i find it fun to do. if you have finished all the puzzles, i'm guessing you're done! :)

i hae a total o 7 building and im at 77 on population and i can bread it tells me i dont have enough buildings to bread any more can i get more and how please email me and let me know thanks

kathyj16@wowway.com

hey someone, i would like to know your e-mail add can you tell me yours cause bambi said you don't give it to anyone.

ok so i am trying to open up that creat thingy by the ocean.. but my builders are not going up and i have not much more to build i mean i still need the vines and that ancient ground.. is that enough?? my builders keep getting old and dying by the time i can get any tech points to buy more.. do i need to start over? or am i still ok?

how do i convert a building

hey, guys, i know its kinda old, but how to make the corps? i have algae on the sea, and the coconuts are running out...thx

i need 3 master builders to open the crate but they are all adept builders and their building status is incresing any ideas on how to make them masters QUICKLY!

........ANY IDEAS ON HOW TO GAIN TECH POINTS MORE QUICKLY

uliek, to make crops you must have level 2 in engeneering so you could build a dam on the stream near the waterfall and you only need level 1 farming to plant crops there, hope that helps;) and by the way just pick up the mushrooms if your running out of food.

kennicia, all you need to do to get more tech points quickly is to collect a lot of food and put them all at the research table and keep collecting the collectables cause one common items is 100 tech points and one uncommon is 200 tech points i dont know about the rare one cause i haven't collected one yet hope that helps! :)

kennicia, just double checking.. about the collectables have 100, 200 thingy, you will get tech points if you collect something that has been already collected ok? hope that helps more :)

hey everybody don't you think its unfair that we can't choose what clothes the villagers would wear when you have the sewing hut? its great in all but don't you agree?

ellarc, didn't you see my last post? sorry, but i don't like to give out my email to people i don't know that well. :)

uliek, level 2 in construction. build a dam by the pond. you need level 3 in farming for the algae.

oh well its not like i can't communicate with you guys.

You get tech points from collectibles you have already got..
100 for common ones
250 for uncommon
1500 for rare
Certainly sped it up a lot for me, but you do have to be a lot more active in managing the game.
Once you have level 3 exploration you will be able to see collectibles on the overview map as well (but only if they are already there, they won't appear out of nowhere like they do on the normal view).

how do i get my folks to have babies
they are all grown up and i keep sending them indoors but no babies!

Loving this game! But...curious as to why the crops take longer to grow after each harvest. 220 minutes on 2x speed? Anyone have a clue? My villagers can't wait that long I don't think!

So far I have 7 different of 13 totems, I solved 15 of 16 of the puzzles without help, and I guess if I'd have been alittle more patient I would've gotten the last gong piece (in the pond) I was up to 30 different recipes b4 I looked for the way to get the piece from the depths. I wonder if we'll beable to rebuild the walls of the ancient place as well as the floor. Still waiting on a pebble, a shell, and a beetle to complete my collections. I have almost 500 mushrooms picked and my 1st set of triplets today! I sent out cigar bubblegum, everyone get one? hehehe.........PLAY-ON

villagers can make babies without even going into the love shack. all you have to do is get them to keep kissing.. and eventually a baby will appear. Why wait to see after they go into the shack.. you ever notice how babies come even when only one person goes into the shack and comes out before the other gets in there.. and to make a master paretn once they are over 50 just keep makeing them kiss over and over again.. her parenting skill go up and will eventually make that women a master parent.. Males don't work cause they can still get others to have them babies.. If this helps anyone out... I would be glad to help..

I noticed that on the answers to the puzzles, he out level 3 of exploration for rebuilding the ancient place. It's sopposed to be level 3 of culture.

Yes, you are right! You don't need to wait for the villagers to go into the hut before finding out if they got a baby etc. When you put one villager on top of another keep an eye on your village count. If it goes up straight away it means you were successful and the female will have a baby (or more than one!). When you drag the male or female villager away, they won't go indoors but the male villager will go about his normal business and the female one will be nursing a little baby...

Does anyone Know where the beetles apear???

tracey, all you need is an trainee parent that is a man. when you get back, he'll probably've already given all the women babies! :p

ellarc, yeah, like, we're talking right now. :)

Bubblez, to get the beetles you have to cut away the briarthorn bushes with the cutting tools and to get the cutting tools you have to buy the 2nd in exploration. then in the upper part of the island to the right where the graveyard is. The pile of rocks to the right of the cave. to the right of the rocks you'll see a little blue bottle or something. take a master researcher and he will take it to the research table. Then take him to the roots where you get the scarecrow material and he will get wood and take it to the table. then you will have tools to cut the thorny patch in front of the cave mouth.

HELP! I have level 3 of Engineering and Exploration. I place a villager at the ancient ruins, but they are confused and need more research. What am I doing wrong?

Bubblez-the bugs are all in the area of where you have to clear away all the debree, also known as the gong area.. The rocks are all on the ancient ground. The big circle thingy, and the shells are all near the ocean.. butterflys however are usually scattered.. I hope this helps out alittle and i also hope you understand what i am trying to say..

Bubblez-the bugs are all in the area of where you have to clear away all the debree, also known as the gong area.. The rocks are all on the ancient ground. The big circle thingy, and the shells are all near the ocean.. butterflys however are usually scattered.. I hope this helps out alittle and i also hope you understand what i am trying to say..

I have one question, At the beginning it said the lost children were left with a person and that person went exploring. Do they appear in the game at some point?

How to do with those crazy birds? they not let me finish with the production, help

I would also like to know where beetles apear?

hola

Hi thanks for the parenting advice ive mastered that one. now about this sewing hut my folks have built a new hut just east of the crate on the beach but it doesnt have a purpose and i have got culture level two but no sewing hut!!!
can anyone say what i need to get the sewing hut please?

Does the children ever remember who left them and does the Person who left the children ever come back

If you have crops but DON'T have a scarecrow yet (because you don't have a Master Farmer or Scientist), you can hover over the crops yourself while they are being harvested. The crows won't bother you as long as you stay centered on the garden area (as soon as you move away from the area or check maps/data the crows come back). It's a pain to wait but better to have food.

When I got the Master Builders together to open the crate, the female and one of the males somehow produced a baby immediately! (I guess they did it on top of the crate). So I had to train up another Master Builder, sigh...

Food is a problem. I've decided that the best route at the beginning is to have only one farmer, one builder, and one researcher...train the builder to research till you can afford level 2 Farming. IMMEDIATELY train the farmer to get coconuts. Keep only ONE farmer so that they don't get antsy to fish by running out of coconuts too early. However, even after the garden and scarecrows are up and running, the food is barely enough to cover a village of 10-15. Hopefully this tribe will only fish as a last resort so I don't make the mistake of getting algae again and having to wait to accrue 90,000 tech points!!! With the algae tribe, I had to stop having babies so food would last till I get my tech points...how irritating.

how meny stews is there?

ok.. so i have compleated everythingi need to compleat except collecting the collectables.. does anything really happen if i collect them all?? or am i actually done the game?? If anyone as an answer to this that woud really be great thanks..

Hi there, I uncovered the gong piece in the centre of the mosaic and without thinking I used a villager who wasnt feeling well to pick it up, somehow the piece disappeared and doesnt show up anywhere. There is now only 3 pieces in the entrace of the cave and the mosaic is clear. Could the ill villager have dropped it and its disappeared or is this just a random glitch Ive encountered? Please help as its very frustrating to get your first file to this point and think the whole effort is now useless...:-(

i have only 1 piece if gong left to get and it is under water. i have tried every herb recipe i could and still haven't gotten it. would someone please post the herbs needed to do this PLEASE!

christy look in the above and find the recipe that helps you hold your breath eat some and then try

If you get herb 4,6,6 this will let them breath under water to retrieve the gong peice in the pond

I've solved all the puzzles but am having a hard time finding all the collectibles. Any clues or tricks?

can you make a stew that makes the villagers masters???

can you make a stew that makes the villagers masters???

My fire is at 9, and no matter how much firewood I collect, it rises to 10 and then drops straight back to 9. Does anyone have a solution?

The most annoying thing just happened, after finally uncovering the mosaic and dropping the totem on it to reveal the last piece, the guy that was carrying it was embraced and dropped the piece and it has vanished and it will not re appear. Ive dropped a different totem on the spot and it will not give me the last piece back!
This is the final thing for me to do and after all this time im VERY cranky.

After restarting the game, i tried it again and it fixed the problem *phew* all is good and the gong is complete!

Under the wood pile there seems to be a body. Have not finished the game so I don't know if you can get to him. Has anyone seen it??

How do I get my fire above 9 hours to go? No matter how much firewood I collect, I can't get it higher than 9.....

I loved this game, it's simple but smart, you can play many times and always see something different. I have found 18 stews and I belive this is all you can get. I found that some can help you getting your villagers skills up. It's a bit of a pain to try all combinations, but bare in mind that you have 5 tribes to play with and you should have your "trial" ones to help get to the end of the game. My tips for stew are

purple (or black) herb is really powerfull it usually makes a stew not edible but some combination make your villagers sick with is not all bad since once you heal them they will recover full strengh so it's very useful if you have a very weakened villager. However there is a much better stew that totally recover you villager, find it and give to every villager when you have no much food available. There is one that makes them exercise therefore improves construction skill, very useful when you run out of huts to buil and have no much tech points to uncover the ruins. There is one that improves children research skills if eaten once, it it twice and it will make the child loose skill. Not to mention the one required to get the piece of gong in the pond, all I can say is that your villager you feel no need to breath after eating it. You must check what happens with the ones that make your villager healthier some are good some are not. Now I have a combination that makes my villager embrace but I haven't notice any improve in parenting. Also nothing happens (they don't go indoors), you guys try and let us know waht happens the combination is 2 orange herb plus one red herb (I always though that a sweet smell would lead to... ypu know what). All reight, all right I give you the combination for full health restore, 2 lilac herbs and one orange, that should help through the tough times. Good luck

HI if they make a nasty stew is there any way to get rid of it or does it go away eventually by itself

One of my villagers also dropped the gong piece from the mosaic. I had to use a different totem, and it appeared again.

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Nyx28, close the game and go back on again. the gong piece should be there again.

christy, sorry, i don't know what the herbs are. i just heard that you need a stew to get the gong piece. well, it seems like mishisme and faye already helped you. :)

Michelle, they will come, just be patient. i heard that there is a surprise at the end if you get all the collectibles. make that your motivation. :)

saskia, i don't know. you can try....:)

JAS, a body?? really? i didn't see it, and no one else so far has seen it either....:o

sharon, try waiting until the fire actually goes out. then collect the wood.

Pie, it will go away soon.

if you use the herbs 3,3,6 it will restore a villagers health completly make sure everyone eats a bit.
the only time the fire is on 9 is if you`r game is set on 2x speed

The body under the wood must be TOFO. He was left alone with the children. (According to the writing on the wall).

How do you bury his body??

Thanks for the gong information! Leaving the game and coming back didnt change anything but using a different totem did! Much appreciated! Now is it just me or does everyone feel kinda unfulfilled now that the games complete lol. Yes I could always start another file but now that I know how to achieve everything its not as appealing or stimulating....or does anyone have any secrets or extras they can tell me so I can still have something to work towards or will I have to find another game to sink my teeth into? lol

JAS - looks like a leg poking out of the pile of firewood, but may be just an odd shaped piece :-) Let us know if you find anything.....

anyone know how to build the dam? thanks

I can see what u mean by the dead body! if u look closey at the pile of wood it looks like theres a bottom half of a torso an arm an a leg but it could just b wood?

it dose look a bit like a dead guy but then agine it could just be wood!

small helpful hint to all mixing, as soon as you make a mixture you can end game and start again and pot is empty. can go through mixtures real fast.

these are the mixtures i have so far....
1+1+1 = healthier
1+1+2 = feels much healthier
1+1+3 = healthier
1+1+4 = nasty not edible
1+1+5 = spicey
1+1+6 = much healthier
1+2+2 = healthier
1+2+3 = clears nose and throat
1+2+4 = thirthy so thirsty
1+2+5 = makes you goto bathroom
1+2+6 = Your villager feels healthier after eating.
1+3+3 = healthier
1+3+4 = not edible
1+3+5 = very very spicey
1+3+6 = healthier
1+4+4 = makes you ill
1+4+5 = not edible
1+4+6 = nasty not edible
1+5+5 = dancing burst of energy
1+5+6 = This stew gave your villager a burst of energy.
1+6+6 = healthier
2+2+2 = jumpy allergic
2+2+5 = healthier
2+3+4 = This spicy stew clears your villager's nose and throat.
2+4+6 = not good
2+5+6 = healthier
3+3+6 = restored completely
3+5+6 = This stew gives off a very sweet smell.
3+6+6 = healthier
4+5+6 = Your villager feels healthier.
4+6+6 = Strange stew...your villager feels no need to breathe.
5+6+6 = love potion ?

Is there a limit of totums?
I got 14 village eldest but only 13 totums.

heya how do you know what herbs are what numbers? i need help thanks

Hey guys I seem to be stuck.

Okay, so one thing- Is that a PERSON under the wood pile?!

#2, I can't find the pot! It's not in the wood- where else could it be?

#3, How do I get my people started on building weapons?

thanks a ton!

my crops wont growfor like another 21 hours...i dont understand why that happend..it was only my second time harvestingand it went up from 90 minutes to aourn 1333 minutes....HELP...im running out of food

What do I need to do to find the person who was supposed to look after the children and find out what happened to him/her.

There definately is a shape of a person under the wood pile but if it was an actual lost villager wouldnt the remains be skeletal like the others when they perish? Would hate to remove wood for weeks on end and have the wood pile turn out to be never-ending and the shape a simple coincidence lol. Now that, would be a bummer!

Leanne, have you changed the speed of your game by chance? i know i turn my speed down when im not going to be around for a longer time.
Hanna, I hadn't seen the person under the wood pile until you mentioned it. It does look like two legs sticking out doesnt it. I have solved all of my puzzles and there was nothing to do with this image... doesnt mean that there isnt but im guessing that its just wood that looks like legs.

Does anyone know how to find the right person to ring the gong?

Another question, does the location where the childern call nature "nature is calling" have any importance?

Thanks guys for your help,
Lori

please help, i cant get my villagers to climb tree's and i have algae so they are all dying
please help as i only have 600 tech points too

Hey LOVED the game but is that a person under the wood pile or what and why is it taking so long for the collections to appear.....Is there going to be another game?

Lori, i don't think that place is that important. i don't know about the "gong-ringer", sorry. :)

Sammie Banks, level 2 in farming to get the coconuts. don't pick all of them right away though, they don't last forever. also, but level 2 in construction so you can build a dam that will water the siol so you can grow crops. then, level 3 in farming to clear the ocean. :)

LOL Lori, when it says 'nature is calling' only means thats your villagers going to the toilet!

Also, I dont know about the 'right' person to ring the gong but I have found that you should choose a villager who is in perfect health and who has already mastered 2 skills, change their skill to one they havent mastered and get them to ring the gong....it makes them a master at that skill too so you'll instantly have another totem. If you ring the gong with a villager who is not in perfect health the gong gives them the remaining health only.

I have no idea what to do with all these extra totems Im aquiring but being female Im just decorating the place with them lol.

Can anyone tell me of any other choices and results from the pop-ups that occur during the game? Ive had the following:

A giant pearl - either to keep for myself or show the whole village. (I chose show the village and they trampled it and smashed it...thats what I get for sharing lol)

A giant coconut - they couldnt open it so the choice was to either let it soften in the lake or hurl it off the diving platform. (I chose hurl it and it was successful.)

The old and worn sack washed up - open or not. (I opened and was full of rats and mice carrying disease).

A small well preserved sack - open or not. (I chose open and was successful. Was filled with cogs and springs which enhanced tech points.)

I did notice tho that there were very few choices in this version compared to the first one. Does anyone have any different ones they can tell us all the results of?

Thanks...

how long do the woman nurse before they get back to work

Be warned if you're forwarding your time on your pc clock. If you put it back to what it was, the time your crops take to grow increase by the number of minutes you've reversed the clock. So make sure you keep putting the clock forward only if you dont want them to starve but want to play the game quicker.

And I'm assuming the 3rd edition of VV will start with either TOFU or the missing parents as they dont complete that part of the story.

"Nature Calling" is another term for going potty!
:-)

How many fish do you need to eat the algae?
It keeps telling me to get more... I must have put ten of them already.

Thanks

Nyx and Renee, lol thanks for enlightening me on such a beautiful euphemism. I knew that it meant that, but in the spirit of comparison I started thinking about the last game and how the place where the kids went to the bathroom turned into a beautiful garden where you had to have your "golden child" if I'm not mistaken. It’s been a while, I think that was right. Anyway... it seems that the villagers know important places. Thought this could have been something that I had missed. Thanks for your help. Nature is calling, I must go. ;-D lol, Lori

What is there left to do after you solve all 12 puzzles in the virtual villigers the lost children game

Toggling time forward gives more hours of fire!

LOL @ LORI. No worries...anytime! Its been so long since I played the other one so I cant really recall where they went when nature was calling them so your probably right. Im holding out to get all the collectibles to see what happens there (as there doesnt seem to be anything else to work towards in the game). This game shouldve been called "Lost" lol Its a mystery how they got there... some hear whispered voices from the bushes only to investigate then disappear completely...all this island needs is a few loose polar bears and wierd black supernatural cloud that tries to drag the villagers underground and it would be identical lol

I'm having trouble feeding my people! No coconuts left, algae in the ocean (not nearly enough tech points to solve this)and having to wait forever for my crops to come in. Does it help to increase the number of people watering the crops? Can the time between crops be shortened in any way? They're living off nothing but mushrooms and dying one by one.

@gnk
There's no other way then to let some of your villagers die. The crops are only enough for 15 people, now if you have 20 your food will decrease very fast.
Also, don't play 2xSpeed. This costs a lot of food. :)

Does anyone know any information about VV 3?

how long do the woman nurse before the can work.

Do i gain more tech points if more than one villager is doing research. And dose a project go faster if there is more than one doing it.

please help, i cant get my villagers to climb tree's and i have algae so they are all dying
please help as i only have 600 tech points too

make your villager a farmer and keep taking them to the tree or try different villagers

Sammi try different villagers but when you put one at the base of the tree place them on the tree about an inch from the bottom and see what they do, because sometimes it looks like they are just going to walk away but they actually just walk to another tree and begin.

Is there a burial site? and how do I get them to create it?

How do I make the burial site come up?

hi ...how do i start the crops to grown ....i keep getting the soil is too dry ... plase somebody help me

the crop won't grow till you build the dam refer to previous commants on how to build the dam
i don't think you get the burial site till someone dies

Hey all, I've solved all the puzzles and collected all butterflies, shells and pebbles, but I'm missing one beetle that just doesn't seem to want to appear. Any help or suggestions? Thanks

I have discovered that if u keep the game paused, mushrooms and collectables still appear. place a child on them quickly unpause the game till the child gets back, then pause game again. Also I have compleated everything I can, the gong is done the puzzles are done, I need one rock and one bug to get yet, when do i see the end of the game Some one please email me and tell me. Cones2210@yahoo.com

I have found a Waiata's Totem. Had anyone found it. if yes what the hell is it. its different from others.

and how can we earn tech points faster?

Please help.

I love this game, but there seem to be a few problems with the Doctors - does anyone know how to keep them studying the strange plants? I have found that once they become adept doctors they stop going to the plants to study and then it is really hard for them to become master doctors unless there is a lot of sickness. I have been playing the game for a good few hours now and only 2 villagers have become masters whereas all the other jobs are relatively easy to advance in

I found the piece of gong in the mosiac, and let one of the villagers pick it up, but she didnt bring it to the cave, she lost it on the way. does any one know what to do?

Hey Armadillo, I have found that when I want to speed up my healers progress I dont let them just wander where they want to go as it does take way too long. I will repeatedly pick them up and place them on the plants over and over, this way it keeps saying 'studying strange plant' then will say "Your villager understands this herb" or "your villager improved" etc then when they attempt to walk away I place them on there again and again. Just break the monotony tho by placing them on various different plants as you do this. Soon enough they become masters. I do this with builders too even when theres nothing left to build, I just place them on a hut till it says "Fixing the hut" and "your villager improved at construction", do this over and over all the while rotating them from hut, to hospital, back to another hut etc. Hope this helps... :-)

Tis true I finally have my first dead villager. They buried them all by themselves.

I to am having trouble getting a Master Doctor.

NH

Okay a few tips and hints:

1. If you press the space bar and pause the game right when your crop comes up you can move every working villager to the field to harvest. Some you will need to keep placing there, but if you switch them all over to farming, they will eventually stay put. Some will try to head to the coconuts, I just kept pickin' up and putting them on the field. That way you get all of the harvest.

2. If you hear chimes, it means that somewhere, a butterfly or shell has popped up. If you hear a rock sliding then a rock has popped up in the ruins. The beetles....I'm not sure yet.

I used the Adept Doctor I had to make the stews, all he does is swim anyway.

Is anyone else really peeved that it takes so much longer to achieve anything in this version??? Much as I love the game, it is taking too long compared to version 1.....

I accadently dropped a piece of gong... now it is gone :s anyone had this problem too? what to do next?

Did anyone notice that if someone is sick and you drag a child to cure an adult or another child. I had one child all the way up to adept doctor before he became an adult. You have to start them young and only use them everytime someone gets sick.

Can anyone tell me how to read the ruins? One is a picture of the fish, one is the cocanut tree one is of whom i think is the adult that left the kids, and i am not sure about the lower left hand picture. Do the totem poles have anything to do with them. Some one let me know please. Cones2210@yahoo.com

what other food can i feed my ppl without the fish. i have level 3 in farming. but no luck. thanks

r they working on VV3? I saw somewhere that there was a third chapter

Paul, now that the writings uncovered drop a villager onto it again and it will come up on the screen telling you exactly what it says.

Angel, yes, it happened to me too! (A few posts above this!) Just use a different totem on the centre of the mosaic again and your gong piece re-appears.

Sharon, I agree! I liked this version better as far as the collectibles and twists like the algae etc but it does take soooooo long to achieve master status. There were some points there where it was almost painful lol.

Wendy, thanks for the tips about the chimes, or rock sliding noise. I never noticed. I think speedily scanning the whole island relentlessly sometimes was the cause of quite a few headaches lol. Dont know if it was that my sound was turned down or what but that now makes things so much easier. I just wish I heard this at the start of my game not when the only thing I need to complete it is the collectibles lol.

If somthing ever comes up as a event saying well... I dont exactily know but it is somthing that comes to the tech table and is annoying your sientest and you sa(click) let him be botherd or let him or her get hit or whatever and you will get -999,999 tech points. you know what that means YOU GOT POSITIVE TECH POINTS. GO TO THE TECH SCREEN ANID BUY EVERYTHING!!!!!!!

i purchased level 2 in culture an the sewing hut has not appeared. tried quitting and coming back in but nothing did i miss something???

About a minute before beetles appear you may hear a cicada sound.....

What happens when you get all of the collectables?

of you make about 7 or 8 of your villagers research and then go away for about 5 hours (making sure they have enough food) and come back, you should have a lot more tech points. this is what i did and it pretty much worked.

I am trying to get the 3 master builders, but they are dying off, as they are mostly elders. Finally got the hospital and in process of building it. How am I going to continue making builders after this is done? Are there more things to build?

Wendy the "sacred ground" is there on it's own. If some one dies the other villagers will bury them and a head stone will apear. You don't have to do anything.

I need help figuring out the second puzzle, the raft.

if anyone can help me I will be very thankful.
how do you get the raft to work?

Ummm why are half the posts gone? Is anyone else missing 4 days worth of posts or is it just my pc?

I have enjoyed the game till now I have been trying to find the last shell for 8 days now what is with this game??? can anyone help or should I just give up? every thing else is done!!!

Just an idea on how to get tech points faster, your points will add up much faster when more people are at the research table at the same time. Just keep picking them up and dropping them at the table when they stop and are "doing nothing" or start to walk away. It worked for me.

im on my way to solving all the puzzles, i just have to wait for them to finish restoring the ancient ruins. what do i do with all my tech points? seems like a waste to just let em collect. is there anything else left to the game after this? thnaks

ALL of my babies are female!!! Whats up with that? I'm trying to mate different folks but all I get are girls. My village is going to be in a lot of trouble in 30 years if this keeps up! Anyone else have the same problem?

Some folks were mentioning changing the system clock. That got me thinking about March 11 DLST. How will day lights savings time effect the game? I guess we need to make sure our food supplies is up since we are moving forward one hour. Unless the developers coded for this and I hope they did'nt for April 1st. That would really mess things up. We should prepare for both scenarios.

Must I discover the Gong piece first before putting the algae eating fish in the OCEAN? I can't find them in the pond. HELP! MY VILLAGERS ARE DYING!

Hi... I inadvertently let my fire go out and can't get it restared. I've tried taking a villager to the firewood pile... they put it on the fire pit.. then I take the villager to the dry grass.. they put it on the fire pit.. but nothing happens. I trid quitting the game and restarting, but that doesn't help. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!

sammie, did u purchase level 2 farming?..u have 2 do that 1st..it's 1500pts..so if u only have 600, teach the rest of ur villagers to be scientists and they'll get u more pts!

has anyone seen the big green fish behind the coconut trees? If so is there anything I can do with it?

ahhh I got lazy tried to beat the game in a night and kept adjusting the time, I got confused and my crops weren't getting ready for 2234 minutes, lol eventually all my villagers died, so sad. Don't make the same mistake, I feel so stupid now haha

Does anyone else have this problem? I made stew and when any of my masters ate it it lowered their skill level to adept.

i just made my villagers eat the stew that gives them energy and it made my masters go down in leavel.......

Any explinations for this
i am very grateful
thanx

My gong piece went missing because one of my "Parents" was waiting for my villagers. I freaked out and then I put the computer's clock back an hour and I re-did the motions to get the gong piece again. Phew!!! Thank goodness it worked. I'll make sure my villagers aren't trying to have relations when they go to retrieve something.

Can any one tell me how to make a sharp tool?

I have finished all puzzles including having the gong completed. How do I ring it? Is it just clicking on it so the text comes up? I have tried doing that on several villagers (all with 100% health) and nothing at all happens. I put the villager in front of it so it says they are "admiring the ancient gong encasement". Then I click on the gong. What am I doing wrong?

you have to have a level 3 farming and a master farmer or scientist to find the alge eating fish if you get rid of the alge you can fish for food and get crops then you can feed a large tribe i have 23 in my tribe and my food stays at about 4000 then you can do other things and not worry about your tribe starving

Ok for the collections, I can find shells and buterflies... Why cant I find beetles and rocks?
Any help would be great! Thanks

After you acquire Level Two Exploration, drop a Master Scientist on the sharp stones just above and to the right of the twisted pieces of wood and vine used for the scarecrow. When he's done, take him back for a second trip for the wood and vines necessary to finish the tool.

Is there a maximum number of totems? I have a total of 50, in eight different designs, by getting Master skills in three categories. But now I've stopped getting totems, and I have Master's in four categories. (Still trying for master of 5 categories.)

I lost my first gong piece...my villager dropped it when I accidently clicked on him. So the "collections" says I have it, but it's not hanging. My game has been off and on for several days since and still no piece. Can anyone tell me what to do? I'm afraid I'll get to the end of the game and only have three and not be able to ring it. Should I start the game over or what? SOMEONE....HELP!!!

susan, I haven't gotten a totem yet (so close!), but I always thought they were unlimited. But after reading what you've said, I think there is a limit.

graciepie, your first gong piece.....do you mean the one in the pond or the one that was there after you cut away all the vines? I think if you get the gong piece from the pond first, it won't hang up, once you cut away all the vines in front of the cave, there will be there.

HELP! I have level three of both the exploration and engineering but when I place a person on the acient ruins they do nothing. It just says more research in needed. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

MB

Anyone know where i can download this game for free.. n its NOT a demo!!?????

something to watch out for, I went to bed last night with a lil over 800,000 food, woke up with 0...it said something came over the air and all the food was rotten. Lost half my people

To Someone from Graciepie:

Thank you so much for answering my question about my missing gong. It was retrieved from the pond and it shows up on "collections" that I have it, but it's not hanging in the encasement. I'm almost finished clearing the vines to get the second gong piece, so hopefully two will then show up. My fingers are crossed!
Again, thank you for answering.

Once a female masters parenting they can have twins and triplets!

How long does it take a stew to stew?

I just had one of my highly skilled villagers ring the gong and he died immediately. Sooo sad about that.

You must have all 4 pieces of the gong to ring it. You can only ring it about once every 24 hours. It you see little sparklies floating up from it, you can take any villager and drop him in front of the gong. It will say "ringing the gong"....the villager will take a couple steps back and then walk back up to the gong and ring it. It will tell you what the gong has done for the village. It can give or take health and tech points or make an elder (some one who has 3 masters in skills). Make a good stew for health before ringing, just in case. I had about 2 dozen sick at the hosp. after one ring.....

Still looking for 1 rock....thanks for the info on the rock sliding noise! Will turn up the volumn!

flymommy-- stewing has 4 parts to it.

Place pot onto fire
Add Water
Add 3 herbs
Add food to stew

After that, it's done almost immediately. My favorite recipe is the 3-3-6 which restores my elders to health.

graciepie, no prob! It should show up because your villagers haven't discovered the "hanger" so how can they hang the gong piece up? :)

flymommy, very fast. drop a villager on the cauldren to prepare it, drop the villger on it again to put water in it. then put your 3 herbs in and then drop the villager on it agin to put food in it. It should be done right away. :)

I just had one of my highly skilled villagers ring the gong and he died immediately. Sooo sad about that.

I only have level two exploring and engineering, yet my villagers are working on the ancient ruins. Go figure! I did place my two elder totems there, I don't know if that made a difference or not.

Your builders will be able to advance their skill byworking on the ruins.

wut is the big crate thingy at the left side of the map near the ocean?

Hi there...I'm pretty far into the game but I just can't seem to keep my food supply up...how can I get my food supply up? Also is there a stew that can make these villagers go faster? The way they walk so slow drives me crazy...lol.

Thanks for any help!

Heather

Does the order you add the herbs to the stew matter?

Do the 3 coconut trees replenish themselves ? Waited over 6mths for this game ! just beginning it.. Thanxx ....XXX

Trying to help some of you out. Every time you see crops in your field, you will get coconuts. When you start out, you get a lot of coconuts. When I make a stew, I put 3 people out there to get the herbs so it doesn't matter in what order they go in. Heather, go into options and check you game speed. It seems the slower the speed, the slower they go. Don't know of any stew to make them all go faster. The raft looking thing is a crate. You need 3 master builders to open it for the gong piece inside. Start three villagers as builders young and keep putting them on the huts/hosp. to make them masters. Still trying to figure out when the game is actually over...if you have all collections/gong/over 50 elders/....when happens next???

Mick, I selected a special top-notch villager to ring the gong too and it sizzled him. He just vanished! Now I'm not so eager to ring it again. AND...

In a picture I saw advertising VV2, I saw a little Indian.....have seen NO Indian thus far. Does one eventually come into the picture? Anyone know?

Heather, sadly, no, there is no stew to make them faster. ;) From the sound of it, I think you don't have the algae removed yet, right? It is hard to get your food up without fish. Just amke sure you have villagers who are farmers. They will collect the crops after they've grown and occasionally collect coconuts. :)

flymommy, nope, not at all. :)

LadyInPink, oh yes! It does take a LONG time for it to just have 10 more coconuts but as long as your villagers get more food. :)

hmm..unwanted events happened??your food gone because of flood???

dont worry...
just press crtl+alt+delete, end the virtual villagers program...your game will be back to the time you were last quit the game.....

From the time momma drops the baby, kids can heal. In both games.

Hi people,
I read all the comments but i didn't find anyone who had the same problem i have: the sea has algae, but i've bought level 3 of farming and sent a master cientist to the pond and all he does is enjoy it.
I have 15 people in my village and when the crops are growing they all starve.
What sould i do? Am i putting the villager in the correct place? If i leave him there he will just swim, dive and sunbathe.

i am trying to build a dam (puzzle 2) and it says that you must drag a builder on top of the rocks...what rocks? the ones right by the waterfall? if so..i have dragged my master builder there many times but he just stands there for a second "enjoying the water or" doing nothing! how can i get him to build a dam!!?!?!?

hey i have all my technologies and i have master scientists and etc... but they wont clear the ground around the ancient grounds.. ive already made a cutting tool and found the writing and first peice of the gong... could sumone please tell me y my people wont clear the ancient grounds??

Hi there.

No, actually my ocean never did get algea so I don't have a problem with that and my game is set on 2X speed. I don't know what else to do. I run out of food as soon as I get it and why does it take so long for the crops to grow back? Sometimes it shows that it's going to take 2 hours before it will grow back. Also, my scientist always go and water the crops when they are assigned to research...very aggravating...anyone else have this problem? Anyone have any other ideas?

Thanks again,
Heather

Do the coconut trees replenish themselves ???

Thanx

Hi again,
I made a post this afternoon asking for help with the cleaning of the ocean. It's not needed anymore.
In all the places i went to find an answer all said that the algae-eating fish could be found in the pond by a master scientist or master farmer. I don't think that is quite true, because i've tryed several times with the scientist and it didn't work.It was only when i tryed with a master farmer (that was also a esteemed elderly, a coincidence, i think) that she spoted the fishes.
And if your ocean has algae i warn you that it will take some fishes, around 10, i think and you need to keep sending the master farmer to the pond.

Sam, the dam isn't near the waterfalls, it further to south, next to the area where the villagers spot a fertile soil that needs irrigation.

Does Watering the crops Do anything? I can't get esteemed elders, must be doing something wrong. Managing otherwise. Started a new tribe and I have one of those funny guys who runs everywhere. I like the grey hair showing they are older but they don't half slow down.!

