Virtual Villagers: A New Home Hints

Quick way to get all skills up.

Train all of your people for every skill, then just swap the selected skill, really easy, but it works.

What is the another source of food?

If your berry bush already withered,Purchase Farming level 2 or 3.Farming level 2 will unlock the fields.
Just simply add a villager to the fields below the research table.Farming level 3 unlocks the fishes.It REQUIRES FARMING LVL. 3 AND PUZZLE 3 TO BE COMPLETED.
Just put an villager to the ocean.

Berry Bush Empty?

Well, first of all, when that empties, go to Tech (hit T on the keyboard) and upgrade your farming to get the crop field. But, is your berry bush really empty? No. The berries grow back, little at a time. You'll see a few berries on the bush in the lower left corner of it. If you have the crop field, focus on that and let the berries grow in case of emergency. You do have to wait for the crops to grow in the field. Hope I helped!

Mushrooms

There is a way to multiply the mushrooms. If you see a mushroom, pause the time. Then drag all your children to the mushroom before it disappears. All you have to do is un-pause the time. Then each child bows down at the same time. Hence, you will find all children have a mushroom in their hands. This keeps your food stock going even if you have no farming choices.

Elderly

While I haven't figured out how to make an elderly villager live longer, I have figured out a use for the females. Since the elderly villagers walk slower than the others, they tend to take longer doing most tasks. So if you are in need of babies, use the Elderly women. A nursing mother will do nothing else anyway, so you might as well give the slower villagers the task of motherhood. That saves your younger, faster females for farming, building, etc.

Few babies

If you don't want a lot of babies leave just one woman in breeding and you will have just one woman on that.

apprentice doctor

When villagers get sick use a child to heal them. The child will then become an apprentice doctor

Concerning the Mysterious Crate

I saw someone submitted that if a mysterious crate washes up on the beach don't open it poisonous spiders. I have found this is not always true. I have also found in the crate tools which led to thousands of tech points. But the choice to take a chance or not is yours! Remember villagers can be healed and you won't lose everyone by making a decision.

Dont die through birth

It sounds simple but if you have a lot of pregnent women then they can't do there jobs. I got set back well far when 3 of my farmers got pregnent overnight. Always have a back up plan like dovoting both men and women to a job

This will help...

To find the treasure you must have all tech points in construction done. When you have all of it done then you can use a master builder to look to the left of the temple and below the food bin (This takes a long time so keep doing it until he finds it). To make a golden child you must take a nursing mother and put her in the lagoon. The grassy field on the right side of the village there are dead flowers, take either a master farmer or constructor( I forgot which one) and put them on the field. The villager will then go get water from the lagoon and keep watering the field until it is full of flowers. Once you have flowers in the field take the golden child and place him on the field to make butterflies. I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH, NO VILLAGER EXCEPT THE GOLDEN CHILD CAN MOVE THE BOULDER! THE GOLDEN CHILD CHOOSES TO MOVE IT ON ITS OWN. Thank you for reading. - Jordan

Stopping Time

If Your Afraid Of Your village dieing or villagers doing something you don't want them to do such as have kids. Like During the night Go to the menu and click pause and it will stop them and freeze everything till you click it back to one of the play speeds I love doing this during the night so they don't hatch a million babies on me.

Want To Stop Time???

Click Pause When you don't want you villagers to die I did this last night so they would do anything and they didnt go hungry die get infection. Course you wont gain anything but you wont lose anything either!

Get children to go dance at school

When you've got the master scientist to found the school you can use the hand (mouse) to beat the drum at the right of the large hut(by clicking on it) to make the children come and dance. When you click a child to see what there thinking it will say going to school. Nothing major but I thought it was fun.

Changing the villagers clothes

Someone has already said that you can change the villagers clothes by clicking F6 but be careful not to go too far. When you get to the solid green out fit you are stuck there. All my women are in green. Lol....I have only started so I will catagorize from now on with different outfits. There are some really cute clothes for the women, when you see the yellow and green outfit, you know you are next to the last one and then you can't go back and undo...you are stuck with green. Happy camping!

Misc

1. If your Golden Child is reluctant to do what you want him to, put him under some butterflies and he will be more cooperative.
2, Just for fun, I decided to categorize my vilagers by appearance, to make it easier to direct them to do the tasks I have assigned: I made all my parents redheads (I am one!) I made all farmers brunettes (they are the most prevalent) I made all the builders blondes; I made all my healers grey haired little doctors, and the fishers are all the "blue-haired" villagers. My researchers (scientists) are bald or balding (eggheads! LOL)
3. I periodically take my elderly villagers over to the Magic Berry bush, give them more time in the Lagoon, and put them in the flowers often, to promote longer life.
4. I take my children over to stand in front of the cave periodically, in the hope they can enter it; they will stand there, and the adults will usually walk away, and/or the announcement appears again.

The Golden Child

I dropped a nursing mother of twins into the magic lagoon.
And that is how I got my golden child..
But I'm not going to guarntee that it will work every time.....

HAPPY GAMING ALL.........

Tons of children

I agree with the person named Midnightli.....I left the game for a few hours and had just 1 male villager in the breeding mode..........wow.....came back and had all 7 of my ladies pregnant. It didn't make me shorthanded, I still had lots of males to handle the building, healing and farming. Will have to double up on the farming to feed all the xtra children now. Good luck, happy gaming

Frogho

If a man wanders up from the ocean asking for samples of flowers and plants, say yes, let him do it, he will give you some antibiotic and better healing powers.

Pond, fish

I kept puttin the Master Scientist in the pond, finally he found a fish, it was a fertility fish to help villagers with fertility. Also after he came out, he headed for the ocean and started to find fish there, also the other ppl started to bring fish out of the ocean.

Babies

I left my game, and when I came back, most of my women were pregnate!
I have learned not to leave anyone on "breeding" mode if I'm going to be gone for a long while. Now I am short handed in all catagories!