Virtual Villagers 4: The Tree of Life iPhone/iPad Cheats and Tips

The screen is divided up into nine sections and layed out the same as the number pad on your keyboard. Use the number pad to quickly browse the entire screen.

Even when you have finished playing a session and have closed down the game will still keep running. To help avoid any major disasters developing until your next session set the game speed to slow before you go to sleep at night.

You can collect Lab gear from the shelves in the research lab which are situated behind the long table.

You can collect the fish scales at the fish statue which is in the southeast. They can only be found in the rock pool by the statue, and only at low tide.

If you want to take a short break to do something else you simply need to tap the spacebar to pause the game.

Your villagers are able to cook stews and there are some specific stews that are required to solve puzzles while others are just for fun. Basic stews consist of a pot of boiling water, either fresh or salt, and a variety of herbs and foods.

When you have collected ALL the mausoleum pieces you need to place them directly on the arch of the mausoleum in the northwest. When you have done this you will be visited by a ghost after one or more of your villagers dies.

Picking up a villager during an action will cause the action to be cancelled.

You can collect the wind flutes in the northeast, by the river obstruction. This location can also be used by your villagers to meditate.

There are a total of 12 collectables of each type. Whenever your children collect items that you already have they will take them to the lab for your scientists to use and you will gain some tech points.

When you give a villager the task of doing something that is not related to one of the learnable skills and then exit the game the action will be cancelled and you will have to set it again on your next session.