All my women can have is girls, I have had 4 girls in a row. Is there anything I can do to fix that?

How many times (about) does a healer have to study a plant before they master it? I had my doctor study one 20 times in row, with no mastery.

Per the numbers above, put in 3-3-6. Will restore a person to full health.

Hi all thanks for all the information. Is there a stew that increases fertility?

I have three children who look very similar to monkeys. I haven't seen any Indians yet though.

I have three children who look very similar to monkeys. I haven't seen any Indians yet though.

Transporting the fire-arrows (algae-eating fish) from the pond to the ocean is a pain because you have to keep making them do it.

Right after I typed that, they completed the task and the balance was restored.

I was wondering about the totems. I've been putting them on the mosaic and wondering if a certain order would make them do anything. My villagers still seem interested in the mosaic, so I think something else might happen.

VV3 needs a bigger area to explore or a way to leave the island!

use 5000 tech points for changing cloths??

NAH...

JUST CLICK THE PERSON, PRESS f6....you can change their cloth!!

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone that has left a comment. I have been able to read them and figure most things out,but I think the game still has many bugs in it. because I have (or I believe I have) most everything done except the game will not give me my last shell,beetle,butterfly or pebble. Does anyone have any idea

SOS!! My people are starving! I already harvested all the coconuts, and the algae has taken over the ocean. I have a garden and a scarecrow, but the crops aren't going to come in for 100+ minutes. Is there anything I can do to keep them from starving. (besides collecting mushrooms, They are not enough to feed 20 people).

Thankyou, Kate

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone knows why my villagers wont get the gong piece from the crate on the beach. We have opened it already, but they cant pick it up. Any ideas?
Thanks

Please tell me the color of the rare butterfly on the bottom right row. The rares I have (left to right) are blue, lime green, white with purple fringe. What color is the last one?

Ditto the rare stones. I have gold, aqua & purple. What color is the last rare?

Thanks!

Cauldron Help Please. I had one villager working on the cutting tool and one villager collecting the cauldron. When the villager working on the cutting tool finished, the villager with the cauldron drop it to celebrate and now it is GONE!

Is there anyway to make the cauldron return? Please help. Thanks.

Game never ends, I have solved everything and get all the collections (15 totems) and it goes over and over. I also played the first part, and the game is still running by itself in my computer...so who knows what's next.

Thanks for the words of encouragement. lol. At that time I didnt' have any algea. I was working on getting elders before they died, so I could get a totem. I now have three totems. Seems time is the answer. I did get algea finally last night. I almost lost my villagers trying to get my tech points up to 90000 for level three farming so I could get the algea fish. I wanted to let you know all is well in my village.
Our newest problem is with the Ancient ruins. My husband has level three engineering and exploration. But when he drags a villager over to the area, they don't do anything. Any help here, are we missing something?

Can anyone tell me how to solve the plant puzzle. I have everything else finished but this.

Thanks

For the rare stones the last one is pink.

Thanks
Vicki

I have five villagers that are masters at three things for about three days but have not turned into elders or have I got a totem poles. Oops! four villagers one has just died. Is this a blip in the game or something else. I have 50 elder totem poles so far have I reached my maximum total?

Cauldron problem solved. I quit the game and it didnt work but after I rebooted my computer it was back.

I have solved all the puzzles got loads of techi points and food, but cannot get to collect 5 remaining beetles and 3 remaining pebbles.
Weeks have gone by now. Any ideas?

Coconut trees do replenish but you only get about another 10 or so.

Watering crops makes them better skilled at that job ie. farming.
Fixing huts will make them better builders.
Researching makes better scientists, etc.

You can see how long the moms are nursing when you click on details ans look at the top bar.
When yu have sollected a full set of a group, you get to increase your population by 5.

my mother has been nursing for 5 hours!!! and i didnt cahange the time

It's so disappointing when a baby is born looking like an old man with gray hair. One mother just had twins....both with gray hair. Ick. And I have one baby that was born looking like an ape. Haven't seen any blondes yet...mostly redheads.

Does anyone know if they're working on a VV3 yet?

hi people i just styarted this game 2 days agao and im finished already. i have all puzzles complete. im just wonderng what happens when i collect all collectables. i also have all pzzle solutions SO IF YOU DONT WANT THE SOLUTIONS TO ALL PUZZLES SKIP MY COMMENT :)

Don't read these unless you want to know EXACTLY how to solve each of the puzzles.
Puzzle 1 involves building a fire in the fire pit. Drag one of your villagers to the pile of dry wood in the southwest part of the village to gather firewood. After the wood is placed in the fire pit, take a villager to the very dry grass that can be found to the west of the coconut trees. Once the firewood and dry grass have been placed in the fire pit, drag a villager there to light the fire. You will need to replenish the firewood periodically to keep the fire from going out.
Puzzle 2 is the construction of a dam that will divert water from the stream to an area that can be used for farming. After you purchase Level 2 of Engineering Tech, drag a villager to the rocks that are in the middle of the lower portion of the stream. You will see a message, "He/she could probably build a dam here."
Puzzle 3 is a scarecrow that an adept farmer can construct in order to protect the crops from the birds. Drag an adept or master farmer to the twisted pieces of wood and vines that are located in the northern portion of the village. The scarecrow requires two trips to complete, so make sure that you finish the construction, or your crops will not be protected.
Puzzle 4 is the fashioning of special cutting tools that will be needed to cut away vegetation in some parts of the village. After purchasing Level 2 of Exploration Tech, drag a master scientist to the northern part of the village where he will see something among the rocks near the twisted pieces of wood and vines. Your scientist will need to make a second trip to finish the tools, so take him to the twisted wood and vines to get the necessary materials.
Puzzle 5 is completed when your villagers learn mastery of six special plants located in various parts of the village. Drag a villager to each of them and watch for the message that each has been mastered. The plants are (beginning in the northwest part of the village and moving clockwise): the odd-looking plant immediately to the left of the very dry grass, the blue flower between the thorns and the rocks, the small lavender flower at the northern edge of the graveyard, the black flowers near the waterfall, the bright reddish flowers south of the dam site, and the large orange-red flower at the south edge of the village.
Puzzle 6 is completed when you have sufficiently trained a villager to become master in three skills. That villager will become an Esteemed Elder, and a totem will be created to commemorate their new status in the village.
Puzzle 7 is the elimination of the algae in the ocean that was caused by over fishing. After purchasing Level 3 of Farming Tech, take a master farmer or master scientist to the pond, where they will collect algae-eating fish that they can use to repopulate the ocean. Once sufficient fish have been placed in the ocean, the algae will once again be under control and the villagers will have unrestricted fishing.
Puzzle 8 is the removal of the vines that cover the wall on the east side of the village. After you purchase Level 3 of Culture Tech and have completed Puzzle 4, drag a villager to the vine-covered wall and they will begin cutting away the vines.
Puzzle 9 is the ability to make various stews for your villagers. To make stew, you will need to have purchased Level 2 of Exploration Tech, retrieved the cauldron from the wood pile, mastered at least one of the special plants, and started a fire in the fire pit. The steps to make a stew are: 1) Drop a villager on the cauldron to put the cauldron on the fire 2) Drop a villager on the cauldron again, and he or she will go get water for the stew 3) Drop a villager on any of the mastered plants, and the villager will gather herbs for the stew. Each stew requires a total of 3 herbs, in any combination. 4) Drop a villager on the cauldron again, and he or she will go get food to add to the stew. When the stew is complete, the villager will move the cauldron off the fire. Some stews are good, some are bad, and some make your villagers do interesting things. Experiment and have fun with them. You can also find different "recipe books" that have been created for the game that contain all of the stew combinations.
Puzzle 10 requires Level 3 of both Engineering Tech and Exploration Tech. Drag a villager to the ancient covered floor in the southeast part of the village and they will begin uncovering the site.
Puzzle 11 is the construction of a hospital. After you purchase both Level 3 of Engineering Tech and Medicine Tech, a foundation will appear that your villagers can work on.
Puzzle 12 is the construction of a sewing hut, which will allow you to change the clothing that your villagers are wearing. After you purchase Level 2 of Culture Tech, a foundation will appear that your villagers can work on.
Puzzles 13-16 are the pieces of the Gong of Wonder. The four pieces can be retrieved in the following ways:
A team of 3 Master Builders can open the crate on the beach, where one of the pieces has been hidden.
After purchasing Level 2 of Exploration, your villagers can clear the thorns blocking access to the gong encasement, which will also reveal a piece of the gong.
Prepare a magic stew that will allow one of your villagers to dive for the sunken gong piece in the pond. The herbs needed for that magic stew are: one of the black flower near the waterfall and two of the red-orange flower on the south side of the village. The pictures of the required herbs can be seen in the drawings on the wall once the vines have been removed.
After finishing Puzzles 6 and 10, drop a totem in the center of the uncovered mosaic to reveal a piece of the gong. Once the gong is assembled you can experiment with the effects that it has on your village. You can bang the gong once every 24 hours.

Hints for the 16 puzzles:
You can safely browse these if you just need a gentle push in the right direction. Each puzzle is referred to by number. The puzzles are counted sequentially, with 1 being the leftmost puzzle in the top row, and 16 being the rightmost puzzle in the bottom row.
Puzzle 1 is something that will provide warmth, protection, and technological advantage to your tribe. It can be solved at the beginning of the game.
Puzzle 2 requires a certain level of technology and will allow your villagers to enjoy a regular, if limited, source of food.
Puzzle 3 requires the completion of Puzzle 2 and a skilled villager to fashion something that will protect one of the sources of food.
Puzzle 4 requires a certain level of technology and a highly skilled villager who will fashion something that your villagers will need in order to completely explore some areas of the village.
Puzzle 5 involves the flowers and herbs located in various parts of the village. This puzzle can be completed at the beginning of the game.
Puzzle 6 requires a villager with well-rounded skills.
Puzzle 7 will open up an unlimited food supply by restoring the ocean to its former condition. You will need to have highly skilled villagers and a certain level of technology.
Puzzle 8 reveals ancient writings. Your villagers will need a certain level of technology, as well as the completion of Puzzle 4.
Puzzle 9 requires the completion of Puzzle 1, a certain level of technology, a hidden item, and the flowers and herbs that your villagers can find in various parts of the village.
Puzzle 10 requires a certain level of two different technologies. Drag a villager to the southeast part of the village.
Puzzle 11 is a special building that requires a certain level of technology. You will see a foundation appear, which your villagers can work on.
Puzzle 12 is another special building that requires a certain level of technology. You will see a foundation appear, which your villagers can work on.
Puzzles 13-16 involve the recovery of pieces of the Gong of Wonder, which can be retrieved only after meeting the necessary requirements. Retrieving the pieces will variously involve teamwork among skilled villagers, purchasing of required levels of Village Tech, and completion of Puzzles 6, 9, and 10. Your villagers will reveal some clues as you try various things in the game, and there will be more specific clues that you can study when you complete Puzzle 8.

Fire
The first puzzle to be solved is starting a fire. Drop a villager on the wood pile in the southwest corner of the island and they will carry wood to the fire pit in the center. Then, take them to the pink flowers west of the coconut trees to collect some dried grass. Once the wood and grass are in place, drop them onto the fire pit and they will start a fire. Make sure to add wood occasionally to keep the fire from going out.
The Dam
Once you reach Level Two Engineering, drop a builder on the rocks just above the pool of water in the southeast corner of the island. They will construct a dam to irrigate the fields to the immediate left so that crops can be planted. This will also uncover an ancient mosaic on the ground, the site of a later puzzle.
The Scarecrow
This puzzle requires the completion of the dam above. Once you plant your crops, you need a scarecrow to keep the parrots away. Drop an Adept-level (or better) farmer on the twisted pieces of wood and vine just below the rock pile in the north center of the map. You'll need to do this twice.
The Cutting Tool
You need a cutting tool to clear the vegetation that covers the entrance to the cave in the north and the vine wall to the east. After you acquire Level Two Exploration, drop a Master Scientist on the sharp stones just above and to the right of the twisted pieces of wood and vine used for the scarecrow. When he's done, take him back for a second trip for the wood and vines necessary to finish the tool.
Herb Mastery
This puzzle is easy to complete early in the game. Six herbs are located around the edges of the map. Each one will be identified as a "strange plant" when a villager is held over it. Have a healer examine each one of them until they master it to complete this puzzle. The location of each herb is as follows:
The green plant in the upper left hanging over the wall of stones.
The blue flower at the top center just to the right of the cave.
The lavender daisy at the far top-right above the sacred area.
The black chain of flowers just above the waterfall on the east.
The bright red flowers southeast of the dam.
The large orange flower to the south of the village.
The Elder Totem
Once you have a villager who has mastered three skills, they become an Esteemed Elder. When this happens, a totem is created and placed in your village in their honor. It can be moved anywhere you like.
Sustainable Fishing
When the ocean to the west is over-fished, it develops algae. To eliminate the problem and restore fishing, special algae-eating fish must be transported from the pond to the ocean. This requires Level Three Farming and a Master Farmer or Master Scientist. Take them to the pond and drop them in. Once enough algae-eating fish are transported to the ocean, the algae will clear.
The Vine Wall
Along the east wall are a number of vines that conceal some strange markings. To uncover these, you must first complete the cutting tool and purchase Level Three Culture. Drag a villager to the wall and release them. They will use the cutting tool to remove the vegetation.
The Stew
In order to make stews, you must first recover the cauldron from the wood pile in the southwest. It will appear after you purchase Level Two Exploration. With the fire burning and the cauldron next to it, drop a villager on the cauldron three times. Once each to put it on the fire, fill it with water and add food. Then, drop a villager on any of the herbs you have mastered adding a total of three to the mix in any combination (you can use multiples of the same herb).
Of course, different selections of herbs will have different results. Keep track of the ingredients in all the stews you make. You want to avoid duplication and don't want to recreate a bad stew (it can make your villagers sick). If you treat your villagers to the best, they will stay healthy and remain happy.
Here are some recipes to get you started. The numbers for each herb correspond to the herbs as listed and identified under Herb Mastery.
1+2+6 = Your villager feels healthier after eating. green,blue and orange
1+5+6 = This stew gave your villager a burst of energy. green,red,orange
2+3+4 = This spicy stew clears your villager's nose and throat.green,lavendaer black
3+5+6 = This stew gives off a very sweet smell.lavender,green,red,orange
4+5+6 = Your villager feels healthier.black, red, orange
4+6+6 = Strange stew...your villager feels no need to breathe.black, orange,orange
The Ancient Ruins
Once you've completed the dam and reached Level Three Engineering and Exploration, you can drag a villager to the ancient ruins in the southeast corner of the map and they will start uncovering the site.
The Hospital
Obtain Level Three Engineering and Medicine, and a foundation will appear in the south central portion of the map. This lets your villagers build a hospital.
The Sewing Hut
Once you reach Level Two Culture, a foundation become visible for a sewing hut just east of the wood pile in the southwest corner of Isola. This allows your villagers to change clothing, but at a cost of 5,000 tech points each. Ouch! Where's Thurston Howell III when you need him?
The Sunken Gong Piece
One piece of the gong is located in the pool on the eastern edge of the village. This sunken gong piece is obtained by making a special magic stew consisting of one of the black flowers near the waterfall and two of the large orange flowers to the south of the village (herbs 4+6+6 as indicated above). Have a villager eat the stew, and then drop them in the pool.
The Inlaid Gong Piece
Once one of your villagers has become an Esteemed Elder and been honored with a totem and after you've completed the ancient ruins puzzle, drop a totem on the mosaic in the center of the ruins to retrieve another piece of the gong.
The Boxed Gong Piece
This piece of the gong is inside the crate on the beach to the west. Three Master Builders working together are needed to open it.
The Overgrown Gong Piece
After you purchase Exploration Level Two and complete the cutting tool, your villagers can clear away the vegetation blocking the cave to the north (the Gong Encasement). Doing so reveals a piece of the gong.

Thanks and enjoy the game. if anyone has any questions email me at lorina_darkvengeance@hotmail.co.uk

i heard someone menbtion burried treasure. does anyone know the location of the treasure and who i need to dig it up? is it a master builder or is it just any villager?

I can't get F6 to work for changing the villager's clothes.
I think the monkey babies are the ugliest. I'm kind of used to the grey haired ones after VV1. I have to be careful where I put the totems because they can cover up butterflies and stones. I hope there is a VV3.

if you toggle the time, the time that your crops will grow in increases... i found that out the hard way, and my villagers died :/

Every daylight savings time goes by my people die. Why is that?

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=pt-BR&sl=en&u=http://www.gamezebo.com/2007/02/virtual_villagers_the_lost_chi_1.html&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=2&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dtips%2Bvirtual%2Bvillagers%2B%26hl%3Dpt-BR Virtual villagers traduzindo os enigmas

I was playing from the MSN game download but then made the mistake of clicking on the button that scores you. The game then became timed and I have not been able to play since. Any suggestions?

you can only get 50 totems

you can only get 50 totems, you can only ring the gong once in 24 hours,i have finish the whole game now what

I'm was trying to get an elder, who was a master scientist, so I had him go up to a house and fix it. The next time I checked on him he was an adept scientist, anybody knows what happened?

This is a fun game and much better than the first one. If a 3rd one is really in the works my only suggestions would be 5 or 6 medium steps up the Tech ladders instead of 3 huge steps. The huge steps take a lot of time to achieve.

I have completed all the puzzles and only need 1 or 2 items in all the collections. Many people have asked if there are any ways to make collection items appear but no one seems to have an answer. Does anyone have any collection item generating tips or cheats? How about backdoor program steps?

sarah, he probably strayed away from the hut and decided to research instead. Unless you dropped him on the hut beside the research table. :)

How do you build extra huts besides the one that is already started? How do you get triplets? Is there any easier way to get the puzzles or tech points?

My cauldron totally disappeared. Now what?

If u people ever seen naruto then look at the bottom icon on the bar when u minimize the game,you'll see naruto.

Please Help!!! When you place a villager over the pond it says, "He sees then pure magical water of the lagoon" Does anyone know if this is a hint for something? What does this mean????

Well, I guess its all over bar the shouting for me (or the gonging!). Bit disappointed it takes so long and there aren't many surprises popping up along the way. Otherwise, it was fun. Hope VV3 is much faster...... /:>

I had 20 villagers lots getting ready to be master villagers I put it on pause, not even 10 hours later I come back to half the villagers dead and the rest starving no fire no food no kids to even pick mushrooms. Why did the game not pause I worked so hard @ keeping these ppl ready for the next step and why do they have to harvest the tree's when they have a garden I had to force them away from the trees, yet while starving to death they left the tree's alone and were barrying the dead instead of getting food. This has to be a glitch????

hi. i am number one on the internet statstics chart for solving the puzzles but i still do not have all the collections. is there any way to make them appear quicker?

my mothers bursing time says 20100 hours

ok i had completed all puzzles and was just collating all the collatcables when. i had put my clock forward 4 days an hour at a time and my bf returned the clock back to its rightful hour. i then had to return it back to the time my game was running on in order for my mothers to stop nursing and my crops to grow back. when i did so all my villagers died all 91 of them :( now i have to staqrt all over again and collect everything and re do all the puzzles:(

Teresa, the huts appear automatically. No need to worry about them. You need a master parent (or at least, that's what I've heard) to make triplets. Set your speed to 2x or move your computer time ahead.

Wendy, exit out of your game and it will appear again.

april, I don't think it means anything in VV2.

Nicmioa, are you sure you put in on pause? That's the only reason I can think of. My villagers were the opposite, they would always take the crops and occasionally take the coconuts. I had to drop them on the coconuts when they started to run out of crops and food.

mag, nope. Patience is the key for he collections.

Hunter Lee Grayson. that's just a glitch. did you move your computer time ahead? Sometimes it causes the game to get mixed up. It should go back to normal later.

lorina, that's so sad. I would hate to have to restart. :( You probably know by now, but I would suggest you son't change your computer time ahead. It has been known to mix up your game.

Mag,

I think there is a system glitch on the collections. I started a second game. The first butterfly and shell I collected were the ones I needed to finish my collections in my first game. The 2nd pebble was the the one I needed for my first game. I don't know about the beetles because I am not there yet. The has to be a way to make the collectables appear.

Hey! This shows I'm #1 on teh collections as well. I knew somethign was wrong when I first saw that, but whatever. I also have only oine rock and one bug before my collections are complete. I'll start another village and see which ones come up first. Thanks everyone for all your help with this. It's been fun!

This may seem like kind of a dumb question, but when all research has been purchased, what can you use the Tech points for other than clothing? (BTW - The F6 button trick didn't work for me.) Also, I'm not getting the sounds to indicate the collectible items, anyone else missing these sounds?

One more question: Anyone out there ever get all the collectable?

OK!!!!!! I changed my settings to "easy" and "1/2 speed" and (had been at normal and 2X) and it took about 4 minutes for my last rare bug to appear! It might be a coincidence - but I'm happy!! Only one more pebble to go!!!!!!!

you know if you change the time on your computer it speeds up all the processes and you can build and stock up on food by just changing the time

well i have started again and gave my bf a bgood old ear burning for changing the clock back so i dont think he will do that agin in a hurry lol

How do I learn how to climb? I never finished the first game because I can't make tech points fast enough and then I run out of food :[ Please help me

Help! I run out of food...and can't make enough tech points, so they all die. How do I make them climb?

if you do not over use the fish and make everyone work @ science on tech points you can get your coconuts fast, then if you work on houseing and get the damn going you can use the garden so you do not use up your coconuts. If you wait on making babys you will not use a lot of food and the garden will replenish without having to waste time watering it.

Nicmioa - I had the same problem until I figured out that the pause doesn't take effect if you don't hit "Done" on the screen. I just left it up and all of my villagers died while I was sleeping. I had to start all over again.

Hi everyone, I'm not new to VV1 and 2, It has been a long time and I can't find out what kind of sound is the CICADA (not sure of spelling)sound for the beetles to appear. Had found some but never knew what kind of sound is cicada sound. If you hear chimes then mushrooms will appear right? then what sound will you hear that makes the butterflies and other rare things to appear? please help ASAP. Tnx! I'm running out of tech points!!!!!!!!
~Nellie

ok i cannot find the inlaid gong piece...i tried 3 totems in the center of the mosaic and i dont see nething happen or appear...help am i missing something??? is it a certain totem i need and does it have nething to do with the one drawn on the wall??

HOW TO START THE CROP

does anyone know how to solve all the puzzles?

how do i get tech points fast? seems like it takes forever!!!

How do you get to solve all the puzzles when i cannot solve all of them?

i tried putting a totem on the center of the mosaic ruins but i can't find the gong piece.Where can I locate it after i placed the totem?

I made the stew, and it's been hours, but how do you get the villagers to eat it? Or dump it out to make a new stew?
Also I have a weakened 8 year old, what do I do with her?
Next, now that I have put 3 herbs in the stew pot, I can't get my doctor to advance, buy studying the herbs, she just trys to put the herb in the stew pot, that is full. What do I do to get the doc to a master?

ok, I put food in the stew pot with the herbs, now my stew is ready, but it's "nasty, not edible" how do I get rid of it to make a new batch?

What is happening my infants all disapeared
Help
Is this the start of VV3?

I found another way to improve parenting skills without having to make them kiss the older-than-50 ladies. If you drop a parent or doctor near the children as they're running near the fire, the action will change to "Telling a Story" or "Teaching Children." All the children will come running and if you keep the parent/doctor highlighted, then you will see the message that this villager has improved at parenting.

Kissing the women above 50 is probably faster though.

Hey i just started and want to no if there is a cheat to getting an unlimited supply of tech ppints

omg! 1 of my villagers was carrying a bit of the gong but i pickt them up and it went how do i get it back!

For the box, near the beach you need 3 freakin' builders I only have 2 and they might die soon. arghh

if you take 2 of the lavender number 3 herb and one of the large orange flower number 6 herb your villagers are restored to full health

Where do the builders build the sewing hut????!??

I have been trying for the past 3 days to get a master parent. I got half way in the first day but after that the status stopped moving on. I teach children, I tell stories, I move the woman togheter with a man and they keep going indoors, however she is not advancing in her parenthood status bar.It keeps telling me that she imporved in parenting but there is not evidence. What do I need to do? I need to get an elder to get my totem and finish the puzzles. Please help.

hi all need help with this

I've solved all 16 Puzzles and have collected all items except 4 beetles I have the gong in place everything seems good food reserve tech points population everthing is good its just the beetles

can someone tell me how to find these they dont seem to come at all its been the 4th day and I'm getting frustrated

also the gong can be rung only once in a day so I've to wait all the day and sometimes ringing the gong doesnt give anything at all

when will the game get over... whats the victorsy condition

I know everythings got to do with the ldw file
can any one crack it...

Where is the center of the Mosaic Ruin?

The Ancient Mosaic

I found that there is a need for level 3 culture other than level 3 engineering and level 3 exploration.

i got lv3 engineering and exploration, but when i drag my vilager to the ancient place, they will confuse and keep saying that additional research is needed......once i got the culture in level 3...everything settle

When will VV3 start? hope it will come soon.

Pls help me,i`m stuck at puzzle no 14.pls help me.i put the totem in the center of the Mosaic Ruin,but nothing happen....pls help me

hi! please help! i stupidly moved the guy who was carrying the last piece of the gong.he dropped it and it dissapeared.what can i do now??

solved all the puzzles, collections and completed gong so is that game over .........

Yes, there is a way to get unlimited food and tech points.

Hi! I'm new to this game...this site has helped a lot...please help me with this!
who is the guy thats buried under the firewood and how do I get him out?
thanks in advance

I, too, am having a problem with the inlaid gong piece. I've tried 2 different totems and nothing. I've put it in them in the center on the "sun". That's the only puzzle I need to complete. Help, please! :(

Janice
jan_tna75@yahoo.com

HELP!!!
i have tried different totems and put them in the center of the mosaic to collect the last gong piece but it just won't appear!! How can i get the last gong piece?

I picked up the cauldron, and he started walking towards the fire then i flicked back onto this page to see what i do next, then i went back and he didnt have it anymore! its not near the fire or on the research table, where could it be?

my guys wont go too master bulider,famer,ect

how do you unlimted food and teck

I cant get my builders to MASTER builders... they are stuck on adept :/ how do i get them to master, its the same with my farmers :/

@avalonfox whats the cheat. or "the way" i have completed the game but with this cheat it would be easier to just watch for the item rather than making sure my farmers are farming could you send it to me via email thanks my email is amanda_mcmahon@hotmail.co.uk thanks

HI,

I have had 4 esteemed elders but only got 3 totem's for them, my 4th esteemed elder is the only one that is still alive and he's the one I didn't get a totem for. I tried putting all 3 of the other totem's in the middle of the mosaic but the game won't give me the 4th peice of the gong. do I have to a living elder with a matching totem to get it.

Please help this is the last thing I need to do.

Jo

my yahoo is cc_rider88 Yes, I know how to get unlimited food and tech points. I am just a grandma who is letting this game run...no way am I going to keep having to get food all the time lol. It is a real easy cheat thing called cheatmatic. If you want it. I don't mind sending it to you and telling you how to do it...very very easy.

HOW LONG DO DAMS TAKE TO BUILD SOMEONE PLZ ANSWER

whats the point of playing on the same tribe if you have all the milestones?

i cant seem to get my villagers to become scientists!! HELP!!

what is the cheat don;t send it to sumones email just freaking post on this webpage, jez

Hi!

RE: the inlaid gong piece.

I cannot seem to get the piece to appear. I have tried restarting and everything that has been suggested so far. I have also tried many different totems and people "admiring the ancient ruins" but nothing seems to work. Does it have to be a certain totem or are there other things to do along with the totem? Thanks for any help.

Im out of food, and my crops still have a long time on them. What do i do!?! please help me!

just got this tonight....

Where are the infants?

Sometime during the night, the village infants disappeared! The mothers are in a panic, but it appears they were carefully taken away to some other location.

I wonder if this is just a random event, or an "intro" to part 3

Want to know!!

Hi, all.
I just want to know when is the end??
I found all puzzles, but I still have to find some of the collections. Does it matter that I should find all of those?
Or need to add up the popuration??
I have 65ppl in my village and just lots of kids walking or running around.
I want to know when the game will be OVER??

Does anyone know how to get algue eating fish?
I have level three farming and i got them too early! I wish i had algue early.

I need to know if some villagers, just can't become a Master at a certain skill. I had 2 builders and since the beginning, they both worked at the same time. One has already became a Master Builder, the other is still Adept. I started training a new builder and his work level is already 1/2 way and the other is still an Adept, his level looks to be at a Master Level, but still will not change and they are both working the same area at the same speed. Is this a glitch or will he ever become a Master?

To all of you that I sent the cheat to (is very easy)

1. Make sure that in the top little box it says "Virtual Villagers Lost Children" Then follow these directions to get 900000 food or tech points.
2. Type in the amount you are wanting to change and hit search (make sure it doesn't change before the cheat starts searching) and hit "search" Wait until this is done.
3. Make sure the amount of what you are changing has changed in the game and type the new amount into the cheat....hit "search"...wait until this is done (it can't be the same amount you originally put in, it has to locate it)
4. Repeat step 3 (making sure you are putting in a different amount that it changed to and hit "search") Do this until it says in the search box "CHA CHING" then type in 900000 (that is what i put in)
5. You are done...your food or tech (whichever you wanted changed) is now 900000

If anyone else wants it, I am cc_rider88 on yahoo. Will chat and walk you through it if you can't get it working.

Since the cheat gives me sooo many tech and food points....I have enough to color-coordinate lol. So i put my builders in black, farmers in green, and researchers in blue. I put my esteemed elders in white. I pick out the 3 girls I want to get pregnant first and put them in the pink dress so i can find them easy..lol
Also, I train each one in everything possible so i can switch them without having to train them...and i change their clothes when I switch their tasks....lol...its fun.

Can anyone tell if there is a school in vv2 and how I can make it? please. And also how do I get more huts because i can't make children. i have all the tech levels

oh...color coordinating makes it easier to know where to drag them to also.
and...I make sure that all of the villagers learn how to do each task...seems after they get old or past 50 they can't learn it anymore lol
chat with me if you want to cc_rider88 on yahoo chat

I also have the problem with the final gong piece in the mosaic. Sadly it turns out that most of us having that problem got the game from Reflexive. They've updated the game on there to fix the problem but you'll have to restart from the beginning. If you (obviously) don't want to do this check out this thread at the Virtual Villagers forums: http://www.ldwforums.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=66660&page=1#Post666

why cant some one just tell me the cheat wit out bull@?.?

is there a CHEAT for tech and food on PC cos cant
get nothing to work,where do i find where to type???????HELP!!!!!!!!

is there a CHEAT for tech and food on PC cos cant
get nothing to work,where do i find where to type???????HELP!!!!!!!!

Am sending the cheat out as soon as I get your emails...bear with me, I have both grandbabies today.

Easiest way to do it is to put it on your desktop (it looks like a piece of cheese) then take your game off of full screen and you can get to it easier.
yw all

I just want to say thank's to avalonfox for the cheat program, I had the dodgy download from reflexive so I had to start all over again, This cheat helped load's.

Thank's again

Jo
xxx

to Find token from ancient ruins, does the elder have to be alive for the totum to reveal piece to gong?

Hey Chris - Or anyone else that has gone as far as you can go with this - Any news on the children? I've all the puzzles solved, all collections are complete and am just a few totems away from the maximum of 50 the game will allow. Did you have all this when they disappeared or was it a random event?????? Am wondering if this is the end of the game or if I should keep it up until I've got the 50 totems. Any advice/comments? Thanks

Where is (or what)the "Top Little Box"?? Is this a search field? Am I going to download a program?
I love this game, but, it take to long to get tech points. Please help me out. Loves ya-K

I know how to cheat in virtual villagers!!!! just tell me if u want it. alright here it is... use gamehack. u can find it in gamehack.com

This game is great. I haven't had any problems with it at all. I collected all the collections. You can't get the last one in each collection until you have bought all the tech.

To all of you that I sent the cheat to (is very easy)

1. Make sure that in the top little box it says "Virtual Villagers Lost Children" Then follow these directions to get 900000 food or tech points.
2. Type in the amount you are wanting to change and hit search (make sure it doesn't change before the cheat starts searching) and hit "search" Wait until this is done.
3. Make sure the amount of what you are changing has changed in the game and type the new amount into the cheat....hit "search"...wait until this is done (it can't be the same amount you originally put in, it has to locate it)
4. Repeat step 3 (making sure you are putting in a different amount that it changed to and hit "search") Do this until it says in the search box "CHA CHING" then type in 900000 (that is what i put in)
5. You are done...your food or tech (whichever you wanted changed) is now 900000

If anyone else wants it, I am cc_rider88 on yahoo. Will chat and walk you through it if you can't get it working.

for the cheat where do you type it im not ganna go crazy with the cheat i just cant get food because my crops have 19643 min.

If it comes up and says "didn't find it" it usually means the amount changed before you could hit the "search" button....start over and keep searching until in says "cha ching" then put in 900000 tech or food points....easy

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG TY TY TY TY TY AVALONFOX I NOW HAVE 900000 ON MY FOOD AND TECK POINTS TY TY TY TY

i just dont get how to do that cheat i downloaded it

i will help walk you through it if you want to add me to your yahoo chat
cc_rider88 is me

CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHEN THE END OF THE GAME IS PLEASE?????? I've got everything completed except the max # of totems. Can't increase my population anymore, puzzles are done, collections complete...Is this it or am I waiting for something to happen????????????

how long does it take to get a builder not a trainee builder

where do i type in for the searc to get 9000000 points? my email sjs9956@yahoo.com if someone can help.

I downloaded the program.(I have the cheese) I have entered the number of my tech a zillion times. What Am I doing wrong?? nothing changes... I watch for the change...but, nothing. I have VV2 open (in small screen) the number I want to change would be the tech number (or food) Right?? My tech points haven's change.(not even while it's processing)
HELP loves ya-K

i have 2 tribes its weird one was doing perfectly
and the other was doing ok i leave for 1 hour i come back the perfect tribe is left with 2 girls all the others died while the other had all pullzes done and every thing else done then they die a hour later

is there a rewind in this game

I'm sure I'm not completely dumb, but that cheat....! Where are you supposed to type, and where is the search function????? Thks.

hey peoples i found another repiy 5+5+6 make a energy boost plus right after they go exirsing and get building exp

half way through, need help, only have one girl, shes now 52, should die soon, then will be stuck with all guys... what do i do?

hi peeps. can anyone tell me what happenes after you collect all the collectables? and can someone send me the cvheat i have trtied contacting emails about it but with no avail my email is lorina_darkvengeance@hotmail.co.uk

I did it!! I have purchased Level 3 of all Tech!! and I have 50,000 left over to change outfits! Yeah!! Thank you a million tech points -Avalonfox!!

....you are very welcome all....By the way, I tried the coconuts and it works...i put in 3500 coconuts...can probably put in more. Just make sure in between putting in the value that you change the amount first, so let someone climb and get a coconut before you put in the search values each time
If anyone else wants it, cc_rider88@yahoo.com or you can add me to yahoo chat and I will send it to you...i am helping folks in chat if they have problems figuring it out. Is really easy once you get the hang of it.

TO ALL OF YOU I SENT THE CHEAT TO...TRY THIS, HOPE IT IS MORE CLEAR.

Put the cheat on your desktop and and take your game off of "full screen" so you can get to it easy.

1. Make sure that in the top little box it says "Virtual Villagers Lost Children"...then pick which amount you want to change first...food or tech...let's start with food.
2. Type in the amount of food points you have and hit "search" (make sure it doesn't change before the cheat starts searching) Wait until it is finished searching.
3. Going to put in food points again but we can not put in the same number that was just searched. Make sure the food points have changed in your game, type in new amount and hit search again.
4. Repeat step 3 (making sure you are putting in a different amount that it changed to each time)Do this until it says in the search box "CHA CHING" then type in 900000 and hit "set" (that is just the amount that i put in, you can try whatever amount you want)
5. You are done...your food or tech (whichever you changed) is now 900000...this will work on coconuts too, you just have to have a villager pick one to change your value that you are putting in each time.

If anyone else wants it, I am cc_rider88@yahoo.com or you can add me to chat on yahoo. Will chat and walk you through it if you can't get it working.

when does this game end? and if there is no ending then what is the poing?

Help....I can't figure out the cheats! I just don't get it...plus I have level 2 farming and 2 building...but I still can't get my builders to figure out the scarcrow? What am I doing wrong?

plz send me the cheats, someone plz help.

thanx Cheater :)
naughtyferret@msn.com

Hey yall i was wondering how long does it take to get mreo cocnuts cuz ima run out of crops soon!

thxs!!

P.S. Dont e-mail me.

for the cheat all you have to do is search for cheatomatic in google and download it. it will go into a winzip file and all you have to do is click on the application to get the box to come up. from there you can follow her directions.

RARE ITEMS?

OK....I do not know if this was coincidence or not...but, while i was trying to be patient and wait for those last "rare items", I would get firewood, make a stew, and make the thing come up that says "There is not enough housing to support population" a bunch of times...and it seems that it made them come up...not really sure...like i said...i do not know if it was coincidence or not.

Does the game have an ending?

Have completed it all and dont know what to do next....help

Did u know u can speed up the game by changing the time? When i find theres nothing to do or i'm waiting to get tech points or to build a building i simply put the time for 1 hour continually until i reach the my current goal
Hope this helps People!!

OK, I got my cheat and it worked. Here is some help. Type in "cheat o matic download" into google. I found it in the first listing. Download it into a file on your desk top. Open the file and you will see a little yellow box. That is the rar. You have to extract the files so right click and extract them. Then, you will see one of the files has a little slice of cheese thing by it. Click on that. A little box will open up. In the empty field at the top, click on the arrow and then click on Virt. Vill. the lost children. Be sure to have your village game up, but not full screen. Look at your food points. Say it says 88. Type in 88 in the little box and hit search. It takes a minute and then it will ask you to do it again. Look at your food points and type in that new number...say they picked more food and it now says 98...type in 98 and hit search again. It may ask you to do it a 3rd time. Keep doing it until it says cha ching. Now is when you want to type in 9000000 and hit the set button. See if your food points change. To change the tech points, you do the same thing but you have to hit new search, be sure you hit Virt. Vill. again and type in your tech point numbers. Hope this helps everyone. You still have to make babies, find collections and get them to build, but it sure helps feeding them all! Have fun!! Any questions, write in and I will try to help.

The creators' diary kept talking about how they were going to create a more satisfying ending in VV2 than what they did for VV1; however, like the first game, I completed all the tasks in VV2, and there does not seem to be any ending. I have been ringing the gong for over a week, but I still don't know what happened to Tofo, the villager left to watch the children. I have not produced any of the monkey children some of the postings mentioned. A few others have asked the question, "What's next?" I too want to know the answer to the question. Is the game over? When do you know the game is over? Has anyone found out what happened to Tofo? In short, where is this satisfying ending promised by the creators?

Zheng da to help at service

I've completed the game,reached the max population but not the max number of totems and today some villagers left to explore around the island... Has anyone else experienced that? Will they ever come back???
Is there something more to the game?

I dont have yahoo chat how can i email avalonfox now?

i cant get non ov my ppl to have babies they have the housing and food and every thing they just wont have children can any one help me iv tryed every thing ? plz x

S.O.S. my villagers r gunna die crops take 2 long and i dont have time 2 get lvl 3 farming!!!

P.S. Dont e-mail me

Can someone send me a cheat for this game?
kepke90@neobee.net

help i had a piece of the gong and i moved the villager it then disappeared how do i retrieve it

HELP! What do I do about the algae blooms? My supply of coconuts is going low, is there another source of food, and what requirements do I need if there is another source?

I don't know about the gong yet, I think you might have to get it again? I need help with the algae stuff, my people are starving.

There will most likely be a VV3, because they can't leave you hanmging on the edge of your seat, being miserable:). I'mm not sure, but I hope there will be one:).

i have completed all puzzles and collections. what is next? is the game over?

i need to get algue quick not like Atoms village
starving.

IF YOU WANT THE CHEAT AND CAN NOT GET IT FROM MY YAHOO ADDY (CC_RIDER88) THEN SEND ME A REQUEST TO AVALONFOX@COMCAST.NET . I WILL CHECK THE EMAILS THERE ONCE OR TWICE A DAY AND SEND YOU THE CHEATOMATIC...THEN YOU CAN COME BACK HERE AND TRY TO FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOW TO USE IT.
AVALONFOX@COMCAST.NET CC_RIDER88@YAHOO.COM

Did anyone get an orange box that some other explorers fell down the waterfall?

You know how the maximan fire hours is 19, right?
That's not true. For a strange reason, I saw 32 hours left on my fire. WTF! CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHY!?!

the crops, for me, take 8 hrs to grow. anyone have this problem or is it just me?

Can any one help me........ my vilagers wont have babies and there getting to old can any one help me pllllllllllzzzzzzzzzzzzzz . thanks x

If you have loads of spare tech points and need to try to keep villagers on task in order to turn them into elders, try this: change their clothes at the clothes hut, so that for example all your builders are in blue, or all your farmers are in red. that way, if someone wanders off, you will quickly be able to set them back to work.

i have a villger how was 51 then more people they were 32 then they die at 65 but my 51 is still alive and she dosnt get any closer to matering her skills no mater how long what wrong with her dose anyone have this to? plz she the closst elder and everonce awhile to kids die for no resoan and says there 61 years old.

I will try to help out. Cheryl, if the women villagers are 50 years old or older, there will be no more babies. To make babies, you have to pick up a womam and drop her on a man or visa/versa. You will hear a kissing sound and they will head for the "love shack". You may have to do this several times. Keep on eye on the population count and if it worked, you will see it go up 1. Oh and a man can be any age over 18.

Everyone should go into options and see what speed they are playing at. I play at normal and 2X. If it is at 1/2 speed, it takes forever to grow crops/feed babies but it gives you longer fire.

I have played several villages now. Husband still waiting for the last pink stone now for 2 weeks. Has hit 50 totems and has everything else. But I have not heard of anyone having an ending that is very satisfactory. It just seems to be neverending of getting food points and tech points. Nothing more happens much. He did find a barrel of toddlers that showed up though. Yes, he also got 2 more adults that came over the waterfall. They were maked as parents and the "love shack" was pretty busy. LOL

I would advise the new players to read everything in this page. It gives you all the tips you will need.

Are there more than 5 different totems? I keep getting the same ones over and over...

My apologies if this has already been posted. I read almost all the entries and didn't see it.

Andi

Chet-o-matic: download and step-by step tutorial at:
http://www.freewarereview.info/2007-01/cheat-o-matic_-_manipulate_almost_any_computer_video_game_with_memory_scanning_.html

For the download only scroll down the page.

Ok I need some major help I am not sure if this is my computer or my game. This morning I went to go into play my game and noticed that my villagers had no food. WHen i clicked on my crop to see when they would get some it said that I wouldn't get new crops for over 500000 minutes, thats not all it confused me so I started clicking on things in the village and my fire sayes it has 8800 hrs of fire left. I know this has to be a glitch because I paused my game yesterday, and then I had my computer unplugged over night. If anyone knows what to do so I don't lse my game or if you have had something similar happen please let me know so I can figured out what happened.

First of all the cheat worked so thanks all for helping me find the way to downlod it, I did the 'cheat o matic download' in the google search and that's what worked. I now have full tech but my villagers won't uncover the ancient floor. Any help here? Also, I haven't gotten the foundation for the hospital...

Has anyone gotten an extra box that comes up talking about a mirror and feeling a need to say a word? I had it and said 'geminus' and the villager saw an old man's face that faded away quickly. What happens when you say 'seminug?'

I drop the totum on de yellow spot in the middle of the mosaik but no gongpiece, is this not the wright spot? HELP!!

If you have to make a decision whether to allow dragonflies to congregate in the pond or scare them away, keep them! They are eating mosquitos, which if left to hatch will carry disease to your villagers. I learned the hard way :(

when does the stew finish?

After 3 games well advanced I added a 4th. Got it up and going well and it disappeared back to New Player. Tried again twice with the same results. Then my first game (top of the change tribes list) disappeared killing all fight I had left in me... Is there anyway to get the lost games back? I didn't hit delete and was very careful when switching tribes. Major bummer...

Does anyone know how the game ends. Do you have to get all the gong pieces?????

I think my women are sterile...anyone else have this problem?

Can someone help me with this, i've got a population of 89, all the women are over 50 and the only children I have are male!!! How on earth am I going to make them reproduce once the elders start dying???

Can someone help me with the scarecrow? I keep dropping a master builder (also master scientist) onto the twisted vines, but she is confused and won't do anything. I have level 2 of farming, engineering, and exploration, and my villagers have learned to tend to the crops. Do I need another level of a skill?
Thanks!

hey dus the lovely hut da 1 with da flowers and da hut da 1 u hav 2 built in da beginning do anything is it part of a puzzle please tell m3

Mysterymiss you need to have an adept or higher skilled farmer to get the scarecrow.

avalon can you e-mail me the cheat 4 the unlimited?? my e-mail is neo_luver_006@yahoo.com
THANKS!!

Help needed!!!
Hi..... Its regarding puzzle 9. I've retrieved the cauldron from the wood piles but i left the game running for a while by itself. When i came back to the game, the cauldron went missing. Has anyone got any clues where the cauldron is or how can i complete the puzzle?
Help please. thanks...

alias u can exit outta the game and go back in... it should be in the wood pile again!

I can see what everyone means about the body under the wood pile-it looks like an arm at the top of the pile and,to me anyway, it looks like there is a pair of eyes near the bottom!(this is probably just me but all the same).Its really starting to freak me out!

How long does it take for that manky gree stuff on the water to go away naturally?I have level 2 of everything-do i need anything else?

I realize that we're supposed to patient through the game take our time to figure out these puzzle...however, I have zero patience and will say this: that cheat inventor (and those who recommended it) - BRILLIANT!!! thanks for the tips...I'm off to build stuff and make stews!

I have done what I was supposed to so that I could uncover the ancient ruins but when I put my people over there nothing happens. All it says it that they are confused and further research is needed. I have tried the master scientist, master farmer, master builder and an esteemed elder. What am I doing wrong? I have also tried to use the cheat o matic and that doesnt work? I cant change my tech points to unlimited. HELP! Thanks

HELP!!!HELP!!!HELP!!!!

I am not sure what happened, I have advanced the time on my PC many time, little by little, and I should have all the gong pieces. The one that is not showing up is #14, telling me to uncover the vines, but they are uncovered, but it is still telling me that that puzzle needs to be solved.

I have drug everyone in my village back to the gong encasement to see if any of them will start cutting again, but they do not.

I have tried starting the game over again as well.

Can anyone tell me what I can do to fix the problem PLEASE>...

I know about dropping guys on old ladies and using the parents to teach the kids, but does anyone have any other tips on how to create master parents faster?

re: earlier comment, I just spoke the word sunimeg into the mirror. The mirror shattered into pieces yet the villager was still staring into his own eyes. Now there are two of them, still only one on the detail screen.

hey, i got the todem and the ruins un-covered and i put the todem in the center of it and i was wondering why its not working because the cheats say to put it in the center and i did but wheres the gong piece!!!
HELP PLEASE!!!!!!!

Joel - - Chief Game Guy - -

Not to be stinky....but you turn a woman to be a parent and when she is 60 she is still disrupting work to get some. Its kind of annoying you would look around and there would be like three men "waiting for someone" instead of working. And there would be alot of trips to the love shack when you knew that no babies were being made and the kids still weren't getting any schooling. POOP. Other than that I am finished I have 100 villagers waiting on a few extra rocks and bugs...but I never found the "missing person" is that whole thing about the person left behind that the kids remember is that like totally just a part of hte story and you never run into them? BLech. Geesh. Gosh.

Does anyone know what happens after you purchase level two of science? I've looked around the island and I don't see anything different or new. And, my villagers don't seem interested in doing anything new.
Thanks!

Which totem does the ancient ruins except, to get the last gong piece? I've tried 5 differt totems and so far nothing.

hello my master scientist just had a baby how long will it take for the baby to grow up and is there
anyway to make it go faster(7000 food)

Have you noticed those that have read the thing about the possible person under the wood pile, that the couldron is actually sitting on him or her, like the thing fell on him or her? It almost looks like they were standing on the wood and possibly slipped trying to get the couldron and it fell and crushed him or her. It really is kind of creepy. Really, is there an end to this game my people just keep dying and more keep getting born and nothing changes in fact I can't even get all of the collections. Weird???

Thanks. kayla.... i got it solved.

Have another problem now. my food's running low with the growing population and there's only the farm to keep up with the food resources. Has anyone got any other option for food???

HELP my people jest can't stop havin babies

i need help to find the 4th gong i got the one in the water the one behind the bushes and the one out the crate i just cant find the fourth please someone help

I have 90 people, ALL level 3's, ALL puzzles solved, and I cannot have anymore people. It says I don't have enough housing, but no new foundations have pooped up. Will another one ever appear? like I said, I have fully researched all Tech.

mysterymiss and beth:
any totem will work, you just have to put it on the EXACT spot. Place it just to the front of the center or just to the back of the center, one of those works. Placing it in the center (where it seems to go) doesn't work.
clarissa:
the science just lets you get tech points faster, for example a master scientist will get 20 points every minute as opposed to 16, etc.
kayleigh:
you need level 3 in farming, then drag a master scientist into the pond, they'll collect special fish to eat the algae. Should take about 10-12 trips from the pond.

If one of your villagers gets injured, brew up a stew of 3 + 3 + 6 This will restore any villager. Old ones are even healthier & live longer - still move slow but show as completely healthy.

Arrrgh is anyone else tired of staring at the mosaic and the gong for the last stone and beetle? Also, I am annoyed at wondering "where did the parents go?" I've solved all the puzzles and that remains a mystery. Is that supposed to be some sort of lure to get us to finish the game? Also, it would be nice if the builders would build something interesting, as promised in the Engineering description...a sewing hut is built when you get level 3 culture, and a hospital when you get level 3 health or whatever it is. That's it?

how do I get the gong piece from the "box" if i don't have any master builders and all my buildings are finished?or how do i get three of the villagers to be master builders? please HELP!

To all of you who seem to be having serious problems when you move the computer clock forward and backwards, try this: move the clock forward NOT PAST 11:58pm then go to Options, Pause game and exit completely -- ALL THE WAY OUT -- not just to the exit screen. Then, move the computer clock back to actual time (I usually move it a couple hours earlier so I'll have a little more acceleration time). Be careful to PAUSE time and keep the date the same (I had a bit of a glitch when I moved the clock back a day). Then go back into the game and restart time. You should be o.k.

Just be careful to leave crops still growing (even a few) so the clock "time till new crops" doesn't start until you restart the clock. Otherwise you'll get 2000 minutes or something like that. Hope this helps you!

Finally, Avalonfox YOU ROCK! Thanks so much for the Cheat-O-Matic!! Verry cool.

I just can not get the last gong piece from the mosaic...I have placed the totem on every inch of the mosaic but I still can not get the gong piece any ideas?

HELP!!!HELP!!!HELP!!!!

I am not sure what happened, I have advanced the time on my PC many time, little by little, and I should have all the gong pieces. The one that is not showing up is #14, telling me to uncover the vines, but they are uncovered, but it is still telling me that that puzzle needs to be solved.

I have drug everyone in my village back to the gong encasement to see if any of them will start cutting again, but they do not.

I have tried starting the game over again as well.

Can anyone tell me what I can do to fix the problem PLEASE>...

Georgiana:
Just keep putting your builders onto the buildings, and they'll repair them. This repairs the buildings, and raise building points.

can you please add screenshoots in your comments and suggestions???

thanks,

Help PleasE.
There was no answer to the question about the box on the shore. However, I have 2 master builders and they still will not open the Box! Keeps saying can not do this alone. but I have moved them both there and both say the same thing.."can not do it alone"
Please help!

thanks in advance

Also please, which herb is which??? I find nothing
tha corresponds to any numbers, and under herb mastery..all I see a picture of them in a circle, and that's under 'puzzles'

to solve the food problem early in the game.....
DO NOT make any farmers from the start!! no really dont, the kids can pick enough mushrooms to get you by for quite a while, IF you dont make more babies, I failed 2 times before I started doing this..... make all of your ppl researchers, have the kids collect mushrooms, ofcourse that means constant vigal at the computer, but you can listen for them to come up too, if you hear a wind chime, hurry and look for a mushroom, to look faster use the number keys on the keypad, pick up a kid, then use the number keys and it goes even faster, I got my tribe to level 3 farming before I even had 1 farmer.... then you dont have to worry so much about the coconuts running out, or the algea, oh ya, dont forget to make a baby fore the youngest turns 13 or you will not have anyone to pick the mushrooms

Sherry,

You need three master builders to open the box on the shore. The herbs are as follows:

1. The green plant in the upper left hanging over the wall of stones.

2. The blue flower at the top center just to the right of the cave.

3. The lavender daisy at the far top-right above the sacred area.

4. The black chain of flowers just above the waterfall on the east.

5. The bright red flowers southeast of the dam.

6. The large orange flower to the south of the village.

Hope this helps!

Sherry,
In order to open the crate on the shore you need to have three master builders. I had to drop my builders on the crate a few times before they understood what to do, but eventually they got it open.

The number of the herb corresponds to its position on the island. The first herb is the one between the shore and the coconut trees, the second is the blue flower between the vines and the rocks, the third is the lavendar flower on the northern point of the sacred place, the fourth is black line of flowers between the sacred place and the waterfall, the fifth is a pink flower in the ancient place, and the sixth is an orange flower to the left of the ancient place.

Hope that helps!

Please help. I have placed the totem in the centre of the mosaic and the last piece of the gong appears but I cannot get a villager to pick it up.

chezzie i had to have my master scintist pick up my gong peice.

I have second levels in all techs (no thirds) and am at a standstill until I earn more tech points. Does anyone know if you earn points faster the more points you have? Or should I go ahead and purchase techs as I have the proper number of points?

I hope that makes sense!
Thanks!

Chezzie - I had the same problem. I kept dropping different people on it (a MasterScientist, a Master Builder, an Esteemed Elder, etc.) and all of a sudden an Adept Scientist picked it up. I think it's just a matter of them noticing it. Just put them a little off the actual piece (right by it). They'll pick it up eventually. Good luck!!!

This is making me so MAD..I have tried 3 different totems to get the gong piece from the mosaic but it will just not appear...does anyone know what I am doing wrong or what else I can try this is the last thing I have to do to complete the game and it is driving me crazy....please help

for the people who want to play this game fast (faster pace) Just make sure your well off for a certin amount of time and change the time on your pc and apply.... ex: 120mins for the baby but you want it now? then change your pc clock 120mins forward and there you go.

I just got a big surprise to find one of my villagers - a 57 year old grey haired lady - pregnant!

i left ma game on fast then i came back to it n theres no food n the crops are going to take 39674mins until the next crops grow.. wt should i do n is this right? its on x2 speed.. n the fire is 600 mins till it goes out... i fort it onli went 2 9

I reached level two culture but it doesn't show me the foundation for a sewing hut. what can i do?? please help me!

Does anyone else have a problem with the collections. If I have one child pick up a rock or shell and another appears if the first child doesn't make it to the hut before I have the other pick up the new rock the first one disapears. Is this normal?

Nora and Kayla thanks for your help very much appreciated. A villager did eventually pick it up. I was being to impatient.

The gong piece that is hidden in the mosaic ruins never appeared for me. I dropped the totem in the center and have purchased level three exploration but it is still not there. Does anyone have any suggestions?

THANKS so much to cc_rider88@yahoo.com for the cheat to get teck and food points I was sick of worrying bout food and my tribe dying from nothin to eat
this is so cool

I cant get the last gong piece to appear. I have everything else. And i have several totems but dropping them on there doesnt seem to work. I have tried to go out of the game and then back in. I have tried changing tribes and the n going back.

Am I doing something wrong?

ive got 2 villgers how are girls and 3 guy but one girls to old and the other is a glitch.

my glitch girl has a tomestone and get dosnt skill but she moves she been 30 for along time people are getting born and turn 70 whiles shes still 30 she like a ghost cant have children dosnt eat dosent get affected by heat waves droughts sickness and i have 6 people 4 popultion
i need a kid to keep them going what i do !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! INEEDHELPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111

i couldn't do the mosaic-puzzle(gong). where exactly do i place the totem to retrieve the gong?
I have already completed 15 puzzles, and left the last 1.

i can't unlock the third piece of the gong.i put a totem in the middle but nothing happens. someone help me please

a woman nurses for 120 minutes if you are at 2speed

hi, i need you help please.......

i found that i have made many villagers studied the strange plant. but it seems that i can't solve that puzzle.....

why? i dont know anymore any other plant, beside the green plant near the beach, blue flower up side,the black flower in the grave, the little flower near the dam, and last, a big orange flower

I AM ASKING FOR ANYONE WHO CAN HELP ME PLEASE,
I HAVE TWO VILLAGES AND THEY BOTH SHOULD HAVE THE PIECE OF THE GONG THAT CAME WHEN CLEARING THE GONG ENCASEMENT. AT FIRST I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A PROBLEM WITH MY ONE TRIBE, BUT NOW THAT MY OTHER TRIBE HAS REMOVED ALL THE VINES FOR THE GONG ENCASEMENT I SEE THAT PUZZLE #14 IS STILL NOT SHOWING AS COMPLETED. ON ONE OF MY TRIBES I AM FINISHED EXCEPT THAT PIECE OF THE GONG FRM THE GONG ENCASEMENT, CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHAT TO DO? I WANNA RING THE GING!!!

Anybody ever notice how when a villager is feeling "a little bit lonely" he or she will go to the upper left-hand corner of the island? Wonder if there's anything to that....

Hello. can i ask how to get sustainable fishing? i already have 90000 for farming and dropped a master scientist to the pond and nothing happens. can you help me?thanks

Okay - so that was a great tip about the collectibles and the chimes ringing...except, I don't hear these things!! I turned down the music and up the sound effects...either I'm going deaf...or are these sounds VERY discreet?

I've just read all the comments on this page, they were very helpful so thanks. Just a comment: There were a few postings referring to a promised ending that was more concrete than the first game provided. There are also comments about all the infants dissapearing, only one gender being born, or not being able to produce children. Could this possibly be the ending, by which I mean the producers actually wrote an ending by not allowing the tribe future generations after a certain point?

okay why do some villagers run aroeund like they have ADHD and some move slower than malassis, is it just a personality thing? Can I breed the fast runners to get more fast runners? They get the owrk done quicker since they are so manic! LOL

For those of you who are trying to get more food or tech points, a few ppl early on in the blog pointed out a good one: type "cheat o matic download" into the search bar of your computer. Click on the first link on the screen. Go to the green "Download" button and download the program. A little screen will pop up that asks what you want to do. You can open the program or save the file and then open. I just open it. When the file is downloaded, a window will pop up with four different icons. Click the second one, it says just OMATIC. Hit "run" twice. Open yourvv program and take it off of fullscreen. Tell cheatomatic you want to hack vv lost children. Type in the value of the item you want changed, say, food. If you have 30, pause the game by hitting the space bar, the type 30 in the text box. Wait till it says to change the value, then take vv off pause until you food number changes. Pause again, type new number into text box. Do this until the window says CHA-CHING! You can now change how much food you have. To change tech points, do the same thing after hitting "new search" and re-selecting vv to hack.

As for getting the gong piece in the mosaic, I put my totem just above the circle in the middle and the piece appeared. I think you just have to play around with different spots until you get it. Make sure you don't miss a rare stone, though. You might not see it again for a while!

By the way I just went back thru, avalonfox and gail thank you so much for finding and explaining the cheat!

is there a trick to getting more food more often from the farm? i seem to be running out of food before the next growing happens. I have 20 ppl and 4 on the farm. is there a trick to it? I've tried having 6 ppl planting and watering but the yeild is still 800 food and the 220 minutes till next growing, anyone have an idea of how to make the growing time less?

I am also having problems with the inlaid gong piece. i have solved all the other puzzles and i have 4 different totem poles and i have tried dropping them all on the sun and around the entire section of the ruins and nothing is happening....PLEASE HELP. It's so frustrating when that is the last thing i need to do :(

Ryan,
I used to have the same problem too--as far as I can tell there is no way to speed up the crops except changing the time on your computer, and from what I've read that messes up the whole game. The best solution is to wait until you can purchase level 3 farming--then you pretty much have unlimited food resources (right now I have more food points than tech). In the meantime have your kids look for mushrooms, and check coconut resources, because they replenish a little after each crop.

Maybe this obvious to everyone else, but I've just noticed that different collections seem to appear in certain places: beetles in the vines near the gong, shells on the shore (makes sense), butterflies anywhere inland, and rocks on the ancient mosaic. Anyone else found this to be true?

For the person who needs help finding the herbs/flowers. There are light purple flowers near the grave sites that you need to go to also. It is to the right of the big blue flower at the top by the gong incasement.

When a child "feels lonly" and goes up by the coconut trees or down by the mosiac, drop an adult village by them. They will both go up by the fire and tell stories. Keep an eye on the adult and if he walks away and shakes his head no, drop him/her again on the child and he will try again. Once he is succesful, he gains in parenting. If you are lucky, and use a Master, there might be a school session where all the kids gather. Tech points go up also. Be sure to use an adult though, 16/17 year olds don't work.

Hey Ryan,

You can change your game speed in the game options to 2X, this speeds up the time for crops, nursing, and aging. But make sure you pause your game if you leave it for too long. Also, when my little villagers get down to about 50 food points, I make the restore stew, 3+3+6, and restore everyone before we run out of food, then they have time to go without while my crops finish growing.

sassy

ARRRGGGHHH I have tried every spot on the mosaic also.. with 4 different totems and still can't get the last gong piece. I have all the purchased all the levels of technology in all areas.. have more than enough food.. my population is 58 and all I have left to do is the last gong piece and the collections. Can someone please help... thanks

Did you place the totem right in the middle in the circle? That what I did and the totem mvoed and the piece appeared. Then I had to make someone pick up the piece.

GONG PIECE IN MOSAIC
Some have said there is a glitch on that gong piece and have had to go back where they got their game and re-download the game.
Hope this helps

If you are wondering how to gain tech points faster, I just found a way. But, you need to make sure that you have enough food so your villagers won't starve in the meantime.

I put everyone in my village (except children and nursing mothers) to work as scientists. In less than 5 minutes I gained over 2000 tech points! My villagers have nearly 30,000 food points, so I think I can safely switch their jobs for a while.

Try it, and see if it works for you.

The gong piece in the mosaic can be picked up by a master scientist...

I only have 2 puzzles left 2 find. the last of the gong and the 1 that looks like a plant. can anyone help. I have 9 totem's is that good

Just a couple of hints I stumbled onto - as far as having only guys, and no more room for babies, I made a stew that was so bad that two bites of it killed the villager. You might have to kill off a few. I don't remember the recipe but I do know it had some black flowers in it. Also, when you are trying to upgrade the parenting skills of your older women, be sure to keep changing out their partners or you will build a sex machine out of the guy. I was away for an hour and one guy gave babies to eleven women.

Mysteriousmiss, how many villagers do you have?

Re: mysteriousmiss and her lonely people. I often find two of my people sitting together feeling 'a little bit lonely' - a bit odd. How many villagers do you have?
Re: tiredneedto sleep I wish you could remember the killing recipe.

Guys!!!!!
I have a big big problem in the game and i really need help!!!!!!!1
I have a big problem about their food!!! The ocean had an algae!!! And the coconut are running out!(as i left it it was only 100+ remaining!!!) And the I dont have the crop field coz i dont have the dam finish! Thet all work so slow! I dont know what to do! Can anyone help me? If there's a cheat tell me i really need their food supply increase!!!!

PLZZZZZZZ......

Ammm, you could say im an owl or something thats nocturnal coz im up in the night but... Here in our country it is aonly 11:38... (Oh, its already late)
But pls. help me i really really need your help now... GUYZ!!!!!!!

How do you ring the gong I have it all together but noting?

Are there any cheats that can help me with the game at like super speed like that makes ur villagers work super fast. So that you can get lots of tech points and buidings get built faster.

if you look at you the number of people you got while you telling your adults to go inside then you will know if they are going to make a baby the number will change if nothing happens when the start walking to the love hut then stop them an bring them together again repeat until number changing this will stop wasting the time of going there and waiting

To Secret and Mick,
When I wrote the previous post I had about 25-27 people--now I have 43 (It's getting hard to keep track of them!).

I'm getting frustrated with the children--they won't always pick up collectibles, even when I drop them on the item repeatedly. I've lost some rare items because of the kids. Has anyone else had this happen?

Mick,
U don't need fish to get crops, drop a person on the rocks by the pond, they will start to build a dam and irrigation, once it is done you will see the garden and you can start planting. In the mean time have the kids keep picking mushrooms.

Herbs 4+4+6 make a stew that makes villagers very ill. It's good for increasing your trainee doctors' skills.

All my women only have heads. I have tried starting my computer again and everything but nothing has worked so i have a load of floating heads running around.

I cant have any babies!!! Even though i drop the male into the female they cant! They keep going indoors but they cant make any babies!!!!!!!!!!!

Help!!!!

HELP~~HELP~~!!

I didn't know what happened.
MY 2 little people found the last two pieces of the gongs at the same time. One of them carried one of the pieces reached the encasement first..then they all started to celebrate..then the miserable things happened...my the other little person who carried the last piece of gong went to celebrate they found out the third piece of gong and lost the last piece of gong...
I can't find the forth one back anymore...does anyone know what should I do to get the forth one AGAIN~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I decided to kill off one of my boys - too stupid to be trained to do anything so I experimented with my killing stew. This time I used 444 and had to get him to eat it three or four times before it killed him. Don't do it unless you have the time to stay there and keep your children from going to the stew pot. They are like real children in that once you tell them not to do something (pull them away) that's what they want to do and they make a game of trying to sneak up to the pot when you are not looking. It's fun but tedious.

Help!! All my babies come out as boys. Does anyone know why this is happening?

I've been playing this game for a week .... I havent slept ... my pills are running out lol I have 95 people 700000 tech points 60000 food point ... I bought everything and everyone is now wearing white ... hee hee hee (starting a cult!!) i am missing 1 beatle, 1 shell and 1 rock .... and its taking forever.... I think im gunna..... zzzZZZZzzzzZZZZZzzz

I have 115 people, the max. that I can have, I solved all the puzzles, however does anyone know which of the vliiagers should ring the gong? I had someone ring it and it to 1000 food ponts! Does anything happen? Help

Is the sewing hut is the one that have flowers on it? If it is, it doesnt do anything for me!!! I drop a villager on it but, they didnt do anything for it!!!!!!

Or.... Did it only miss some requirements before i get it? or im just really wrong in the location? Tell me Plzzzz.... anyone?

i need help. how the heck do you grow the patch that evrryone is trying to water? its just below the grave yard.
and how do u get da cutting tool this is my status: 90 people, 1million food, 35000 tech points, ive got everything to level 3 and im trying to get the tool please help me!!!

Secret
There are 7 huts altogether. The sewing hut has clothes hanging out the front.

Marella
I don't think it matters who rings the gong. I had one of my villagers die after ringing it. Another time one became an elder. Sometimes good and sometimes bad things happen.

Gus
The Cutting Tool
You need a cutting tool to clear the vegetation that covers the entrance to the cave in the north and the vine wall to the east. After you acquire Level Two Exploration, drop a Master Scientist on the sharp stones just above and to the right of the twisted pieces of wood and vine used for the scarecrow. When he's done, take him back for a second trip for the wood and vines necessary to finish the tool

with reading some comments i discoverer that people are haveing more than 90 people it says i can not have any more can i get this max to go higher can any one help thanks

this is a virtual villagers website and I found out that triplets are quite common its just that we never get them

A lot of people are asking the same things over and over.

If someone drops a gong piece close out your game try and get it again.

50 is the max. elders. I have many people with 3 mastered skills I can not get anymore "Esteemed Elders"

My biggest suggestion is just to have patience, especially in the beginning. When you start running out of food just do your best to stay alive, stop breeding and work on tech points. That's all that I did and I did not lose one person from starvation, I made it through the tough times.

Don't worry about huts and what to build, each time you need to build a new hut the foundation will show up.

90 is the max people you can have until you finish your collections.

I move the clock forward and backward. It works fine. I would suggest not doing this in the beginning of your game as your villagers take a lot of TLC at first. Also, be careful moving the clock from the 11 o'clock hour to 12 and then back again. Make sure you have am or pm correct or you will lose 12 hours of game time (this could kill your village).

Lastly, the time it takes for your garden to grow, women to nurse, expirience levels to change, etc. all depends on what level the game is set on (easy, normal, hard) and what speed it is at (1/2, normal, 2x).

Sarah

Cazz,
Look around the island and see if there are any foundations for new huts. You might just need more space for your villagers.

I've finally completed all puzzles and bought all tech--just waiting for a few pieces of the collections.

Good luck all!

Watch out for blonds. They are dumb, and their children and grandchildren are just as bad. My first triplets were blond girls. They wouldn't work, even after being trained. They went to the pond, went to the beach, went to get water, ate, drank, cooled their feet and washed their clothes. I didn't know they were going to be so bad until after they each had one blond child, each of whom was as bad or worse than the mother. Fortunately, I've been able to keep their children down to a minimum. (I kept my 115 maxed out while they were child-bearing age. - I missed one death and within seconds one of my guys headed straight for the blond and kissed her - baby on first kiss - so I've only had to deal with one grandchild.) I may have to deal with more because one of the children is a boy but so far he's been the boy toy of one of the older women so he hasn't gone after any of the other girls. If you are into euthanasia, take out the blond babies asap.

Watch out for blonds. They are dumb, and their children and grandchildren are just as bad. My first triplets were blond girls. They wouldn't work, even after being trained. They went to the pond, went to the beach, went to get water, ate, drank, cooled their feet and washed their clothes. I didn't know they were going to be so bad until after they each had one blond child, each of whom was as bad or worse than the mother. Fortunately, I've been able to keep their children down to a minimum. (I kept my 115 maxed out while they were child-bearing age. - I missed one death and within seconds one of my guys headed straight for the blond and kissed her - baby on first kiss - so I've only had to deal with one grandchild.) I may have to deal with more because one of the children is a boy but so far he's been the boy toy of one of the older women so he hasn't gone after any of the other girls. If you are into euthanasia, take out the blond babies asap.

why does it take so long to build things and does it help to get more than on person to work in it the same time. Say the dam I have one working on it now but wouldn't it be quicker if I had say 3 working on it?

Help me!
I dropped a totem on the mosaic in the center of the ruins but nothing happened...
Why? What i have to do?

This game is hard!! ....... my villanges do not want to make babys!!

why has the time on my crops gone up to thousands of mins??? they'll all die if i wait that long??!! is there anyway i can fix it????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

This may sound harsh, but is there a way to kill off some of my adults? I have all of the puzzles completed, have 400,000 tech points, 100,000 in food, I'm just waiting to fill up my collections. I'm maxed out on villagers, and only have 2 children left. If I don't get some babies soon, I won't be able to doing any collecting.

Esther,
Things do take time to build, but it does go faster the more people you have working on something. You'll also earn tech points faster the more people you have working on research. I've gained 500,00 points just within a day, because of having about 20 people researching.

Cate,
Make sure the totem is placed in the center of the sun on the mosaic--I did it this way and the gong piece appeared immediately.

Michelle,
Someone suggested earlier using 4+4+4. You'll have to make them eat it a few times, but will eventually kill your villager(s).

Hope these help, and don't forget to scroll through earlier posts. Most of these questions have already been answered somewhere on this page--if you're in dire straights it's faster to read these posts than post your own message and wait for a reply.

I would like to have the cheat please. my people keep dying and tech points are very slow. thanks a lot.

hi there i only have 1 puzzle to go and i cant solve it. ive placed my totem everywhere in the center of the mosaic and can't find the last piece of the gong, can someone help me?

putting the totem in the middle/center of the sun, or front or back of it doesnt work, nothing's happening

has anyone beaten the game yet? i'm curious to see what happens at the end.

I put my totem in the center of the mosaic and I had someone pick it up and now it's gone and I can't get it back. Does anyone know what I can do?

You have to drop (not put it) the totem on the middle of the mosaic

If you make a bad stew that makes your people ill how do you get ridof it? Or is it a matter of wating?

If you are running out of children and can't find one when you need them....drop one on the rock in the middle of the pond...or on the other side of the stream, children can't swim so they will have to stay there till you move them again.
If you make a bad stew use it to get rid of some of your useless villages - make the ones that refuse to work eat the stew, but you will have to sit there and keep everyone else away from it.
If you want to make a bad stew deliberately use 4+4+4, they need to eat a couple of times before its fatal.

tiredneedtosleep:
I've had a couple of good blondes who are good workers (and a couple of redheads). I am so glad to have the power to bump a few of them off when needed, in VV1 all I could do was give them unpleasant names and not be too gentle with them.

Thank you so much for the stew recipe. I tried to read through the posts, but there are so many that I give up.

tiredneedtosleep:
I've had a couple of good blondes who are good workers (and a couple of redheads). I am so glad to have the power to bump a few of them off when needed, in VV1 all I could do was give them unpleasant names and not be too gentle with them.

i can't get algae to form on the ocean so i can't get the fish puzzle completed. i've constantly put like 10 people in at a time and tried one person over and over and i can't get it. help!

Jessie,
Quit the game and then restart, the piece should be back on the mosaic.

R A T T Y,
The stew will eventually go away on its own, or you can just close the game out for a second and when you restart it will be gone.

I've got 2 villagers who can't stay out of the Love Shack! I finally changed their skill preferance to parenting and let 'em go. I thought she had killed him one time because she came out but he didn't. I started the game over and he was there. Luckily she's in her 50's and can't have more babies or he would be in serious trouble!

i have got 90 people the only thing i need to do is the exploration of level three.... did the rest. but i haven't got to build any houses i have 4 houses!! how do i get more?!?! i am so confused is this all i can get i can't make anymore people cuz there is no housing? what can i do to make more houses i have the hospital..

Thank you so much mysteriousmiss for your answer regarding if I could work on things quicker with more people working on it the same time. My new problem is I can't make stews at all. When I put a villager at the caldron all it says is that the fire is warm. even when I move the villager around and over the top of the caldron I don't get a message.
Anyway thanks again mysteriousmiss for all your help!!!!

akalostangel: I had one 57 year old grey haired lady get pregnant. It didn't matter much except she died not long after that and missed out on becoming an esteemed elder.

:-) Thanx and nice one Mysteriousmiss, in the end I just watched and waited :-| I kept coming back here to see if a reply had bee posted but it takes a while dont it??? For people to reply I mean.

AND HERE IS SOMETHING FORYOU ALL TO HVE A GOOD LAUGH AND CHUCE ABOUT YOWILL ALL THINK I AM RAVING CRACKERS!!!

I HAVENT TURNED OFF MY LAPTOP SINCE I BOUGHT VV1 WHICH WAS OVER A WEEK AGO...I DIDNT REALISE YOU COULD TURN THE LAPTOP OFF!!!

THERE YOU GO...HOPE I MADE EVERYONES DAY WITH THAT!!!

hmmm.. this helps a bit, r there any cheats to this game though?

Whoever said you can't have babies after 50? My 63 year old just had one and she didn't even Embrace anyone. She is a Master Parent. Maybe that makes a difference

You can't make any more people until you get an entire set of one of the collections.
I have 105 in my first tribe and 90 in my second. For 2 weeks have been trying to find an elusive rare beetle in my first tribe.
Tonight I discovered that if you pause the game, you can still navigate around the village, and can move your villagers around. This makes it easier to find the children and position them where you want them.
The items still appear while the game is paused.
I currently have 3 children sitting in front of the beetle area, waiting for it to appear, but I am also checking out the other areas and moving children to pick up shells, stones, butterflies etc.
I just place them on the item and toggle the pause off with the space bar, then toggle it back on again.

HI,

Does the game ever end? WHEN does it end? I seem to have solved everything but there doesn't appear to be any ending apart from bashing the gong every day.

Help!

Cheers.

Nik

its hard to gain like 160,000 tech points for the exploration so im stuck!

There is one stone that when I try to pick it up, it freezes my game until the stone disappears. Any ideas?

I need to have helllllllllppppp oh well it is not like any one will help me

how do you make the people stop colect cocanuts when they have a garden?

Is there any value to doing the laundry?

hi i need help i been playing this game with my sis for a month and i solve 13 puzzles and im missing 3 but im not sure what they are can someone plzzzz help me????????

someone, Is it possible to make a stew that makes the villagers who eat it master at the job i have chosen them to do cos its taking me forever to get my villager named Adam to become an elder he is adept at everything except he is mast at building? what can i do this other person did a comment that said that there is a stew for this but he didn't say how to make it!

Also this is really funny My food thing was doing that thing where it takes like 627 minutes for new crops so i put all my villagers all 9 of them on farming and let them farm cos we had no ffood and they were all very weak and my farmer was really healthy then stupidly i did that clock changing thing and i came back on and there was only two villagers left! but luckily it was Josh and my first farmer who was a master farmer Lilly which was good because they were both in their early 30's and they could have you know what and start a new population so i changed their names to Adam and Eve !lol! and now my population has gone from 2 to 6 which is pretty cool and my crops grew and everything was fine until they said that it would take forever to grow again but luckily i had lots of little ones that they have been getting many mushrooms and keeping my food to about 120 which they are serving quite well on for now until my crops grow!

I've seen the same question asked several times and no replies. I have Level 3 Engineering and keep dragging villagers over to the mosaic floor but they get confused and additional research is necessary. How do I get one to uncover it? Any ideas?

hi everyone i just got the game and have some Q first how do u find a botton to speed up the game? i dont get the 2x stuff.

sec- i have bult the 2 huts that are there at first but i dont know how to give my bulders more so i can get a master bulider how what do i do
#3-
so do u have to wacth the breeding with family thing if so how can that work cuz i have to diff familys right now and like 3 one other sooo that would mean they will become family? anyone understand me?
lol any way if u can help me that would be grrr8
thanks u can e-mail me at
sara_schweinsberg@yahoo.com

THANKS
sara

Hiya...a few things,

I have seen the question asked a few times about laundry...MUST they do it and if so does is come under farming or what? What does laundry make them better at?

I am confused about turning the game off...VV1 I never turned the laptop off at all, I thought I had sussed this out but unfortunatly not! I had sleepless nights knowing that the laptop was on in the livingroom and the constant worrying over my villiagers dying in the night, on trips to the loo in the dead of night I would find myself popping to the livingroom to check on the game and ending up staying in there, (and I confused my cat, he thought it was breakfast time at 2 am on a number of nights!!!) I was totally zombified for a week, couldnt function properly and everyone was sick of hearing about "my villagers". So what is the correct way to pause the game if I am going out somewhere or need sleep!!!

S O M E O N E A R E Y O U T H E R E ????

Please help I want to take it slowly with VV2 and enjoy it!!!

Hope there is a VV3 in the pipeline ('.')

Hope somebody out there can help me.

ahhhhhhhh i had 50 people i went to sleep then woke up and have 60 kids they have sex oin tehre own lol

well i ahve 1 question if u have a totem pole and the guy who was the master dies does the totem pole go away?

I cannot seem to get the villagers to reproduce. I have the scarecrow, so crops are fine, we have the new hut and repaired the broken one. I only have 8 villagers and no children so I cannot collect items or mushrooms. Any advice?

ya just keep try it takes a while and try to put the man's job as parenting lol he will do it with every avaible woman lol

or under opiont and click pause!!! lol

hi everybody :)

could anybody help me with The Inlaid Gong Piece. i've done everything what is needed but i don't get it. maybe i do something in a wrong way.

i know this is a noob question but how do u make more huts. i cant seem to do it. i tried moving my builder over the space of where huts should be but it doesnt work. he just does nothing. btw its a master builder. i paused the game until i can find out so please help me.

um,
does the alge ever clear?
i like fishing!!!!
oh, and i need more building skills for one of my people so he can open the crate, but the two houses are built!!
what do i do
have more babies??;D

Hi,i have er started this game so many times and i think i have a gerat solution -
when you start there are 3 villagers able to work, have one fishing and the other 2 researching, everytime a child gets to the age of 14 have them researching. this increases your tech points quickly. you should soon have enough to buy farming level 2 and engineering level 2. as soon as you purchase these get all villagers researching and make them build the dam. once the dam is complete you can make the villagers do whatever. i found that this way you can have enough food without anyone dying.
Females generally stop having babies around age 50 but this is a great way to make them master parents. Did you also know that by dragging a master parent on to a child will cause the parent to teach all the children in your village! i'm not sure what they teach but is a great way to see how many children you have and what sort of age they are.

The burial area is at the top right hand side of the island and when someone dies, a villager picks up their bones and buried them. you dont need to do anything.

For the inlaid gong piece, you have to have fully uncovered the mosaic and place an esteemed elders totem in the round yellow circle in the middle of the area. the gong piece should appear.

If you have a totem pole and your esteemed elder dies, the totem does not go away. the totem is the villagers way of remembering that villager.

Ti pause the game you need to go to the menu, go to options and down the bottom select Pause. This will stop your villagers living on through the night without you to watch over them.

To get the builders skill up once the huts have been made as well as the dam, place the builder on to the already constructd huts and they should begin to fix them.

To uncover the mosaic floor you have to have engineering level 3 AND culture level 3. without this the villagers will be confused as to what they are supposed to do.

Hope this helps some of you

Hi!
Have anyone found the Inlaid Gong Piece? Because I can´t find it, I have now idea how to get it! I have tried to put different totems in "the sun" and I have dragged people to the mosaic floor, but nothing works and it seems like it´s not only me who´s having a problem with it. So please if you have any idea how to get the Inlaid Gong Piece write an answer to me!
//Linnea

how bout building more houses. how do u do that. i cant build my second hut cuz there is no foundation for it

HOW DO I OPEN THE CRATE????

i have a lady that goes indoors by herself and another that swims out to get guys to go indoors with. this game is funny!

Is 50 the max # of totems? I have master farmers and whatnot that have mastered two or three others but not village elders.

what about those 50 totems? Cant i get more or should i not bother with making my villagers master three skils?

The cheat won't work for me. I did exactly as the instructions said. Am I doing something wrong or is my computer just not reading it? Does anyone else have the same issues?

okay i have a problem i cant get a dang village to live i seem to get as far as the grarden and like after 2 or 3 times it say it will take 700 and some min i cant keep the village alive that long what should i do? am i doing something wrong? i need help some one plz answer me!!!!!!!!

I have two questions:

1. Some of my workers can move past adept and become masters. Is it just a matter of patience? they've been at the same job for half the day.

2. The cheat does not work. I've followed the instructions; however, it just won't work. What am I doing wrong?

Ratty
you press the space bar to pause the gsme. Hope you have fun playing the rest of your game!

the mads

Why is it if u can come in here and ask a Q why cant u answer them if u know them i am new but i still answer if i can and have answered, i just think if u want help u should offer it to
thanks much!

can any one tell me how to open the crate cuz i have 2 master buliders trying but it say it to hevie to open alone any help out there?

Sara you need 3 master builders to open the crate
Also I have found that you will get algae whether you take care not to take too many fish or not.
So my advice is take as much fish as you can till you get the algae...but don't let the villagers get to the coconuts until you get the algae...that way you will still have food.
Make sure none of the villagers details are set to parenting or they will make too many babies and your food will disappear too fast. You need to control the population until the algae is gone.
Get your dam built and your crops growing as soon as you can. Don't forget to make the scarecrow or the birds will eat your crops.
To get the inlaid gong piece from the mosaic you need to DROP the totem onto the middle of the mosaic. So before you put it down make sure it is up in the air then let it drop. Then you need a villager to pick it up.

For sara:
If you read the PUZZLE SOLUTIONS at the top of this page it says 'The Boxed Gong Piece
This piece of the gong is inside the crate on the beach to the west. Three Master Builders working together are needed to open it.' So you need 3 master builders.

Also, when you say "okay i have a problem i cant get a dang village to live i seem to get as far as the grarden and like after 2 or 3 times it say it will take 700 and some min i cant keep the village alive that long what should i do? am i doing something wrong? i need help some one plz answer me!!!!!!!!" I can't understand what you mean, sorry.

Hey, a couple of questions here:

1. How do i make my Adept Builders Master Builders quickly?

2. Does anyone know any proper cheats like type in ones to make my tech points go up really fast?

Well, i would really appreciate it if someone would write back with some answers, im pretty desparate!

Caitlin
Xo's x infinity +1

I got level 2 culture but the sewing hut will not appear. It's been a while....a long while and it has yet to appear!! is there anything else I'm supposed to do to get it?????

Hi! I currently have 89 villagers and fourteen of the sixteen puzzles done. Also I have earned a level three in every skill! I want to see how other people are doing and if i could help! -Kenna-bo

ummm....how do u make the villager learn to climb?

im dragging it everywhere around the tree buh it will not climb!!!

HELP!!

For those of you who are trying to get more food or tech points, a few ppl early on in the blog pointed out a good one: type "cheat o matic download" into the internet search bar of your computer. Click on the first link on the screen. Go to the green "Download" button and download the program. A little screen will pop up that asks what you want ito do. You can open the program or save the file and then open. I just open it. When the file is downloaded, a window will pop up with four different icons. Click the second one, it says just OMATIC. Hit "run" twice. Open yourvv program and take it off of fullscreen. Tell cheatomatic you want to hack vv lost children. Type in the value of the item you want changed, say, food. If you have 30, pause the game by hitting the space bar, the type 30 in the text box. Wait till it says to change the value, then take vv off pause until you food number changes. Pause again, type new number into text box. Do this until the window says CHA-CHING! You can now change how much food you have. To change tech points, do the same thing after hitting "new search" and re-selecting vv to hack.

RE: MICK

what i mean is that when i get the dam bulit and have a garden everything goes fine til about 3 times of it being full (800) then it stops geting full and say that it will take 700 and some min's to grow new crops, i have started 10 village and they all die from waiting for the crop to grow and i try to stop the people from picking coconut til then so i can feed them but the dont listen to me lol grr it is driveing me nuts

And thanks to all of u who have answerd me the help was really nice :)

um i only know one cheat and that is to change ur clock ahead 15min at a time. sorry if that dont help.and i dont know a cheat for making the buliters faster sorry anyone else know cuz i wolud love to know the same 2 Q to lol
thanks

If you want male babies… just constantly (and I mean several times) drop a male villager to a female villager, don’t wait for them to go to the love shack just drop "em constantly" vise versa if you want female babies. Hope this helps :)btw a million thanks to cc_rider88, your the best!!!

The only way to stop the villagers from picking coconuts apart from not buying level 2 farming is to drag them back to where you want them.

For Jenny: Your villagers will not learn to climb until you have level 2 farming.

And for those who want to cheat their food and tech points....hey...where's the fun or challenge in that?
I have 3 villages and thought I was going to lose them all at some stage while waiting for crops...only the children picking up mushrooms saved them. Ok you need time to sit and play the game, continually scouting around the village for the mushrooms.
Going without food for a little while will not kill your villagers, but it will weaken them, so have everything ready for the stew to restore them.
The herbs for that stew are 3+3+6.
Get the stew prepared, the water and herbs in...so that when the crops grow you only need to add the food and get the weakened ones to eat it.

Sara...maybe you need to check your options (one of the things listed on the title page). Maybe you are playing at hard level and 1/2 speed.
If so, reset your options to easy and 2x speed. This might help solve your problems

Can you have a population higher than 101? and do more building sites pop up so they can be built upon??

Thanks

OK my problem is that I can't seem to get my farmer to reach Master. What is it that I have to do to get them to become a master farmer. I have already got level 3 in farming and nothing. and I have done at least 10 stews. I have had them in farming for two days now and nothing.

I have been waiting for over a week to get all of the collectibles and found out today that the butterflies still appear in the graveyard even though it's full. You can't see them, just the sparkly bubbles that float above them - you can't even see them on the map -- but if you drop a kid on top of the bubbles they pick up the butterfly.

I'm still waiting to collect one of everything!!!!!

Something awful happened to my village! My 5 year old little sister figured out how to get on VV by watching me and deleted my village! I am so mad because I had completed all of the puzzles, had level three in everything, and had ninety villagers! If only there were some way to get them back...... -Kenna-bo

hey i am new to VV2... i have been working on it and i noticed a crate washed up on the shore. it says that it needs a trained builder. i have 2 master builders and it keeps telling me that it is to hard to open fot one person... then i tried 2 master builders to try and open it at the same time, but it said the same thing. has anyone gotten the crate open? if so please tell me how you did it! thank you very much! i hope to hear something soon!

oh and thank you all for posting hints and tricks on here! it has helped me sooooooo much!

u need 3 master buluders to open the crate

Hey,
I have completed puzzles 6 and 10. I have dropped multiple totems in the center of the mosaic (the ruins). None of which have gave me the last gong piece. Am I doing something wrong. This is the last puzzle I need to complete.

The funny thing is my husband has the same problem with his game. He has a total of 10 totems.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You,
Kami

my stupid master builder is confused about building the dam...i have level 3 engineering, farming and exploration...please help!!

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox

[and also...does anyone have bebo? random but hey...]

To Paula who answered my last question about The Inlaid Gong Piece...
Thanks alot for the answer! But I still can´t find the piece... I tried to do that "air thing" you talked about, but if I dragged the totem up a bit it just falled behind the sun... So I have no idea how to make it work, so please write and explain how I can get the totem to be in the air before it lands on the sun.

is there anyway to find the beetles, stones, butterflies, and shells faster?

HELP!!! Piper is 20 and has been pregnant fo 4 days. It still says "Nursing for 120 minutes". I have been playing this game for a week and my villagers have not aged. My speed is set at "2X" and I have tried the clock cheats. I'm level 2 in all technologies, have solved 7 puzzles and found many of the collectables. Why hasn't the baby been born???

how do you get enough food to support a vilage of more than 15 people? i just had my 15th villager but my food supply has dropped dramatically...

for Sara...I don't know what else to tell you....the gong piece is there in the middle of mosaic....just keep trying different angles with the totem...and let it drop quickly. When it does appear you need to have a villager pick it up and take it up to the gong. Good luck

Does anyone know how to get tech points faster and please help me my villagers need more food i got like 67 people in my village.
They are all dieing i got 10 people dead the past few days so "PLEASE HELP" i need answers!
And if you read this and answer this thanks alot i will check tommorow for the replys.
:)

how much food can be stored ??

Rhonda, Do not make anymore babies until you have crops growing. And that will only take care of about 15 ppl. Until you can get the algae out of the water, I would be very carefull about making too many babies.

Have the children pick up mushrooms for food.

Also there are some more answers to help your village surrive here on this page. It's what helped me get through the tough times.

How many algae fishes do you need to put in the ocean i only got ten in there.

Will everyone just stop saying flower numbers and just say what color combinations give you what? Its confusing me and i dont know what everyone is talkig about. I couldnt figure out how to tell what flowers were 4,6,6. It says it no where on my puzzle screen.
Can anyone please post up the numbers to the flowers for me please?

I've kept on reading people saying that they've completed the collection and the puzzles and all, but still are wondering whether the game has ended already or not.

If you would check the folder in which your program is installed (as for me, it is at C:\Program Files\Virtual Villagers - The Lost Children), there is a folder named Images. Under the Images folder you will find lots of hints as to how the game works.

Here are a few things you can do with this knowledge:

1. All the beetles, butterflies, rocks, and shells are shown in an image file. If you check out the folder, you will know what you are still missing.

2. There are only 8 unique designs for the totems.

3. You can look at all the possible combinations of faces/heads and bodies. I haven't checked it myself, but for those who are interested in spotting that "Indian"-looking character, this is the place to go.

4. YOU HAVE OFFICIALLY FINISHED THE GAME ONCE THE SCREEN CHANGES FROM THE NORMAL "PLAY MODE" (with the map and everything) TO "STORY MODE" (remember what the first few screens looked like when you started the game? Pictures of the past being showed, how the adults explored the island, the two adults falling down the waterfall, and how the children were found). The image file is named "gamewin_bg.jpg". Search that in your computer. If you have seen that screen already in your game, then you my friend have officially ended the story.

Hope that helps! :)

Can anybody help??? I have been playing for 10 days. I am on my original tribe and they have not aged. I am playing at 2X speed and have tried the clock thing. Piper has been pregnant for 6 days, and the details screen still says "Nursing for 120 minutes". Andy has been 13 for 10 days and I have been anxiously awaiting him turning 14 so he can work. Does VV2 just take longer than VV??? What can I do ? Thank you, thank you!!!

thank you for telling me how 2 open the crate... but i have 1 problem! i have no master builders and i have nothing to build on to get master builders... what do i do? do i need to get enough tech points 2 buy the hospital and make people build on it so they can become master builders? also how ofter or when can people come out from behind the water fall? my sister had a village where people came from behind the water fall and i was wondering if you can do anything to make that happen.

thank you agian you all are verry helpful!
VV2fan!

what is with the lil pink petals?? do they have a purpuse or are they there just for beeing there?

does anyone know how to climb trees???

um i have all the puzzles done and i hit the gong where do i get this gold child i hear about?
and i have 90 people and all the building's so how do i get more people?

AND VV@ FAN drag the builder to a hut and he will fix it or get more tec points and it will give u more buliding when you buy engerneering and also the vine thing in front of the cave when they cut them u will get better at building u need the cutting tool to get that look at the top of this page.

hope that helps
sara

jaden it sound's like ur game is broke or something it should not take that long 4 that stuff but just in case are ur villager moving if they arnt it is puased if they are i think u might have to reinstall it

hopw that helps
sara

Mike,

if you look up top there is help for the flower's
under herb mastery, look at the top of this page and go down till u find it and also under the stew is some thing's u can try to make also. it is helpful if people read from the top of here not just what people write k hope that helps
sara

to all who are new to vv2 it took me 11 villages just to get them to live ater the water goes bad it is kinda hard but just keep trying the game cant be easy or u wouldnt want to play lol have funny and stick to it!

ooo and that cheat for turning ur clock ahead and really make it a problem when u get down to like 200 food left so be careful cuz it took me a while to relize that that is why it took me so long to get new crops lol
hope that helps
sara

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the game!!! All the posts have really helped! Thank you!

I read above that there is a stew for a burst of energy so that they excercize - but the formula wasn't given...hmmm. The color coding of the clothes have really helped with the progression of the game as well.

Has anyone noticed that you cannot "kiss" in the sacred grave area or on top of the sacred mural?

The birds that appear in the top left hand corner of the screen - or the shadows of them - appear when the parrots are about to make an appearance.

Thanks again everyone!

My glitch person has recently died after 72 years and now all i have is 2 old guys left how do i get people there and i already got the 3 freinds from the old village!! HELP!

ando - theres an event that gives you two lost kids but idk if it gives it to you automatically if you cant have more kids. i just got it randomly during my game...

I love this game so much!! I have had my first 1 for about 3 weeks. Did you know that every collection box that you fill up you get an extra 5 more people. So you end up with a minimum of 110 people.

Hey did, you say that those shadows at the top left of the screen are birds? I thought those were other people just running past what seems to be a closed of path. Just to add some suspence or something. just a thought. Im waiting for something else to happen in this game. Its all done but it dosnt feel like it.

I have totally enjoyed both Virtual Villagers games and am playing them over and over. A suggestion for VV3.....please consider adding more pop-up scenarios (example: so-and-so found a vial of stinky liquid. Should she eat it or dump it?). Having more of these would keep the game more interesting while surfing the village over and over. That begins to get a little monotonous after a time. Would also love to see a few animals in the next game. Love those birds in VV2 AND watching the little villagers walk the steps to the cliff and jump off!

Hope someone is working on the next game!

I need help cause I put the totem in the middle of the mosic and I did not get the last pieace of the gong so what do I do please someone help me

I have finished all of the puzzles except for the last gone peice that you get from the ancient place. I dropped a totem over it, and the gong piece appeared, then I had someone pick it up to carry it to the other gong peices, I moved around on my map to have my builders start working on another hut, and then went back to the guy that was supposed to be carrying the gong peice, and he was just standing there, not holding the gong peice, and Now when i drop the totem over the center it doesn't give me a peice, and I cannot find the other peice anywhere.

has this ever happened to anyone else, and if so is there a way to fix it?

i got problem to clear the algae.. i already
brought all the tech n got a master scientist..
how to drop the villager to the pond? it keep say enjoying in the pond? izzit need a master farmer?

yeah.. i solve the algae.. it need a master farmer anyway.. well juz another ques.. bout the ring gong... izzit only 1 ppl can ring?

Carolyne.. u try to put the totem in few places in the mosaic.. mayb u can find it.. the pieces of the last gong is very small... many u overlook.. try look carefully...

I have got 90 villagers and it keeps telling me I have reached the maximum amount of villagers, do I get a chance to build more housing? I have 4 houses and the sewing hut, do i get the chance to buils anymore, if not how, apart from getting villagers to fix hust do you get the chance to make master buliders?
Hope somebody can help!

Kam and lilo these questions have been answered and explained already. There are very detailed tips at the top of this page also.

Kam try restarting the game and the piece will appear again.

April - I believe you are referring to this Puzzle...(copied from above)
The Sunken Gong Piece
One piece of the gong is located in the pool on the eastern edge of the village. This sunken gong piece is obtained by making a special magic stew consisting of one of the black flowers near the waterfall and two of the large orange flowers to the south of the village (herbs 4+6+6 as indicated above). Have a villager eat the stew, and then drop them in the pool.

Kam and lilo these questions have been answered and explained already. There are very detailed tips at the top of this page also.

Kam try restarting the game and the piece will appear again.

April - I believe you are referring to this Puzzle...(copied from above)
The Sunken Gong Piece
One piece of the gong is located in the pool on the eastern edge of the village. This sunken gong piece is obtained by making a special magic stew consisting of one of the black flowers near the waterfall and two of the large orange flowers to the south of the village (herbs 4+6+6 as indicated above). Have a villager eat the stew, and then drop them in the pool.

if u made stew (4+4+4) it can able to make children become master builders... after they eat they will exercising.. dont interupt them if not it will not success... not everytime will success.. so u need them eat several times...

Jules : max population is 90.. no more housing.. but u need to find all the collections and u can reach population 115 ppl. coz each collection increase
the population

Thinking some more about future Virtual Villagers games......

T'would be interesting to see a hurricaine come through....rain and wind...which might destroy parts of the huts and garden. That would make more opportunity for the builders and farmers.

Also would be nice to see the villagers to into their huts for the night.

For the builders....they could build a raft to enable them to get out into the ocean to fish.

Just a few ideas....

You don't have to have a trainee builder to open crate. I used three master builders.

Very good ideas Gracie - my villagers are quite happy to actually build something or fix the broken hut...but they all seem to baulk at just examining and fixing for the sake of it.
They seem to need a reason for doing things.
It's such a good game, I don't know when I've enjoyed a game so much.

everything already builded like hut,dam and a small hut. so how can i up a adapt builder to master?

how can we build a raft?

I haven't been into my game for a couple of days. And now when I try and go in it is taking forever to load. Does anyone know why?

ive been playing for a couple of days now, and progressed really far..but it takes soo long to earn tech points. theyre really slow to research..is there not a cheat to earn it more quickly, or will i have to wait?

I haven't been playing very long but I've got all the collections and a bunch to totems.

I keep seeing the problem of not enough food. You will always have enough food if your kids look for mushrooms. The lower you go in your food supply the more mushrooms will pop up but you have to keep looking for them. If you leave your game your people will die. This is a good thing in a way beacause that's how I got my collections done but it means staying up all night until the next crop or putting your game on pause and it won't progress as fast.

Also, when your crop comes in get everyone to harvest it until its done and the next crop is planted. This way you are not piddling away your food supply (you get to start a new crop right away).

Here's a couple of things that I've found that help. The older your people are the slower they walk. Have them start out farming or doing construction while they are young. This way they can stand at the table doing research in their old age and it's easier on them and faster for them to advance. I used to start the girls out at farming and then switch them to parents as soon as they turned 18, this way they could get their masters in parenting in their early 40's, finish up farming after that and then on to research. The problem with this is you get over run with kids. They look cute forming a conga line but you reach your max population really fast. I had to kill a bunch off so that my people could become elders. Sad but necessary. I don't want to have to go through that again but I think it's unfair to the women because they really can't become elders if they spend time having children.

If you need to get an older person to get a masters in farming it's hard because they walk so slow. So I just babysit them and put them on planting crops. They don't have to walk around and so they can accomplish things quicker. You can also put a few lazy people with them so that you can babysit them as a group and you won't have to spend so much time on just one person.

To Blancie....you can't build a raft.

I almost forgot what I came here to find out. I've noticed that my villagers will go up to the totems and stand behind them. Their actions will say things like "telling joke", "arguing", "chatting", etc. I try and not interfer with these actions but do they actually do something? Do they accrue on the totems for something later? Do they change anything in the villager?

Hmm, I can't buy if off the internet, but I keep downlaoding it over and over again. How can I get a trial version longer than 60 mins?

Can anyone answer my question please!
I have 90 villagers, the youngest one is now 17, so I have no children to finish my collections off, do I just have to wait for somebody to die? I have completed all the tech options, but am not able to have any more babies, how do you get more housing?

can anyone tell me how you get people to become masters in there field, i.e building, as i need 3 master builders to open the creat for a piece of gong

To Jules: You can make a stew of just the black flowers and make someone eat it until they die. Then you can make another baby. Try to find someone who doesn't like to work and is difficult to manage. (I go through the list of villagers and if I find someone who isn't producing, who doesn't like learning and then I change their name to "Dead". That way I can keep track of them easier.)

You can only go to 115 people, that is with all the collections done. I once had 116 because someone had twins but when someone else died the woman nursing the twins suddenly didn't have them anymore. Weird.

Hi been playing VV2 for a few months now and I'm wodering if my game has a bug in it because my villagers aren't getting older and the one with the baby isn't getting older either. I haven't tryed changing the time yet I'm a little scared in case it screws everything up and I have to start all over again. can someone please help me!!!

how do you get quicker tech points. I have algae. people dying and slow tech points. please help

is it normal that it takes al very long time to collect tech points??

OK,
I have 50 esteemed elders. It must be the limet because I have other villagers who are masters at 3 things but still not considered an elder.

Is there a way to get more?

Thanks,
Bill

PS:
I also don't feel this answers anything from the first game.
Are we to assume the food in the cave was from these people?
Did the golden child die?

OK,
Long time reader, First time poster.
I had my population at 117. I am assuming 119 is the limit. Is this correct?

I now have 50 esteemed elders. It must be the limit because I have other villagers who are masters at 3 things but still not considered an elder.

Is there a way to get more?

And when you ring the gong and it says 'the gong grants technology', Does everyone's tech level raise or just some or only the person ringing the gong?

Thanks,
Bill

PS:
I also don't feel this answers anything from the first game.
Are we to assume the food in the cave was from these people?
Did the golden child die?

Nor do I think the online rankings are accurate.

VV3 idea: Village becomes overpopulated to the point where a small group leave and start a new tribe having to do everything all over again.

im half way through getting all the collections, and i have nothing else to build, i have no master builders as my original ones have just died. how will i be able to open the crate when theres nothing to build? and it would take too long to get someone to keep fixing the existing huts. any suggestions?

I now have a runner who is a master at 4 things and still isn't an esteemed elder. The last one left is research and he's halfway there.
Bill

clare,
Keep fixing huts and don't let them examine them. I also stop them as soon as it says 'improved at construction' and drop them back on the hut to make it quicker.

Now a bunch of my older villagers names have changed to the same name, 'Tapu'. I have 5 Tapus running around.
Bill

Does anyone know how many different elder totems there are? I have 7 different ones. With a total of thirty-six.

Rose

ive got a question:...
How do you get rid of the stew if it is made the wrong way?

How do you use a raft?

There is no raft.

I have 8 different totems.

The stew still has to be eaten, I'm pretty sure.

Hope this helps,
Bill

HOW DO YOU GET MORE THAN 50 TOTEMS!?!

I now have someone who is a master at all 5 things and still isn't an esteemed elder.

I have 50 totems but according to the internet stats, others have more.

HOW CAN THIS BE???

Bill

Bobby - to rid of the stew just go out of the game and come back in...the stew will be gone.

Isabelle - there is no raft...that was just someone's suggestion for a possible vv3

I love this game, but I think I'm having a problem! I have all of the butterflies, shells and pebbles, but no beetles. When and where do they appear?

can anyone tell me where the last piece of the gong is, ive got the one out of the pool, the one out the creat and the on where you have to cut away the thorns but i cant find the last piece

I have one totem and only one tech to purchase. how do i get more elders, by the time i get them to the point they become elders, they die and i can't sit here at the computer all day long. What am i doing wrong.

is there anyway of getting tect points quicker i dont seem to be getting anywhere quick, im waiting for points before i can do anything elsa. please help

Little Doe,

I usually put my village people at 1- farmer, 1 -doctor and the rest scientist. I don’ try making lots of babies at first. I don’t worry about building until I have points built up, and the second food. After getting all of farming, engineering, medical, and culture tech points. And the second of science and exploration. I started working on making more EE. I usually get them to be builders as young as I find them. Most of my elders were first Master Builders, then Master Farmers & then Master Scientist. I also try to keep the village on the smaller side 20-30 people. I keep my game speed on normal most of the day and 2X in the evenings. I usually check my village’s in the AM before work. I check in when I get home, then turn speed to 2X . Before I go to sleep I check the village and turn to normal speed. I now have 40 E. Elders totems with 8 different ones. My last 6 E. Elders were two sets of triplets.

My 11 year old grandson likes to keep his village at max population now 95 villagers. He has 6 EE and has keep his village almost as long as I have. He collects more objects and mushrooms than I do.

I have been playing the game since March 3.

Rose

Cin - you won't get any beetles until you have cleared the thorny bushes above the research table.
To clear them you need a master scientist to make some cutting tools.
He will find the things he needs to make the cutting tools from the bits of twigs and things to the right of the thorny bushes.
Hope this helps

Hey Cin...
The beetles appear up at the vines that you cut back..
I cant seem to get the pebbles i dont know why..
Good luck to all playing the game...

I really love this game!
I love:
Totems & esteemed elders.
The Gong with its good and bad consequences.
The way villagers' hair turns grey with age.
No babies for 50+ women, well usually.
The way master parents teach the children.
To be able to change clothes.
I think it's great to be able to dispose of 'bad' villagers with poison soup.
And I just LOVE runners.

Wouldn't it be interesting to have animals, rain and night in VV3? How about if the villagers could explore outside their little world?

ok peeps..... what do you do if you made bad stew???????? if you toss it out, how do you toss it out....? i nrrd help with gross stews!!!!!!!

Actually, I have a female that hadn't had any children yet, but had a tiny sliver of parenting skill - only Trainee Parent - and I dropped her on two males by the hut. Suddenly, without even going indoors with either, she had triplets! Very cool...and odd...

Hey evey one,
quick question...
well i made some stupid choices n the games and had my villagers practicaly starving and living off mushrooms. Only one person died but the rest are week. After i finlly got my crops started up and a health food supply i feed every one and just let them reserch like tips above tolled me to but they are still week. Is there anything eles i can do to get them healthy again?
please help...

I have a question i got the totem from becoming and esteemed elder and i did what i was told to do to get the piece of the gong well one of my villiagers grabbed it and supposably took it up to the gong but now its not showing that is was put there! How do i get it back?

Lauren - make a stew of herbs 3+3+6 and make your weakened villagers eat it...that will completely restore them.
The herbs are 3 = The lavender daisy at the far top-right above the sacred area.
6 = The large orange flower to the south of the village

i droped the pot befor it could get to the fire n now its gone! i cant get it bk!!
can som1 help me!!!!

No Daniel, because I can't read what you write, I'm sorry. Maybe you should read the earlier entries... (this is a hint for most other questions too, by the way....)

THANK YOU!!! Thanks a billion! I did not know how to irrigate the soil. Now I know how. I LOST 8 TIMES before I knew this. I tried getting Level 3 farming, but my villagers died before even 1/2 way to the required amount. I also tried Level 3 technology, but the same thing happened. I even did Level 3 Exploration... but they died before even 1/4 way there. THANK YOU A BILLION!

Still stuck at 50 totems. I have masters in all 5 areas and they won't make them esteemed elders.

What's the trick to more than 50 totems?

Bill

Hi, I'd like to know how to get more than 50 totems too. I've had about 40 more elders since I clocked up 50 totems and I still haven't got any more!

ok, what happeneds when the gong is rong?

i did it nothhnig seems to happen
arent they suppose to fine something leading to another side of the island,
like they did in the first one?
i need to know
and need help

Bev,

Are your villagers who have mastered 3 things considered elders since you reached fifty?

I have some that are masters at everything and aren't considered elders.

Ever since I reached fifty, they won't change to esteemed elder.

HELLPPP!!!

Bill

ok people...... does the game end????????????? what effect does the laundry have???how do you find the lost parents????

I lost my cauldron is there any way to get it back, I can't find where my villager put it.

No, sorry they are not classed as elders. Only in my eyes I'm afraid. I put them in special clothes so that I know who's who. I have everyone in uniform so that I can tell who does what job at a glance and when they are elders ( or should be!) I have special clothes that only they can wear. Am I sad?

50 totems is the max you can earn, however you can get more through an event.

how dyu recover the gong piece from the ruins? i tried puttin a totem on it, but nothin happens..

i acually like this game very much i gotta say we do need more huts in this verstion but im exsited to have a lil go at vv3 i read about it n what i can tell its gunna come out pretty soon click on this link 2 c what they might but in the game they got really cool ideas http://www.ldwforums.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=68982

i think i found a way to make them masters in what they are doing. i took a builder and made him research next thing you know he is a master. took a farmer and made him build and he is master in building. go figure.

i have found all the collectables except for one butterfly, in the collection screen it is the one in the lower right hand corner of the butterfly collection screen. can anyone tell me what color it is? please.............i know what it will look like just not the color. i had the game almost finished before then i had to restart because my 7 year old daughter deleted my game.errrrgggg....oh well. plz hlp someone.....

dee, if you dont have the ruins uncovered, uncover it by getting level 3 building+level 3 exploration- alot of tech points!!!

hannah- aka han han : )

hi sue the butterfly you are looking for is light blue with dark blue bits.
hope this helps

we cant seem to get up to level 3 farming before the algae comes into the water. we run out of coconuts so then they run out of food and die. what do you do to get your tech points up?

To be quite honest I don't know where I would put more totems if I did get any. But I do think that villages who are masters in 3 or more skills should get esteemed elder status! Otherwise whats the point in keep training them?

I've solved all the puzzles. Now what? Have I
won? How can I tell? It basically tells me that time will tell what will happen and what kind of
magic this island contains. Great, now what does
that mean? Really, I'd like to know.

Hey people, I have totems, i have esteemed elders, i dropped the totem in the center of the mosaic but nothing happens. I have all the tech sections bought, i cleared the mosaic and vines away. How do I get my last piece of gong? Someone help me please????

Hey people, I have totems, i have esteemed elders, i dropped the totem in the center of the mosaic but nothing happens. I have all the tech sections bought, i cleared the mosaic and vines away. How do I get my last piece of gong? Someone help me please????

DID everyone knows how to get one piece of the
gong out of the LAGOON?! Please help me how, i
don't know how to get it out please help me!!!!!

Landry,
You get the gong piece from the lagoon by getting a villager to eat a stew with the following herbs: 4+6+6.
If anyone wants to restore all of a villages health, such as an old villager to make them live longer, the following herbs make a great stew! 3+3+6.

hi!
i dont no if i am surpose to or not but do you have to get rid of the algae?????

hope sum1 can help!

Charlie,
the answer to your question is at the top of this page under 'sustainable fishing'.

The Gong has granted me "vision". Does anyone know what that means? I've read most of the postings and haven't seen anything close to that. Thanks!

its all good exsept my villigers are not picking up the cordren!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bev,

Do you have your garden? You really only need one or two farmers. Let all the others do research to get your points up. You can switch them out later to vary their skills. Keeping your population low until you know you have ample food is a good idea too. Once you can garden and fish again freely, breed all you want.

Sorry. The following message should have been addressed to Penny rather than Bev.

Bev,
Do you have your garden? You really only need one or two farmers. Let all the others do research to get your points up. You can switch them out later to vary their skills. Keeping your population low until you know you have ample food is a good idea too. Once you can garden and fish again freely, breed all you want.

I am so upset. My villagers uncovered the mosaic and the elder who was carrying the final piece of the gong DROPPED DEAD! She's buried and the final piece of the gong is no where to be found. What should I do? Help Please SOS

OK, I've fully researched all the technologies now what the 3rd level buildig should do? I've
spended ALL of my tech points and please some1
help me how to win the game... some1?

hi, how can i get a man, all my people are femals

Can a villager become a master after he/she turns 50? I have two adept builder villagers who helped build the hospital, sewing hut, and are now clearing the vines. Their skill levels have not moved at all, despite the fact that they were already almost masters.

Thanks for any help!

HELP...SOS SOS SOS... The elder who was carrying the final piece of the gong DROPPED DEAD! She's buried and the final piece of the gong is no where to be found. What should I do?

THANK YOU!

Just wanted to thank you for all the tips. Have everything finished and now working on my ranking. I have worked hard and most of my people are now blonde, only one has black hair and a few have brown and red. LOL dont get me wrong I do have a life of my own, but had hand surgury and this was the only game I was able to play left handed for over a month. Once again thanks for you help.

Does this game actually end?
I mean can u actually win. I've done everything but am looking for 1 butterfly. Once I find it will the game be finished or am I wasting my time?

Well.. i took all 14 totems and put them on the mosaic and the missing piece returned! The gong is complete, all levels are complete... only a missing bug. Wonder what the future holds?

Dunno if anyone's already said this but if you fast forward time on your computer,(by right clicking on the time in the system tray and selecting 'adjust date and time') the game goes forward too. One real-time hour = one year.

I'd really like an actual answer to this question. I have seen numerous people asking it, but no one is actually giving an answer. The only puzzle I have left to solve is the gong piece in the middle of the mosaic. I have been trying for over a week now to get that particular piece. I have tried different totems. I have tried putting it in different locations on the mosaic; including the "off-center" locations some have suggested. I still do not have the gong piece. Do you need to have a certain number of totems? Or, do you need to use a specific type/color of totem? I'd really appreciate a REAL answer and not "just keeping trying around the center of the mosaic." Because, that is not working for me. Thanks for your time.

annoyed

In answer to your question the totem pole has to be place directly in the center of the mosaic after you have uncovered the mosaic not before. It will not work if the mosaic is not uncovered and it doesn't matter what color the totem pole.

I hope this helps

I have level 3 of Engineering and Exploration. I place a villager at the ancient ruins, but they are confused and need more research. What is wrong?

i solved all buzzels
what then is that will be the end of game
the game still running
is there is an end to the game
thanks

I only have one totem that I placed in the middel of the sun in the acient ruin. That way I got the gongpiece.

Ive solved all puzzels... fully researched everything in tech... now what??

Hey,
How do you carry on getting your Building status up, when theres nothing left to build? All houses are built so far, and all the vines are cut, so Im unsure how to get more.

Thanks

To get the final piece of the gong, the mosaic must be cleared first. Once this is cleared, drop a totem, doesn't matter which one, onto the center of the mosaic. I had to try a few times before it would take. This should do the trick.

How do i get my builder to make the scare crow? he keeps standing there shaking his head.. any ideas?

Yay! First esteemd elder!( sp ) He only 37 yrs. old XD

You can get tech pounts faster by watching your people at the research table,as soon as they get points thier hips move as soon asa this happens pick them up and set them down instead of haveing them stop and walk around between points. Repeat as long as you like.

I'm another one of those people that are having a problem with the mosiac gong piece. After the mosiac was finished being uncovered I didn't know it held a gong piece so I went on with my buisness and now it's not giving it up. I've put a totem all over it, I've put all three of my totems on it, I've put a totem for my one elder still alive and then dropped him on the mosiac and nothing. I'm at a loss. Oh and I've of course exited and restarted the game. Has anyone had this problem and solved it? Any ideas?

If you spent all your Tech. Points on Tech, and have everything on Tech, Besides changing clothes at the sewing hut, what can you use the Tech. Points for?

How do i get the tripplets?

Sarah, you need a master farmer to build a
scarecrow not a builder. Hope this helps

what does it mean when the gong grants vision and luck?

what is the gong for? what does it do?

HI GUYS I HAVE A PROBLEM, WHO CAN TELL ME STEP BY STEP HOW TO DO THE BEGINNING, BECAUSE I AM ALWAYS OUT OF FOOD (FISH, COCONUTS) AND I DON'T NOW HOW TO FIX THAT.

PLS TELL ME HOW

masterofnod, in the begigning of the game you just need to keep going, and trying to get food i havent found trick yet if there is one. What i do is i make my game paused unless i am watching it until i have a suficent amount of food

to masterofnod - The only way to keep your villagers from starving when you can't fish because of the algae and you have run out of coconuts and your crops haven't grown yet is to sit there and watch for every mushrooms you can find...get the children to pick them up.
I find a good way is to hold a child and continually pan around the village until one appears.
Because the mushrooms don't stay around for long you don't want to be searching for a child when you see a mushroom.
If you leave the game ..pause it...till you come back.
I have 4 villages and I haven't lost a villager to starvation yet.
If they do run out of food for a little while they won't starve, but they will get weak.
You can fully restore them by making a stew using herbs 3+3+6.

OOOH THX BUT I HAVE ONLY 1 THING TO ASK, I HAVE MY LITTLE FARM (CROPS) BUT HOW CAN I KILL OR DISAPEAR THE BIRDS, BECAUSE THEY EAT ALL OF MY CROPS.

BY THE WAY, I AM DUTCH SO MY ENGLISH IS NOT THE BEST ENGLISH YOUR EVER SEEN, I HOPE YOU GUYS UNDERSTAND ME :P

OOOH THX BUT I HAVE ONLY 1 THING TO ASK, I HAVE MY LITTLE FARM (CROPS) BUT HOW CAN I KILL OR DISAPEAR THE BIRDS, BECAUSE THEY EAT ALL OF MY CROPS.

BY THE WAY, I AM DUTCH SO MY ENGLISH IS NOT THE BEST ENGLISH YOUR EVER SEEN, I HOPE YOU GUYS UNDERSTAND ME

i have it to let the birds away. soorry for disturb you. :)

i have it to keep the birds away srry for the distrubing

for masterofnod - To keep the birds away you need an adept farmer or master farmer to make a scarecrow.
Take the farmer up near the top of the game where there are twigs and things in the area between the thorny bushes and the graveyard. Move the farmer around until he finds what he wants.
He will bring the twigs back to the crop field.
You need to take him back a second time to get the rest of the stuff to finish the scarecrow.
Hope this helps.

i have put the oldest totem on the center and it helped

i have put the oldest totem on the center and it helped

Hi, i dont know how to do the puzzle about the well. Can some one hurry and tell me? Thanx!

Hi ...

Can the Gong only be hit once, or can it be hit several times ???

After you hit it once ... how do you hit it again ??

I've hit the gong once, but now when I drag a villager over to the gong he/she just "admires" the gong. Is there something I am missing ???

Thanks for Replying.

To Simon C... you can only hit the gong once each day....you will be able to tell when it's ready to be rung again as it kind of sparkles when it's ready.
But when you ring it...it's not always nice to the villagers.

i went into menu & clicked the right button wich said something about fullscreen, my game disapeared, i cant get it back no matter what i do, it tells me its been terminated.anybody out there w/ a clue??????????????? tryed everything..........HELP

@mo - You took it out of full screen. To get your game back, you have to switch your computor settings to High Color 16 bit. Once in the game, you have to turn fullscreen back on for it to work on your other settings.

Now for my question. I just bought Level Three in Engineering and Exploration. When I put villagers onto the ancient ruins it said they were confused and additional research mey be required. I've tried several times, with several different villagers, but it still hasn't worked. I have completed the dam puzzle, as well as all the other puzzles aside form the Hospital(which I'm working on now), the Vine Wall, the Inlaid Gong Piece, and this puzzle, so it should work, but it isn't. Does anyone know what's going on or is there some requirement I haven't met yet.

Much love and thanks,
Indigo Socks

how do you get children to play ?

I didn't see this anywhere above, but I wanted to let everyone know that villagers eat at .3 food per minute (on normal speed). Take this into consideration when figuring out how much food you need and how big you want your village to be when food is scarce.

HI...I have been playing for almost 2 months with several times but finally the result is the same. The Inlaid Gong Piece is my last piece of Gong that I cannot get it. I tried to put the totem in the center of anceint ruin but nothing came out. WHAT SHOULD I DO PLEASEEEE. I just want to finish it!!!

How many players have the 51st elder totem? What was the Island event that made the extra totem?

Stuck at 50 totems,

Rose

HI again, My villagers only live to around the age of 78, is there a secret to keeping them alive longer? Their health is full, but they just die of old age I guess. Thanks

This is for all peoples that are having trouble with geting master skill in doctoring just make a stew with herbs 1+4+4 that makes your villger ill so your doc can heal the villger healthy again then have the villger eat the stew again then heal the villger with doc repeat tillskill bar full or you want to stop i hope this helps people.

BYE

I just started playing and so I only have fish as an option for food. Everytime I run out of food and my people die. Any tips. I have at least two people gathering fish but i can never keep up with the amount they eat and i dont have enough tech points to advance farming. Also where do we find mushrooms?

If you ever make a bad stew all you have to do is logout then log back n again then it'll be like you never even made the stew

Is there something I need to do different to collect all my collections.. I have all but one in one group and all but 2 in another group..and then in another group I need three..what can I do get these collected?

To help get one pecteculere person more skill in building have only one person build huts and fixing the hut so the villger gets more skill.
I hope this helps.

PEACE

how do you get more coconuts on the trees

hi there,

does anyone came to the same opinion:

as long as you do not increase your technical point over 11.000 or your food over 1.100, the sea will not be covered with alges.

mt

how do you get tech points and how do you get the thing at the bottom of the lake?

Ok so I'm having trouble like alot of other people. I have 4 esteemed elders and only have the vine wall and the inlaid gong piece to figure out. I can't seem to get my people to start digging out the mosaic in the ancient ruins. I have dragged villagers over there repeatedly....young ones, elders, trainee's, etc. None of them know what to do. I have everything fully researched except science and culture (1 more to go for each) Any suggestions? I get that you have to drop a totem on it once the mosaic is uncovered but I'm having no luck getting it uncovered.

Anyone?

This stater help first tech bought is farming used for farming coconuts then building then build damm (sorry if i miss spelled) also have 2 peoples research 1 farm.

I hope it helps

I found the black pot under the dried wood, but i thought it would show up by the fire and i cant find it now? Please help

Hey
I just started and im playing the online demo.
I cant get above the second level in science and farming, and how can i build the dam, it says that i should be able to but the engineering levels are not on the demo???

THERES NO MUSHROOMS NO COCONUTS CROPS HAVE 1239 MIN ANDYWATER IS POLLUTED AND TECH IS ONLT 13789

THERES NO MUSHROOMS NO COCONUTS CROPS HAVE 1239 MIN ANDYWATER IS POLLUTED AND TECH IS ONLT 13789 IS THEIR AWAY FOR OTHER FOOD

if you don't have anything build but need building master just fix huts

FOR ALL YOU TIME TRAVELERS MAKE SURE AT 11 PM TO GO TO NEXT DAY THEN GO 12 AM SO CROPS WILL GROW

hi,i have been playing vv2 for weeks now,however i have a problem.....my villagers are not getting their elder status or the totem poles.i have had several that have mastered 3 or more tasks but never get their totem poles then end up dying of old age. any help will be gratefully recieved.thanks

Wow WHAt A GaME NaKAKaBaLIw™%

on the online version it is impossible to get the first 4 challenges!!! because you can't buy engineering!! that makes me so mad!! :@

how long have you all been playing this game? and have you master the game??

what happens if your fire goes out? or if you run out of dry wood?

ok. i have this one guy who will "go indoors" with any girl exceot one and none of my ohter males will "go indoors" with her either, and she old enough to have kid but they males just wont "go indoors" with her!!.does anyone know what can help or why htis is. i really need kids orelse my village will fail! all my other girls died while nursing a baby so now she is the ONLY female and they still won't "go indoors" with her !! will my village fail or can anyone help?!?!!?!

who is Biggles is he from the other tribe that used to live there??????

he is a guy that will try and screw up your
research

Well I guess Im farther than any one i read about i have 105 villigars. people and kids are doing there own thing they are taking care of what needs to be taken care of .I finised all sixteen puzzles, I have all the collectables except one rare beetle. my question is when do I know that i have beat the game. Will there be a celebration or something? HELP.

HELP!

Every time I try to get my villagers to become a healer, it just says "These villagers are of the same gender!" or the two run away from eachother! Why does this happen and more importantly, how do I fix it???

(and yes, the villager I'm trying to heal IS sick)

Hi anyone can you tell me what happens when you have collected all the collectables? I have finished all the puzzles and rung the gong etc (when i rung the gong it made the ringer a master parent - result. Now have lots of little uns!)
Thing is, I'm getting really bored just panning around the whole time looking for collectables especially as I'm looking for some 'rare' ones so it's prob gonna take me ages...
Don't just say it's a nice surprise please say what happens!

to Deadaray - just try sliding the villager down on the sick one from the top...sometimes it takes a few goes before they will start healing the sick ones.
To Rose - one of my villages has 52 totems...I don't know how...maybe 2 villagers got their totems at the same time.
To all the other recent queries....all those answers have been given many times....just scroll up until you see the problem you need solved...it will either be in the hints and tips near the top of the page...or someone will have answered a question from someone having trouble.

I keep on putting my master scientist by the covered floor and it keeps on saying that they are confused and additional research may be needed

I keep on putting my master scientist by the covered floor and it keeps on saying that they are confused and additional research may be needed

to liss-
having all the collectibles in one category makes it so that your population max goes up by 5. so i think you can have a total of 110 people max instead of 90 people max if you have every single collectible. (I might have the numbers wrong).
Hope I Helped! :)

hello, i need someone to please tell me how to add irrigation to the dry soil??? i've had this game for 4 months now and i still can't figure it out.

What do I do when I have completed the gong and all the technologies to by and the puzzles?

Can someone please tell me how to open the wooden crate? Ik know I should have 3 Master Builders do it. I finally got them, now they openend the crate but keep saying 'retrieving a piece of the gong'. They say that for a few seconds and keep on doing the previous task. So no gong-pieve for me. What schould I do?
I keep on putting the masters on the gong at the same time, been doing that for 10 minutes now. They just won't listen!

WARNING! : Do NOT over fish the ocean at the start. If you do, You will be in a dire situation and in need of food. The result : Starved dead villagers!

how do you make the cutting tool ?!? i have all the techs and i can't figure out how to make the cutting tool!

please help =)

hey u r prolly noob salads at this game i liked the original better because mazy finds rusty tools

hey u r prolly noob salads at this game i liked the original better because mazy finds rusty tools

hey u r prolly noob salads at this game i liked the original better because mazy finds rusty tools

I have some problems!!!
i ask for someone to get the cauldron...(a adept scientist)
and one to get some shiny piece to make the 1st
step of cutting tools..
then i press alt+tab to see this webpage..
when i play the virtual villagers back,
i can't find my cauldron
where can i find my cauldron back??
i can't search it anywhere..

i have a seconds question..
after we create a stew..
how can we make the villagers to eat it??

hi,
i've completed all the puzzle.
i've ring the gong for a few times already

what happen now??

hi canez you need to get no. 2 on the engineering and build a dam.

ok, so I have completed all puzzles, been maxed out on population for like a week, have about 700,000 tech points, but I can't get any of my collections completed. I am constantly checking (as proven by my 400 mushrooms collected but I can't seem to finish the collections. Any tips?

hey how can i get rid of the algae on the ocean?

drag villager next to stew to make em eat it

Hello everyone!
I just wanted to give you all a little hint if your stuck looking for collectables esp rare ones! I think it is only fair you get the option to see
what exactly you are looking for! I have put in a
link to an image for anyone who wants to know
what all the collectables look like. I didnt want
to post the image incase someone doensnt want to
see!
This is a link to the image at photobucket enjoy!

[IMG]http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa179/juniperbugg/collectables_images.png[/IMG]

i keep putting the builder near the rocks but all they do is go in the pond
what am i suppose to do..? HELP! =)

what does irrigation mean and how do you do it ?

HELP!!! I have bought everything, solved all of the puzzles, i am at my max people of 90 and I have rang the gong a couple of times and I dont know what else I am supposed to do. I dont have everything for my collections yet but I dont think that matters right?? Does this game ever end or does it just keep going? Right now I have like over 2 million tech points and 500 thousand food...and nothing to do....what next???

HI EVERYONE,

CAN ANYONE TELL ME HOW YOU GET YOUR ELDER TO BECOME AN ESTEEMED ELDER???? I HAD 3 ELDERS IN MY GAME BUT THEY NEVER GOT ANY OF THE TOTEMS YOU ALL ARE TALKING ABOUT AND ONE OF THEM HAS DIED :(
HE WAS A MASTER BUILDER AND HAD OVER HALF WAY TO FARMER AND OVER HALF WAY TO SCIENTIST. I HAVE NO CLUE HOW TO GET AN ESTEEMED ELDER IT JUST SAID HE WAS AN ELDER. PLEASE HELP ME BECAUSE IM LOVING THE GAME AND FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND I HAVE TO HAVE AN ESTEEMED ELDER TO BE ABLE TO GET THE LAST PIECE OF THE GONG ON THE SOUTH SIDE WHERE THE ANCIENT RUINS ARE.

PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE IT ;)
THANKS
POOHBEAR

Hi poohbear. You have to get your villagers to master 3 skills to get them to be "Esteemed". I found that farming and research were pretty easy to master, then I tried parenting for the third and if its a female make sure she is over 50 then just keep dropping her on a male this took awhile but it worked. Good Luck to you.

Well, I've nearly finished. I only have 2 rare bugs to find. 8 of my people just built a raft and took off to find another beach. Not too sure what that's about. You have to wait an entire day, 24 hours, to ring the gong each time. I'm not too sure what that does either. There must be more to the game otherwise it would have said game over, or some thing. I'll just have to wait and see what happens.

thank you so very much ItsDaisy :) :) :) i got an Esteemed Elder by doing it like you told me!!! Now i just have to figure out what to do when i get level 3 exploration and uncovering the ancient ruins. Is it any villager that can do that because i know my esteemed villager will be dead by the time i get the tech points to get exploration lol. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP!

poohbear

Quote from pslms81

Has anyone gotten an extra box that comes up talking about a mirror and feeling a need to say a word? I had it and said 'geminus' and the villager saw an old man's face that faded away quickly. What happens when you say 'seminug?'

I tried seminug and it duplicated the person that found it... all I did then was rename the duplicate and wham had a new person that had the same age and skill lvl as the other.

HEY ALL,
I NEED HELP AGAIN :) FIRST OF ALL MY VILLAGERS GOT A HOSPITAL BUILT. I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH IT??? I DONT KNOW HOW TO USE IT OR IF IM SUPPOSED TO HAVE SOMEONE MASTERED IN SOMETHING TO LET THEM USE THE HOSPITAL OR WHAT?????? AND FEEDBACK ON THIS WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED !!

SECONDLY I HAVE ALL THE BUTTERFLIES ALL THE BUGS ALL OF THE SEA SHELLS BUT IM MISSING ONE ROCK!!!!!!!!

ITS THE FIRST OF THE RARE PEBBLES I HAVE THE RARE BRIGHT TURQUOISE, THE PURPLE WITH PINK STRIPES AND THE SHINY PINK ONE. I WAS WONDERING OF SOMEONE COULD ATLEAST JUST TELL ME THE COLOR OF THE PEBBLE (ROCK) THAT IM MISSING? YOU ALL HAVE BEEN A GREAT HELP ON HERE TO ME WHILE PLAYING THIS GAME AND I WANTED YOU ALL TO KNOW THAT IF YOU NEED CODES TO OTHER GAMES I HAVE LIKE 10 OTHER GAMES I HAVE BOUGHT AND WOULD BE GLAD TO SHARE CODES WITH SOME OF YOU.

THANKS AGAIN FOR YOUR HELP,
POOHBEAR

I NEED HELP !!!!
I GOT LEVEL 3 ENGINEERING AND LEVEL 3 EXPLORATION AND DRUG SEVERAL VILLAGERS OVER TO THE ANCIENT RUINS PLACE TO UNCOVER IT BUT NONE OF MY VILLAGERS WILL UNCOVER IT. I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO :( I WORK HARD GETTING ALL THE TECH POINTS TO BUY LEVEL 3 ENGINEERING AND EXPLORATION AND NOW IT WAS ALL FOR NOTHING!!! I EVEN PUT AN EXPERT SCIENTIST AND EXPERT BUILDER AND ALL OF MY PEOPLE NOONE WILL UNCOVER THE RUINS
PLEASE HELP ME !!!!! I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO NOW

THANKS SO MUCH
POOHBEAR

I just completed all of the puzzles and i was told that i would have to buy levels 3 of exploration and science to complete them and you don't have to do that. I used my tech points to purchase things in order of how thought the tribe would need them the most and i have already completed the puzzles. I still need to purchase exploration and science to finish my collections. I purchased all of the farming first to make sure my tribe stayed healthy and then engineering followed by culture. I have 90 villagers and i am going to continue to play to purchase what i have left and see the effects of the gong.

Heya,

Here's a tip to help your villagers become Master Doctors. It's a bit mean, but oh well... let's just call it 'for the good of the community' ;-)

Make a stew that makes your villagers ill: 1-4-4 was mentioned above, I think I used 2-2-6. Have some poor souls eat it, they get sick, your adept doctor will have plenty of people to heal and up the level goes!

I have a big problem....I only have 2 more females and they are over 50...what can I do? I want to have babies...someone help pls

Howdy! just finsihed the game great game. There is another stew that you can make that fully restores the villagers instead of just making them feel healthier THE STEW IS : 3+3+6.
Also now that I've got the 4 gong peices and all the collectables and learnt everything that I need to learn or and I've been able to ring the gong twice. WHAT DO I DO NOW? is this the end of the game cause I can't make anymore people I've reached maximum population. Please I'm stuck on whether to turn the game off and start again or can I get other things later on.

hi. I only have one villager left alive, what should I do?

HELP

I have bought Level 3 exploration and Level 3 Engineering but my villaers will not uncover the ruins. Help!

HELP!!!! PLEASE!! !i dont know what to do, I already posted but I need an answer quick. Is there anything I can do when I only have one villager alive?? Please respond.
A solution would be EXTREMELY helpful. I have worked hard on this game but I kinda forgot about it for a while. woops. My bad lol.
THANKS!
-ANNA

If you havent noticed, I thought I would mention it, children can heal sick people. They will gain this skill.

I have read this question over and over. How does the game end? or What do I do at the end of the game. How think about the name of the game: VIRTUAL VILLAGERS... there is only one end to the game, your villagers die, or you delete the village.

Once you have complete everything there is to do, then work on your stats. or start a new village, but dont just let the first one die, that would be cruel.

Just a hint to those who are planning to move the clock ahead. I have found that when you move the clock back, the time for the next crops get longer and longer. What I have found to stop that is.....before you move the time back, pause the game, close the game, then reset your clock, now reopen the game and unpause it, the time between crops should be normal. I screwed up and had it one time 467,923 minutes until the next crop. but because I can fish and have like 50 farmers, that isnt hurting me.

hi,

i read bout the raft. how does ur villagers build it? is it somewhere in the game?
i've max my villagers to 100. i've ring the gong more than 5times already, i have completed my butterflies and seashells. do i need to complete all the collections in order to build the raft?

Its been very helpful to read this list and I strongly suggest people read it BEFORE posting questions. The images of the collectible items was particular useful--thanks Junebugg.

It does seem to be important to collect everything. What I do is run VV off to the side of my computer monitor with the screen set on the area I need (e.g. ancient mosaic place for pebbles) and I do other work on the computer waiting for the gleam of a pebble to catch my eye. I'm sure I miss some, but it allows me to be productive and increase my chances of completing a collection. Apparently there is a conclusion but it requires all the technology AND all the collectibles.

Anna-the only thing that was suggested that might help was to hit control-alt-delete while quitting VV (see above) to reset the game to the last saved state. This did not work for me, but I have a mac. There are occasional events that bring new villagers to your island, but they are rare and random so you can't count on it happening before your one villager died. I lost an entire village by forgetting to pause one night.

hi all, i have been playing this gamefor abit, i got all the tech and stuff,and i keep reading about these totem poles,i have not got one yet, i was wondering what i was doing wrong. If you could point me in the right direction i would be so thank-ful.
monee

>Monee
You get a totem pole when a villager becomes a master in THREE skills.
Hope this helps

Also, thanks lyn for the advice, but unfortunatly it didnt work :(. Oh well, my villager is sick right now, so I dont think anything will happen to save my pitiful tribe.At least I had completed everything except for the collections. But i did not know that you had to drag a villager to the gong to play it. I thought I had to click it! Oh i wasted so much time! lol. I've had the gong for quite some time and never actually used it!
Yeesh

OKAY! I know I just posted. But , I still have one villager left. But she is not sick anymore. here is a tip to those who have sick villagers with no one to heal them.

> It takes a lot of trying, but I managed to get my villager to make the stew 3+3+6 , and it healed her completely. just a tip for all ya'll.

Cheno-there is no raft--its a wooden box on the shore-- all you need are three master builders to open it. This is described in the puzzle spoiler near the top of this list

Monee--you get a totem pole when one of your people masters three catagories. This is described in the puzzle spoiler near the top of this list. Several strategies for achieving this are also discussed in the list above

Alexandrea--women over 50 can sometimes have babies in this game, Keep trying (put them and the men on parenting and they'll keep trying for you) or hope that you get a barrel of three toddlers or the two additional explorers that sometimes show up.

Tanya--my villagers are uncovering the mosaic without level three exploration, but I do have level three culture-- and have removed the vines from the rock next to the dam. I think that's the key.

Now, everyone promise you'll READ THE POSTINGS BEFORE ASKING A QUESTION. You can do a search for a certain term if you're feeling lazy, but its really a worthwhile read if you want some great hints.

I've built all my huts, but my builders aren't masters yet. How do I make them become masters quickly?

I have 51 totem poles but i can not get any more I have had 3 or 4 people mastered and thwy never went into elders what is wrong

>Craaaazy, I dont think there is anything you can do to make your builders masters quickly,but I would suggest having them keep "fixing" the huts simply but placing them on the huts.And they will eventually become masters.

>Linda, I suppose that maybe 51 is the maximum totem poles, or even that you have "lost" or miscounted the poles around your village.Some of them can be hard to tell apart and you can easily miss them among a lot of poles.

I LOVE this game it is the best game ever made! If u need help I just beat the game. I will help you the best i can

Pooh Bear -- Your last pebble is gold. I need only the hot pink one.... 2 weeks and no dang hot pink pebble... any tips anyone?

I only have one beetle to go. So far the gong has given me: Health, Wisdom, Luck, Death and Food.
With Death, the person who rings the gong just
drops dead, right there and then. Again, more
villagers built a raft and took off for the
south shore. Also, I have four totem poles.

what do you do about the magical water in the lagoon?

heyy..

umm when can the villagers make a raft??? and does this game ever endd??

i have no food at all.. the coconuts hav run out and theres algea in the sea. thers 20minz until the crops grow wil the people last tht long?

i know how to cheat on this game go to www.timsvault.com and search on find it cheat o matic. oh and im really haveing a bad time how can my reasercher stay there shes always leaving and going to eat the stew i cant handle it oh and i love the first one better

hi i got 90 people all the gong pieces have rang the gong got some wisdom what happens next how do i know if i'm done? please help

hi tim37

how do ur villagers build the raft? i've been asking the questions for a few time. Lyn said there's no raft.

So i've completed all 16 puzzles, got all the technology, collected most items and now have to have more kids as only one left under 14, so now what?? will take me days to find the rest of the collectables cause i find it boring to just sit here and watch the villagers wasting time with tech, build and farming cause i don't need them to do anything but feed themselves and i have over 200,000 tech points and 12,000 food points already so bored and can't have the volume up to wait for the sounds of the collectables if i'm watching a dvd or tv, etc... bring on version 3!!!

Jesse - re your post "jessie at June 22, 2007 07:33 PM"

i went to tim's vault and the virtual villagers isn't even listed in the list of pc games - what gives??

I know I should have more elders. I went to the puzzle part then into the statistics and I'm number 12 and I only have 51 elders. I just wonder what is up with this it's not fun if you can't get the things you need to get ahead.

can any of u pls add me anucha2346@hotmail.com
i need to let u help and guide me

Have u noticed that if someone is sick u can drag a child on them and they turn into a apprentice docter. Keep draging the child onto the sick person until it says on action healing someone. Then go to the details screen (the same child)click on the box next to healing it should then have a tick in it. When you click done on skill it should have apprentice docter.
hope it works for you.

HOW DO YOU GET BEETLES

PLEASE HELP ME

hey ,,,

i'm bob ,,
i finished this game ,,
any questions :) i'm ready ,,

e-mail me toxiceye@hotmail.com
and i'm ready to answer any question ,,

At what age do the women stop having kids????

no noe as found out yet i have a women that is 53 years old and is still having babeis so you will have to wait for that one

Hi Cheno,
The raft is just something the game comes
up with, there's nothing you can do about it and
you don't get to see it. It takes 8 of your people
away to find another place and that's it.

what is a level 3 farmer? I am trying to get rid of the algea?

i have built like 3 normal huts, how do i built more??

Things just keep on happening, even after you've finished.
The other day, I lost 996588 tech points because
a parrot kept scaring the scientists. And today,
one of the villagers found a ball on the beach
which made her switch bodies with someone else.
I found out that she switched with a child and
still has her experience intact.

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU"VE

-solved all the puzzles, bought all the technology...
you could stop but there is more

You could give up and the game does change in pace and focus but if you want to keep on and discover the ending here are some things you can do to pass the time and keep things interesting.

Chances are you don' have all the collectibles--FIND THEM-- they increase your population AND seem to be linked to reaching the end. Most of us get stuck looking for a few specific rare ones-- Check out junebug's link to an image off all of the collectibles to identify the ones you don't have.

While you are waiting for your last pebble or bug to appear (keep clicking to zones 3 and 8 to check for them) You can...

Try to get more esteemed elders. It looks like the program only allows for 50 totems (some people report 51 or 52) but it also sounds like you still get credit on the stats for having more.

Once you have the puzzles and tech you'll have tons of food and tech credits raking up so you can do things like change their clothes to keep track of who is supposed to be doing what chore, and switching them once they become masters. (Its best to give the younger ones a bit of experience in several tasks because older ones don't learn new tasks easily)

Let the game play out-- random things that are not part of the puzzles happen: sometimes people come to the island, sometimes they leave, die, switch bodies, gain or lose tech or food points. You find out about these things in text boxes so other than occassionally making a decision, you don't actually put your villagers to work on anything else. These special events are random--there's nothing you can do to make them come except keep the game running and eventually something will happen

The pace of the game really shifts. You don't have target projects anymore and your villagers are pretty much self-sufficient so you can leave the game run longer. Check in every few hours to put villagers back on task (easy to do if they are color coded--just drag everyone in red to the research table etc), update clothing, make babies if some have died.

Do be sure to train several healers (definitely start children young on this-- they can become esteemed elders much faster) so sick villagers will be automatically healed while you are away

If you get to a point where you have too many adults and not enough children, you can kill off a few elders or stupid ones (I've had a few whose dislikes include "work") --use the 4+4+4 stew and force your victims to eat it repeatedly until they die. I find this grusome so I've only done it twice. Eventually your elders will die (the oldest I've had is 82--they get older) so if you can hold out its a little nicer.

Experiment with stews. There are 56 possible combinations (order doesn't matter) so keep track. You get credit for this in the stats

Be picky about who gets to procreate. Now that you have 90 or 100 or 105 villagers, most of them won't be parents. Choose a handful of (younger) women to become master parents and have them make a baby with an experienced, smart man. (You don't need to wait for them to actually go indoors. Just keep bumping them together until the population number increases by one--you can also see that a woman is nursing on her details screen before it appears in the game)

KEEP LOOKING FOR YOUR COLLECTIBLES!!!!!

one addendum--I should have specified that you get credit for finding a new stew RECIPE in the stats, not for every combination you try--there are many repeats. For example a lot of combinations make the villagers feel healthier-- they all count as one recipe. You get credit when you find a combination that has a different effect on them.

How much faster are tech points earned from Science 2 to Science 3?

Cheat O matic really works, I was skeptic at first.

Thank you to AvalonFox, that guide was perfect.

Now I can keep my villagers alive!

I have done all there is to do. All puzzles have been completed with no problems, for quite some time now. I am banging that damn gong every 24 hrs and all I'm getting is FOOD, NO FOOD, LUCK, ILLNESS, over and over and over again. Is the game over for me? I have plenty of people and tons of food - all set there. Now what. Is there a CAVE waiting to be found. Is there supposed to be a Golden Child in VV2? Can someone give me some answers here because I've been doing the same thing, which is nothing but pick up bugs, for weeks now. What am I missing, or am I done and should I start all over again. I am HOPING there will be some type of way to get to an undiscovered part of the island. Any help I can get will be welcomed completely! TRUST ME! Thanks for the help :)

So, I discovered something: If you have a male 18+ with the Parenting skill checked, he will automatically Embrace other females and produce male babies. And if you have a female 18+ with the Parenting skill checked, she will Embrace males 18+ and produce female babies.

This takes out some of the guesswork but keep an eye on the males with Parenting skills... unless you WANT all your females (18+) pregnant.

(Mahalo is a very busy boy, I left my game running for a few minutes while taking care of real life things and came back to find 7 new additions. D'oh! He didn't discriminate against age...)

Hey guys anyone have any tips on getting the collections i only need 4 more 1 for each box any tips

how come whenever i try to train a villager to b a farmer or scientist, the bar on the details screen fills up but when i clik on the person it say "untrained"? i dont no how to get any farther in the game without having anyone a master! i hav many villagers whos research and farming bars are filled but they r still "untrained"!

also... how do i train someone to be a builder? in my game the builder ages more slowly but wut happens wen he does die nd i hav no other builder.. i hav tried to train some more but it doesnt work! HELP!!!!!

how come the villagers tht im trying to train wont become a trainee? i hav so many villagers who hav researched and framed so much tht wen i go 2 the details screen, the bar in tht subject is full but they are still "untrained"...

also... how come wenever i put someone in the ocean to fish, they cant.. the algea isnt appearing but my villagers still wont fish.. i nee an answer to both questions but the fishing one can wait a little while bc my villagers keep finding crates and sacks filled with food

nd another thing.. do you hav 2 hav the desktop version to make more huts bc i hav 18 ppl nd the 1st hut tht u hav 2 build nd the one u hav 2 repair but there is no place where i can build another hut... nd i cant make any more babies bc there isnt enough housing

HHHHHEEELLLLLLPPPPPPPPP MMMMMEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

TIP on FOOD: If it's taking forever for your crops to grow & you are running out of food or have no food, put the game on pause and then wait for a mushroom to come on screen. Then Put a child over the mushroom and then unpause the game. Keep on doing this until you have about 24 or more... then start making the stew using 3+3+6 (completely restores all villagers). When this is done. Keep putting ALL of your villagers over the stew simultaneously... the stew won't run out if you do this, until you feel you are safe for them to roam about until you make your next stew... All you need is 10 food points to make a stew, but I would wait until you have 24... so you have enough to make your next stew. And then you can continue doing the same... pause the game and then wait for a mushroom to appear, sometimes the "collectibles" will appear too... so it is very useful. It will take time, but by doing this, I prevented myself from having to start over the game. I ended up with 100 food from 0 & even with 700 minutes left until the next crops (350 if I have it on 2x) I still managed to survive this endeavor!

hi uhm. ive
finished all the puzzles,
and bought all the tech
and now im just messing around to
figure out what happened
but uhm my question is
i though the max population was like 120
but i have 90 and it says theres not enough houseing
but it doesnt show a work site for a new house
anywhere on the island!!!

Georgia
You need to complete the collections to get more population. Each set you complete adds another 5 to your maximum population.

Hi, I am new to this game. How do i get some one to become a healer? I had my master builder build the initial hut and repair the one that was there. What should the builder do now?

Love the game!

I have a swarm of dragonflies over my pond and the option of either ignoring them or chasing them away. I know from experience that it is not always the obvious response that gets the best result in this game, so if anyone has faced this dilemma already, I would really appreciate your input. Thanks.

This is a fantastic game, and this resource of all you other players is just wonderful. Thanks for all your help. I have read nearly the whole page, and you've all helped me heaps. Especial big thanks to those of you who walked me thru the cheat o matic. That made it much easier. I'm a single mum with twins, and don't have time to sit around getting tech points and food (although I am sick with the flu this week - I hate winter!)

One of my villagers just had the opportunity to wish upon a star, and the choice of whether to wish for himself or the village. I chose the village, and he was rewarded with 2639 Tech Points (which I don't need as I cheated and have 1000s!) I wonder what happens if you choose the other option.

Also, all the people who don't read the posts before they post make it a much much longer page than necessary -- harder then for everyone to read. PLEASE DO A LITTLE RESEARCH FIRST -- EVEN IF IT'S JUST READING THE TOP OF THIS PAGE. THANKS (It is actually quicker than posting and waiting for a reply -- I know because I was guilty of this once myself, although I had read almost all of the page first).

I've reach level 3 of Engineering and Exploration, so I dragged a villagers to the 'an ancient covered floor' but it shows me 'additional research may be necessary'. Even I dragged a Esteemed Elder to uncover the ancient floor but the same case happened. Can anyone tell me what should I do?

I've reach level 3 of Engineering and Exploration, so I dragged a villagers to the 'an ancient covered floor' but it shows me 'additional research may be necessary'. Even I dragged a Esteemed Elder to uncover the ancient floor but the same case happened. Can anyone tell me what should I do?

Erwyn, I have seen that thing fly by in the top left corner. I'm just dying to know what/who it is. I wonder if it isn't the children's "guardian" that the game tells us disappeared...

I've reach level 3 of Engineering and Exploration, so I dragged a villagers to the 'an ancient covered floor' but it shows me 'additional research may be necessary'. Even I dragged a Esteemed Elder to uncover the ancient floor but the same case happened. Can anyone tell me what should I do?

Hotty,
On the details page, click on the skill you want for the villager. A check mark should appear, then the villager will reflect the level of training in that field.

how to solve the second puzzel .. i tryed to drope the builder but i can't.. what to di please help me..??

Hello,, I have 13 villagers and I run out of food and tech points all the time,,Help me please... I am now at 65000 points and I can't seem to get 90000... Is there a solution to gain food ans points faster. Thanks to all..

tell me how to get skills to go up higher faster

OMG ! I opened the crate on the beach and when one man was holding a piece of gong I took a girl on him ( BY ACCIDENT ! ) and now I don't have this piece of gong! Can I do something? I don't want to start over :/

Okay I'm so upset with this game. I can't decide whether to say screw it or not. Last year I got all the way to the end of the game, and then it mysteriously disappeared from my screen about the time when my husband cleaned the files out of the computer. So now its a year later I have repurchased the game, begrudgingly, and I am at the end. I have 50 totems. I didn't get all teh collectibles, but they have slowed and almost aren't coming on the screen anymore. I can't even make anymore esteemed elders. they just become three masters and its left at that. So now its more than 24 hours that I can ring the gong. I am so frustrated, I want to pull my hair out. Im ready to throw in the towel. I am short by 4 collectibles two butterflies and one rock, one seashell. And I am just spinning my wheels going in circles I just want it to end. It could be weeks before my collectibles come across at thsi rate. I am just so in need of help. I don
t see anyone saying how to really solve this so I am confused. frustrated and upset. help.

Haha ! I have this piece of gong, it appeared when I opened the game again. ;] What a relief... :P

As far as I can tell, the thing that flies past in the top left of the screen is nothing more than a bird. You can see the colour red, if you're quick enough. All I need is one more bug. My current population is 106.

Hello all

Can someone please tell me how can they get triplets?

and,
which herb is which number?

please reply asap thank you :)

happy gaming

what is the cheat for gaining tech points? I only have one level in exploration and science.... and it's starting to take way too long to get points

OMG, I have solved all the puzzles but 14th. When I my esteemed elder is holding the gong piece and heading to north center he suddenly go for 'fixing hut', the gong piece was just disappeared. Can I try on another esteemed elder to retrieve the gong piece again?

hi how to make twins or triplets babies and can i have teh cheats pls. thanks

Pinky--yes, and if it doesn't appear try quitting the game and restarting

fff and minal-- you get the ability to have multiple births by buying medicine tech points but you can't control when it happens after that point

mional--the numbering system is provided in one of the first posts it starts in the upper left hand corner of the screen and moves clockwise

the cheat info is all provided here--scroll back and read it or go to the top and search for "cheat"

I was just about to answer all those questions, but you beat me to it Lyn. Guys, all of this info is already available. How about you familiarise yourself with this great site and everyone's already shared knowledge before you panic and post?!

I thought some of you might be interested in some of the random event answers I've gained, so here goes:

Sometimes one of the females decides she's the prettiest girl in the village: If you "All agree", she will end up disliking work and learning. Not a good thing. If you tell her looks aren't anything she gets over it and gains parenting tech points.

Someone wants to prove they're the fastest runner. If you "Let her race everyone", s/he will trip and lose and not enjoy running anymore. The other option is "Agree she is the Fastest", and I don't know the outcome.

If a small, thick canvas sack appears on the beach you can open it (full of mice who bite your villagers and make them sick -- great if you want to improve a doctor!!).

Sea birds who are laying fish along the salty rocks, I chose the Taste Fish option, and gained 300 food.

The shiny opaque ball. I gave it to the kids and they play with it for a bit and then lose it.

A mysterious vial half-buried in the sand on the beach. If your villager drinks it they will lose some skill points.

The vial of orange liquid however will make them improved at research.

And the "compromised sack" will make some of your villagers sick, but will also give your village 1000 tech points.

Hope this helps

Hi everyone !
can u please post the cheats here
and can u tell me how to make triplets or twins
and i don't have anything to build already...please tell me what to build
thanks

Jack-- please scroll up and read this list before asking questions that have already been answered here multiple times. Theres so much useful information it is well worth your time. My last posting is only one or two messages behind yours and answers two of your questions.

My new policy is only to respond to questions that are new or unusual.

DOES PICKING UP COLLECTIBLES TRIGGER MORE TO APPEAR?

Like many people I'm searching for that last collectible, in my case the gold beetle and the purple pebble. I think I've noticed a pattern where if I haven't played for a while it takes a long time for anything to appear but if I start picking up whatever appears (almost never what I actually want of course) then they appear more quickly. Has anyone else noticed this? Does picking up collectibles trigger them to appear faster? That might explain the slow down some people have complained about.

I've been reading about the cheatomatic in some posts, but no one explains how it works, does anyone know?

TO Lyn
hey the twins or triplet ain't
workin i alredy got evrthin solved all puzzles nad alredy have a hospital it still ain't working man

and u know what u guys didn't post cheats at all u guys jus say that there is chats and send to mail why don't u post it here

Lynn I agree with your comments, it's becoming a real drag seeing the same questions asked over and over again.
Folks please read through the srategies and answers to questions before posting a question.
And as far as wanting the cheats.....the idea of a game is to have fun, and it's far more rewarding if you manage to solve the puzzles without cheating.

when the villagers are clearing the briars or removing the vines or unearthing the mosaic do they become good at anything, like building or do they remain as they are?
thanks
M.

THE CHEAT...

http://downloads.vnunet.com/download/tips+tricks/cheat-o-matic/_344.html

FOR THE LAST TIME.

(1) Go to this website. Download Cheat-o-matic. (It is free, safe, bug-free.)

(2) In the Cheat-O-Matic window, you will see a drop-down menu.

(3) Select Virtual Villagers: the lost children.

(4) In the Search area, if you want to change your tech points or your food amount, look inside the game and see what number it shows you. **Do not pause the game while you are hacking the numbers.**

If your FOOD shows 100 (or whatever amount you have, whether it be 0 or 366), type in that amount in the Search field.
**You have to do this so the hack program can see the number it has to change. Make sense?**

NOW... after you have entered the food (or tech) amount in that Search field, hit Search.
NOW... wait for that food (or tech) amount to change automatically in the game, like when someone eats something or if they find a mushroom. Type in the NEW number into the Search field.
This is why you cannot pause the game during this hack, the hack program has to recognize which field has changed. Understand?

NOW... you've entered the new number into the Search field and hit Search. If all went well, it should show "CHA-CHING" in the screen. If not, don't panic. Just change the number in the Search field that corresponds with the amount that YOU SEE in the game AS IT CHANGES.

EXAMPLE: You see Food: 10 .. you type it into the Search field in Cheat-O-matic. Hit Search.
Now you see: Food: 16 ... type that number into Search field in Cheat-O-matic. Hit Search.
Do this a few times until it shows CHA-CHING in the Cheat-O-matic window.

NOW... type in the amount you want to change it to, whether it's 10,000 or 45,000.. hit the "GET" button. Look in the game. It will be changed for you.

FOR THE LAST TIME, SO NOBODY HAS TO ASK ABOUT THE CHEAT AGAIN.

There are no CHEATS, it's a cheat PROGRAM.

Google search Cheat O matic

ok im trying to get 2 ppl 2 breed but i cant get a kid and theyve gone indoors lik 15 times already. wat do i do?

uhm. so ive finished all the puzzles and techs.
but im stuck in the same place becasue i dont get any new collectibles
and i just want to know
if ill ever get to findout the end
because im tired of the game
is there anyway to cheat and get all the collectables
or learn what happened with tofo and
all that

So far no one has found a way to cheat about finding the collectibles, or other things that are random in the game (like when you get twins or triplets, or when certain "events" like the raft happen.) And if you have solved all the puzzles already there is really no point to cheating by changing the food and tech points--those just rack up and up and up after that anyway. These things are programmed with some logorithmic "randomness". So, Jack, as I said: you get the ability to have multiple births with tech points but you cannot control when and how often they actually happen. There is nothing you can do to make it happen. Just keep playing and eventually it will.

Similarly, there is nothing you can do to make the collectibles you need appear when you want them. I've already posted suggestions for things to do to pass the time and keep the game going while you are looking for your last few. But it takes a long time and requires patience. (I finally found my gold bug last night and now just have the one purple pebble to go!) Other people (just a few, early on) have described what happens after that in vague terms or given their e-mail address offering to answer questions. So we know that something happens.

Well, it finally happened, I found the last bug.
Now I have all the collectibles and all puzzles solved. I've reached maximum population, 115, even
though 120 should be the number but there isn't
enough housing. I guess the only things I need to
do are, keep collecting mushrooms, keep trying for different stews and keep ringing the gong every
day. Personally, I don't think this game will ever end and if it does it will be time related.
Does anyone know where all of the statistics are
sent for updating? There must be some sort of database somewhere?

how can i make a scarecrow?

how can i make a scarecrow. the birds ar eating the crops.

hey i just wanted to know how to build more huts cuz i havent seen any huts being constructed lately do i have 2 have a larger population?
or do i just drag a builder along the island so he can tell me what he sees?

ok i need to HOW to read the markings under the vines PLEASE help me!!!!!!!!!

Melanie
The Vine Wall
Along the east wall are a number of vines that conceal some strange markings. To uncover these, you must first complete the cutting tool and purchase Level Three Culture. Drag a villager to the wall and release them. They will use the cutting tool to remove the vegetation.

on my statistics it says my ranking 4 highest population is 999 and i have 100 population whih is max so i thought anyone get higher and how do u do it?

I have a population of 90 and it says that there isn't enough housing but where else is there to build?

what happens after you ring the gong and how long is a game day?

I've solved all 16 puzzles, collected everything, and keep ringing the gong. After collecting the gong piece from the lagoon, I noticed the water is considered "magical". Does this have any bearing on the game or just a "white herring"? I'm wondering if this game is over or should I keep playing. I have 115 villagers and a bounty of food and tech points. So now I ask myself, and you, "Should I stay or should I go?" Please reply if you dare;-o)

I have three master builders but do not kno how to let them open the crate. When i drag them to the crate it says they r confused. What shud i do.Plz help.

i've found that even if u have algee and the birds are attacking ur crops that u can still carry on without the scarecrow and without ur villagers dying. ths is because when u pause it the collectables still appear so if u pause it and wait for amuchroom and then get a kid to collect it then u can built up the food in the storage until uve got enough to carry on with them dying.

Whew.. I thought it was funny to read all the comments from the start... espcially since ALL of the questions was answered within the 10-20 first posts... amazingly how imbecile people is to read and instead post a new ALREADY answered question... LOL...

Why do people need to cheat in this game? thats hilarious...

This game is just like the first "never-ending"..

Love it..

I have all the gong pieces except for the one in the ancient ruins. I have 2 elder totem poles and have put it in the middle of the ancient ruins once it was uncovered and no gong piece is appearing. I have tried both totems, placed the totems all over the ruins and still no gong piece is appearing. Is there something else that needs to be done? Do you have to purchase all the levels or is something wrong with my download. I have started all over and replayed the game to this point again and again, the gong piece is not appearing for me. Do you have to do the puzzles in order? Can anyone help????

Deb,

I purchased the exploration tech piece prior to locating the last piece of the gong in the center of the mosiac.

Mona

my sewing hut isent appearing. i bought level two culture but its still not there.

I have all the tech points, put the totem pole in the middle of the ancient ruins and still no 4th gong piece. This is my 2nd time trying to get the 4th piece this way since I've started over from the beginning again. I did all the puzzles except for this last piece. I didn't do the puzzles in order should they be? Why isn't this piece appearing now in my 2nd game? Could something be wrong with my program? Can someone please help?
I wrote to Bigfish and they're no help.

To make the women have triplets, try lining up 3 men and put her with each man once, quickly. I just did this with 2 women and now they both have triplets. You need to use 3 different men, or it won't work.

Hi,

I have read all the answers to the next question but non of those things work in my game. I looking for the last gong piece hidden in the old ruins. I have several totempoles and i have put them over and over in the middle but no gong piece. So what now??????????????????????? Is this the end of the game for me? I solved all the other puzzeles and also my techs are all done. So can someone give me an answer that is not up here and that works?

Wow, Narfen, a little judgemental, eh? are you the smartest person ever??

Hi everyone,
i went through all the posts and have not found any info on the well. Is there a well? i have all the tech and stuff, is it the grey thing by the dam?and if yes then what do i do with it? thanks very much,
monee

Hi all, i was just wondering where the well for drinking water is? is it the grey looking tube by the old ruins, please reply asap. thank-you for ure help... great game!!!
From Monee

Monee--do you mean puzzle ten? The image when you click on puzzles for that one looks like a well before you solve it but it is actually the hospital. (This is the third image on the third row) Details on solving all the puzzles are all laid out early on in this posting. I have been playing the game for months, solved all the puzzles etc and haven't seen any hint of a well. Anyone else?

Kimmy-- you need the right tech levels in addition to having three master builders. See the same early posting I refered Monee to for details

Lyn

I've discovered by accident that there is one person who will give the children lessons. She just happened to be a master scientist but I don't know what other qualifications she needed. She doesn't tell stories, she just gives lessons.
Anyone else know about this?

I have no idea where the beetles are!!! and the pebbles barely ever come up! How long does it take to clear up the patch of thorns?

PLEASE HELP!!!! **Danielle

My kids are getting lonely!!! how do i stop this?!

**Danielle

Ok, I have started the game over, got all the puzzles again except for that 4th gong piece in the middle of the mosaic again. I place the totem in the middle and that piece will just not appear for me. This is the 3rd time trying from scratch and the same thing keeps happening. I have all the tech levels, the esteem elder totem, I have done all the puzzles except for this last #16 one. Am I leaving something out to do for this piece to appear? I am about to give up on this game. It's not working for me. Please, can someone help? I'm ready to give up and uninstall it.

Well guys, I got the 4th gong piece. The problem WAS with my download. I googled till I found the solution at ldw.com the makers of the game you see when you first start the game. Under support send them your problem and they will email instructions There is a bug in some of the games bought. Just thought I'd pass this along to people who are having the same problem. Good luck and have fun!

NO ENDING FOLKS. There's another helpsite at Last Day of Work Games. One of their FAQ is Is there an ending to the game?

Here's the website's answer:
"Virtual Villagers, like all of our real-time games, is designed to be open-ended. Each game has clear goals, but the games can continue to go on and allow you to play as long as you like. The Island Events will continue to occur, and there are some events that only occur very late in the game, which can dramatically change the way things are going for your villagers. Your villagers can bang the gong once a day, which will sometimes produce unusual effects. You can also try to get a high score in our online Leader Board page (see the link, below). Once you feel you have accomplished everything in your current game, you can do like most people do and play the game again on different settings and/or try different strategies."
http://www.ldw.com/support/faq.php?game=3&platform=10&f=8&q=480#answer

how do you stop the birds from eating your crops ?

I have tried to read most of the posts, but cannot sit through reading all of them (I'm new to this page). Sorry if I repeat something. I realized an interesting thing that you can do to your tribe. If you change the date/time of your computer, the village progresses to that time in the future. Be careful, as people get old fast, die easily, and you can lose your tribe rather easy. But, you can speed up building/farming/tech points.

THanks for that infomashion. i wuz vary help. taks. i lorv yoo

This is totally cool. i can't even belive it! it helped me sooo much! OMG! thnks!

IS ANYONE GONNA HELP ME?!?!?!

Is there going to be a third Virtual Villagers game? I've played the first two over and over and I'm ready for a new one! Does anyone knwo?

Hey ... one question ... (sorry if it's repeated at all, I quickly browsed posts cuz I'm trying not to cheat this time around ;) ) ... anyone know how old the females have to be to start parenting/mating??

TIA :)

PS I HEART THIS GAME!! I'm SO happy the 2nd one came out (i'm a little late LOL)

Tia ....your villagers can begin parenting at 18.

Tweak...if you place a villager who's skill is set to parenting, amongst a few children, he or she will either tell a story or teach the children. Their parenting skills improve as they do this.
It is a good way to get those over 50 to become master parents.

Danielle, these questions have all been answered already. Wouldn't it have been quicker to read the postings?

I have solved all the 16 puzzles,got all the colectables and retrieved all 4 pieces of the Gong.Then is the game finished?

I already figured out the questions

I found another stew that is not listed. 1-5-3. This is "the stew is very,very spicy"

Is it worthwhile to have skilled parents be the ones to produce babies? Does it matter? Does it make having a kid more likely? Or is it just another skill you can use to make a villager into a "wise elder"?

Did you know:
If you train a healer, you can make them do other skills (of course). Here's the kicker-People trained and checked as primarily healers seem to learn other crafts faster? It's just a trick to get more Elders faster.

HELP?!!
I have 50 totems and four or five people who have mastered three skills and no totems for them!
Is there a limit for how many totems you can recieve? Someone anyone, help please!!!!

Here are some special events I ever experienced.

Villager found some orange liquid. Drink it or pout it. Drink it, and the adults become master in which skill set for him/her. Children become apprentice. Popoko become apprentice scientist but must wait till adult to work.

Children like to play building and architect (forgot the exact sentence). Should parent let them apprentice to work or jsut let them play. Let them play, and Popoko become apprentice builder.

heres a tip for faster research & food at the start of game. 1)when u see a mushroom or collectible item pause (spacebar) then put every child on that item, trust me it works the more kids on the item the more it duplicates,(i put 15 kids on 1 rare item and got 15000 tp). 2)dont worry about spending all your TP on little things like the coconuts or building get 10000 saved up and buy the science tech first off so you will be faster at getting the tp. 3)set all your villagers in 1 area u need most whether tech,building,or farming(i usually put all my adult villagers building houses for more pop.then max out the pop.)just keep remembering to use your kids and repeat over. thanks hope this helps some of you new people.

I am having trouble collecting tech points - I amdefinately not getting the points suggested in above comments. I only ever seem to get 100 for a common item but nothing for rare or uncommon items. It is making it very slow to get tech points. Can anyone help?

to jonny41177:
You only got technical points for duplicate item in your collection. New item got no tech point.

When the field still growing, put as many as your villagers in the field for planting crops. It's the easiest dan fastest way to develop farming skill. But you must keep watching them because they would suddenly run to fishing. Just put them back to the field. If you run out of food, set the difficulty to easy. Pause the game. Let the game play only if you find any collectible or mushroom. It works for me. My villagers even don't consume any food during the growing time. My food stick even higher than before cropping.

to jonny41177:
The duplicate-children-collectibles doesn't work for me. Dunno why.

Really enjoy VV2. I like the specal events doing. If I picked the wrong answer, I quit from the game by ctrl+alt+del, turn the clock back for 3-5 minutes, and got the new special events.

Hope there will be more special event in VV3. How about once event in a year, somekind like new year celebration.

you can get things to move quicker (tech, building, completing a puzzel, ect.) by taking your clock on your puter and advancing it by a day while playing but be careful it ages your villiages a lot so have all your girls nursing and plenty of food before you do this you can kill all your villager of old age this way or starve them

We have a master farmer and have plopped him into the pond to catch an algae eating fish. But he hasn't caught one yet and the ocean is full of algae....what to do? Help!

for penny-- hit the space bar to pause the game and drag as many children as you can to the item, then unpause it. This racks up a whole lot of points!!

terrie-- it takes several drops into the algae water then back to the pond. Stick with it!!

how long does it take for the dam to be finished on 2x speed

i would say that it takes at least a few hours to complete the dam. but i was making a stew and the girl tryed it and got sick. How do i get rid of the stew before my whole village gets ill?

how do you teach your people to hunt? do they hunt? im not so sure. there is soooo many questions for everyone i really dont know where to start...

-sadandbored

So how do you make the 'special' stew? like the 4+6+6 thing. i really need help.. Someone replie!!

man i can use this!

I really need help here.

how do i get coconuts?? someone please tell me

someone please help!!! how do you get coconuts???

drop the farmer on the tree in the middle, it will say this villager is trying to learn, it may take a few tries.

thanks for the tip!!:D

Does completing the inlaid gong piece puzzle consume the elder totem?

When my villagers are nursing, each game minute on the nursing timer is really about a minute and a half. This doesn't seem like much extra, but the villagers nurse for hours and it adds up. Any ideas?

Anyone out there know how to make triplets.
Thanks

HI Terrie
Triplets is a random event -- you can't influence it. Sorry :)

This site has been loads of help ! The first time through, I had such sweet villagers who starved to death because I didn't know about the scarecrow.
The second time I found this site and saved the day and taught me so much that I didn't know.

Ive been wondering does anyone know what is the deal with the laundry? I've had them drop loads of laundry because I needed the villagers to be doing something else.

Is there any purpose to doing laundry or do they just do it when bored?

If you find a small burlap sack-DO NOT open it,it killed all of my children =(

I think this game is great and so exiting [three pieces of the gong!] and i've only got one question: i've got the under water gong peice, the thorne bush gong peice and the craete gong peice. How do you get the forth gong part??? please tell me!!!

Has anyone else maxed out their Village Elders and totems at 50? Once I reached 50 elders, the totems stopped showing up and my people stopped being labeled as elders. They just become Masters in 3 different skills.
Also, after a while the headstones stop showing up and I can't tell which villagers have died.
Has anyone else experienced this issue?

Hi Britt
50 is the max number of elders, although some have experienced a glitch in the system and acquired more (I got 52 before the totems stopped appearing) -- you can't do anything about that, that's the way the system is designed. The same is true of the graves situation. You get so many, and then no more. A
By the way, all of this info has already been posted numerous times. It takes longer to put in a new post, wait for it to go online, wait for a response, than it does to skim-read the site to find the answer to your problem. This is a brilliant resource for us all, why not use it to its (and your) best advantage?
Last Day of Work (the creators of VV) also have a website with lots of info -- the link is further up this page. Cheers.

how do u make twins nd triplets?plz help..!!!

A tip for those starting out.
Don't spend tech points on level 2 farming straight away.
Get the 5000 tech points needed for engineering first, then you can build your dam.
The coconuts will still be there to harvest while you are waiting for your crops to grow.
Pause your game and put as many children as you can on a mushroom or a collectible. They may not all be successful, but you are guaranteed more than one of each.
I've had 15,000 points several times by putting a lots of kids on the rare collectibles.
But a warning, if you only have a couple of kids, don't waste time searching for them all or you you will miss out, even if you pause the game as the collectibles and mushrooms will disappear.

Um...Does everyone making comments actually know how to READ? People keep asking things that have been answered a million times in the comments and the actual article. I've read "can u help me with the puzzles" a zillion times, and if people would look, it is written in the comments about 8 times, and in the article. This is somewhat annoying.

I've finished all the puzzles with number 2 exploration and science, I've found all my collections, I have 92 villagers and I've rung the bell twice thanks to this site.

I still do have a few questions which I haven't seen answered after reading all the comments and directions on the site.

1. Is there any reason to buy 3rd level exploration and science except just to have it? I bought the 3rd level exploration after I rang the gong and haven't found anything hidden or noticed more collections.

2. What's with the laundry?

3.How many living huts can a village build ? I have 3 and 92 people . I'd like to have 4 to give more building experience. I've had my villagers multiplying like bunnies, but still no new foundation.

4.Why are doctors so damn lazy? I've yet to have one make it to master.

5. Can you ever use the hospital?

Thanks for the help!

I forgot two more question I had.

Is there any skill benefit to making soup? Does the person gain healing skill?

Has anyone else noticed that changing a persons skill sometimes makes them lose proficiency in his/her first chosen skill? I had people who were masters and changed their skill so they could become elders more quickly and then they turned to adept levels in their first skill so I had to go back and retrain.

ok how in the world can you get 95 or w/e people? i only have 10 and they are sooo wimpy. what do i do with them when i am trying to save up my tec points? and i have another question:

How can i find this dead body? how do i burie it? 4+6+6 what color plants are needed for that? And when i get bored is there something i can do? When can the hospital get built? How do i use the hospital?

-HELPMEEEE

please help me what colors are 4+6+6?

so i have this question how do u find the dead guy
please help

Thanx everyone im still havent finished the game but i love it although sometimes i worrie that my villagers are gonna die when i have no food but not to worrie i have 14000 n summat food now hehe x

OK WHAT IS 4+6+6!!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP!!!

Thanks to everyone who asked the same questions over and over and over and over and over.

Maddy
PLEASE please please read the posts on this page! The answers (all of them) are already here. It will really help you with your entire gameplay, there is even a cheat for food and tech points if you're interested, but you HAVE TO read!!!! Relatively close to the beginning of this page is a list of the Herbs (and their corresponding numbers). 4+4+6 is the black vine above the waterfall (twice), plus the big orange flower at bottom of screen. Maddy, you're driving us all nuts. I'm guessing you're very young. Please take some positive action for yourself, and help yourself (by reading these posts), instead of mindlessly asking for help which has already been given. You might even find that you feel good about yourself if you learn to do things by yourself at least sometimes!

booknblues- answer to #4 to advance you're healers you need to have them study the plants(ingredients for stews) those plants give you're healers experience!!

booknblues- to retrieve the rest of you're houses you have to obtain stuff with you're tech points. I think there are 6 buildings!

little stew tip: 3*3*6 this stew completely restores you're villagers!!

hey my name is lauren and i loooveee this game!!!! i pretty much got t down so if anyone would like some help just ask me and i will do my best.

I cant seem to get any elders. I know they have to be masters in 3 different areas but it seems I never have enough time. By the time they master 2 skills (and I make them stay at something constantly until its mastered, no playing for them!) they are too old to get a 3rd mastered skill. At what age do they stop learning? Once my guys seem to hit around 50 they dont advance anymore. I need an elder so I can get the totem and the last gong piece.

Hey I have a young villager that doesn't say "Hey" when you pick her up. She just hums. Anyone else have one like that? Does it mean anything?

Does ANYONE know if there will be a Virtual Villagers 3? I've played the first two over and over and would love to be able to look forward to a new one.

Brandy, Thanks. I was commenting that my doctors never seem to like to stay with a task. I did with much vigilance finally get a master doctor. She is in her 70's and finally made master.

I have the research building, the love hut, the sewing building, the hospital and three huts to live in. Nothing more comes up and I've invested in all the tech I can. I maxed out my population at 115 to see if I would be able to build more...

Now I have a pretty unmanageable population.

Mich, I find that getting elders is tough as well. You really have to focus on getting them to stay on task and they do seem to slow down after age 50. But keep them on task and you will do it. I was thrilled when I got my first elder.

My villagers made a stew that makes everyone allergic. How do the stews go away? Help! :O

I really want to buy Virtual Villagers The Lost Children!!!!!!! It was so fun when I dowloaded it. So much better than the first one. But playing online limits you to only earning farming and science points. So know I really want it! But my mom says that once you buy it you might get a virus. Or big fish could use our credit card numbers. Is this true???? If so, is there a place to buy it safely?????

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥OnE bOrEd pErSoN♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

i have finished them all without using cheats

Is there a cheat o matic for mac? I downloaded it and I cant seem to get it to work on a mac

well i've been trying to make a scarecrow to save my crops but it says something about a sharp tool and then my adept farmer walks away, anyone got any ideas on what happened?

hi

umm what happens if you cant complete all of these activites/challenges because you have downloaded it from the internet that only has a 1 hr version ?? plz help ??

I've made a stew,but how do I get rid of it?

this is ridiculious...i've been playing all day and have 7 people working on tech...it's 2 am and i just have 87000 tech points!!!!!!!! they should make it easier to get the points because now i'm SO frustrated with the game that I don't know if I want to go any further.

i'v been playn 4 along time and they need make the points easier 2 get.

My villager is weakened,but she won't stop working!

If you drag a villager to a already built or
not damaged hut,they will start 'fixing' it (even thought the hut is in top shape)and they will be better at building.So if you need master builders try this cheat.

Katerina
You need to make a stew to help save your weakened villager -- presuming you already have the cauldron. The stew is 3+3+6 (ie purple flower in graveyard, above waterfall x2, plus large orange flower at bottom middle of screen). This will completely restore any villager. If you don't have the cauldron, the instructions for that are towards the top of this webpage as it is one of the required tasks.
Cheers. I hope this helps and she hasn't died already.
Also, if you ever need to kill off a villager, use 4+4+4 (the black flower on vine above waterfall x3).

Terrie,get emule,and download it.It doesn't get you any viruses when you download it.

How much villagers does two hut support?

And how do you build another hut?

why i need 2 do after i got all the gong pieces??beacuse i cant do anything now

ty for reading it

Theres something wrong.I've got algae,I researched level 3 farming,and I have a master scientist.But when I put him in the pond,he wont get the fish!

Hey, I've finished everything (i think) just need one pebble. Done all the puzzles etc... Just wondering once you've uncovered the ancient mosiac can you rebuild it??? and has anyone got an answer to what happens now its all done? Puzzles techs collectables buildings 50 totems etc.... Anything.... or does the village keep on continuing??? Any big wow end to the game or is this it????

Hey! Looking to help those Golden-agers when they have Not gotten their Totem, due to constant BREEDING? Get a PARENT MASTER!
Place the lady on any male ove 18 and get a kiss, now, do it again, and again, and again, as fast as you can. Boy, does this raise her parenting skills, and if she has another 2 masters, your Totem will pop up on the screen! With males you need a non-breeding female.

hey gamers one question.i have completed every puzzle and have all the collections finished and continue to hit the gong.is this the end of the game or do i just keep hitting the gong to see if anything happens?

My villager has his research bar full,and I have level 3 farming,why won't he get the fish in the pond to get rid of the algae?

if your cauldron for the stew goes missing what do ya you do

Hi all,

Reading the postings are fun as much as playing the game, thanks for the puzzle hints...those were very useful. ^.^

I've finished all puzzles and techs... but got 5 beetle collections to go, banged the gong only once... seems like the tide is rising. The villagers are always looking at the sea. Got 60 people and only 2 totems. Maybe my eyes are just playing tricks on me. Last question...when will it be over? Looking forward to VV3. Thanks.

You know the guy under the wood pile?What if thats Tofo?

hay dose anybody know how to get techpoints really fast and how do you get the piece of the gong in the pond thanks:]

Well i just started playing this VV2 and have completed the puzzle..
I have had 90 villagers for a long time now.. and my tech points are up to 546,656 and my food is like 324,876.. thats a lot.. Um I have also found out that if you collect all of the collectibles for each you get to have an extra 5 people.. which is good.. If your villagers find a vial of green liquid don't drink it..they feel funny the rest of the day and they just wonder around doing nothing..

OMG! my game is like, pointless now because I have level three for everything, have ninty people, i have the gong, i've completed every puzzle and now there's nothing to do around the island! i was really looking foward to winning! now what dp i do i want to find those lost children!!

I am almost about to have level three on everything, and oh my good, this website helped me out so much. i would not have done it without it. did this website help you? how?

Hi
I've started playing again (no cheating with cheatomatic this time!) and am really enjoying it --since I'm having to do it the hard way (well, by choice), I guess I'm paying more attention and I've just noticed that while Mushrooms usually only give you 6 food points, the reddish brown ones give you a whopping 35 points -- handy...
Cheers

Hi
I've started playing again (no cheating with cheatomatic this time!) and am really enjoying it --since I'm having to do it the hard way (well, by choice), I guess I'm paying more attention and I've just noticed that while Mushrooms usually only give you 6 food points, the reddish brown ones give you a whopping 35 points -- handy...
Cheers

Hi
Just a word to the fantastic creators of this game -- thanks! You've given me hours and hours of enjoyment (plus my two 7 year olds, and some good family bonding!) My only gripe is that the number of Village Elders is limited, and since it takes so long to get all the collections, the game hasn't really held my attention until the end -- it's kind of descended into a boring, mess with no real direction. I would have been happy to keep training Elders and receiving new totems and that would have kept me looking out for that elusive purple pebble. As it is, life has reclaimed me! But thanks for an awesome game, and I'm really looking forward to the next one!

Has n-e 1 had this problem.........I didn't see any posted.........I got the extra food on cheatomatic, but when I try for tech points all it does is take them away to zero, gives none. I have lost over 1500 already. Can someone PLEASE tell me what I might be doing wrong........Thanks a bunch, i'll be waiting

I see flocks of parrots on the ground occasionally. Am i suppose to do something to them ?

I have not played the first VV, but I do like this one a lot! I have solved all the puzzles, bought all the tech things, I have collected everything, gotten all my gong pieces, I have 115 villagers and many totems. Is there any end to this game? I just have a bunch of people running around with nothing really to do, and I've changed their outfits, but that gets kinda old after a while. Do I just keep letting it go, or will something eventually happen? Ive only played this for a couple days, and I havent had very many things pop up, just about the love letter and the bag of mice. There has been no barrel of babies or people coming over the waterfall. After reading other posts, I'm still waiting on an ending. Let me know if one is coming! Thanks :D

OK...I am old, still like this game. I have over 3 million Tech, and almost 2 million food. All the puzzles are done...but iI do need one stupid flutterby. I have searched for over a week at least 3 hours a day...and never see any flutterbys except the black, green, and yellow one. After 50 totems, you don't get any more esteemed elders..just masters at all jobs. And whats with the parents?.I have like 4 girls that hang out near the love shack and accost every man that comes by. Sometimes they enter in groups lol ;) now the Gong gave me food one time...5000 food. Who gives a rats patoot about 5000 food? My villagers should be fat with all they have to eat.
So now i started with a blond and mated her with another. trying to kill off all those red heads. They are way out of proportion to real life. And i want to make an all blond tribe. Call me crazy, but they are the cutest.I made one stew that makes them have to...umm...poop! Then grabed every one i could find and just watched as they all ran to the poopypile. I wonder why we dont have any janitor villagers?..peee ewww
But i wish something else would happen...or at least the game would say..OK you have done it all....i feel like its Groundhog day..dejavoo all over again....

how do you get rid of the alge in the ocean?

1)What exactly does the sweet smelling stew do?
2)Are there ANY other stews?

THANKS!
-ClassyRoxMySox

I have not played the first VV, but I do like this one a lot! I have solved all the puzzles, bought all the tech things, I have collected everything, gotten all my gong pieces, I have 115 villagers and many totems. Is there any end to this game? I just have a bunch of people running around with nothing really to do, and I've changed their outfits, but that gets kinda old after a while. Do I just keep letting it go, or will something eventually happen? Ive only played this for a couple days, and I havent had very many things pop up, just about the love letter and the bag of mice. There has been no barrel of babies or people coming over the waterfall. After reading other posts, I'm still waiting on an ending. Let me know if one is coming! Thanks :D

I have not played the first VV, but I do like this one a lot! I have solved all the puzzles, bought all the tech things, I have collected everything, gotten all my gong pieces, I have 115 villagers and many totems. Is there any end to this game? I just have a bunch of people running around with nothing really to do, and I've changed their outfits, but that gets kinda old after a while. Do I just keep letting it go, or will something eventually happen? Ive only played this for a couple days, and I havent had very many things pop up, just about the love letter and the bag of mice. There has been no barrel of babies or people coming over the waterfall. After reading other posts, I'm still waiting on an ending. Let me know if one is coming! Thanks :D

Hi Gamezebo
How about you change the entry at the beginning of this page which incorrectly describes how to achieve the Mosaic gong piece, please? Obviously, we need to have Level 3 Culture (I tried without and it doesn't work). Do we need Level 3 Exploration, too? Please clarify/recitify. Thanks.

Does anybody know if there will be a third one and if so when will it be out. I am half way through the second after compleating the first in about a week.

P.S. These virtual villergers are so adictive

please help i have a poluted sea and how i can clear it ???

I read some questions regarding why the foundation for the sewing hut didn't appear after buying Level 2 Culture. That happened to me as well, but just now, when I bought Level 2 Science, it appeared. So for those who are wondering, just buy science! =) I have my builders working on it now, and hopefully I'll have my 3 Master Builders needed to open that crate!

Does anyone knows why I loose food when I am not in the game? Dont they collect food even if I am offline?

What happens when you get all the collections?

I'm confused with the ancient ruins puzzle. I have completed the dam and reached level 3 engineering and exploration. Then I drag a villager to the ancient ruins in the southeast corner of the map, but it is said that additional research may be necessary. Is there anything to do with the villager, should it be a master in something?

You need level 3 culture....

has anyone got sum cheats... it feels like it is taking the workers forever to become trained workers..... can someone help mw

There isn't any cheats I know of, you have to have some patience. You get the master builders, when you build the hospital, and uncover the ancient ruins. You are just going to have to wait until thats done.. Tip though, have only a group of villagers doing, not all or you wont get enough building time.

thanks Tabitha ;) that helps... will write back if i have n e questions

i love this game but dont understand 1 thing

i have this kid but her helth is weakend. a lot of my other people wre weakening too but their not sick. All of those people refusing to research.

what should i do?

plz help

michelle

Michelle

If you've got the cauldron and herbs puzzles done, make a stew using herbs 3-3-6 (see the tips at the top of page to figure out which herb is which). This instantly restores even the weakest villager when they eat it. It only feeds a few, though, so if you've got a lot of weak villagers, you'll have to make the stew a few times.

On another note, completed all puzzles, gong and collection in three days! Yah! The last pebble stumped me for about four hours of on and off again searching but I finally just found it. =)

Has anyone else found that the longer you play this game, the longer it takes your villagers to become trained in new skills? I have all tech, finished the gong, have 45 villagers and lots of totems. In the beginning my villagers would become "trainees" in new skills after just 2 or 3 practices. Now I can try to teach them fishing or building or research and it may take 8 tries, and sometimes they just seem to not get it no matter what.

BTW, I really enjoy this game. It's especially fun when the mating results in a villager with a different appearance than all the others.

Hey shadow!
Anything happen when you finished all the collections?

does anyone know if the game time needed for the next harvest is shortened, if villagers continue to water the crops? Thanks!

I have a villager that's a master Farmer & Master Scientist, & he's now an Adept Doctor, I got him up to Adept by constantly taking him to the herbs, but the higher he got, the slower he seemed to gain skill... So I made the Stew 1+4+4 and paused the game, lined ALL my villagers up at the pot except the doctor, they all ate, got very ill, and he ran around & healed them all, the pot was still there, so I did it again, got 2 1/2 times out of one pot of ill villagers & healing, noticed a significant movement in my Adept Doctor's skill level towards Master, so I'm going to keep doing this for a bit, if I notice it weakens or significantly causes health drop in my villagers, I'll make a 3+3+6 stew to completely restore them all, then start the Ill Stew again!

HELP!! Iv� fineshed everything, exept the last piese of the gong. I can�t get it nomatter what I do...have lots of totems but none of them works, I�ve restarted the commputer but that did�nt work eigther. Help

How do I make someone an elder fast?

this really doesn't help i don't even have the brains to figure out how to build the dam with the rocks at the waterfall and i think i need the real game to do that but i really wish i could just o the whole thing i just don't have the money to buy it anyway this website hels a bit but it really only solves only a little it of problems:(.

How do I build? I need more huts and some kids to collect stuff? I also can not seem to get them to build the sewing hut..Any and all help would be great Thanks

I've read where mature villages can pretty much run on their own for awhile. I'm wondering if villagers are able to learn skills for farming, building, researching on their own when they reach 14 if we don't make sure they get the training. Also, would they mate and produce babies without us causing them to "go indoors"?

yes they can. if you have already checked a box to make sure a child is "interested" in, let's say, research, they will start researching when they reach the age of 14. if you have a villager who's checked as "parent", they will make the first move and "go indoors" with another villager.

Loved vv1, gonna get vv2 and 3 asap, just wondered, I have max villagers, only 3 totems, got all gong pieces, missing 2 pebbles, 34 dead, loads of over 60's and getting bored, is there an end to this??????????? or should I just bin this one and start on vv2? been playing 6 weeks, my arm aches, and my eyes tired, did not cheat, but was very tempted, any other suggestions?
Cheers charliefarlie

Charlie, the one with the pebbles, is the second one. The first one is just entitled Virtual Villagers. I too am wondering if anything happens when you get all the collections. Thus far no one has answered. The game does not end, they keep going.

The Gong of Wonder will Glitter when you can "Ring" it, drag a villager to it, & it'll say they're ringing the gong. At first I couldn't get it to ring either, I found keeping a totem by it, seemed to play a factor in my game at least.

About the collections, I finally completed ONE of the collections, the shell one, & immediately got an increase of 5 more villagers, so I can now have 95 villagers. I see someone says earlier that the max population will be around 115 with all the collections completed, limited due to not enough housing.

Someone mentioned a mirror where you chose which name, one duplicates the villager who finds it including all his skills, & the other the image just fades out? not seen that pop up yet, nor have I had any villagers leave on a boat, as an earlier post mentions. I have had villagers die instantly from eating stew combo 4+4+4 so don't make that stew unless you just want to clear out some deadwood characters so you can breed more (be sure you don't kill off breedable women!).

I note a few mentions of how to level up a doctor, 1+4+4 will make villagers very ill, so you can level up doctors, if you need a stew to restore villagers that are severely weakened, make 3+3+6. (Herbs are number 1-6 starting upper left corner of map & then go the edge of the map around clockwise).

i opened the box with the last gong peice but an event happend and it disapered

Is there an "Esteemed Elder" Totem limit? I have 50 totems, & at least 3 villagers who have mastered 3 or more skills who didn't get totems. I thought there would be as many totems as you got elders, or at least as many as the maximum number of villagers?

I've been regularly making Stew 3+3+6 to cure weakened villagers to make them live longer. Does anyone know what a villager's maximum age can be? I think 74 or 76 is what I've seen, but it's hard to tell, because the graveyard has reached it's max size & I don't know if I'm seeing new or old grave information.

Also, a couple of tidbits of information, children seem to increase in skill even before they train if you have adept or master parents teach them regularly, and sometimes even pick up a new skill, presumably based on what the parents other skills who are teaching.

When you start a "class", if a child is carrying something for the collection THEY WILL DROP IT to run to class! So, if it's a new item, DON'T START CLASS OR STORY TELLING until they've got it safely in the Research Hut!

does any one know of any cheats i can use that will work plz i need them

does any one know of any cheats i can use that will work plz i need them thanx

when u lose items (such as the kettle) can u get them back or do u have to restart the game? please let me know ,thanks

Tanya, just log out & back in, the kettle will reappear in the firewood pile, same with the crate if you were to drop the piece of the gong or any pieces of the gong while carrying them (I suggest however, that you leave the little people alone to finish their carrying job until you get the message that they're done!)

I have all the collections, all the gong pieces, over 8 million tech points, over 1 million food, i have rung the gong one time and am waiting to do it again. What else is there??? are there other parts of the island that will open up?? can my people go anywhere?? what now??? does the game ever end or just keep going on and on???

I love this game my three kids have there own and my husband has his own and then there is mine and i am the first to get this far they are all jelous because i am making them figue it out like i did "ON THRER OWN" but now i am just wopndering what happeneds now??

thanks for any help

Cheers tabitha, I think I have managed to purchase vv2 but think its really vv1??? how do you know if I have bought the right one, the whole village looks the same, but the kids make a different sound when picked up and dropped, also same gong bits, same story with the scarecrow etc, same herbs..is this right or have i been duped into buying the game twice

Cheers all

The one with the gong is number two. The first one you create a golden child, discover buried treasure, and there is no birds, lol. You got duped I am afraid. Sorry hun! Make sure you buy from a reliable company and source. If you did, then make them correct it. Good luck!

Thank you all for your helpful tips! I have read for hours and haven't found anything regarding my concern. I have able to ring the Gong five times now and four of those times the Gong has taken Health, one time gave luck which introduced triplets. Should I expect it to take Health the majority of the time or am I doing something wrong?

Stevie
The gong is a completely random event, so you are not doing anything wrong -- just being unlucky! It can give/take food, tech, health, wisdom, youth, and luck, as far as I'm aware. Wisdom is my favourite -- I get a villager who has mastered two skills (and is unlikely to master another because of age or disposition) to ring the gong in the hope that they will be given wisdom (ie Master a skill). That way you get another Esteemed Elder which you wouldn't have gotten any other way. I've read here, too, that it can kill (ie the gong grants death!), so I don't do this trick with any young villagers or ones who potentially might make Esteemed Elder on their own. Hope this helps!

Ok, I am just not finding the 1st plant. I have looked all over for the "right" stone wall. Can any help me. I have read and reread the comments, but I am just a little dense. so sorry for the dumb question.
thanks

Michelle, it's by the wall to the far upper LEFT of the map, there's a purple grey "stalk" type plant next to a grassy clump. The purple grey stalk plant is the #1 plant, & the grassy clump is the dry tinder grass you'll need for fire starting to go with firewood (from wood pile in lower left corner). Good Luck!

I was wondering if anyone ever gets the guy out
out from under the wood pile?

Also in vv a new home can anyone tell me exactly where on the left of the temple the treasure is? Thank you

Ok to all, have been playing vv1 for 2 months, have max population over 105, and when someone dies,dont worry as I have esteemed parents, they just make babies on there own without me joining the guys and girls up, I have over a million tech points and over a million food, have rung the gong many times, and to be honest, just think its one of them games, have got VV2, been playing 150 hours on and off, very much the same as first game, all same speck, puzzles and trials, kids sound different, but to be honest, not much has changed, did think this would be more challenging, but hey, still a good game to play till santa comes LOL... any question just ask..happy hunting

Download cheatomatic to your desktop. Start Virtual Villagers. Take Virtual Villagers off of full screen so you can get to cheatomatic (it will look like a piece of cheese) on your desktop.
Make sure the dropdown box on cheatomatic says Virtual Villagers.
Okay...let's search.
Put in the amount of food that you have showing and click search...(and hurry before your amount changes because one of your villagers adds to the food or eats some and changes the amount).
When finished...lets search again...put in the new amount of food you have in your game (must be different from the first amount you put in so cheatomatic finds the right value you are trying to change)Put new amount in and hit search.
Now....keep repeating those steps...making sure you don't put the same amount in twice...until cheatomatic will say "cha ching"...it will actually say in typed words "cha ching". When you get cheatomatic to say this...type in 99,999 or whatever you want to put in..i used 99,999....and hit "set" ....and your food points or tech points will be changed to 99,999.
I got this to work on the coconuts too...make sure you do it before the coconuts are gone. Have fun...now your villagers won't starve.

to the moderator of the site
If I should not have posted what I sent to you about cheatomatic, where to get, how to use, and what it does...just don't post it.
sorry...and thanks

How can I get the Inlaid Gong Piece???
I already have an totem and all the other pieces!!

CAN SOME ONE PLS TELL ME HOW TO GET WATER TO GROW CROPS PLZ NIKKI

Nikki, here's how to get water for the field:

The Dam
Once you reach Level Two Engineering, drop a builder on the rocks just above the pool of water in the southeast corner of the island. They will construct a dam to irrigate the fields to the immediate left so that crops can be planted. This will also uncover an ancient mosaic on the ground, the site of a later puzzle.

please, please help me! i am determined not to cheat but have only have 8 villagers as 9 have died from illness now four of my villagers ( an adept builder and adept farmer - my only farmer, and two children) are "weakened" is it too late to save them because, because i only have women left after they die and their all children! if i do have time to rescue them please let me know how! any information will help i'm desperate!
Thanks, Lara

Help! I can't get my villagers to uncover the ancient place. I have the dam,level 3 engineering and level 3 exploration. When I put a villager on the ancient place, they are "confused" and need to do more research. What am I missing here?

Thanks for your help :-)

Hi Deb
You actually need to have Level 3 Culture (there's a mistake in the cheat notes on this site) -- a bugger, I know, but oh well....
Good luck!

Tabitha, forgot to say thanks, yes i did get duped, so have bought vv2 twice and played it twice, tho, my computer was playing up, so did a restore, and lost the lot, when you say a reputable company, can you give me some suggestions, I would really like to play the first one, as have done 2nd one twice, if you can send me a link i would be very grateful, and if anyone has any ideas on how to restore the damn game anyway, would be happier, just feel like I have wasted 500 hours..sob sniff

HELP ASAP, I WANT TO BUY PLAY THE FIRST ORIGINAL VIRTUAL VILLAGERS, PAID FOR V V 2 TWICE GRRRRRR

THE COMPLETE STEW RECIPE BOOK:

There are only 56 possible unique combinations of three herbs (since order doesn’t matter). There are 16 different effects, but the game actually recognizes 18 “special stews.”

Numbering the plants clockwise from top left 1-6.

Here’s the full recipe book:

Villager feels healthier: 111, 112, 113, 116, 122, 126, 133, 136, 166, 223, 225, 233, 235, 236, 256, 266, 333, 335, 355, 366, 456

Stew is inedible: 114, 134, 145, 146, 245, 246, 334, 345, 346, 455

Very Ill: 144, 244, 344, 445, 446

Burst of Energy - Dancing: 155, 156

Burst of Energy - Exercising: 555, 556

Very Spicy: 115, 135

Very Thirsty: 124, 224

Clears Nose & Throat: 123, 234

Smells Sweet: 356, 666

Jumpy/Allergic?: 222, 226

Nature Calling: 125

Tired: 255

“It Burns”: 444

No Need to Breathe: 466

Completely Restores Health: 336

Aphrodisiac: 566

BON APPETIT!!

If you collect all the butterflies you get a higher population

I had an incident where a window came up telling me that Biggles was going to the research table, did I want to stop him or allow him to research. I allowed him, though I hae no villagers with that name, then another window came up saying "Wait a minute...who is Biggles? To late, he sabatoged your research table!" I lost 2000 tech points.

Anyone seen or heard about this "Biggles"?

Moonstream...I've had a villager live to 99.
There is supposed to be a maxcimum 50 totems I think. But in one village I got 52.
For those who ask about the value of completing collections....for each collection you complete you get to have another 5 villagers. When you get the last collection complete you get an additional 5...to a maximum of 115 unless the last couple to mate have twins or triplets. I have had a maximum of 117.

I've only been playing vv for about a week. I was just wondering if anyone knew what the youngest age is someone can die of old age?
Also, does anyone know a reason why one specific female cannot get pregnant? I have a Master Scientist who was in about late 30s when i tried to get her pregnant, but no matter how many times in put her with any of the other males she never had a kid. I havent had problems with the other females.
I figured out that as soon as you hear the kissing noise you can get a baby without waiting to go into the hut by moving the girl. I maxed the infertile females parenting skill by doing this and, alas, no children. Shes now an elder and mid 60's, anyone know the problem?

:I had an incident where a window came up telling me that Biggles was going to the research table, did I want to stop him or allow him to research. I allowed him, though I hae no villagers with that name, then another window came up saying "Wait a minute...who is Biggles? To late, he sabatoged your research table!" I lost 2000 tech points. Anyone seen or heard about this "Biggles"? Author: Juniorsch"

Juniorsch - That's another one of those "make a choice" popups that either benefits or messes with your head... there's no Biggles in our villagers, it's some sneak that's somehow crept in & just as mysteriously creeps out... I did the same thing as you & lost lots of Tech Points... just the way the game goes, make a choice & live with it...

Do you drink the vial of liquid or not, some cause illness, memory loss & some cause instant mastery of a skill! do you open a bag or a crate up... some of the bags have tech stuff or food in them, & some have stinging ants & plaguey rats that bite & make everybody ill! There's one that has a nice crate float to shore, & it has 2 children in it so you get an instant population increase!

All totally random of course!

Good Luck!

i had the same problem with biggles but lost 3000 tech points! who is "biggles" and does he come into the game later? and does anyone know any cheats to get tech points or food fast?
thanks

Biggles is just a random game "make a choice" puzzle. I don't know what happens if you tell him no, he can't research.

As for getting more Tech Points quickly or Food quickly, here's what I do. Pause the game (hit your space bar to pause), then place all the children on the item (mushroom or collection item). Then unpause (hit space bar again). Several of the children will pick the item up. If it's a mushroom, you'll get as many food item points for it as the number of mushrooms the children deliver to the food bin. If it's a collection item, you get tech points for all of them the children turn in (unless it's a new item, then one will count for new item, & the rest will count for tech points).

That's the only way I've found to quickly add up rapid food or tech points.

lara,

In my first village I lost a lot of villagers to weakness due to insufficient food. When I started my 2nd village, I had 1 adult focus on farming, mostly by harvesting coconuts so the fishing area wouldn't become overfished and develop algae. Another villager was designated as researcher. The third adult mostly did research to get the tech points up, but could add to the food supply if necessary. This way there was enough to eat during that vulnerable time. When the children got to be 14, they went to work as researchers too, so we could get enough tech points to build the dam and plant the garden and begin to relax about food a little bit. I watched them pretty closely during these first days to make sure they didn't run out of food. It did get tense sometimes.

Also, I held off on bringing babies into the village until there would be enough food for them all. Hope this helps.

Deb

Another thing about food, in addition to (space bar) pause the game, putting all the children on mushrooms then unpause the game (space bar again), which will mean that several of the children will pick up the mushroom & take it to food bin, so you get multiple food bonuses instead of only one.

You can also do same with Coconuts, when you're low on coconuts, pause game, move all adults to the coconut trees, then unpause, they'll all try to climb & gather the remaining coconuts. If any of them shake no, quickly put them back on the tree & try again while the others are climbing, most likely you'll get them to also gather coconuts, so 2-10 coconuts may turn into 40-60 food points!

deb,
thank-you so much! for all your help i have made a second village that is doing well and i used all your advice.
thanks, from lara

Thank-you deb and moonstream for your help! but i have another problem, i had a message pop-up that some birds are eating my crops and ever since they havent stopped! i figured that you have to build a scarecrow but cant find a way to do it. do i need to upgrade in something by spending tech points and if so which one?
thanks, from lara.

how can i make more space for a bigger population? i have 17 people and already this isnt enough housing for any more people! please please help.
many thanks lara,

Lara,

Look up above near the top of this site to the section called "Puzzle Solutions". It will answer lots of your questions.

The scarecrow puzzle requires you to complete the dam first and plant your crops. The tips above advise us to drop an Adept-level (or better) farmer on the twisted pieces of wood and vine just below the rock pile in the north center of the map. You'll need to do this twice. The villager should begin to build the scarecrow to scare the parrots away from your crops.

in vv2 after you buy all the tech a key appesrs i didn't pick it up in time and it hasn't appeared again. is it ever going to appear and where it's the key for the way behind the vines also i have 105 people and it won't let me have anymore how do i have more

additional tips and tricks for VV lost children.

1. you can customize the maps, faces, in fact anything by using photoshop. go to the folder where you installed VV (i.e C:/Program Files) go to "images" folder and edit whatever you like. i put a picture of john lennon in the place near the fire place.

2. you can get hints by looking at the images. for example, there are only 8 different kinds of totems because there are only 8 designs available.

3. never perform system restore on your computer to several weeks or more cause it will ruin the game. if you want to perform a system restore, backup your "LDW" ( located in My Documents folder) first. The LDW folder contains all the information about your game.

4. for the "floating heads" problem: you probably deleted the "female_bodies" image files in the images folder. just copy the files back or reinstall VV but backup the LDW folder first before doing so.

5. if an old villager needs some time to develop a certain skill to become an elder, set the option to 1/2 speed. in this way, the villager will have ample time to develop the skill without getting old fast and therefore becoming an elder before dying.

6. to get the gong piece in the lagoon, make the stew by usng the formula 4+6+6 herb in your stew, make an adult villager eat it then drop him in the lagoon. herb4= black flowers near the graveyard, herb6= big flower south of the map in the left of the ancient ruins.

7. to uncover ancient ruins and vine wall, you just need level 3 engineering, level 2 or more exploration, and level 3 culture.

8. the wisest pattern in developing an skill: building-farming-research. make research last because it can be developed fast even by slow, old villagers. make them build and farm while they are still in their prime.

9. Always deny Biggles access to your research table because he is not part of your tribe and will only ruin your tech points.

10. do you know that the dragonflies on your startup screen follows the mouse pointer? disturb them and point your mouse in the VV logo in the top left and they will create a chiming sound.

11. the best builder-creator is the uncovering of the ancient ruins because it is longer to finish. if you are planning to create many builders, this is the best time to train them.

12. always allow villagers to drink every potionor open every sack they find in the events. most of the time, the result is possitive.

I've heard that you can have a larger population when you complete the collections. Does anyone know if you can more easily find missing parts of your collections by having a larger population? I've kept my village under 40 people, and can't find some of the last collection items after looking for weeks.

Thanks for your help :-)

Deb, You have to complete all the puzzles & all the tech levels to find all the collections. you will get a population increase with each completed collection. It's important to always have children to pick up the collection items. I've noticed that the items seem to pop up more frequently when I keep the children actively picking them up, even if I don't need more food or already have a collectible item...

I have a question about self-sustaining villages. Is it true that a child born without skills and without training will eventually learn a skill on his/her own? Or do people just get along without skills? I'm testing this on a red-haired boy named Howdy who had no skills at birth and who hasn't been trained. I did check the box for farming, then left him to see what he would do. Well, he wanders around the center of the village being "bored" and "thinking" and is "unsure what to do". Will he eventually learn a skill? Does a self-sustaining village need villagers to have skills? Will they figure out reproduction without help? Also, is it a problem if the fire goes out?

Thanks!

hellow guys can u give me some cheats in vitual....
i want only quick tec. or food plz send me or pm me to YM kim_po19@yahoo.com i wait to all people here o_O

can anyone tell me where to find bugs ive found shells, stones and butterflys just not1 bug

Ok I had plenty of food was having many villagers
on research and then I come on today and it says a flood wiped out my food supply. I needed that food supply what am I swupposed to do? I have 99 food left that wont last. I have to get 90 thousand tech points and I only have 55 thousand. I set it to easy so why would it make a flood that takes away all my food that is going to ruin this and I spent days on it.

Not Too Happy

every time you see a mushroom or a collectible, hit your space bar to pause your game, then collect all your children & place them on the mushroom or the collectible then hit your space bar to unpause the game. several if not most of the children should pick up the mushroom or the collectible. if it's a mushroom, you'll get the food point value for EVERY child's mushroom, not just one, same with collectibles for science points. that way, you can rebuild food supply quicker, and also boost your science point gain... by the way, this works on coconut trees with adults also, if you only have a few coconuts left, pause the game & put EVERY adult on the coconut trees. then unpause the game. any adult that tries to walk away, quickly grab them & put them back on the trees, as long as people are still climbing the trees, they'll keep getting coconuts. This has the benefit of increasing farming skills, and many non-farmers learn quickly also.

I do this same trick (don't have to pause game though for this one) with the fish algae problem once I have enough tech points in farming, I grab every master I can and put them in the pond to catch the algae eating fish. it's much faster because then instead of waiting on one villager to carry 20 (or so) algae eating fish to the sea, you get most of them to do it, so it gets the sea cleaned up quicker and you can get to your new food source faster.

Hope this helps!

Anyone see one of their villagers rain dancing on the crops? Does anyone know if stuff like that, such as doing the laundry, and watering the crops has any affect on anything?

i have a question PLEASE READ! AND REPLIE!!! i've had only 2 or 1 event and im way more then half way through the game i got 3 gong pieces, the beetle collection hasent been completed lv3 fishing and rest lv2 tech. please help! my villagers are always healthy and im trying to increase my luck by getting more ppl! HELP!

and does fixing or examining huts do anything to your builders skill? and whats the best way to increase a farmers skill? fishing? getting coconuts? or getting crops?

hello hello ....
ive only just started the game and its going really slow isnt there a more quicker way than 2x speed?

Does anyone have pictures of the collectibles?? I am Missing
3rd rare butterfly
4th uncommon and 2nd and 4th rare Shells
3rd uncommon and 2nd rare beetles
2nd and 4th uncommon and 1st and 4th rare pebbles

Can ANYONE tell me what they look like? I have finished everything but this and I only have 2 kids left.....need people to start ding off to make more kids. Thanx

Cassie,

Sorry I don't have a link, but here's some information on the collections for you.

The 3rd rare butterfly is white with purple edges.

The 4th uncommon shell looks like the 3rd rare shell, only it's orange.

The 2nd rare shell is green, narrow, and pointy.

The 4th rare Shell is the same, only red.

The 3rd uncommon beetle looks like a ladybug, red with black spots.

The 2nd rare beetle is purple

The 2nd and 4th uncommon pebbles are green and red.

The 1st and 4th rare pebbles golden yellow and pink.

Hi Cassie,
If you need more kids, kill off a few useless villagers (ie ones that are unlikely to ever make Esteemed Elder) -- I know it sounds crass, but sometimes, needs must ... (use 4+4+4, that is, the black vine above waterfall x3)
Also, if you go into the game folder you will find a file that has all the pictures of everything (all possible people, the places on map, plus the collections) Hope this helps. Good luck!

hey, just wondering something, what do i do when i have all the collections done and all the puzzles done and everything done, is the game over?

no creds pop up zomg...

well, i fiured out from other posts and other sites what each saying means:
"Nature is Calling!"= going potty
"Caring for Baby"= Nursing AKA feeding
"reflecting"= mourning

thats all i know for now... i will find more later

Hi, Cheez,

There are lots of ways to keep the game interesting after you've found everything. Some of the things I like to do are 1) start a new village (you can have up to five), 2) try to breed a village full of just blonds, brunettes or redheads, 3) enjoy any villagers that don't look like any you've ever seen before - I've been playing for a couple months and got three new villager looks just this week, 4) deal with the challenges of the island events and gong actions, 5) make different stews and see how your villagers react, 6) see if you can figure out a way to keep your villagers living longer, 7) watch your statistics improve (this option is on the puzzles screen and lets you see how your village compares to other players in food points, babies born, people cured, mushrooms gathered, etc.), 8) see if your village can survive on it's own for a day or two by making sure you've got villagers to take care of healing the sick and keep your village population up by reproducing, etc.

What do the rest of you do to keep your village interesting?

Hi i need a little help I am playing the 1st and 2nd and i can not help but ask how can I make the fire wood go faster?And how long does it take to get the pot?And how do I get the gong pieces in the deep waters?how can I make the stews?I need alot of help!!!!!!!!Bye Bye

What is the point of the gong and sea shells and butterflys?

hey i am just playing online and i have a question: i have all the houses built ( in th online game) and i need to more of best builders but i cant find anything to build
can i still build a house with the pile of logs?

Amelia,

If you have all the buildings, your villagers can still develop building skills if you drop them on the existing buildings and they'll begin to fix or examine the huts, gaining building skills in the process. If you haven't cleared the vines yet, they will also gain building skills in these activities.

Red Hot Chick,

About the time it takes to get the firewood to the fire, it can only go as fast as the villager goes. Sometimes you'll have a villager to likes running, and they'll zip all over the place, including moving your firewood faster. Don't choose an elderly villager to move it or one that is slower than others. Also, since it can be boring waiting for the firewood to get to the fire, I like to do this first and then go to other village activities while the wood carrier goes about his/her business.

For your other questions, there is a great post by Iorina dated March 16th that gives answers for all the puzzles, including how to get the gong piece you asked about.

Have fun!

amitaf- sorry i checked and i'm pretty sure that the green fish is just part of the shadows, grass ect.

i cant seem to get people to reproduce...does my broken hut effect it? also i cant seem to make new huts...WT?

What is likely to happen as a result of the Gong granting Luck?

Thanks

Hi all. What an addictive game! I had one woman nurse a baby for 900 minutes! Anyone else see this? Nothing special happened with her or the baby when she was done. It was just annoying that she wouldn't do anything for 900 minutes!

D-Unit - Your dilapidated hut won't keep people from reproducing. They will have trouble if they are sick, hungry, or weakened; if the female is 50 or older, or if you get a message that says there's not enough housing to support a bigger population. They tend to mate more easily if they have any kind of previous parenting experience, and they can get this by trying to mate, or by dropping next to a bored child and running to village center to tell a story. Sometimes you just have to drop the villagers on each other many times - I've probably had to repeat this 15-20 times with inexperienced villagers.

As for the new huts, you will get foundations for more huts as you get more villagers and/or as you buy more engineering or culture points.

Good luck!

Ok I have 2 esteemed elders but only 1 totem. Thought we were supposed to get 1 for each elder what gives?

http://london-fields.myminicity.com

Please visit as its a great place to make your own city

How do you know wich plant are like 6 or 4 ?
Because i want to get the sunken gong peice but i dont know what flower 4 or 6 are (4+4+6)
Please help this is my fith tribe!!!!

Hi, Jordyn,

I just copied this information from the section on Herb Mastery above on this page. There's tons of helpful information on this page. Have fun!

The location of each herb is as follows:

1. The green plant in the upper left hanging over the wall of stones.
2. The blue flower at the top center just to the right of the cave.
3. The lavender daisy at the far top-right above the sacred area.
4. The black chain of flowers just above the waterfall on the east.
5. The bright red flowers southeast of the dam.
6. The large orange flower to the south of the village.

if you complete a collection it increases your village by 5

Hi fellow VV fans.
Check out this -- it's great fun!

http://r.yuwie.com/richdreams

Please visit my city to help my population count. If you start a city I will visit yours. I visited Londons for him/her? Thanks

oooops my bad forgot to post link
http://benbrook.myminicity.com/
Hey Gamezebo when is V V 3 coming out. Can't wait. Soon I hope

I Have a question...Every time when I try to make babies,They just go inside the house then out and nothing...I repeated this and nothing happen?
It's normal? Why do they don't make babies?

Hi, RDC,

About the babies -- you can check to see if the female is 50 or older. These women can still "go indoors" but can't have babies. Also, it happens fairly often that the mating doesn't "take". You can check your population number before and after mating to see if it goes up. If not, you can just keep mating them till you see the population number go up and you'll know then that the stork is on the way.

I know some cheat, I call it time machine,, does anyone realize that this game is respond with clock at the computer. so if you wanna make it fast just change the clock, but don't ever fast it more then 3 hours cause you will miss alot off collection and events. i have tried to make it fast about two days and all my villagers are die

How to irragate the fields so you can plant

to irragate the fields u have to make a pont from the river to the where u want to plant the pont will be near the Red flower over the vines,u will see...

if you have all your vines and done every thing then keep haveing kids to collect stuff and you can decorate your huts and repair your hospital.

why is my nursing is 30 mins. and after 1 to 2 hours it doesnt change 30 min. again

plz help

please help me because when one of my villager is nursing for 30 mins. after 1-2 hours 30 mins. again please me plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ty

What do you mean "Decorate your huts"? I've seen you can repair them to train your builders up, but the only one I've seen decorated is the research hut if you complete a collection. Is there another way to decorate huts?

Hi,

My villagers aren't getting older and neither are the nursing babies. I have 7 nursing women and the time that they will be 'nursing for' under Details has not changed for the past week and no one has gotten older. But my food levels and tech points increase/decrease.
Anyone knwo why?
I changed the speed of the game several times - does that have anything to do with it?
Appreciate any help!

thank you!

Nosheen, sounds like you're on pause in the game... you don't hit the space bar by accident when you leave the game do you? as for changing the times back & forth, yes, I've noticed that the crops pregnancies etc start taking longer & longer the more you play with time... you may have a loooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggg wait where you just need to leave it on 2x speed, don't touch that space bar & let them progress! either that, or kill a few of them off with a poison stew & make some new babies!

I have just a few things to say.
1. I read this whole page!
2. The kid I had who hummed ended up becoming a aprentice builder. Dont know if it had anything to do with it but it was unique.
3. The pause and put a tun of kids on a item does work just not all the kids will pick it up. But thats ok because some do and you do get the duplicate tech.(READ ABOVE)
4. My farmers will not stay and pick crops they keep wanting to fish. Its a constant battle. Is there a way to stop this?
5.The trick to getting boy or girl babys depending on what you need does work.(READ ABOVE)
6. I have one adult that does not tell a story to my kids but instead teaches them. Do they get any real benefit to this or is it all for show? And how did it happen that they came about to be a "teacher"?
Thats all the comments and questions I have because I read all this page, found it usfull and that was all I had to say that was not covered above or that I wanted people to know realy worked.
Love the game. ~B~

how do i get triplets? i have level 3 research..but is there a special way to make triplets????

what is a "class"..someone was jsut taling about it in another post..

what can i do after i've found all the gong pieces?

A class is when you take an adept or a master parent over to a child. They will then start teaching the children. The benefits of this are twofold, an adept parent can learn more parenting skills & the children (I think from the master parent teachers) can improve their skills also, and sometimes pick up a second skill, before they turn 14.

Age 14 & up also seem to learn new 2nd & 3rd skills more easily if they've been taught as children & also once they become a master in a skill to learn a new one.

I've observed twins & triplets much more since I have all the tech learned & have more master parents before age 50. I'm not sure if they're a random occurrance or if they really are influenced by the parenting skill level (as well as the technology level).

I've also noticed if I hold classes, the mothers often come & sit in the class with the children.

If I don't hold classes, more children seem to be born with little or no skills & don't seem to learn easily as adults either.

After you've found all the gong pieces, keep using children to build up the collections to full, because they add to technology & allow your population to increase by 5 each time you complete a collection.

Once every 24 hours you can ring the Gong, and it randomly blesses or curses, technology, food, skills, health, etc...

it still doesnt help me with what i need

Kitty, if you need more tech points or more food download this, http://www.freewarereview.info/2007-01/cheat-o-matic_-_manipulate_almost_any_computer_video_game_with_memory_scanning_.html
Open the EXE from the zip, and follow the on-screen prompts.

You can set it to how ever many points/food You need

Has anyone had villagers with GREEN HAIR?

I have recently gotten a male villager with green hair who has passed it on to some of his sons. I'd love to see it passed on to girls, but so far, no.

This particular type of villager usually has black or red hair - this green hair is a first after 5 months of playing. Anybody else?

HELP !!! my guys found the big pot, and then they started celebrating because they made the cutting tools, now the BIG POT is gone !! now what.. how can I get it back

My villagers (women) keep having babies and I don't make them they do it by them selfs.Any help? If so please e-mail Kerchnerkid@yahoo.com thanks

Chiann,

I know what you mean about villagers reproducing without our assistance. What I've found when this happens is that there may be male or female villagers with "parenting" checked on their detail page. Or sometimes they'll mate if they don't have another skill set as their preference on the detail page and go to parenting by default. You can get to the detail page by selecting a villager then clicking the detail button (leaf) in the lower right hand corner. Hope this helps.

I have worked out a new recipe. 2 + 2 + 6 makes a villager sick, so if you keep feeding making all your villagers barring a child eat the stew they will all get sick. get the child that hasn't eaten the stew to heal all the villagers you can get them to doctor status quicker and before they are adult.

i dont know if any one has made anything like im about to say but here goes. this is a good start to the game and with this start you can win very easily. first off dont pan to win in a day plan to take things slow because once its beat its pretty much over. well to start get a village that has at least 1 runner(more than 1 helps alot but takes a while) put all your villagers into the ocean and fish till you are happy with your food( i went to about 6k before i stopped) then put 1 person into research or 2 if you want to get it over quick and keep this gpoing till you get 1500 tech at this point algae will infest the sea at this point if you feel confident in your food keep going to 9k tec and buy tech lev 2 in building and make the dam. next or if you want to do it first buy tech 2 farming just make sure those are the first 2 you buy and since you are probly over flowing with food put all but one person on research and put the 1 on farming. keep collecting idems all the while. when your last child is 10 get 1 villager pregnate and once she has had her babie just keep going as you were just keep on with this cycle of coconuts and farming till your tech is high enough to buy all lev 2 things then work on level 3 starting with either farming or medicine and just play till its beat! for other tips just read other comments

i like tis game

no offense...but most of the questions being asked are clearly written in the article above.just read it and you will find the answers to the puzzle...etc.
good luck all

Kitty,
I find that saving tech points, is worth a lot in the long run, dont spendthem all on the farming at the beginning of the game. Then, you should get at least three people to build/ help build a structure at a time, so you have three master builders to open the boxed gong piece. Secondly, start a young villager out working on building, when the villager gets to a master, switch to farming, and then, when the villager becomes a master in farming, switch him to researching, since they will probably be really old and are too lazy to walk fast anymore!
Hope this helped!!

~Virtual Villager Lover

i would like any cheats plz and how do you ake a shool?

Okay. For the fourth gong piece, WHERE exactly do you put it? And do you have to have a certain technology in order to get it? Everywhere I've read says to drop it in the mosiac, which, despite my age and education level, means nothing to me... What is the mosiac? I know it's a stupid "duh" question, but just answer me! Thanks!

Can anyone tell me how to get the school I have alll the puzzels and tech, lots of food. Not sure were to go next and what to look for. ty

There's no School in VV:tlc, that was only in the first VV (take a master scientist to the building they keep saying would make a nice school & drop him there, it converts to a school). In VV:tlc, adept & master parents can teach children when you drop them by a child, they'll start a class in the middle near the fire

there are 57 differt stews not all of them are good but lots of them are REALLY helpful!!

when is vv3 comming cant wait to play

If you want a Master Healer.
I have found a few things which help develop this skill.

1.) keep taking the healer to the herbs over and over again.
Remember to take them to each herb. Do not over look any herb.

Once they decide to research (after studying a herb)
Let them research it. At that point they are researching the herb| or you may say healing.
While they are studying the herb the "action message bar" will change to Researching)
this will change only after they have studied it enough)
(it may take several times to get to this point)

You will notice that once they have advanced at learning about a herb, you will see this status message in the "ACTION message bar" as well.

I know this will at first concern you, but when they discover anything on the beach, or where ever and you must make a decision as to whether throw it away or "open it" "drink it" or what ever the message it.
Be a dare devil and "Try it" "Drink it" "Open it"

Great if the population gets sick, bit, or what ever evil there may be.

Because now your Healer can Advance by healing each sick person.

This is helping your healer on their way to becoming a master.

Now you will notice that on occasion, the healer won't be able to heal a person completely.
Well that's Ok too.
Now Have the Healer prepare Stew.
This One type of stew completely heals everyone, even if the illness is age.
Most often you can not get the children the eat stew, but you can get them to eat from the food bin.
However there is an exception. If you child is very ill, and the healer can not completely heal them, then take them to the special stew. You may need to drop them on the stew a few times, but if they are sick they will eat.

THE STEW Combination is.
3+3+6
2X's - Lavender daisies (top right corner) = #3
(use this herb 2x)

1X - Then add the Orange herb (bottom center of screen) = #6

Now to be sure you have all sick healed completely.
First take the sick and elderly to the stew to eat.
(be sure the "Action message bar states that they healed completely, also double check their status. I have found on occasion that they need to eat 2x's) If they are not healed completely take them to the stew again.

Good Luck.

Master Healer Help again.

Also making stew that makes your villagers ill,
will help your healer to advance,
because the healer will need to heal them once they are ill from the bad stew. Again, helping the healer to advance.
Only do this is you have plenty of food.
So you may make more Good stew.
You should also feed the villagers before making this stew so they are not starving.

Good Luck.

I just had TWINS!!! Completed all requirements (with the help of this site) Had a few old ppl die n was breeding up my population when it went from 77 to 79 and sure enuf she was holding 2 babies. Has anyone else had multiples?

Nosheen,

i have the same problem i ahve 3 nursing women 7 children and 10 adults who are all stuck staying the same age, the problem with mine is that there is no housing left therefore no one can grow up until you have extra housing see if this the problem with yours by trying to make two people "go indoors" if it syas "sorry you dont have enough housing" then all you need to do is bouild another hut, if you cant then save up up ypur tech points and get something like engineering which could make extra space for huts or if you have the same problem as me and already have the maximum amount of huts then check that one of your huts isnt broken i noticed that one of my huts had a leak which was the reason why there wasnt enough housing and also why no one has grown up.

Hope this helps!

xx

your site is awsome i do have one question i found a mirror and it said to say either goliptus or pantilis i choose goliptus and my mirror broke whats up with that. thanks so much u rock.
p.s. have u tried virtual villagers the first it rocks.
bye lov ya

any one got any tips about the washed up crate, first i tried it with one builder that was adept but he couldnt do it then i tried two adept builders still couldnt eventually i got one of my builders to become a master so the adept and the master tried and still no sucess! i have just got my other adept builder and tried both of the master builders but NO it still doenst work, how many builders does it take? and what level do they all have to be?

It takes THREE MASTER BUILDERS to open the washed up crate

hey im not sure how you are ment to get the fish from the pond into the sea, can anyone help me out please because i have tryed to get a master scientist to get the fish but all that comes up is the villager is injoying the pond!

hi, after you have collected all of you idems, and have completed all the puzzles, how do you end the game?

I have completed level 3 engineering and exploration but my villagers are not digging when I drop them on the ruins. What is going on?

I had up to 23 people in my village then a tidal wave came and killed all but three people. Man,woman and baby left. Had over 7,000 food but when I logged onto my game this morning I have only a man left. Anyway to get another female???

Thanks
Marge

i have a villager who has masterd Farming,research and Building but i have not got a totem pole how do i get one???

Okay, my villagers are only producing one gender! They're all girls! What the heck can i do?

Ok this is all great but i need to know what it is doabel about the red birds taht comes once in a while.
What do i have to do with them?
Or do i just ignore them?

Ok is there ANY way i can explore the rest of Isola?? I have done and compleated EVERY SINGLE MILESTONE and gotten every single collectable. I just rang the gone of wonder for the first time and am waiting for something to happen soon. Only the one thing I REALLY wanna do is see the rest of Isola in my virtuall villagers the lost children. Any way I can?....or will it not let u see the rest of Isola? I know people post LOTS of questions on here but PLEASE! Help! SOS!

Ratty,you pause the game by pressing the space bar on your keyboard. Hopes this helps!

What do you mean by drop a builder on the dam.It could be a trainee,adept, or a trained builder.So what kind of builder do you mean?Because I'm really stuck on that.I need the help.I tried to put a builder on the dam.But nothing happen.They just said they were confused.And after that they did nothing or they just went back to what they been doing.Someone HELP ME PLEASE.I tried everything I think.So this is my question:What kind of builder do you put on the dam?Like theres three different kinds.There is Trainee,adept, and trained.So what one.PLEASE PEOPLE ANSWER.I NEED HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've been playing for a while I have 3 gong pieces
and I've got most of everything done. I went to check on my little villager and one person was died and 2 people are headless what Happened anything
like this happened to anyone before did head hunters get them?their still alive but it strange to see.
what up with that? Crimson

Veronica, you need to purchase the level two engineering skill with your tech points before droping any villager on the dam site.

hi, may i know how do i get twins? all my villagers gave birth to one child each time they are pregnant.

:o)
Hello VV'ers. My cousin discovered a way to "keep track" of the children. In VV2 if you put them on the little pointy shaped island in the pond near the waterfall, they cannot come back across! They are just stuck there and pace back and forth. Then when you see a collectable or mushroom you dont have to search for one. Not sure yet how many will fit but for the time being my 3 are there till i need them. Kinda like a day care, and when they turn 14 and can swim they come across and wonder around on their own!! :o)

ok how do i get that gong piece out of the mosaic i got my totem thingy and i put it in the middle so how do i get it? did i put it in the wrong spot?

After buying the level 2 of Medicine, I saw in the picture there is a woman cares for many baby. How can I do it? Thank

just go on clock down bottom corner and change time and it does it in that hours you skip

hey ummm i have a esteemed elder and i have the mosics but when i drop a esteemede elder on the centre of the mosics nothing happens it just says admiring the mosics...........help me pleeaassee

I finish all the puzzles but still havent made the las gong pieze i have a totem the red one and i put it on the center on the mosaic and nothing happens finish all tech still have to finish the collection but whta can i do for the gong ieze please help that the last puzzle i have to make.

Someone has probably already posted this but the age for a villager to start working is 14, for babies, 18, for not being able to have children, 50, and being elderly with lvl 1 meds, 50, lvl 2, 60, for lvl 3, 70, but after the hospital they live till thier 90's...as i've seen...

for people who are haveing trouble with food/tech, for food get coconuts as fast as your can, and then build the dam with lvl 2 engineering, after that you are good with food.

for tech you won't get much until you build the dam, after that go wacko and put everyone there and leave it for a day (before this start having children with anyone possible) and you'll have lots of tech points. (about)10000-15000 maybe

The four gong pieces are...one is under the pond (get stew...2 black ones and 1 red-orange)in the acient place(need lvl 3 engineering and an esteemed elder, put the totem on the circle) in the crate near the ocean (need 3 master builders)and the next is behind the vines at the north of the village(need master scientist,lvl 2 explore,and the weps to clear them)

the way to get rid of the algae is get lvl 3 farm and put a master scientist in the pond, he collects the fish and puts it in the ocean.

I have thought of a good way to start. You will have 3 workers, one will be a trainee builder so guess what he can be (scientist!) and make the other 2 farmers and they will fish. Next person who becomes 14 can be scientist and anyone else becomes scientist also. get enough tech for farming lvl 2 (to get coconuts) and then engineering lvl 2 (for dam). When the coconut trees are empty and the sea is algaeed, put everyone on building the dam. when it's complete, rejoice! you shall no longer die a horrible death, so get an adept farmer (you should have 2) to make a scarecrow, then both farmers to look after crops, then everyone back to their jobs and new babies split into jobs evenly. when harvest comes, put EVERYONE on harvesting. After that, do what ever you want, I am at this stage and have them all on research and the first house built. I am trying to get lvl 2 expl. to get stew and cutters, but this is first time so don't have a fit and say something like:

"OMG LOLZ N00B U GET PWNED LIKE DAT U SUCH N00B ROFL"

the right to do that is reserved for gays and nerds...

I read about half the stuff up there, so I am sorry if I repeat anything. I had 115 villagers and was told I could not make any more. Is that the max amount one village can have once it has all it buildings? I have all my collections, but do not have any totems. I am working on that now. Just recently 8 of my villagers left on a raft for the south side of the island. Has this happened to any one else? Will they return? Also I have had about four villagers with large afros, I just love these guys. I try to make the funniest looking villagers possible. I started a new village and I have one kid, I think he may be what you all refer to as a monkey kid, well I named him Pork Chop, it was just fitting. Does this game have an end? And do we ever really know who left the kids or why? And do we ever rebuild something over the mosaic floor? Is the first game this fun, I have not played it?

Oh, the other things, I did pause it once and it kept playing like someone else above had mentioned. But I was able to save most of them. And now I have almost 400,000 tech points and nothing to do with them except buy clothes. Is that all I have left to look forward to?

Ok, so my daughter erased my games. So I am starting over. But I would still like to know if 115 is the max amount of people you can have in the game. If anyone knows, please anwser!

O.K. I have 115 tribe members, 343253 food and it keeps growing, 607081 and it is also going up. I have completed all the puzzles, all the tech pints (obviously), gotten all the collections, rang the gong. So what is next. 5 different totems but a total of 17 around the mosaic. How does this end. Is there no great ending? is is over just like that?....

What does it mean when the Gong of Wonder grants luck?

I have ocmplete all of the puzzles and I was wondering what happens next. I keep collecting tech points, making new babies but don't know where the games ends, if it does.

Thanks for amy help.

how can i get algea off and more coconut to grow???

help me agian i cant fish beacouse of algea ang i cant climb coconut cuz it has no more coconut wat would i do????

how can i crop plss tell me i just have 1900 points farming 2nd wat do i do help me i have no food

Hi, i am new to this game, can anyone tell me how you get 3 master builders done to open the crate because they seem to die before i can get 3 all togther... very annoying thank you

Great tips on here also thanks

¤hi all¤

this is my first message :)
how are you all?

i got a tip..
to do special letters: ¤₧¿d

always use different combinations of alt+01444
that was an egcample

does anyone know how to get triplets?! i can't seem to get them! I can get plenty kids and infants but i can't figure out how to get them and where do you find the "search" button for the more food or points i really need help with that!

i finished the game, but then i saw that i didnt finished the puzzle! the one that looks like an flowerpot, and i really do not know how to finish this puzzle!!
can anyone help me with that?!?!

i got to level 2 culture and the sewing shop thing has not shown up.
what do i do?

i got to level 2 culture and the sewing shop thing has not shown up.
what do i do?

hi,

what happens when you have al the pebbles or all the shells??
and how can you get teck points more quikley?
I need alteast 90000 and I only have 30000.

IF you have one villager bild a hut does he get the same amount of bilding points, if he does it with a other villager???

thanx.

I have 1 shell left to collect and it is rare. It finally came up and I took a chikld to get it. The child would not pick it up. I tried again but it disappeared. How long will I have to wait for it to appear again. Sometimes I can not get the kids to pick things up in time. I don't know why, I know the kids are close enough because they pick up others. This has happened before to me.

ther is no cheats for this game

the child may not pick up if you have wrongly placed, or it disappears if you move the child after the child picks up. each collectibles will wait for 1 min 20 secs according to game speed. then the collectible disappears. this may be another reason.so if you find any collectibles, just pause the game by pressing space bar, then drop a child over the collectible. after you drop the child, action of the child turns to "collecting an item for scientist". this way protect the collectible from diappearing. then press space bar to resume the game

I need help!!!!

I haven't used any cheats other than keep placing my adults over each other to embrace without going indoors. I haven't changed the time on my PC as some have suggested - I wouldn't know how! but now all of my nursing mothers have gone wrong! :(

The nursing times range from 7000mins to 35000+mins and no thats not a typo thats thirty-five thousand plus minutes!!! All of my adult females are nursing so this means i wont be able to have any babies for some time!

If anybody knows why this happened or how to fix it please help me :(

hi all fellow players. luv this game. just a little mention that if u wana find out how old ur villagers r just go into puzzles and see statistics and u can see wot ur village has been up to since the beginning. hav fun
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